Welcome to the Collaborative Research Centre!
The Collaborative Research Centre 1385 "Law and Literature" was inaugurated at the University of Münster by the German Research Council (DFG) on July 1st, 2019. The project focused on crucial questions concerning the relation between law and literature, the corresponding academic fields and disciplines, as well as their respective impact on culture and society. The Collaborative Research Centre 1385 "Law and Literature" ended on 30.06.2024.
Literary studies and law were brought together here as equal partners in a momentous academic collaboration unprecedented in the German research field. The interdisciplinary dialogue between the two aimed at investigating and mapping this particular field of research in order to uncover systematic relations between these disciplines and to document particular illustrations. The project’s objective was to clarify crucial aspects of the specific nexus of law and literature.
The Collaborative Research Centre 1385 included the following disciplines from the faculties 3 and 9 at the University of Münster: literary studies, law, Jewish studies, Slavic studies, Arab and Islamic studies, economics; as well as the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Osnabrück. There were three different project areas that include 12 individual projects in total as well as an integrated graduate school and an online encyclopedia.