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Alfons Bora
Alfons Bora is a sociologist and lawyer. He has held a chair in sociology at Bielefeld University since 1999. He was a member of the German Ethics Council (appointed by the Federal Parliament and Government) from 2008 to 2012. He has been Acting Deputy Director of the Bielefeld Graduate School in history and sociology (BGHS, funded by the German Excellence Initiative) since 2010. From 2008 to 2012 he was executive editor of the Zeitschrift für Soziologie and since 2000 has worked as one of the editors of Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie – the German Journal of Law and Society.