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. 2010
  2. Published

    Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data

    Pfeifer, C. & Schneck, S., 2010, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 47 p. (Working paper series in Economics; no. 163).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  3. Published

    Repräsentative Wahlstatistik

    Müller-Rommel, F., 2010, Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft: N-Z. Nohlen, D. & Schultze, R.-O. (eds.). 4 ed. C.H. Beck Verlag, Vol. 2. p. 922 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaTransfer

  4. Published

    Sabbaticals - eine Form der Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung

    Pape, A., 2010, Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen: Herausforderungen und Innovationen: Forschungsbeiträge. Schöning, S., Richter, J., Wetzel, H. & Nissen, D. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, p. 157-175 19 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Schuldrechtliche Beziehungen zwischen den Nutzern von Second Life

    Schubert, J., 2010, Rechtsfragen Virtueller Welten: Oldenburger Tagungsbände. Taeger, Buchner, Habel & Schubert (eds.). Oldenburg: Oldenburger Verlag für Wirtschaft, Informatik und Recht, p. 39-50 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

    Temouri, Y., Wagner, J. & Vogel, A., 2010, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 32 p. (Working paper series in economics; no. 183).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  7. Published

    Societas Europaea

    Preißer, M., 2010, Europäische Aktiengesellschaft. Manz, G., Mayer, B. & Schröder, A. (eds.). 2 ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, p. 881-941 61 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Stability under learning of equilibria in financial markets with supply information

    Heinemann, M., 2010, In: Economics Bulletin. 30, 1, p. 383-391 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Stefan Leible (Hrsg.), Die Umsetzung der Dienstleistungsrichtlinie – Chancen und Risiken für Deutschland

    Terhechte, J., 2010, In: EUROPARECHT. 1, p. 137-138 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsTransfer

  10. Published

    Strategie in der Politikwissenschaft: Konturen eines neuen Forschungsfelds

    Raschke, J. (Editor) & Tils, R. (Editor), 2010, 1. Aufl. ed. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 388 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  11. Published

    Taktische Nachtragsgestaltung: Grenzen der Zulässigkeit

    Schottke, R., 2010, Entwurf- und Ausführungsplanung, Leistungsänderung und Kausalitätsnachweis, aktuelle Rechtsprechungsübersicht und Nachtragsmanagement: Konfliktlösung bei internationalen Bauprojekten, Nachtragsmanagement und Nachtragskalkulation. Schottke, R. (ed.). SEMINA Verlag, p. 79-108 30 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch