Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke

• International, European and German Environmental, Climate Protection and Planning Law

• Administrative and Constitutional Law

Further detailed information can be found in the Research section.

• Constitutional Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (StGH Bremen, Vice-President)

• German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU, Co-Chair)

• Science Platform on Climate Protection of the Federal Government (WPKS, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee)

• National Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech)

• Society for Environmental Law (GfU, Vice Chair)

• Association of German Constitutional Law Professors (VDStRL)

Academic career

1987 - 1993
Studied law at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)

1993
First state examination in law, Lower Saxony

1993 - 1996
Doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation at the Graduate College of the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen

1996 - 1997
Research assistant at the Center for European Legal Policy (ZERP), University of Bremen

1997
Doctorate at the Faculty of Law, University of Bremen, on "Risk Decisions in European Food Law"

1997 - 2000
Legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Bremen

2000
Second state examination in law, Hamburg

2000 - 2007
Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Rostock

2002 - 2007
Scientific Coordinator of the Baltic Sea Institute for Maritime Law, Environmental Law and Infrastructure Law, University of Rostock

2005
Eight-week Visiting Scholarship at Duke University, School of Law, Durham, North Carolina (USA)

2007
Habilitation at the Faculty of Law, University of Rostock, on "Überindividueller Rechtsschutz" (Collective Legal Protection) (first reviewer: W. Erbguth, second reviewer: H. Koch)
Awarded the teaching license for the subjects "Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law"

2007 - 2008
Interim Professor of the Chair of Public Law, in particular Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Leipzig

2008 - 2013
Professor of Public Law with a focus on German, European, and International Environmental Law, Administrative Law at the University of Bremen
Managing Director of the Research Center for European Environmental Law at the University of Bremen

04/2013-09/2021
Professor of Public Law, in particular Public Building Law, Environmental and Planning Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Managing Director of the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law

Since 2014
Director (managing director since 2019) of the Central Institute for Spatial Planning at the University of Münster

Since 10/2021
Professor of Public Law with a focus on Administrative and Environmental Law at the University of Greifswald
Managing Director of the Institute for Energy, Environmental and Maritime Law (IfEUS)

Honorary posts

Since 2008
Member and since 2016 Co-Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WGBU), Berlin

Since 2011
Judge and, since 2019, Vice President of the Constitutional Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen