Ellen Masur
Feminist ReWriting as a Practice of Contradiction: An Inquiry between Legal Critique and Legal Practice
This doctoral project uses ‘Feminist ReWriting’ to examine the rewriting of court decisions from critical perspectives. It builds on the international Feminist Judgments movement and transposes it into the German-speaking legal context. The starting point is the inherent contradiction in law as both an instrument of domination and of emancipation. Feminist ReWriting, as a feminist intervention, opens up a space for creativity to critically address hegemonic norms, implicit assumptions and the disciplinary internal logics of the law. Rooted in feminist legal scholarship, the project combines gender and legal studies and draws theoretically on sociologically informed, interdisciplinary legal research.
Research Interests
- Critical Legal Studies
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Feminist Re:writing
- Postcolonial Legal Critique
- Anti-Discrimination Law
- Legal Constructions of Identities
Vita
- Since 06/2025
Research Fellow / PhD-Candidate at the Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies, University of Bremen - 2021 – 2025
Project assistant, consulting & research, psychiatric and psychosocial care at Forum für Gesundheitswirtschaft gGmbH - 2020 – 2024
M. A. Professional Public Decision Making, University of Bremen
Thesis Topic: Fixation(s) of gender in law. An investigation of gender self-determination in Germany. - 2019 – 2020
Project assistant at the Marine Conservation Office BUND e.V. Bremen - 2017 – 2018
Project Collaborator in the thematic group Refugees and Asylum, University of Bremen - 2016 – 2020
B. A. Cultural Studies & Law, University of Bremen
Thesis Topic: Keeping up instead of having a say. Cultural studies considerations on border and participation negotiations of young refugees in German training relationships
Conferences, Workshops and Events
- 05.–06.03.2026
Moderation of the panel discussion The Feminist and Queer Judgments Movement as part of the Re:Law conference Gerecht(er) Entscheiden, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - 29.09.–02.10.2025
Workshop with Chris Ambrosi Re-writing in der Rechtswissenschaft as part of the Autumn School How to do Gender Studies: Methods and Practices in Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Summer Term 2025
Participation in the Seminar Re:Law. Re-Writing Law as Interdisciplinary Practice, Humboldt University of Berlin - 23.04.2019
Panel Discussion The Bavarian Police Act – an imminent threat? organised as the Working Group of Critical Lawyers Bremen, University of Bremen
Teaching
- SoSe 2026
Co-teaching of the key qualification course: Urteile revisited – Geschlecht und Diversität im Recht, University of Bremen - SoSe 2026
Lecture Feminist ReWriting als Praktik des Wi(e)dersprechens; Methodisch-theoretische Perspektiven as part of the lecture series “Feminist ReWriting” Gerichtsurteile kritisch Analysieren – Grundlagen der feministischen Rechtswissenschaft, Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts - WiSe 2025/26
Co-teaching of the key qualification course: Urteile revisited – Geschlecht und Diversität im Recht, University of Bremen - SoSe 2019
Tutorial Diversity Schwerpunkt, University of Bremen - WiSe 2018/19
Tutorial Forschungsmodul M5, University of Bremen