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Students possess specialised knowledge of essential social science approaches in the research field. They will be able to reflect on selected theoretical and empirical issues in the sociology of law and analyse them in a mutual entanglement of theory and empiricism. They are able to independently analyse the social functions, implementation practice and effects of law and legal institutes and institutions from a social science perspective.

The course explores law as a societal phenomenon from varying perspectives and at different levels. The following topics provide the course's thematic guidelines:

• Legal subject(ivity), legal awareness and individual and collective mobilisation of the law
• Law and justice (in the sense of fairness) - a contingency formula of the legal system?
• Which law and whose law and rights? - Legal pluralism and universal rights
• Places and institutions of law enforcement, judicial research, "class justice"
• Limits of judicial dispute resolution and alternative forms of conflict resolution
• Effects of the law: How does the law work in practice?
• Criticising the law - law as an instrument of emancipation? - Sociology of law as a critique of law?