Berlin office

Personal information

• Born in: 1964

• Law studies: Göttingen, Freiburg, London (LSE) and Munich

• Head of the Institute for Administrative Law at the Deutsches Anwaltsinstitut (2003-2011)

• Expert in the German Bundestag for the Act on the Acceleration of Planning Procedures for Infrastructure Projects (2006)

• Lecturer on public law in the law faculty of the University of Potsdam (since 2010)

Career

• Doctorate (Dr. jur.) on constitutional law under Prof. Dr. Michael Kloepfer at Humboldt University, Berlin (1994)

• Admission as a lawyer 1995

• Qualified as Certified Administrative Law Specialist 1998

• Qualified as Certified Medical Law Specialist 2005

Main practice areas

• Environmental law:

  • Brownfields und soil protection law

  • Waste law

  • Air pollution and noise protection law

  • Water law

  • Nature conservation law

  • Chemicals law

  • Environmental information law

  • Law of environmental criminal and regulatory offences

  • Environmental liability law

• Public building law:

  • Planning law

  • Building regulations law

• Large-scale planning law

• Public-sector employment law

• University law, in particular university teachers' law

• Subsidy law

• Medical law

• Constitutional law

• Official liability

Publications:

• Books:

  • 	Beweisrecht im Verwaltungsprozess, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2011
    	Treibhausgas-Emissionshandelsgesetz Zuteilungsgesetz 2007, Kommentar, Verlag C.H. Beck, Munich 2005 (together with Raimund Körner)
    	Umweltstrafrecht, NJW Schriftenreihe, vol. 58, Verlag C.H. Beck, 2nd ed. 2002 (together with Michael Kloepfer)

• Annotations:

  • Annotation on § 24 BBodSchG, in: Fluck, Jürgen (ed.), Kreislaufwirtschafts-, Abfall- und Bodenschutzrecht, vol. 4, date: Oct. 2004 (together with Gerhard Wagner)

  • Annotation on § 18 Investitionsvorranggesetz (Vorhaben- und Erschließungsplan), in: InVorG, Kommentar, Deutscher Anwaltsverlag, Herne 1995 (together with Kornelius Kleinlein)

• Essays and articles:

  • Approximately fifty articles in legal periodicals on administrative law and constitutional law topics

Languages

• English

• French