The main areas of research by Prof. Altwicker include the following:
- Legal data (collection, analysis, use)
- Law & statistics (statistics-based reasoning, application of statistical methods in legal studies)
- Law & machine learning (use of ML in the collection and analysis of legal data)
- Digitalization & legal studies (changes in knowledge production and knowledge representation about law under the conditions of digitalization)
- International and regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights (especially ECHR)
- Public security law (especially constitutional law aspects of public security in Switzerland and transnational public security law)
