Research
In terms of approach and methodology, the focus of the research is on linking the insights from various methodological approaches (primarily comparative law, legal theory) and disciplines (mainly economics, sociology) with current and latest legal issues.
In terms of approach and methodology, the focus of the research is on linking the insights from various methodological approaches (primarily comparative law, legal theory) and disciplines (mainly economics, sociology) with current and latest legal issues.
The relationship between the sociology of law and comparative law is the methodological core of Prof. Dr. Eva Julia Lohse's habilitation thesis (Rechtsangleichungsprozesse in der Europäischen Union – Instrumente, Funktionsmechanismen und Wirkparameter effektiver Harmonisierung, Mohr/Siebeck 2016; translation: Legal Harmonization Processes in the European Union – Instruments, Functional Mechanisms, and Parameters for Effective Harmonization, Mohr/Siebeck 2016). The focus lays on the question of how comparative law can be methodologically grounded and how both synchronic and diachronic comparisons of legal systems can be used to gain insights into the law as well as the functioning of supra- and international legal orders.
Public economic law is of particular importance to Prof. Dr. Eva Julia Lohse from the perspective of EU state aid law, as well as its connections with environmental law and human rights protection. Prof. Dr. Eva Julia Lohse's research projects are largely situated at the intersection of various legal regimes, incorporating extra-legal controlling mechanisms and examining the consequences of such "overlaps."
Research Areas
- EU law, in particular fundamental freedoms, legal harmonization and state aid law
- Protection of fundamental and human rights through internationalized administrative law
- Constitutional law (fundamental and human rights under international influence/impacts, principle of democracy)
- (International) environmental law, in particular participation and sustainability
- Municipal public service
- School and educational administration law against an educational economics background
- (Theory of) Comparative Law, Comparative Legal Sociology, Common Law
- Teaching of law, Methodology