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Felix Ekardt in China
Felix Ekardt will hold six speeches on climate protection and constitutional theory in China, amongst others at the world congress of legal and social philosophers.
`Cool Down' out now
Since September, Felix Ekardt's new book `Cool Down: 50 Irrtümer über unsere Klima-Zukunft' is available in bookstores. Summary Cool Down
Radio Discussion `Democracy and Sustainability'
At the end of August, Felix Ekardt and Michael Kerbler discussed the financial crisis and climate change. The discussion was boradcast by the Austrian Radio Ö 1.
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Projects and Members
The research group of Prof. Dr. Felix Ekardt, which consists of approx. 30 postgraduates – the research group sustainability and climate protection – works on research projects that focus on climate policy or climate protection law and problems of sustainability. The list includes all current projects (in Bremen and Rostock) as well as all concluded doctorate projects. The project that appears first on the list is also the respective doctorate project. Finished doctorate students mostly still participate in the research group. For undergraduates, the first project in the respective list identifies the started doctorate thesis.
Current Third Party Funds
- Felix Ekardt
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- Bettina Hennig
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- Christian Heitmann
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- Daniel Kornack
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- Heiko Sabatzki
- Public private partnership, competition law, public procurement law (University of Bremen, faculty of law)
- Patrick Kim Schmidtke
- Municipal climate protection (funded by the lawyers office Schmitz)
- Raphael Weyland
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- Martin Wilke
- Biotech law, protection of nature, and association rights (funded by Bundesamt für Naturschutz and NABU)
- Ines Zager
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- Climate protection and emission trade (funded by Frankfurter Rundschau)
- Emission trade and the German allocation act (funded by BUND e.V.)
- Freedom of speech and Danish cartoon fight (student assistant job)
- Jan-Philipp Albrecht
- Legal problems of final storage of nuclear waste (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)
Doctorate Projects
- Hartwig von Bredow
- Legal problems of energy efficiency (lawyer)
- Frederik D. Franz
- Freedom of information and administrative procedural law (attorney)
- Jan Goedelt
- European and German environmental liability law (judge at the court for social law affairs)
- Mareike Heering
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- Nina Hehn
- Legal problems concerning the transition to a climate neutral town (lawyer)
- Anna-Sarah Hennig
- Perception of environment from a (legal-)historical perspective (parental leave)
- Andreas Heym
- Internal administrative law and nature protection law (assistant at the Bundesamt für Naturschutz)
- Nadine Holzapfel
- Waste law, soil protection law, and water law (lawyer)
- Henrike-Juljiane Kruschinski
- Legal problems of bio-gas plants (employee at EWE AG)
- Monique Radtke
- Multi-culturalism and integration as a human rights problem (lawyer)
Research Projects as Prequels to Doctorate Projects
- Sibylle Albrecht
- Global social distributive justice in climate protection
- Anika Bruns
- Legal problems of energy-heat-linkage (student assistant job funded by the German Federal Ministry for Environment)
- Anne-Katrin Exner
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- Antonia von Hövel
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- Usage of land in global and European climate protection law
- Foundations of a global Marshall-plan/planetary contract (contract financed by the BUND e.V.)
- Anna Hyla
- Legal problems of renewable energies: the perspective 2050/aspects of WTO law and human rights (student assistant job financed by the German Federal Ministry of Environment)
- Swantje Meyer-Mews
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- Nina Senkbeil
- Legal problems of adaption to climate change
- Larissa Steffenhagen
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- Legal problems of renewable energies: the perspective 2050/aspects of WTO law and human rights (student assistant job financed by the German Federal Ministry of Environment)
- Sanctions and legal protection in global climate protection law (student assistant)
- Hilke van Riesten
- Legal problems of carbon dioxide sequestration (student assistant job financed by the German Federal Ministry of Environment)
- Ulrike Will
- Global climate protection after Copenhagen
- Dr. Klaus Beckmann
- Interim measures and suspensive effect (retired official)
- Dr. Daniel Buscher
- Reform of German federalism and the future of `town states' (Rechtsreferendar)
- Andrea Schmeichel
- Legal problems of renewable energy: the perspective 2050/renewable energy act (EEG) and the EC directive (research assistant job funded by the German Federal Ministry for Environment)
- Dr. Jan Seidel
- Threshold values in soil protection law (lawyer)
- Davor Šušnjar
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Moreover, there exist concluded projects on public procurement law, building law, and on principles of international public law (second opinions) as well as finished BUND-projects on global justice (Nina Neumann), rationing in health care systems and the adaption to climate change (Verena Lessmann), and a university financed project on the every day culture of law students with a migration background in liberal states (Cornelia Richter)
