Index
Sarah Hammerl M.A.

Promotionsprojekt: Digital Transformations of Legal Practices in the Context of Human Rights Violations
- Legal anthropology
- Human Rights & Digital Technologies
- International Crimes & International Criminal Law
- Migration & Asylum
Since 10/2024 | Doctoral researcher at International Max Planck Research School “Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now”; Thematic Group: Human Rights for the Now – How? |
Since 10/2024 | PhD student in the research group “LawTech Ethnographies”, Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LawTech in Global Legal Cultures), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg |
2023 – 2024 | Master of Science “International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. |
2023 – 2024 | Editor-in-Chief, Amsterdam Law Forum – International Law Journal at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. |
2014 – 2018 | Master of Arts “Social and Cultural Anthropology” at Freie Universität Berlin |
2009 – 2013 | Bachelor of Arts “Ethnologie und Afrikastudien” at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Bhagya Wickramawardhana M.A.

Promotionsprojekt: Law, Technology, and Homelessness in Canada: An Ethnography of Digital Legal Spaces in Toronto.
- Legal Anthropology
- Anthropology of Homelessness and Poverty
- Criminal Anthropology
- Urban Anthropology
- Law and Technologies
- Social Justice
- Regional focus: Canada
Since 04/2024 | Doctoral Researcher, International Max Planck Research School ‘Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now,’ Thematic Group: “Legal Complexity and Justice” |
Since 04/2024 | PhD Student, research group “LawTech Ethnographies,” Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LawTech in Global Legal Cultures), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg |
2021 – 2024 | Master of Arts, Elite Master’s Programme “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” (SDAC), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg |
05/2022 – 07/2024 | Ethnographic Fieldwork, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
2022 – 2024 | Student Assistant Professor for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Friedrich-Alexander-University |
2019 – 2021 | Instructor in English, Department of English Langauge Teaching, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
2015 – 2018 | Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Western Classical Cultures, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |