On October 6, 2020, the Swiss writer Adolf Muschg was a guest at the University of Lucerne. As part of the lecture series "Identity (s)", the professor emeritus for German language and literature spoke about homeland and identity.

On the 24th and 25th of June 2019 the Cranet network of scholars in HRM met at the University of Lucerne to discuss network development and engage in research dialog.

This year's Lucerne Law & IT Summit (LITS) on 28 May was dominated by the new EU Data Protection Basic Regulation (DSGVO). The first practical experience reports one year after the DSGVO became applicable were the focus of the presentations.

The 8th Lucerne Law and Economics Conference took place on the 29th – 30th of March 2019 on the topic "Consumer Law and Economics" and was carried out in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame. Keynote speakers were Prof. Omri Ben-Shahar, The University of Chicago Law School, Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, New York University Law School, and Professor Avishalom Tor, University of Notre Dame Law School.

The Competency Center for Logistics and Transport Law (KOLT) held a two-day conference at University of Lucerne under the heading «Transportation Law on the Move: Challenges in the Modern Logistics World». The conference, co-chaired by Prof. Dr. Andreas Furrer and PD Dr. Viola Heutger, was held on 25th/26th of April 2019 with 20 speakers and several guests from 6 different countries. The speakers were internationally recognized academic experts in transportation law and practitioners in leading positions. The participants shared their experience, analysis and visions on modern national and international transportation law embedded in a modern logistics and supply chain management.