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. Published

    Legal regimes for regional climate protection and the protection of the seas as dominant topics in international environmental policy and law-conclusion

    Sanden, J. & Verheyen, R., 07.08.2015, Legal Regimes for Environmental Protection: Governance for Climate Change and Ocean Resources. Koch, H.-J., König, D., Sanden, J. & Verheyen, R. (eds.). Brill Rodopi, p. 341-344 4 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

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    Leverage points for sustainability transformation

    Abson, D. J., Fischer, J., Leventon, J., Newig, J., Schomerus, T., Vilsmaier, U., von Wehrden, H., Abernethy, P., Ives, C. D., Jager, N. W. & Lang, D. J., 01.02.2017, In: Ambio. 46, 1, p. 30-39 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Mainstream Economy, Development Politics, Sufficiency: The other way around as only sustainable solution?

    Guerra González, J., 09.2012, Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 30 p. (Leuphana Schriftenreihe Nachhaltigkeit & Recht; no. 1).

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

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    Martin Hack, Energie-Contracting - Energiedienstleistungen und dezentrale Energieversorgung

    Schomerus, C.-T., 04.2016, In: Zeitschrift für das gesamte Recht der Energiewirtschaft EnWZ. 4/2016, p. Aktuell 10-11 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsTransfer

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    Mehr Fragen als Antworten: das Repowering nach dem EEG 2009

    Schomerus, T. & Stecher, M., 21.09.2009, In: Recht der Energiewirtschaft. p. 269-275 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Modifying Our Society With Law: The Case of EU Renewable Energy Law

    Peeters, M. & Schomerus, T., 25.07.2014, In: Climate Law. 4, 1-2, p. 131-139 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

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    Nachhaltiger Ressourcenschutz und Recht

    Schomerus, C.-T., 2016, Im Brennpunkt: Ressourcenwende: Transformation zu einer ressourcenleichten Gesellschaft. Binswanger, H.-C., Ekardt, F., Grothe, A., Hasenclever, W.-D., Hauchler, I., Jänicke, M., Kollmann, K., Michaelis, N., Nutzinger, H. G., Rogall, H. & Scherhorn, G. (eds.). Marburg: Metropolis Verlag, p. 215-236 22 p. (Jahrbuch Nachhaltige Ökonomie; vol. 2016/2017, no. 5).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransfer

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    Nachhaltigkeit aus rechtlicher Perspektive

    Schomerus, T., 2014, Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften. Heinrichs, H. & Michelsen, G. (eds.). Berlin u.a.: Springer Spektrum, p. 290-304 15 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Nachhaltigkeit braucht Institutionen - zur Institutionalisierung von Nachhaltigkeitsräten

    Schomerus, T., 01.2011, In: Natur und Recht. 33, 1, p. 1-7 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review