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

    §32 Solare Strahlungsenergie

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 1070-1132 63 p.

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  2. Published

    §31 Windenergie Offshore

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 1013-1044 32 p.

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  3. Published

    §30 Windenergie Repowering

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 987-1012 26 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  4. Published

    §29 Windenergie

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 954-986 33 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  5. Published

    §25 Klärgas

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 729-733 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  6. Published

    §24 Deponiegas

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 722-728 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  7. Published

    §23 Wasserkraft

    Schomerus, T., 2013, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 3. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 694-721 28 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions in collection of commentariesResearch

  8. Published

    Energiewende umsetzen - Kommunen in der Pflicht

    Manns, M., 2012, In: NordÖR. 12, p. 531-533 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Prozesse der Energiewende wissenschaftlich gestalten: Wichtige Impulse aus den NaWis-Institutionen

    Heinrichs, H., Mans, U., Alvarez, A., Schomerus, T. & Goldammer, K., 12.2012, In: GAIA. 21, 4, p. 316-318 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Die EU-Holzhandelsverordnung: Ein wirksames Instrument zur Bekämpfung des illegalen Holzhandels?

    Sieveking, A., 12.08.2014, In: Natur und Recht. 36, 8 , p. 542-548 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review