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.

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    Förderung von Mehrwegverpackungssystemen zur Verringerung des Verpackungsverbrauchs – Mögliche Maßnahmen zur Etablierung, Verbreitung und Optimierung von Mehrwegsystemen: Teilbericht I

    Rödig, L., Jepsen, D., Falkenstein, A., Zimmermann, T., Hauschke, F., Cayé, N., Schüler, K., Burger, A., Schomerus, T. & Jacobj, H., 12.2022, Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt, 247 p. (Texte/Umweltbundesamt; vol. 148).

    Research output: Working paperResearch communication reportsResearch

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    Förderung von Mehrwegverpackungssystemen zur Verringerung des Verpackungsverbrauchs: Mögliche Maßnahmen zur Etablierung, Verbreitung und Optimierung von Mehrwegsystemen

    Rödig, L., Jepsen, D., Falkenstein, A., Zimmermann, T., Hauschke, F., Cayé, N., Schüler, K., Burger, A., Schomerus, T., Jacobj, H., Heckel, F., Gödde, J.-P., Seying, N. & Oppermann, A., 05.2025, Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt, 338 p. (Texte/Umweltbundesamt; vol. 2025, no. 61).

    Research output: Working paperResearch communication reportsResearch

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    Förderregelungen für erneuerbare Energien im Lichte des europäischen Wirtschaftsrechts

    Witthohn, A., 2005, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag. 312 p. (Umweltrecht und Umweltpolitik; vol. 16)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Food policy councils as loci for practising food democracy? Insights from the case of Oldenburg, Germany

    Sieveking, A., 28.10.2019, In: Politics and Governance. 7, 4, p. 48-58 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Fokus Mittelstand: Einzelaspekte der Mittelstandsforschung

    Fischer, C. (Editor), Nissen, D. (Editor), Ott, I. (Editor) & Schöning, S. (Editor), 2003, 1. ed. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag. 285 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Flächenrevitalisierung in Kaliningrad: Revitalisierung von Industriebrachen in Kaliningrad als Know-how-Transferprojekt

    Sanden, J., Kilger, R. & Haupt, T., 2013, Hamburg: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. 148 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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    Flächenrecycling und Naturschutzrecht

    Sanden, J., 2014, In: Bodenschutz. 3, p. 96-104 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Finanzielle Bürgerbeteiligung: Rechtlicher Rahmen und Herausforderungen

    Maly, C., Meister, M. & Schomerus, C.-T., 2018, Handbuch Energiewende und Partizipation. Holstenkamp, L. & Radtke, J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 371-386 16 p.

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

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    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