Professorship for Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

The normative goal of sustainability requires the long-term preservation of nature, including its functions and services for humans. In the concretization of these norms, the legal framework for sustainability-relevant action plays a major role.

The integrative connection of environmental law with energy law is of great importance for the law professorship and forms the main focus in research and teaching. Natural interfaces of both fields are the law of renewable energies, energy efficiency and sufficiency, and resource conservation.

The Chair of Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law, fits seamlessly into the context of sustainability science. Its working method is already interdisciplinary in its basic approach, and also shows a considerable degree of transfer to the fields of environmental planning, economics and politics. Consequently, the professorship is located in the Institute for Sustainability Management.

Main research areas

In the research projects, interdisciplinary work is carried out in cooperation between lawyers and, among others, environmental scientists, environmental planners and biologists, but also increasingly with experts from the economic sector. The research perspective is increasingly directed towards interdisciplinary sustainability research and is oriented towards the guiding principle of sustainability.

From the traditional fields of environmental law, such as soil protection law, environmental information law, and regional planning law, waste law has increasingly emerged as a research focus in the direction of a circular economy. In addition, legal research in the field of renewable energies plays an important role at the chair.

  1. Tagung "Von der Verschwendung zur Wertschätzung der Lebensmittel" 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Moderator)

    21.11.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  2. Tagung „Umweltinformation – Durch transparentes Verwaltungshandeln auf dem Weg zur Bürgergesellschaft“ 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    19.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Tagung Recht und Finanzierung von Erneuerbaren Energien „Erfahrungen mit der Marktprämie nach dem EEG 2012“

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    25.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Tagung "Natürliche Feinde? Umweltschutz und freier Welthandel als rechtliches und politisches Problem" - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    10.04.201511.04.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. Tagung „Bei weiterem Ausbau nicht mehr kompatibel?“ 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    10.11.201211.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Symposium on International Climate Protection - 2015

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    13.11.201514.11.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Summer School on Climate Change 2014

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    31.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  8. Studenten-Konferenz “Stop Wasting Food” 2012

    Schomerus, T. (Coauthor)

    07.12.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Sparkassenakademie Niedersachsen, Fachtagung Firmenkunden Führungskräfte

    Schomerus, T. (Speaker)

    06.10.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  10. Ressourcenschutz durch Abfallvermeidung – Der Beitrag des KrWG

    Schomerus, T. (Lecturer)

    16.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch