Externally funded projects

The Faculty carries out a wide range of externally funded projects; currently, these include the following in particular:

• Bavarian State Ministry of Justice/Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice project: ‘Real-world laboratory: Structural guidelines for party submissions in civil proceedings’
• DFG project: ‘Fairness in the “data-for-service” exchange under the EU Data Protection Regulation’
• DFG project “Alsace-Lorraine as a legal laboratory”
• Volkswagen Foundation project: ‘Regulatory Instruments in the Real World’
• AUDI AG project “Shaping AI-driven transformation through collective rights”

• DFG: Application for a follow-up grant on the topic ‘Fairness in the “data-for-service” exchange under the EU Data Protection Regulation’, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling in collaboration with Prof. Buchner, an expert in data protection and contract law
• DFG: Special jurisdiction in Bavaria 1918–1924, Chair of Prof. Dr Martin Löhnig in collaboration with Prof. Dr Arnd Koch (University of Augsburg)
• DAAD: German-language degree programme (DSG) “German Law and Comparative Law” at the Tashkent University of Law, 2023–2024, Chair of Prof. Dr Gerrit Manssen, in collaboration with the Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Graser and Dr Manuchehr Kudratov
• Bavarian State Ministry of Justice/Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice: Real-world laboratory on structural guidelines for parties’ submissions in civil proceedings, 2022 to 2024, Chair of Prof. Dr Christoph Althammer in collaboration with Prof. Dr Christian Wolff (Media Informatics)
• Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action – DATA-EVEKT – Data protection requirements for consumer participation in the energy transition, July 2022 – June 2025, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• DFG: Fairness in the exchange of ‘data for services’ under the EU data protection regime, 2022 to 2024, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• Volkswagen Foundation: Award of four one-year scholarships for Ukrainian female legal scholars, April 2022 to March 2023, Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Graser
• Volkswagen Foundation: Early-Career Research Group on Legal Transfer and Legal Development in Central Asia, 2022 to 2026, Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Graser, Chair of Prof. Dr Martin Löhnig, Dr Manuchehr Kudratov
• DFG: Alsace-Lorraine Legal Laboratory, Chair of Prof. Löhnig (since 2021)
• DFG: Diversity beyond migration background – new categories for anti-discrimination data, November 2021 to November 2024, tenure-track professorship held by Prof. Dr Alexander Tischbirek (participation in the DFG Early-Career Researchers’ Network)
• Volkswagen Foundation: Regulatory Instruments in the Real World, 2021 to 2028, Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Hellgardt
• Federal Ministry of the Interior/Federal Statistical Office: Statistical Law, May 2021 to October 2022, Chair held by Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering: Assignment as a consultant to support the Electricity Trading Working Group, January 2021 to February 2022, Chair held by Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• DFG: Seeing Antisemitism Through Law: High Promises or Indeterminacies?, January 2021 to January 2024, tenure-track professorship held by Prof. Dr Alexander Tischbirek (participation in DFG project group)
• Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching: selVi, 2021–2024, Chair held by Prof. Dr Alexander Graser (co-applicant) and tenure-track professorship held by Prof. Dr Alexander Tischbirek
• BMJ: Digital Heritage (DErbe), Chair held by Löhnig (2019–2020)
• Bavarian Research Alliance: Research trip to the USA, August 2019, Chair held by Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research: OPTAPEB collaborative project, October 2018 to September 2019, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• DAAD: International Congress in Japan, July 2018, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• Thyssen Foundation: Symposium on Regulatory Law, June 2018, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• DFG: Private Law in the Post-Civil Era, Villa Vigoni Trilateral Project, Chair of Prof. Löhnig with partners from France and Italy (2017–2019)
• Bavarian Research Alliance: Research trip to the USA, May 2017, Chair of Prof. Dr Jürgen Kühling
• DAAD: Welcome Programme, since 2017, Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Graser
• DAAD: DSG Programme, 2016 to 2022, Chair of Prof. Dr Gerrit Manssen
• DFG, GAČR, ETAG: Unborn Children of Liberalism?, Chair of Löhnig (2016–2018)
• German-French University, November 2016, Chair held by Prof. Dr Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
• DFG grant application, November 2016, Chair of Prof. Dr Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack
• Initiative of Excellence (in cooperation with LMU Munich): Graduate School for East and South-East European Studies, 2012 to 2019, Chair of Prof. Dr Alexander Graser (co-applicant and PI)