Sally Boyani Mokaya has taken a leap into the unknown: she has travelled from Kenya to Germany to write her doctoral thesis at the University of Passau. Mokaya is part of the Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" (DPE), an interdisciplinary and international group of young researchers.
Mindy Nunez Duffourc came from New Orleans to the University of Passau to do comparative research on medical malpractice law as a Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Common Law. She then turned her research stay into a PhD project.
Traditional categories of discrimination are not enough: ethicists at the University of Passau have developed policy recommendations on data protection.
From June 17 to 19, researchers from around the world will gather in Regensburg to examine freedom, sovereignty, and dependence in a global context at the 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Science Campus (LWC). Taking the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence as its starting point, the conference—titled “In/ter/dependence: Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom,” will examine how moments of political self-determination—from the American Revolution through decolonization processes to the emergence of new states following the collapse of empires and the end of communism in Europe—have transformed political, social, and economic orders.
The Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America in the Modern World," located in Regensburg, supports an innovative, multidisciplinary, early-career research network focusing on the Bavarian/Bohemian border region, the Channel Islands, and the Georgian/Abkhazian border region.
The interdisciplinary collaborative project ALIGN will establish a research framework to systematically address the legal, ethical and societal issues surrounding new genomic techniques (NGT) in plant breeding. The University of Bayreuth is responsible for the overall coordination of the project, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
A study by the University of Passau shows that tech companies can also be prosecuted under German law if they tolerate abuse.
A white paper by the ForDaySec research network, coordinated by the University of Passau, outlines scenarios and options for action to make cyber security a task for society as a whole.
How can quantum technologies be developed responsibly? In the journal Science, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and Stanford University argue that international standards should be established before laws are enacted. Prof. Urs Gasser explains why the authors propose a quality management system for quantum technologies, how standards create trust and where even competing countries such as China and the US can cooperate.
How do we deal with the translation and adaptation of concepts of knowledge, culture and law across different languages, societies, or systems? The international conference "Navigating Epistemic, Cultural, and Legal Translations: Processes, Hierarchies, Spaces" of the Leibniz ScienceCampus (LSC) "Europe and America in the Modern World" addresses this topic at the University of Regensburg. The conference, with high-profile researchers from around the world, marks the end of the first funding phase (2019-2025) and the beginning of the second phase (2024-2028) of the LSC.
