Research

Over the years, the activities of the Research Center for Environmental Law have set the focus on the following topics:

• Environmental and resource justice
• European and international environmental law
• The public tasks of environmental protection and sustainability
• Precaution and risk regulation
• Control instruments in environmental law
• Legal protection in environmental law
• The interdisciplinary nature of environmental protection and of environmental law, and
• Environmental law as a driver for the development of public law. 

Specifically, the relevant reference areas for the Research Center’s activities include:

• Immission control law including noise protection law and air quality law
• Climate change law and climate impact law
• Energy-related environmental law
• Water- and ocean-related environmental protection law
• Environmental protection law and landscape conservation law including animal and species protection law
• Soil protection law
• Genetic engineering law and the law of new biomolecular technologies
• Closed substance cycle and waste management law, and
• Environmental law as a cross-sectoral topic intersecting with other tasks and areas of regulation, such as environment and traffic, land usage and urban sprawl, building law and spatial development law.