Research in the Faculty of Law

In the legal sciences - as in other humanities - the focus has traditionally been less on working groups or alliances and more on individual researchers. Reference should be made here to the full-time professors working at the Faculty of Law. The academic profile of the faculty continues to be represented by nine institutes and centres, in which faculty professors have come together to set their research priorities.

Institutes & Centres

Hermann Kantorowicz Institute for Fundamental Legal Research

The Institute for Basic Legal Research at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, founded in 2012, bears Hermann Kantorowicz's name. The institute houses professorships in the subjects of legal philosophy and legal history.

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Institute for European and International Private and Procedural Law

The Institute for European and International Private and Procedural Law was established in 1993, the year the EU was founded. The professorships based at the Institute deal with European and international private and procedural law as well as with the comparison of law.

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Institute of Criminology

In 2012, the Institute of Criminology was created as a professional extension of the former Institute of Sanctions Law and Criminology. The Institute's directors focus on substantive and formal criminal law, in particular criminal law relating to health, criminal law relating to economic offences and compliance, criminal law relating to the media, environmental criminal law, international criminal law as well as sanctions law and enforcement law, including constitutional references.

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Institute for Public Commercial Law

The Institute for Public Commercial Law was established in 2013. The research subjects dealt with at the Institute are primarily questions of public economic law, which in its entire breadth today extends far beyond the classical matters of economic administrative law.

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Institute of East European Law

The Institute of Law, Politics and Society of the Socialist States, the forerunner of today's Institute of East European Law, was founded in 1959 during the Cold War. The Institute of East European Law at CAU is the only functional German university institute with a focus on the legal systems of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Institute of Business and Tax Law

In 1983, the Institute of Business and Tax Law was established in the faculty by merging professorships in civil law with those in business law. Research focuses on corporate and capital market law, group law and German and European antitrust law as well as tax law, especially corporate tax law.

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Walther Schücking Institute for International Law

In 1914, more than hundred years ago, the Institute for International Law, later named after Walther Schücking, was founded as the first German university institution in its field. The main focus of research at the Institute today is on international law (especially basic research, human rights protection, cultural, security, environmental and maritime law), European law and comparative constitutional law.

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Centre for Digitisation and Law

The Centre for Digitisation and Law in Research and Teaching at the CAU Faculty of Law was founded in February 2021 as an interdisciplinary institution with the aim of bundling legal issues that arise in connection with digitisation and making them visible.

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Centre for Health Law

The Centre for Health Law at the CAU Faculty of Law was established in November 2020. It serves as a platform for bundling the activities of the chairs that deal with health law issues in research and teaching.

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Researchers at the Faculty of Law

Young academics

The Faculty of Law offers graduates the opportunity to earn a doctorate after successfully completing their studies.

Information on the doctorate