Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

Joseph Slaughter (Columbia)

Our 2014 Summer Institute has been significantly bolstered by the welcome addition of Prof. Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University) to our faculty, who is a well-known specialist on human rights and literature. Prof. Slaughter will be co-convening the  workshop “The Humanities and Human Rights” together with Prof. Karen-Margrethe Simonsen.

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We are proud to announce that Karen-Margrethe Simonsen will be joining the 2014 Summer Institute faculty and will be co-convening the workshop  “The Humanities and Human Rights” with Prof. Joseph Slaughter.

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Research Group “Humanistic Studies of Human Rights” at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research focuses on law and literature, justice in classic literary texts, world literature, and human rights. Between 2005 and 2007 and again between 2008 and 2009, Simonsen was Director of the Nordic Network for Law and Literature, a research project which assembles leading scholars of Legal and Literary Studies in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to explore law and legality in modern culture. Since 2007, Simonsen has been Associate Member of the Institute for Law and Humanities at the Cardozo Law School, New York.

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