Thomas Schomerus

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Thomas Schomerus (2017)

Thomas Schomerus (* 1957 ) is a German legal scholar.

Thomas Schomerus is professor for public law , especially energy and environmental law, at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg .

He studied law at the Universities of Hamburg and Göttingen from 1976–1981 . In addition to working on various research projects, he wrote his dissertation on "Deficits in nature conservation law" from 1982 to 1985. In 1988 he began working as an administrative officer in the service of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , particularly in the areas of building and environmental law, and had various teaching positions at the University of Hamburg and at other universities. In 1996 he was offered a professorship at the then Northeast Lower Saxony University of Applied Sciences in Lüneburg, now Leuphana University of Lüneburg . Schomerus is a member of the Leuphana Law School of the Faculty of Economics and a member of the Institute for Sustainability Management of the Faculty of Sustainability. He is the head of the part-time master’s course in Sustainability Law - Energy, Resources, Environment.

The main research areas include energy law, particularly in the areas of renewable energies and energy efficiency . Schomerus is co-author of the Berlin Commentary on the Renewable Energy Sources Act and has led various research projects on behalf of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the Federal Environment Agency , including on offshore wind energy and the development of new instruments to improve energy efficiency. Another focus of legal research is resource protection law; Schomerus helped prepare the new version of the Recycling Management Act. The third focus is the freedom of information law , in which a commentary on the Environmental Information Act was written and an expert opinion was drawn up for the Federal Office for Radiation Protection on information claims in nuclear and radiation protection law.

Thomas Schomerus contributed to the legal opinion on the coal phase-out, which was published by the Federal Environment Ministry in December 2018.

He is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Masters in Sustainability Law. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
  2. ^ Coal phase-out report published: Leuphana Professor Schomerus is co-author. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schomerus, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1957