Co-ordinators: Prof. Vincenzo Pacillo – Dr. Basira Hussen
Intercultural L-hub is a critical space for reimagining the relationship between law and cultural diversity. Anchored in the idea that Law is not merely a system of rules but a dynamic practice of translation, the L-hub explores how legal norms can be transformed through the encounter with plural traditions, beliefs, and worldviews. Here, the L stands primarily for Law—intercultural law in particular—but also gestures toward Languages, Lives, and the Liberal arts, acknowledging that legal meaning is never detached from the symbolic and narrative worlds in which it operates. Rooted in both legal theory and the humanities, Intercultural L-hub investigates how law can act not as a boundary, but as a bridge—especially in areas where the challenges of pluralism are most acute. Our research focuses on:
- Intercultural inheritance law, where culturally specific conceptions of kinship, lineage, and testamentary freedom challenge universalist assumptions;
- Religious education, as a contested space where identity, memory, and democratic values must be negotiated across traditions;
- Legal communication, with particular attention to the symbolic codes that shape public understanding of law in intercultural societies;
- Digital environments, where algorithmic governance risks reintroducing forms of cultural domination unless counterbalanced by intercultural legal frameworks.
By weaving together law and humanities, normativity and narrative, Intercultural L-hub seeks to develop new tools for legal imagination—tools that do not aim to neutralize difference, but to be transformed by it.