Leuphana School of Public Affairs

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.