Prof. Dr. Ivo Appel

• 1970–1982: European School Karlsruhe
• 1982–1987: degree in law and philosophy at the universities in Erlangen, Lausanne and Freiburg; study abroad at the University of Strasbourg and the London School of Economics; 1987: first Staatsexamen (state examination)
• 1985–1990: employee of the Department of Criminology and Business Criminal Law at the University of Freiburg (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus Tiedemann)
• 1988–1991: legal traineeship in Baden-Württemberg, at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, and at the European Commission in Brussels; 1991: second Staats­examen (state examination)
• 1991–1998: postdoctoral research associate (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) within the Institute of Public Law at the University of Freiburg (Prof. Dr. Rainer Wahl)
• 1993–1995: member of the Ladenburg Research Cluster on the environmental state
• 1997: doctorate within the Faculty of Law of the University of Freiburg; Georg F. Rössler Foundation prize from the association of lawyers licensed in the Federal Court of Justice (Verein der bei dem BGH zugelassenen Rechtsanwälte e. V.)
• 1998–2001: Habilitation scholarship from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
• 2001: Habilitation within the Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg
• 2001–2003: stand-in professor at the universities in Freiburg im Breisgau, Frankfurt am Main, and Augsburg
• 2003: university professor at the University of Augsburg
• 2004–2011: managing director of the Institute of Public Law at the University of Augsburg
• 2006–2011: managing director of the Institute of Environmental Law at the University of Augsburg
• 2006–2011: senior research fellow within the Faculty of Law at the University of Augsburg
• 2011: acceptance of an university professor appointment at Universität Hamburg
• 2012–present: managing director of the Research Center for Environmental Law at Universität Hamburg
• 2016: declined an appointment at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer

• German, European, and international environmental law
• planning law
• biolaw and genetic technology law
• German and European public administration law, public administration law reform
• constitutional law
• jurisprudence / philosophy of law and legal theory (management and order function of law, standardization, theories of justice, sustainability strategies)

List of Publications (PDF)