School of Public Affairs
Organisational unit: Research School
Organisation profile
Leuphana School of Public Affairs is the academic and professional home to 1.000 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students and 31 professors. 30 research associates and 17 professional staff members are working for us.
The main themes of the school are reflected in its study programs: The School of Public Affairs is currently responsible for three Majors and four Minors at Leuphana College, five Master’s programmes and five Doctoral research groups at Leuphana Graduate School as well as five continuing education Master's programmes at Leuphana Professional School. As a novelty in Germany, the Master of Law offers students the opportunity to obtain both a Master's degree in law (LL.M.) as well as the state law examination. With its emphasis on "Law in Context", this model degree programme transcends a classic-dogmatic perspective of jurisprudence by presenting the relevant contents from civil law, public law and criminal law against the backdrop of current societal challenges and transformations.
Main research areas
Leuphana School of Public Affairs brings together the disciplines of Political Science, Law, and Economics under one roof. With 31 professorships, it establishes an innovative profile in Germany on issues of public affairs, gaining both national and international visibility and academic reputation.
The School conducts research on the major transformations of our time and thus continues to develop its existing research agenda on the future of democracy, evidence-based political decision-making and law in the context of societal transformation. In an interdisciplinary collaborative endeavour, the three subjects will, among other things, answer pressing questions about
- the legitimacy and performance of democracies, whose integrative power is under threat, especially in light of recent upheavals in politics and society,
- the role of the state with regard to the relationship between private-law and public-law regulation,
- the justification of governmental intervention into market processes and their ex-post evaluation.
- 2025
Lüneburg Workshop in Economics 2025: Workshop on Microeconomics
Mechtel, M. (Organiser), Hirsch, B. (Organiser) & Görges, L. (Organiser)
06.03.2025 → 07.03.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Foreign Policy Reconciliation and Public Opinion
Attia, H. (Speaker) & Peez, A. (Speaker)
05.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Promotionskolleg Verhaltensökonomik & Gesellschaftliche Transformation
Mechtel, M. (Organiser)
05.03.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Future of International Sanctions
Attia, H. (Speaker)
05.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“The electoral appeal of symbolic class signaling”
Engler, S. (Speaker)
26.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Affective polarizatin and the support for different types of governance. Evidence from Germany
Engler, S. (Speaker)
04.02.2025 → 05.02.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The electoral appeal of symbolic class signalling
Engler, S. (Speaker)
20.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Memes aus dem Reich: Rechte Rechtskämpfe im Verschwörungsdenken
Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
14.01.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
Member of the Editorial Board for Political Data Yearbook
Engler, S. (Consultant)
2025 → 2029Activity: Consultancy
- 2024
Input und Podiumsdiskussion zur "Reichsbürger:innen-Bewegung"
Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)
12.12.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research