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. 2011
  2. Published

    Schlacke/Schrader/Bunge, Informationsrechte, Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung und Rechtsschutz im Umweltrecht, Aarhus-Handbuch, 2010

    Schomerus, T., 2011, In: Die Verwaltung. 44, 1, p. 149-151 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsTransfer

  3. 2010
  4. Published

    Faktor Fünf: Rezension zu Weizsäcker/Hargroves/Smith: Faktor Fünf - Die Formel für nachhaltiges Wachstum

    Schomerus, T., 08.2010, In: Natur und Recht. 32, 8, p. 556-557 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  5. Published

    Klimaschutzrecht im Wandel: V. Bremer Umweltgespräche - Tagungsbericht

    Guerra González, J., 05.2010, In: Natur und Recht. 32, 5, p. 335-336 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalTransfer

  6. Published

    Anpassung des Bodenschutzrechts an den Klimaschutz

    Sanden, J., 04.2010, In: Natur und Recht. 32, 4, p. 225-229 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    Klimaschutz durch Bioenergie - Das Recht der Biomassenutzung zwischen Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit: Tagungsbericht: 5. Würzburger Gespräche zum Umweltenergierecht

    Guerra González, J., 04.2010, In: Natur und Recht. 32, 4, p. 258-260 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsConference article in journalTransfer

  8. Published
  9. Published

    § 13 Umweltschutz im Planungsrecht

    Sanden, J., 2010, Umweltrecht. Koch, H.-J. (ed.). 3 ed. Neuwied: Verlag Franz Vahlen, p. 675-719 45 p.

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

  10. Published

    § 23 Wasserkraft

    Schomerus, T., 2010, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J. & Altenschmidt, S. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 490-513 24 p.

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

  11. Published

    § 24 Deponiegas

    Schomerus, T., 2010, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J. & Altenschmidt, S. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 514-521 8 p.

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

  12. Published

    § 25 Klärgas

    Schomerus, T., 2010, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz. Frenz, W., Müggenborg, H.-J. & Altenschmidt, S. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 522-525 4 p.

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