The Centre for Advanced Studies “Reflexive Globalisation and the Law: Colonial Legacies and their Implications in the 21st Century" (RefLex) has been established at Humboldt University of Berlin’s Faculty of Law in September 2025.The Centre’s idea and agenda start from the observation that the ongoing debates around colonial legacies in a multipolar world mark a new phase, which we call reflexive globalisation: Traditionally viewed in economic terms and often seen as a unidirectional process ultimately of ‘Westernisation’, globalisation in this new phase brings to light also critical intellectual dimensions, becoming more multidirectional. The positions of the South and North, of periphery and center, are being redefined and rebalanced. In this phase, the Northern foundations of concepts, vocabularies, and epistemic assumptions, along with the Northern dominance in knowledge production, are increasingly challenged for their colonial and imperial legacies. RefLex aims to explore this phase – in substance and in process: It studies the role of law in reflexive globalisation and its implications for basic concepts of law. At the same time, it wants to practice this multidirectional exchange through its fellowship programme and reflect on this practice.The Centre’s founding Directors are Humboldt Law Professors Philipp Dann and Florian Jeßberger. Given their own fields of research, the main areas of work at the Centre are public law and (international) criminal law. But the Centre also engages with private law and disciplines beyond law, in particular global history, political theory and anthropology, as well as civil society at large. The Directors are supported by a Core Team permanently based at the Centre as well as a group of Strategic Interlocutors and an Advisory Board.