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Adam
Podgòrecki Prize
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Those Who Made and Developed the RCSL Volkmar Gessner
Volkmar Gessner, 9.10.1937- 8.11.2014
RCSL has lost one of its most dedicated and active
members, Volkmar Gessner. His name is closely con-nected to RCSL’s partnership
with the International Institute for the Sociology of
Law, Onati. Volkmar Gessner also served as Secretary of RCSL. From 2003 to
2005, he was director of the Onati institute. In Germany, he contributed to
organizing sociologists of law. For many years, Volkmar Gessner held a
Professor-ship at Bremen University, Germany and he added more leading functions
in academia. Among his many publications is his Habilitationsschrift – part of a
second doctorate required for Professorship in Ger-many – in which he famously
describes the “si señor-effect”: Mexican locals met the European researcher’s
questions with an unexpected, stereotypical answer. Whereas conflict and dispute
resolution seem his main research areas in earlier years, Volkmar Gessner later
turned to phenomena of globalization and transnational law. Here again, he acted
as an inspiring organizer of research with a keen interest in supporting the
work of colleagues. Volkmar Gessner’s contributions to sociology of law were
honoured with the Adam Podgòrecki
Prize 2013. (Source: RCSL Newsletter Fall 2014)
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