Center for European Legal Policy at the University of Bremen
The Center for European Legal Policy at the University of Bremen (ZERP) is an interdisciplinary research institute .
Research areas
Its specialty lies in the connection between legal, political and social science research, which covers the disciplines of political theory, international relations , women's and gender studies, legal theory and sociology as well as European and international constitutional, economic and social studies Includes private law.
The research activities of ZERP are carried out in cooperation with the law, social and economic sciences of the University of Bremen . ZERP is one of the supporting institutes of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences and of the Collaborative Research Center "Statehood in Transition". In addition, ZERP works with the ARENA - Center for European Studies at the University of Oslo, the European University Institute Florence, the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, the University of Sassari and the Scuola S. Anna in Pisa.
The central focus of the work of ZERP is the future of social rights and democracy in the face of Europeanization and globalization.
history
ZERP was founded as a foundation in 1982 by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . ZERP has been an internal university institute since January 2009. The ZERP research program "European legal policy as transnational constitutional policy" is divided into three program areas - economy & social justice, protection of the environment & human rights, transnational democracy & peace - each with several research fields. The research fields are led by the directors, individual ZERP fellows and postdocs of the ZERP.