Institute for Environmental and Technology Law
The Institute for Environmental and Technology Law (IUTR) based in Trier existed from 1989 to 2019 as the central scientific institution of the University of Trier . Emerging from a research center founded in 1985, the IUTR researched the fundamentals and developments of environmental and technology law. For the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany, the focus was on the idea of linking the subject areas of environmental law with technology law . In February 2019, the IUTR was dissolved as part of a strategic realignment; in its place came the “Institute for Law and Digitization Trier” (IRDT).
Scientific goal setting
The establishment of the Institute for Environmental and Technology Law in 1989 was a novelty in the legal landscape of Germany at the time. The institute's program items are research and teaching in the field of environmental and technology law. In addition, the institute has set itself the task of bringing together science and practice on the topics and thus making a contribution to legal development in environmental and technology law.
Meetings
In order to implement the goal of establishing contact between science and practice, numerous conferences have been held since 1985, at which representatives from science on the one hand and representatives from administration, justice and business could discuss their ideas and views in order to create new ones To find solutions to problems. The Trier Colloquia on environmental and technology law usually took place annually and dealt with current issues of environmental protection and technical safety.
Series of publications
The institute's own series of publications was published by Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, under the title "Environmental and Technology Law" (UTR). In addition to the conference volumes on the Trier Colloquia, dissertations and monographs in the field of environmental and technology law, the "Yearbooks of Environmental and Technology Law" with treatises and reports from these areas of law were published there.
Scientific cooperation
The IUTR has been in friendly contact with the Instituut voor Staats- en Bestuursrecht at the University of Utrecht since 1993 . Collective workshops, which take place alternately every two years in the Netherlands and Germany, lead to a close scientific exchange on the fundamentals and developments of environmental and technical law in the respective countries. The most recent cooperation was entered into with the Law Faculty of Kyung Hee University, Seoul / Korea. This cooperation is based on reciprocal visits by professors and research assistants.
Visiting scholar
The Institute for Environmental and Technology Law offered foreign scientists the opportunity to work and research as part of a visiting professorship at the IUTR. This option was particularly popular in Asia.
Michael Kloepfer Prize
The Institute for Environmental and Technology Law awards the Michael Kloepfer Prize every two years as an award for German-language jurisprudential monographs that pioneering environmental and technology law. At the same time, the award is intended to promote interdisciplinary cooperation. According to Prof. Dr. Michael Kloepfer , who was director of the institute from 1989 to 1992.
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Law and Digitization Trier. University of Trier, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Lindenblatt: 32nd Trier Colloquium on Environmental and Technology Law: "The future of the energy transition". In: DÖV magazine for public law and administrative sciences. W. Kohlhammer GmbH, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ see the holdings of the series in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/013692526
- ^ Thomas Lindenblatt: Michael Kloepfer Prize 2018. In: DÖV magazine for public law and administrative sciences. W. Kohlhammer GmbH, accessed on December 22, 2019 .