Thomas Scheffer is spokesperson of the Section „Sociology of Law" in the German Sociological Association. Until July 2009, Scheffer directed an interdisciplinary research group on "Comparative Micro‐Sociology of Criminal Procedure". With a Heisenberg scholarship, he moved to the Institute for European Ethnology (IfEE) at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Currently he closely links his ethnographic research and teaching on parliaments, courts, and mediated discourse. Important publications include "Dolmetschen als Darstellungsproblem [Translation as performative challenge]" (1997, ZfS, 26(3)); "Asylgewährung [Granting Asylum]" (2001, Lucius & Lucius); "Event and Process" (2007, Human Studies, 30(3)); "Starke und schwache Verfahren [Strong and weak procedure]" (mit Jan Schank und Matthias Michaeler, 2008, ZfS 37(5), and soon "Adversarial case‐making" (2010, Brill).