Thomas Scheffer
Corporate science
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Professional Education Studies and Degrees 1990 – 1995 Sociology at Bielefeld University (Germany) 1995 Dissertation on an Eastern German Foreigners’ Office: „Aufenthaltsgenehmigung“ Passed with distinction („Mit Auszeichnung“), Department for Sociology at Bielefeld University 1995 – 1998 PhD Project on the Asylum Seeking Process in Germany , a multi-sited ethnography 1998 Doctoral Thesis: „Asylgewährung. Eine ethnographische Verfahrensanalyse“ Passed with distinction („Mit Auszeichnung“), supervisors: Karin Knorr Cetina and Stefan Hirschauer at Department for Sociology at Bielefeld University
Research Interest
Sociology and Social Psychology with a Focus on Interpretative Social Research
Publications
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Materialities of Legal Proceedings. International Journal of Semiotics of Law , 17 (4) , 356-389.
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How Courts know. Comparing English Crown Court, US-American State Court, and German District Court. Space & Culture , 12 (2): 183-204. (with Kati Hannken-Illjes and Alexander Kozin).
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Interdisciplinary legal criticism and the other of law. Critical Justice , 43 (4), 431-435 (with Christian Boulanger, Alexander Klose and Susanne Krasmann).
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Discourse in law and politics. Trans-sequestration and the analysis of right-hand processes. Journal of Law Sociology, 35 (2), 223-244.
