Ursula Brunner (lawyer)

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Ursula Brunner (born June 23, 1950 ; died July 17, 2019 in Zurich ) was a Swiss lawyer.

Career

Ursula Brunner mainly devoted her professional activity to environmental law issues. Between 1985 and 2003 she played a key role in the commentary on the Environmental Protection Act and thus in shaping the then young area of ​​law. In addition, she wrote articles in specialist journals on environmental law topics. In 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich for her achievements as a “pioneer in environmental law”. Between 1998 and 2004 Ursula Brunner served as a substitute judge at the administrative court of the Canton of Zurich. As a lawyer, she acted as an appraiser and consultant, accompanied legislative projects as an expert and took a seat on the Federal Commission for Air Hygiene (EKLB) and on the Advisory Commission of EAWAG .

In addition, she was on the board of the Association for Environmental Law and on the editorial committee of the specialist journal "Environmental Law in Practice". Her forensic work also focused on environmental law issues, mainly in the areas of contaminated sites and climate law.

Lawyer for more climate protection

Ursula Brunner also acted as a lawyer for the Swiss Climate Seniors. She wrote the complaint with Cordelia Bähr. 384 women of AHV age sued the federal government because not only the current but also the planned climate legislation violated their basic constitutional right to life and health.

Older women are much more affected by climate change than the rest of the population. For physiological reasons, they are exposed to a much higher risk of heat-related damage to health during hot periods. Heat could lead to death for older women, said lawyer Ursula Brunner when she presented the lawsuit to the media.

The action brought by the KlimaSeniorinnen was filed with the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC in 2016 - and then rejected. The complaint that they submitted to the Federal Administrative Court in May 2017 was also rejected in December 2018. However, they moved the lawsuit to the federal court.

Engagement in the field of water protection

Ursula Brunner was a long-time member of the board of trustees of the Greinastiftung for the preservation of alpine rivers.

Publications

  • International climate finance - Constitutional opinion for the attention of Alliance Sud regarding the legal requirements for additional financing instruments,
  • February 28, 2019 (together with Matthias Hauser and Nina von Büren). PDF
  • KlimaSeniorinnen: lessons from the Swiss senior women's case for future climate litigation, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 9 No. 2, September 2018, pp. 194-221
  • Is the Swiss climate target constitutional? On the basis of an expert opinion on behalf of Greenpeace Switzerland, AJP 2016, pp. 1219–1228 (together with Cordelia Bähr)
  • Preventing enforcement deficiencies and correcting them if necessary, URP 2015 pp. 611–655
  • The importance of the state of the art in environmental and energy use law, URP 2015 pp. 181–233
  • Does Swiss pollution control law protect us enough? Oekoskop / Journal of Doctors for Environmental Protection No. 2/14, pp. 17–19
  • Promoting environmental protection as a lawyer. In: Lawyers in Switzerland: Different! Bern (Editions Weblaw) 2014, pp. 37–44
  • Legal questions on various types of systems in connection with the enactment of air-hygienic emission limits for machines and vehicles, legal opinion on behalf of the FOEN, 2013 (together with Martin Looser). On-line
  • On the way to integral water management: The Solothurn Law on Water, Soil and Waste (GWBA), URP 2013 479–506
  • Consequences of the current overfunding of the REAL community association - Assessment for the attention of the board and management of the community association Recycling, Waste Water Management Lucerne (REAL), Zurich 2013 (together with Martin Looser). PDF
  • Protection intensity and interests in environmental law - an evaluation of nine environmental law enactments, legal opinion on behalf of the FOEN, Zurich 2012 (together with Martin Looser). On-line
  • Enactment and implementation of federal law in the field of spatial planning and the environment - report from the workshop, in: The role of the federal government and the cantons in enacting and implementing federal law, 12th annual meeting of the Center for Legislative Studies, ed. by Felix Uhlmann, Zurich / St. Gallen 2013, pp. 83–94
  • Review by Griffel Alain / Rausch Heribert (Ed .: Association for Environmental Law), Commentary on the Environmental Protection Act, supplement to the 2nd edition. URP 2012 pp. 371-386
  • 25 years association for environmental law and environmental law in practice. URP 2011 pp. 753–763 (French translation pp. 764–775)
  • The relationship between air and forest as reflected in political challenges. In: Environment and society in harmony? - Festschrift for Willi Zimmermann. Edited by Kurt Bisang, Christian Hirschi, Karin Ingold, Zurich 2011, pp. 71–86 (with Martin Looser)
  • Sustainability reporting - why Swiss law should be supplemented with provisions for listed companies. In: Kommunikation - Festschrift for Rolf H. Weber on his 60th birthday, ed. v. Rolf Sethe, Andreas Heinemann, Reto M. Hilty, Peter Nobel, Roger Zäch, Bern 2011, pp. 255–274
  • The old burdens law patchwork quilt: yesterday - today - tomorrow. URP 2011 pp. 507-527
  • A case study on the legislative methodology in major legislative projects: The development of the Solothurn law on water, soil and waste (GWBA). LeGes 2010/2 pp. 151-185
  • To use the money from the VASA fund in landfills. URP 2009 pp. 603–622 (with Adrian Strütt)
  • 20 years of the Environmental Protection Act - review and appreciation. ZBl 2005 pp. 1–35 (with Helen Keller)
  • Regulation, deregulation and self-regulation in environmental law. ZSR 2004 II pp. 307-370
  • Comment on the Environmental Protection Act. 2nd edition, 1998-2003
  • Legal opinion on behalf of the EKL on the basis for the regulation of stricter emission limits for carcinogenic air pollutants, Zurich, September 1, 2000. Online
  • State legislation versus self-regulation - new approaches in environmental protection law with exemplary character. NZZ from 13./14. June 1998 p. 87
  • New Public Management and Environmental Protection Administrations - A contribution to the discussion. URP 1998 pp. 81-94
  • Contaminated sites and the obligation to provide information according to Art. 46 USG. URP 1997 pp. 5-28
  • Building in the bank area - do the protective standards protect? URP 1996 pp. 744-760
  • Speed ​​restrictions on motorways to protect against excessive immissions. URP 1995 pp. 463-497
  • Building in a protected environment - aspects of today's environmental law. In: Building Law Conference 1995 Volume I, pp. 36–60
  • Comment on the Environmental Protection Act. 1st edition (1986-1993)
  • Swiss Lexicon 91, legal explanations on 35 key words from the field of environmental law (e.g. immission limit values, immission control, nature and landscape protection, smog, environmental protection law). Lucerne 1991
  • Permission restrictions for new systems if air immission limit values ​​are exceeded? On the legal admissibility of the "balance strategy" within the meaning of Section 7 of the consultation draft (from February 1989) on a Basel landscape environmental protection law. URP 1990 pp. 212-233
  • Delegation of environmental management tasks to third parties. Bern (Environmental Protection Series No. 108) 1989
  • The implementation instrument of the action plan according to Art. 31ff. LRV. URP 1988 pp. 24-42
  • Regulation by private - private organizations as regulators. Dissertation, Zurich 1982

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ursula Brunner's obituary notices. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ University of Zurich website. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://www.grstiftung.ch/de/die-stiftung/stifter/ursula-brunner.html. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.greenpeace.ch/de/story/32974/umweltrecht-koryphaee-ursula-brunner-verstorben/. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Website Air seniors. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ www.nzz.ch/schweiz/klimawandel-klimaseniorinnen-reichen-klage-ein. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ^ Obituary from the Greina Foundation for Ursula Brunner. Retrieved July 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ www.ettlersuter.ch. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brunner, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1950
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 2019
Place of death Zurich