Centre for European, Comparative, and Constitutional Legal Studies (CECS)

Constitutions, Colonialism, and Cultures

Under this tranche of their work, researchers at CECS look at conceptualisations of the past to reimagine the future. This group is interested in how law is constituted, and how it interacts with people and entities that are traditionally excluded from its protection. We interrogate how law can incorporate and support diverse forms of agency and knowledge, and concurrently minimize marginalization and exclusion. Researchers seek to imagine new futures more inclusive and equitable than our pasts.

Within this research theme individual researchers possess specialist expertise in constitutional law, public international law, human rights law, EU law, critical legal theory, religion and the law, colonialism and its legal legacy, including the legal relationship between Greenland and Denmark. Questions we seek to answer deal with how legal systems continue to reflect the colonial endeavor, how legal principles and practice can and ought to evolve equitably, and how notions of social sustainability can contribute to a more just future.

Members of this research theme

Name	Title	Image
Afsah, Ebrahim	Associate Professor
Cullen, Miriam	Associate Professor
Eklund, Hanna	Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
Harder, Mette Marie Stæhr	Postdoc
Hovden, Katarina	Guest Researcher
Klinge, Sune	Associate Professor
Krunke, Helle	Head of Centre, Professor
Neergaard, Ulla	Professor
Petersen, Hanne	Professor, Emerita
Schultz-Knudsen, Mikele	Postdoc
Slosser, Jacob Livingston	Assistant Professor
Valkanou, Theodora	Postdoc
Vasquez Dazarola, Ricardo Andres	PhD Fellow