

Research Areas
- Gender-based and sexualised violence
- Child custody
- Access to justice
- Legal mobilisation
Current Research
My research focuses on the relation between laws protecting against violence and family law. Women who experience intimate partner violence often encounter that judges, lawyers and other practitioners do not include these histories of violence in decisions concerning child custody. Through discourse analysis and feminist participatory action research, my doctoral studies seek to investigate a) what kinds of discourses exist in German family law and the legal profession when dealing with child custody disputes involving histories of violence; b) analyse how discourses on gender-based and sexualised violence, racism, parenthood and credibility are negotiated in family legal proceedings and how they are embedded into legal decision-making; and c) to investigate how legal mobilisation and resistance can be practised collectively to make visible harmful socio-legal practices.
Background
Lisa holds a M.Sc. in Sociology of Law from Lunds University and a B.Sc. in Social Science, Welfare Studies, and Philosophy from Roskilde University (Denmark). Between 2016 and 2022 Lisa worked in (queer-) feminist NGOs and child rights organisations focusing on sexualised- and gender-based violence and trauma.