Doing Kinship by Doing Law? Conference Report: Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna, 9-10 December 2022.

The rigidity of law, according to an early founder of the German-language strand of the sociology of law, signals the domination of the dead over the living (Ehrlich 1913: 323). Legally standardized ideals of action and the actual everyday practice of dealing with the law are not necessarily compatible. Such contradictions become visible, for example, in moments in which there is a struggle for interpretative sovereignty over legal claims. Through a practice-oriented lens, law is woven into relationships between persons, but at the same time it is reinterpreted, contested, acted out, or even rejected in these relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]