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.
Attia, Hana
Prof. Dr.
- Junior Professorship of Security Policy and Peace - Junior Professor
Person: Academic staff
Barth, Alexander
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Tax Law/Business Taxation - Professor
Person: Academic staff
Breuer, Johanna
Ph.D.
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Theory - Research associate
- Professorship for Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Carneiro da Silva, Everton
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Economy - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Erdem, Bedirhan
- Professur für deutsches und internationales Strafrecht - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Feneberg, Valentin
Ph.D.
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Public Policy and Law - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Friedrich, Dawid
Dr.
- Center for the Study of Democracy - Supernumerary Professor
- Institute of Political Sciences - Supernumerary Professor
Person: Academic staff
Gerlach, Jens
Prof. Dr.
- Juniorprofessur für Öffentliches Recht, insbesondere Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht - Junior Professor
Person: Academic staff
Görges, Luise
Prof. Dr.
- Junior Professorship for Economics, in particular Microeconomics - Junior Professor
Person: Academic staff
Halfmeier, Axel
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Civil Law, Comparative Law and International Private and Procedural Law - Professor
Person: Academic staff
Hirsch, Boris
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship of Economics, in particular Microeconometrics and Policy Evaluation - Professor
Person: Academic staff
Koß, Michael
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU - Professor
- Institute of Political Sciences
Person: Academic staff
Kretschmann, Andrea
Prof. Dr.
- Leuphana Law School (LLS) - Associated member
- Professorship for Cultural Sociology - Professor
Person: Academic staff
Lang, Lucas
- Professorship for Public Law, European and Public International Law, and Regulatory and Antitrust Law - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Mechtel, Mario
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Economics, in particular Empirical Microeconomics - Professor
- Research Center for Digital Transformation
Person: Academic staff
Müller, Julian
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Theory - Visiting professor
Person: Visiting Scholar, Other
Newig, Jens
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Governance and Sustainability - Professor
- Center for the Study of Democracy - Associated member
Person: Academic staff
Oppermann, Julia
Dr.
- Institute of Political Sciences - Teacher for Special Tasks
Person: Academic staff
Roland, Aanor
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Economy - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Schall, Alexander
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for German, European and International Private and Corporate Law, Comparative Law - Professor
Person: Academic staff
Schomerus, Thomas
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law - Professor
- Center for European and International Law - Associated member
- Leuphana Law School (LLS) - Associated member
Person: Academic staff
Spatzl, Nadja
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Economy - Research associate
Person: Academic staff
Stark, Alexander
Prof. Dr.
- Junior professorship for Public Law and Philosophy of Law - Junior Professor
Person: Academic staff
Tams, Christian J.
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for International Law and Dispute Resolution - Professor
- Center for European and International Law
Person: Academic staff
Velte, Patrick
Prof. Dr.
- Professorship for Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance - Professor
- Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance
- Institute of Management and Organization - Associated member
- Leuphana Law School (LLS) - Associated member
- Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) - Associated member
- Research Center for Digital Transformation - Associated member
- School of Sustainability - Associated member
Person: Academic staff
Weitz, Caspar Alexander
- Professorship of Constitutional and Administrative Law, International Public Law and Comparative Law - Research associate
- Leuphana Law School (LLS) - Research associate
Person: Academic staff