About Us

Established in 2022, the “LawTech Ethnographies” (LTE) initiative is developing a long-term research agenda exploring changing legal technologies and related transformations of legal practices – an anthropological “praxeology” of law and technology, with studies from and across various world regions, in an explorative bottom-up manner. By now, first student projects have been, or are presently, conducted with fieldwork in Malaysia, China, Dubai, Canada, and the United States. Members develop their projects collaboratively and participate in various forms of group work.

At the Ph.D. students’ level, the LTE Group is part of the IMPRS-GM and its thematic group “Legal Complexity and Justice”. It is also possible for B.A. and M.A. students to participate in the group’s activities at FAU and write their thesis in this framework, usually based on an empirical fieldwork project. Such projects are usually conducted by students enrolled in the SDAC M.A. or Sociology B.A./M.A. who wish to specialize in Anthropology under Prof. Müller’s supervision. Interested students should contact Dominik Müller or any member of his Chair team.