Lisa Simonis is a PhD Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, affiliated with the research group ‘Transformations in Private Law: Culture, Climate, and Technology’, led by Prof Dr Mareike Schmidt. She completed her law studies at the University of Münster and the University of Helsinki and passed the first state examination in law. Her current research focuses on the influence of perceptions of normality in German residential tenancy law. To this end, qualitative methods from anthropology will be used to investigate how these perceptions become visible in tenancy law processes and how this influences the application of the law in individual cases.