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

    §50 Windenergie auf See

    Schomerus, C.-T. & Meister, M., 2015, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J., Cosack, T. & Ekardt, F. (eds.). 4. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 1154-1186 32 p. (Berliner Kommentare).

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

  2. Published

    §49 Windenergie an Land

    Schomerus, C.-T. & Maly, C., 2015, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J., Cosack, T. & Ekardt, F. (eds.). 4. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 1113-1153 41 p. (Berliner Kommentare).

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

  3. Published

    §42 Klärgas

    Schomerus, C.-T., 2015, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J., Cosack, T. & Ekardt, F. (eds.). 4. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 894-899 6 p. (Berliner Kommentare).

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

  4. Published

    §41 Deponiegas

    Schomerus, C.-T., 2015, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J., Cosack, T. & Ekardt, F. (eds.). 4. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 886-894 9 p. (Berliner Kommentare).

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

  5. Published

    §40 Wasserkraft

    Schomerus, C.-T. & Reins, L., 2015, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz: Kommentar. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J., Cosack, T. & Ekardt, F. (eds.). 4. ed. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 854-885 32 p. (Berliner Kommentare).

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

  6. Published

    Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht

    Oberrath, J.-D., Schmidt, A. & Schomerus, T., 2015, 4. ed. Stuttgart: Boorberg-Verlag. 128 p. (Arbeitsbücher Wirtschaftsrecht)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCompendium/lecture notesEducation

  7. Published

    Relevante Ansätze zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen in der Landwirtschaft, der Lebensmittelverarbeitung und im Handel

    Bräutigam, K.-R., Schomerus, T. & Biesdorf, B., 2014, Von der Verschwendung zur Wertschätzung der Lebensmittel - Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und praktische Umsetzung: Tagungsdokumentation; 21. November 2014, Münster. Ministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, p. 20 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherTransfer

  8. Published

    Umweltverschmutzung durch Licht: Die Ausweisung von Lichtschutzgebieten als Instrument zur Reduktion von Lichtimmissionen

    Borchers, K. C. & Schomerus, T., 09.2015, In: Natur und Recht. 37, 9, p. 614-621 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  9. Published

    Renewable Energy: support mechanisms

    Schomerus, T., 06.2016, Climate Change Law. Farber, D. & Peeters, M. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 465-475 11 p. (Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law series; no. 1).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaTransfer

  10. Published

    Entwicklung von Instrumenten zur Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen: Kurzfassung

    Jepsen, D., Vollmer, A., Eberle, U., Fels, J. & Schomerus, T., 12.2014, Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt, 23 p. (Umweltforschungsplan des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit).

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch