Larissa Vetters

Larissa is a political and legal anthropologist with a training in administrative sciences and fieldwork experience in Southeastern Europe and Germany. She is a senior research fellow at the Department ‘Law & Anthropology’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Research

State, law, and relational modalities

Recent Publications

Turning Legal Doctrine Inside Out. Susanne Baer’s The Citizen in Administrative Law

Legal pluralism and the production of (un)certainty in lived migration orders

Making sense of noncitizens’ rights claims in asylum appeal hearings: practices and sentiments of procedural justice among German administrative judges

Administrative guidelines as a source of immigration law? Ethnographic perspectives on law at work and in the making

Ethnographic legal studies: reconnecting anthropological and sociological traditions. (together with Jonas Bens)

Prozesse des State Building in Bosnien-Herzegowina.

Contingent statehood: clientelism and civic engagement as relational modalities in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina

Migration and the Transformation of German Administrative Law: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda

Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Contact

E-Mail: vetters@eth.mpg.de
Link: https://www.eth.mpg.de/vetters