Tobias Eule studied sociology at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge between 2005 and 2009. His doctoral thesis in Cambridge, an ethnographic study of the application of migration law in German immigration authorities, was awarded the "Toby Jackman Prize for the most Outstanding Ph.D." in 2012. Tobias Eule has been working at the University of Bern since February 2012, first as an assistant at the Chair of General Sociology and from August 2014 as Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law. He was also a visiting scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford and a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Since the summer of 2019 he has been head of the Sociology of Law Research Group  in cooperation with the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow.

Tobias (co-)author of the books Inside Immigration Law(Ashgate, 2014) and Migrants Before The Law (Palgrave 2018, translated as Hinter der Grenze, vor dem Gesetz at Hamburger Edition 2020), co-editor of special issues of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2017), Qualitative Studies (2018) and Journal of Organisational Ethnography (2020), and Associate Editor of Civic Sociology. As a sociologist of law, Tobias Eule researches the use and effects of law in society. His research understands the application of law as a negotiation process in which people and institutions encounter each other with different resources and ideas of law. His empirical studies contribute to explaining the differences between legal text, legal ideal and legal reality - for example in the area of migration management or global value chains. He is also engaged in more recent state research, and in methods of qualitative social research, especially institutional ethnography.

Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26