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Jurisdiction frequently is a starting point for political debates, not only for issues of equality, but equality in particular has often progressed due to jurisdiction.

This series of events, GenderDiscussions, takes new developments in politics and jurisdiction as an opportunity to circulate and discuss current gender issues in law and administration. The events provide space for politicians, practitioners, academics and students to debate and to network.


30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall women of the „third-generation east“ and their contribution to the development of Germany's future
GenderDiscussions in the Wintersemester 2019/2020
December 18, 2019, 12:30 bis 1:30 pm at
HWR Berlin, Campus Schöneberg, House B, Room B. 4.42

Programme (PDF)


Kids under the rainbow - How colourful is Germany? Rainbow families in family law
GenderDiscussions in Summer 2013
May 2, 2013, 5 to 7:30 pm at
HWR Berlin, Campus Lichtenberg

Programme (PDF)
Presentation Sonnenfeld (PDF)
Presentation Berghahn (PDF)


Impositions for mothers or necessary equality for fathers? Current legal provisions of parental responsibility for children born out of wedlock
GenderDiscussions in Summer 2012 
April 19, 2012, 5 to 7:30 pm at
HWR Berlin, Campus Lichtenberg

Programme (PDF)
Presentation Sonnenfeld (PDF)
Presentation Andersen (PDF)
Presentation Schölper (PDF)