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.
Forschungsprojekt: Habilitation
Dornis, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.08 → 31.12.17
Project: Research
Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation
Welzel, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.12 → 31.03.13
Project: Research
"Freiwillige Rückkehr" - Implementierung und Politisierung im europäischen Mehrebenensystem
Münch, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.19 → 30.11.19
Project: Research
fristgebunden – Theorie, Wirkung und Materialität juridischer Zeiteinteilung
Chatziathanasiou, K. (Project manager, academic), Gerlach, J. (Project manager, academic), Marquardsen, M. (Project manager, academic), Müller, M. W. (Project manager, academic), Sinder, R. (Project manager, academic) & Stepanek, B. (Project manager, academic)
08.04.24 → 10.04.24
Project: Scientific event
Gaming Law & Culture
Terhechte, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 24.01.20
Project: Scientific event
Gastdozentur Prof. Pettai, Uni Tartu
Pettai, V. A. (Project manager, academic) & Müller-Rommel, F. (Coordination)
01.10.08 → 01.02.11
Project: Teaching
Implementation eines Mitarbeitergesprächs am Beispiel eines Umweltministeriums
Chantelau, F. (Project staff), Bick, H. (Project staff), Gilcher, H. (Project staff), Kraemer, K.-P. (Project staff), Molter, A. (Project staff), Schocke, A. (Project staff), Taupitz, C. (Project staff), von Unruh, P. (Project staff) & Weisbrod, K. (Project staff)
01.01.99 → 31.12.99
Project: Non-academic projects
Individuelle und systemische Belastungen im flexiblen Kapitalismus. Demokratietheoretische Implikationen einer kritischen Theorie sozialen Stresses
Schottdorf, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Instrumente des Klimaschutzes und ihre Auswirkung auf die Verwirklichung eines globalen Nachhaltigkeitsideals
Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.09 → 30.11.10
Project: Research
IniVPol: Instrumente in der Verbraucherpolitik
Leipold, A. (Project staff) & Loer, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Instrumente zur aktiven Verbreitung umweltbezogener Informationen - Qualitative Bewertung und Gegenüberstellung der Informationspflichten nach Energiewirtschafts- und Umweltinformationsrecht
Tolkmitt, U. (Project manager, academic) & Schomerus, T. (Project manager, academic)
04.06.10 → 09.06.10
Project: Dissertation project
Integration Through Trust
Sandermann, P. (Project manager, academic), Friedrichs-Liesenkötter, H. (Project manager, academic), Henkel, A. (Project manager, academic), Münch, S. (Project manager, academic), Husen, O. (Project manager, academic), Kakar, H. (Project staff), Siede, A. (Project staff), Schwenker, V. S. (Project staff), Wenzel, L. (Project staff) & Winkel, M. (Project staff)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.02.19 → 31.05.22
Project: Research
Intra-party Competition: District Nomination of the Candidates for the Federal Elections 2009
Reiser, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.08 → …
Project: Research
Investitionskontrolle und Grundrechte
Wiesenthal, J. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Joachim Herz Promotionskolleg für Rechtswissenschaft "Recht und gesellschaftliche Transformation"
Terhechte, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.22 → 30.09.26
Project: Research
Joint Forum Lower Saxony & Scotland
Terhechte, J. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.20 → 31.12.20
Project: Other
Jugend und Politik - ein schwieriges Verhältnis? Schüler als Jugendforscher
Friedrich, D. (Project manager, academic) & Lutter, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.12 → 31.03.15
Project: Practical Project
Klimafolgenanpassung: Klimafolgenanpassung - Analyse der Entwicklung einer Klimaanpassungsstrategie für Niedersachsen
Striegnitz, M. (Project manager, academic), Saretzki, T. (Project manager, academic) & Ebermann, V. (Project staff)
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Umwelt, Energie und Klimaschutz
01.04.11 → 30.06.18
Project: Research
KombiFiD: Kombinierte Firmendaten für Deutschland (KombiFiD) - Zusammenführung von Mikrodaten der statistischen Ämter, des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung und weiterer Datenproduzenten
Wagner, J. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.07 → 09.02.12
Project: Research
Kommunale Wählergemeinschaften in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Reiser, M. (Coordination) & Holtmann, E. (Project manager, academic)
15.09.04 → 31.07.12
Project: Research