It holds a distinctive position within the national and international academic landscape as an innovative forum for intellectual exchange and collaboration.
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies – lucernaiuris is a hub for cutting-edge teaching and research that crosses traditional boundaries between law, the humanities and the social sciences. The institute’s activities currently focus on the following main themes:
Law, Media and Technology
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Histories of Law and Justice
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03/12/2025
We warmly invite you to join us next Wednesday (10 December) for our next session in the online series 'Cultures of Legality in Weimar Germany'. Steven Howe (University of Lucerne) will speak on "The Paragraph Film: Genre, Emotions and the Struggle for Law". Further details: https://tinyurl.com/y5hexyaz
11/11/2025
Join us on Wednesday 12 November for the next session in our online series Cultures of Legality in Weimar Germany. Michelle Zhu, PhD candidate and associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, will speak on Visualising Through Science to Justice? Sexological Photographs during the Weimar Republic. Further details: https://tinyurl.com/cc9rhnnx
10/09/2025
Die diesjährigen Rousseau Lectures der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie finden am Donnerstag, 23. und Freitag, 24. Oktober an der Universität Luzern statt. Unter dem Titel „Verfassungsrecht in Aktion: Von der Freiheit und der Gleichheit in der Arbeit am Konsens“ wird Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Susanne Baer, ehemalige Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (2011–2023) und Professorin an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, zentrale Fragen des modernen Verfassungsrechts in einer Zeit gesellschaftlicher Spannungen und neuer Herausforderungen beleuchten. Weitere Informationen: https://tinyurl.com/mryku6xv
10/09/2025
Join us on Wednesday 24 September for our first laboratorium lucernaiuris talk of the new term. Bill Maurer (Professor of Anthropology and Law, and Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine) will speak on “Elite Fragility and the Money Question”. Further details: https://tinyurl.com/3eenrp9t