Danish

German

English

(limited knowledge of Roman languages: Italian, Spanish, French)

Education:

1993-1994           Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence

1991                   Dr. jur. University of Copenhagen

1978                   Cand.jur. University of Copenhagen

1976-77              Studies at Universität Bremen, Western Germany

1974-1975          Studies at Institute for sociology, University of Copenhagen

1970                  'Abitur' (German/Danish recognized) from Duborg-skolen, Flensburg, W-Germany

Jobs:

Head of CECS (Centre for European and Comparative Legal Studies) Jan 2016 - Sept 2020

Visiting professorships at Gothenburg University (2016-18), Lund University (2011-12), Tromsø University, Norway (2007-2010)

Professor of Legal Culture, Faculty of Law, U of Cph. 2009-

Professor of Greenlandic Sociology of Law, U of Cph. 2001-2006

Professor of Legal Science and Sociology of Law, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland (1995-1999)

Docent of law (1992-1995)

Associate professor of labour law, U of Cph. (1989-1992)

Research scholarships at U of Cph. (1983-1989)

Admitted as solicitor 1982

Solicitor's clerk (1979-1982)

Since 2008 my research has focused on legal culture and legal pluralism - especially on changes of legal cultures. From 2012 and onwards I have focused on Chinese legal culture both in teaching and research. Presently I also work on German legal cultures.

Head of CECS, Center for European and Comparative Legal Studies 2016-2020.

I have since the beginning of my career had an interest in issues of (socio-) legal theory and gender and law, which has led me to work in many different fields of law and social science (labour law, European law, Nordic law, indigenous law and traditional knowledge, philosophy of law, religion and law, Chinese legal culture and German legal culture). I have lived and worked over longer and shorter periods in different parts of the world (childhood in Western Germany, Jean Monnet Scholarship at EUI in Florence, projects in Africa, a decade in Greenland from 1995-2006, cooperation for about 5 years in the Middle East and lately since 2009 work on China). I have had professorships in and related to Greenland (1995-2006) in Nuuk and in Copenhagen and guest professorships at Tromsø and Lund Universities. From 2016 I was involved in cooperative applications, seminars and research on issues of solidarity in different perspectives which in 2020 led to the publication of a book “Transnational Solidarity. Concept, Challenges and Opportunities” (CUP) with colleagues Helle Krunke, CECS and Ian Manners, Faculty of Social Sciences, KU.

Chinese law and Chinese legal culture in European and Danish perspective – business law in focus and context (med Senior Consultant Jingjing Su), efterår 2014, forår 2016, forår 2018

Gender & Legal Culture, efterår 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019

Familie- og Arveret, forår 2013 og 2014

Juridisk metode og retsfilosofi, efterår 2012

Since the fall of 2020 I an working on a project on German legal culture.