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. 2023
  2. Published

    Preface and acknowledgments

    Tams, C. J., Schill, S. W. & Hofmann, R., 01.01.2023, International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects?. Tams, C., Schill, S. & Hofmann, R. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. x-xi 2 p. (Frankfurt Investment and Economic Law series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  3. Published

    Radiating effects: The gentle impact of international investment law on general international law

    Tams, C. J., Schill, S. W. & Hofmann, R., 01.01.2023, International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects?. Tams, C., Schill, S. & Hofmann, R. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 2-30 29 p. (Frankfurt Investment and Economic Law series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    Vorsorgevollmachten in transnationalen Fällen

    Croon-Gestefeld, J., 01.01.2023, Vorsorge und Verantwortung im Internationalen Familienrecht. Budzikiewicz, P. D. C., Heiderhoff, P. D. B., Klinkhammer, P. D. F. & Niethammer-Jürgens, D. K. (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 75-101 27 p. (Dialog Internationales Familienrecht; vol. 5).

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

  5. Published

    Ways out of the marshland: International investment law and the law of state succession

    Tams, C. J., 01.01.2023, International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects?. Tams, C., Schill, S. & Hofmann, R. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 150-179 30 p. (Frankfurt Investment and Economic Law series).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  6. Published

    Legislative Democracy in the Bundestag After Reunification

    Koß, M., 01.2023, In: German Politics. 32, 1, p. 107-126 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Potential duration of unemployment benefits and labor market outcomes for older workers with health impairments in Germany

    Petrunyk, I. & Pfeifer, C., 01.2023, In: Bulletin of Economic Research. 75, 1, p. 111-118 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    § 844 Ersatzansprüche Dritter bei Tötung

    Röthel, A. & Croon-Gestefeld, J., 2023, Recht der Schuldverhältnisse: §§ 840-853 (Haftung mehrerer; Geldrente oder Kapitalabfindung; Ersatzansprüche Dritter bei Tötung). Neubearbeitung 2023 ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 229-357 129 p. ( J. von Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch; vol. 2, no. 8,27).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  9. Published

    § 845 Ersatzansprüche wegen entgangener Dienste

    Röthel, A. & Croon-Gestefeld, J., 2023, Recht der Schuldverhältnisse: §§ 840-853 (Haftung mehrerer; Geldrente oder Kapitalabfindung; Ersatzansprüche Dritter bei Tötung). Neubearbeitung 2023 ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 357-375 19 p. ( J. von Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch; vol. 2, no. 8,27).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  10. Published

    § 846 Mitverschulden des Verletzten

    Röthel, A. & Croon-Gestefeld, J., 2023, Recht der Schuldverhältnisse: §§ 840-853 (Haftung mehrerer; Geldrente oder Kapitalabfindung; Ersatzansprüche Dritter bei Tötung). Neubearbeitung 2023 ed. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, p. 375-379 5 p. ( J. von Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch; vol. 2, no. 8,27).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  11. Published

    Anmerkungen anlässlich der Umsetzung der EU-Verbandsklagenrichtlinie 2020/1828

    Halfmeier, A., 2023, Kapitalmarkt und kollektiver Rechtsschutz - Symposium in Gedenken an Andreas Tilp: Tagung vom 13. Mai 2022 an der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt am Main. Rendenius-Hövermann, J. & Halfmeier, A. (eds.). München: C.H. Beck Verlag, p. 115-134 20 p.

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