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.
  1. 2025
  2. Lüneburg Workshop in Economics 2025: Workshop on Microeconomics

    Mechtel, M. (Organiser), Hirsch, B. (Organiser) & Görges, L. (Organiser)

    06.03.202507.03.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Foreign Policy Reconciliation and Public Opinion

    Attia, H. (Speaker) & Peez, A. (Speaker)

    05.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Promotionskolleg Verhaltensökonomik & Gesellschaftliche Transformation

    Mechtel, M. (Organiser)

    05.03.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. The Future of International Sanctions

    Attia, H. (Speaker)

    05.03.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. “The electoral appeal of symbolic class signaling”

    Engler, S. (Speaker)

    26.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Affective polarizatin and the support for different types of governance. Evidence from Germany

    Engler, S. (Speaker)

    04.02.202505.02.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. The electoral appeal of symbolic class signalling

    Engler, S. (Speaker)

    20.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Memes aus dem Reich: Rechte Rechtskämpfe im Verschwörungsdenken

    Hundertmark, B. (Speaker) & Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)

    14.01.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  10. Member of the Editorial Board for Political Data Yearbook

    Engler, S. (Consultant)

    20252029

    Activity: Consultancy

  11. 2024
  12. Input und Podiumsdiskussion zur "Reichsbürger:innen-Bewegung"

    Kretschmann, A. (Speaker)

    12.12.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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