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. 2022
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    §12 SPS und TBT

    Tax, R. & Terhechte, J., 2022, Handels- und Zusammenarbeitsabkommen EU/VK: Handbuch. Kübek, G., Tams, C. J. & Terhechte, J. P. (eds.). 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 249-268 20 p. (Praxis Europarecht).

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  3. Published

    §14 Funktion und Auswahl von Referenzgebieten des europäischen Verwaltungsrechts

    Terhechte, J., 2022, Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union. Terhechte, J. P. (ed.). 2. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 643-654 12 p.

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    §1 Einführung: Das Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union als Gegenstand rechtswissenschaftlicher Forschung – Entwicklungslinien, Prinzipien und Perspektiven

    Terhechte, J., 2022, Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union. Terhechte, J. P. (ed.). 2. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 47-94 48 p.

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  5. Published

    §1 Einleitung

    Terhechte, J. & Tams, C. J., 2022, Handels- und Zusammenarbeitsabkommen EU/VK: Handbuch. Kübek, G., Tams, C. J. & Terhechte, J. P. (eds.). 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 41-48 8 p. (Praxis Europarecht).

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  6. Published

    §21 Wettbewerb und Beihilfen

    Tax, R. & Terhechte, J., 2022, Handels- und Zusammenarbeitsabkommen EU/VK: Handbuch. Kübek, G., Tams, C. J. & Terhechte, J. P. (eds.). 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 437-459 23 p. (Praxis Europarecht).

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    §27 Europäisches Zollverwaltungsrecht

    Jochum, H., Dalkilic, E. & Terhechte, J., 2022, Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union. Terhechte, J. P. (ed.). 2. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 1165-1183 19 p.

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    § 2 Unionsrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen des TCA

    Terhechte, J., 2022, Handels- und Zusammenarbeitsabkommen EU/VK: Handbuch. Kübek, G., Tams, C. J. & Terhechte, J. P. (eds.). 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 49-64 16 p. (Praxis Europarecht).

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    §41 Internationale Dimensionen des Verwaltungsrechts der Europäischen Union

    Terhechte, J. P., 2022, Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union. Terhechte, J. P. (ed.). 2. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 1773-1788 15 p.

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    §44 Europäisches Verwaltungsrecht und Internationales Verwaltungsrecht

    Möllers, C. & Terhechte, J., 2022, Verwaltungsrecht der Europäischen Union . Terhechte, J. P. (ed.). 2 ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 1843-1858 15 p.

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  11. Published

    §4 Der völkerrechtliche Rahmen des TCA

    Tams, C. J., 2022, Handels- und Zusammenarbeitsabkommen EU/VK: Handbuch. Kübek, G., Tams, C. J. & Terhechte, J. P. (eds.). 1. ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 85-102 18 p. (Praxis Europarecht).

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