„Comparative Micro-Sociology of Criminal Procedure“ and after ...

How does legal casework take place? How are cases assembled over time? How do tactics and expertise enter? The research project used ethnography to study the discourse practices of case-making and compared these systemaically. As a result, the legal case shows no longer as a factual representation, but as an upshot of procedural dynamics [Introduction...]

Research Questions

The law-in-action group compared case making in different procedural regimes. The research interest: How do legal cases come about? Who participates and how? How is case-making mediatised and materialised? And how does case-making differ from one procedural regime to another? In 2008, the group extended its research towards political inquiries in the post 9/11 era. Currently, the developed research tools are applied to another field: the parliament.

Fieldwork and Discourse Analyses

- The English Study by Dr. Thomas Scheffer
Robes and wigs, barristers and judge, juries and witnesses, clerks and files ...[more...]

- The US Study by Dr. Alex Kozin
The US case study is a conceptual offspring of the English pilot project ...[more...]

- The German Study by Dr. Kati Hannken-Illjes
Bright colours, big numbers on the courtroom doors ...[more...]

- The Comparative Discourse Analysis on Political Inquiries by Steffen Albrecht, Matthias Michaeler, Jan Schank, Rixta Wundrak led by Thomas Scheffer

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