Lilli Hasche
Transnational Legal Struggles on Contracts for Better Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains
The global economic system is characterized by a transnational mode of production in supply and value chains in which workers are structurally exploited and human rights are violated. Transnational companies operate with the help of a network of subcontractors and trading partners. In addition to national and international law, these value chains are designed by contracts between transnational corporations, suppliers and their employees. Thus, contracts allow production through division of labor, co-constitute supply chains (legally) and influence working and living conditions of workers worldwide.
After the boom of corporate social responsibility initiatives, newer approaches try to influence contracts with the aim to shape them in a way that prevents human rights violations. Transnational legal theory makes it possible to study contract networks as law and contract negotiations as legal struggles. How, for example, do responsible contracting initiatives with model contract clauses and transnational trade union networks attempt to influence contract design and negotiations in labour disputes? What challenges do they face? How do they deal with contradictions?
Research interests
- Postcolonial and Feminist Theory
- Legal Anthropology/Law and Society
- Critical Legal Theory (Feminist, postcolonial, materialist)
- Postcolonial/Feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Postcolonial perspectives on Bremen
Vita
- 2017 – 2022
Law (First State Exam), University of Bremen. - 2014 – 2018
M.A. Transcultural Studies, University of Bremen and Paris I – Sorbonne-Panthéon. - 2010 – 2014
B.A. Political Science, University of Bremen.
Publications
- 2024
Decolonization Through Decolonial Reforming In: Debate: The World Health System After the Pandemic: Towards Equity and Decolonization? Verfassungsblog. - 2024
Towards Equity and Decolonization? An Introduction into the Blog Debate on the World Health System after the Pandemic (together with Jelena von Achenbach & Andreas Fischer-Lescano) In: Debate: The World Health System After the Pandemic: Towards Equity and Decolonization? Verfassungsblog. - 2023
The Colonial Making of Bremen’s Peri-Urban Port Area (together with Janne Jensen) In: Chatterjee, Chojnicka, Hornidge, Knopf, Shilliam, Faraclas, Ingersoll, et al (Hg.). Postcolonial Oceans, 219-236. Heidelberg University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.17885/HEIUP.1046. - 2023
Babycaust? Keine Volksverhetzung! Die deutsche Justiz versagt bei der Bekämpfung von Holocaustverharmlosung und Aufstachelung zum Hass. In: Austermann, Fischer-Lescano, Kleffner, Lang, Pichl, Steinke, and Vetter (Hg.) Recht gegen rechts: Report 2023. 307–314. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2023. - 2019
‘Wessen Recht für wen?’. boasblog DCNtR. https://boasblogs.org/de/dcntr/wessen-recht-fuer-wen/. - 2019
Der Beginn menschlichen Lebens in der Abtreibungsdebatte [The Beginning of Human Life in the Discussion on Abortion] in Phase Eins – Regulierung von Schwangerschaft, Forum Recht, 4/2019.
Talks, Workshops, and Events
- 30.11.2023
Talk Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen von Straßenumbenennungen in Bremen at the Conference Der Elefant im Raum, organized by the Bremen’s Colonial History Working Group. - since 2016
Development and performance of a postcolonial city tour through Bremen-Überseestadt and development of an audiowalk. Accessible at: https://ankerpunkte.ak-hafen.de/. - 20.07.2023
Talk Ethnografie als Methode (in) der Rechtswissenschaft at the 63. Junge Tagung Öffentliches Recht in Hamburg. - 23.10.2018
Talk Anbau, Handel, Verarbeitung, Prüfung und Qualitätsstandards von Baumwolle. Welche Rolle hat Bremen heute? [Cultivation, trade, processing, testing and quality standards of cotton. The role of Bremen today?] as part of the theme-centered semester on Global Cotton together with Dr. Axel Drieling, Faserinstitut Bremen. - 19.10.2018
Talk Reflexionen über Konzeption und Durchführung postkolonialer Stadtrundgänge in ehemaligen Hafengebieten am Beispiel Bremen [Reflexions on the conception and performance of postcolonial city tours in former harbour areas by the example of Bremen] on the international symposium Häfen. Knotenpunkte der Globalisierung. Geschichte, Perspektiven, Musealisierung [Ports. Nodal Points of Globalisation. History, Perspectives, Musealisation] of the German Harbour Museum /Hamburg; with Janne Jensen. - 13.08.2018
Talk Baumwollbörse, Überseehafen und Qualitätsstandards. Was der Kolonialismus mit Bremen und seinem Baumwollhandel zu tun hat.[Cotton Exchange, Overseas Harbour and Quality Standards. How Colonialism is Related to Bremen and its Cotton Trade.] during the Informatica Feminale/Ingenieurinnen-Sommeruni, University of Bremen. - 28.05.2018
Participation in a panel discussion King Cotton – Die Geschichte des globalen Kapitalismus [King Cotton – The History of Global Capitalism] with Sven Beckert, Klaus Schlichte, Ohiniko Toffa u.a. (University of Bremen). - 15.05.2018
Talk Globaler Baumwollhandel postkolonial betrachtet [Global Cotton Trade under a postcolonial lens] during the excursion Bremen-Liverpool – Postkoloniale Hafenstädte (Silke Betscher und Martina Grimmig).
Interviews
- 2022
Koloniale Spuren in Bremen – Wie Lilli Hasche vergessene Hafengeschichten erzählt [Colonial Traces in Bremen – How Lilli Hasche tells forgotten stories of the harbour] Multimedia Interview in the local newspaper Weserkurier. Accessible at: https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteil-walle/so-ist-die-bremer-ueberseestadt-mit-dem-kolonialismus-verknuepft-doc7j8kuw0cj1cu1z4gi95. - 2021
Fallstudie: Postkoloniales Bremen – Die Städte und das Koloniale. Interview with Schall & Raum: Der Podcast über Architektur, Baukultur und Stadtentwicklung by Céline Schmidt-Hamburger. Accessible at: https://schallundraum.podigee.io/t19-s05_postcolonialcities.