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

    Abfallvermeidungsprogramme im neuen Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz – ein Beitrag zum Ressourcenschutz?

    Schomerus, T., Herrmann-Reichold, L. & Stropahl, S., 2011, In: ZUR - Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht. 11, p. 507 - 514 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransferpeer-review

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    Die Energiewende als transdisziplinäre Herausforderung

    Heinrichs, H., Fischedick, M., Lechtenböhmer, S., Newig, J., Roßnagel, A., Ruck, W., Schomerus, T. & Thomas, S., 2011, In: GAIA. 20, 3, p. 202 - 204 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsComments / Debate / ReportsTransfer

  3. Published

    Informationspflichten Privater nach dem Umweltinformationsgesetz: Anmerkung zum Beschluss des VG Frankfurt vom 7. Juni 2011

    Schomerus, T., 2011, In: ZUR - Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht. 22, 9, p. 440 - 442 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsNotes on court decisionsTransfer

  4. Published

    Das Lüneburger Modell : der Studiengang Wirtschaftsrecht nach fünf Jahren

    Schomerus, T. (Editor), Stix, C. (Editor) & Zenz, E. (Editor), 1999, Lüneburg: Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen. 199 p. (Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftsrecht ; vol. 2)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

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    Der Diplom Studiengang Wirtschaftsrecht, Stand und Perspektiven

    Schomerus, T. (Editor), Degenhart, H. (Editor) & Preißer, M. (Editor), 1998, Lüneburg: Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen. 125 p. (Schriftenreihe des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftsrecht; vol. 1)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesConference proceedingsResearch

  6. Published

    Legal Aspects of Electricity Tariff Fixation in Germany

    Schomerus, T., 2004, In: Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies. 8, 2, p. 20-35 16 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  7. Published

    Stand und Perspektiven des Wirtschaftsrechtsstudiums an Fachhochschulen

    Schomerus, T., 1999, In: Juristische Schulung. 39, 9, p. 930-931 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  8. Published

    Nahverkehrsabgaben-Modelle

    Schomerus, T., 1996, Umweltverkehr : Bausteine für eine zukunftsfähige Verkehrswelt. Smeddinck, U. (ed.). Taunusstein : Eberhard Blottner Verlag, p. 127-144 18 p. (UmweltWissenschaften; vol. 8).

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

  9. Published

    § 25 Klärgas

    Schomerus, T., 04.2011, Erneuerbare- Energien-Gesetz : Kommentar. Frenz, W. & Müggenborg, H.-J. (eds.). 2. ed. Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 561-566 6 p.

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

  10. Published

    Energiespeicherung in Bundeswasserstraßen

    Schomerus, T. & Degenhart, H., 07.2011, In: Solarzeitalter. 23, 2, p. 34-38 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer