Nikko Kulke is a PhD candidate in the Law & Anthropology Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. He is a part of the Cultural and Religious Diversity under State Law across Europe (CUREDI) research group. In addition to having a law degree from Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), he studied law, Islamic studies and political science in the Netherlands and Turkey. His current research focuses on the role of criminal law in a fragmented and multicultural society. In doing so, he pursies various legal, theoretical, and philosophical approaches, as well as those from anthropology with a special interest in decolonial theory. In addition, he examines conflict regions in the Middle East and the collapse of legal systems.