Dr. Florian Emanuel, LL.M., LL.M.

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Former research assistant

 

E-mail address: f.emanuel@uni-kassel.de

Website: www.emanuel.de

  • April 2019 - February 2020: Research Assistant at the Department of Public Law, IT Law and Environmental Law (Prof. Dr. Gerrit Hornung, LL.M.).
  • October 2015 - February 2020: Research Assistant at the Department of Public Law with a focus on the law of technology and environmental protection (Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel).
  • October 2018: research stay in Switzerland.
  • September 2018: Research stay in Finland.
  • August 2018: research visit to Ontario, Canada.
  • August 2017: research visit to the IAEA in Vienna.
  • 2016: Master of Laws (Environmental Law), University of Kassel.
  • 2015: Master of Laws (Business Law), University of Kassel.
  • 2014: Internship at RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH (renewable energies / wind), Essen.
  • 2013/2014: Year abroad and study abroad (Business Law) at WU Vienna, Austria.
  • 2013: Bachelor of Laws (Business Law), University of Kassel.
  • 2012: Internship at the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Climate & Energy), Düsseldorf.
  • 2006/2007: Year abroad in Le Mars, IA, USA.

Courses

WS 2023/2024:
Law and Administrative Policy, lecture & Seminar in MPA 
Data Protection in Public Administration, lecture & Seminar in MPA
Fundamentals of Environmental Law, lecture (h_da)

SoSe 2023:
Law and Administrative Policy, lecture & Seminar in MPA 
Data Protection in Public Administration, lecture & Seminar in MPA

WS 2022/2023:
Law and Administrative Policy, lecture/seminar in MPA Public Administration (University of Kassel).
Data Protection Law, lecture/seminar in the MPA Public Administration (University of Kassel).
European Environmental Law, lecture in SuK-Begleitstudium (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt).

SoSe 2022:
Law and Administrative Policy, Lecture/Seminar in the Master's Program in Public Administration  (University of Kassel).
Data Protection Law, lecture/seminar in the master's program in Public Administration  (University of Kassel).
Water Protection Law, lecture in the SuK accompanying study program (Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences).

WS 2021/2022:
law and administrative policy, lecture/seminar in the master's program in Public Administration (University Kassel).
Herausforderung Endlagerung in Deutschland, Seminar im SuK-Begleitstudium (Hochschule Darmstadt).

SoSe 2021:
Law and Administrative Policy, Lecture/Seminar in the Master's Program in Public Administration (University of Kassel).

Rechtliche Risikosteuerung am Beispiel der Kernenergie, seminar in SuK-Begleitstudium (Hochschule Darmstadt).

WS 2020/2021:
Law and Administrative Policy, lecture/seminar in the Master's program in Public Administration (University of Kassel).

Herausforderung Endlagerung in Deutschland, seminar in SuK-Begleitstudium (Hochschule Darmstadt).

WS 2019/2020:
Anlagenrecht - Bachelor, Lecture with integrated exercise (together with Madlen Lorenz).

SoSe 2019:
Water Protection Law - Bachelor, Lecture.

WS 2018/2019:
Immission control law with nuclear law references - Bachelor, lecture.

SoSe 2018:
Legal risk management - dealing with risk in (environmental) law, seminar.

WS 2017/2018:
Water protection law - Bachelor, Lecture.

Environmental law project "Fuldavertiefung" (together with Madlen Lorenz).

SoSe 2017:
Water Protection Law - Master, Lecture/Seminar.

Immission control law - Bachelor, lecture.

WS 2016/2017:
Gewässerschutzrecht - Bachelor, Lecture.

Legal issues of the energy transition, seminar.

SoSe 2016:
Legal risk management - dealing with risk in (environmental) law, seminar.

WS 2015/2016:
Tutorium zur Veranstaltung "Einführung in das Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht, insb. Umweltrecht".

Summer semester 2015:
Tutorial for the course "Einführung in den Elektronischen Rechtsverkehr".

WS 2012/2013:
Tutorial for the course "Einführung in das Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht, insb. Umweltrecht".

Publications

 

Monograph

 

Essays in journals

  • Resistance to Climate Protection and the Cloak of Jurisprudence (with Benedikt Huggins, Isa Bilgen, Ammar Bustami, Tessa Hillermann; GewArch 2023, 227-234).
  • The Site Selection Process for a Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste. An innovative and interdisciplinary legally standardized process with references to mining law (with Matthias Riede; ZfB 2023, 85-96).
  • Constitutional Aspects of the High-Risk Technology Nuclear Energy. 10 Years of Fukushima - Lessons from the Past, Perspectives for the Future, UPR 2021, 468-473.
  • Participation? Also during "Corona"! Public Participation during High-Hazard Situations as a Continuous Guarantee of Fundamental Rights by the State. Using the example of the site selection procedure for a repository for high-level radioactive waste in Germany, ZNER 2020, 369-375.
  • Atomausstieg ist verfassungsgemäß - Zur Steuerung von Hochrisikotechnologien in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft, UPR 2017, 128-133 (together with Alexander Roßnagel / Anja Hentschel).
  • The Final Report of the "Commission on the Storage of High-Level Radioactive Waste Materials" - Good compass, pioneering laser beam or mad will-o'-the-wisp?, ZNER 2017, 11-17.

 

Designated cooperation

 

Reports

  • Verankerung des Ressourcenschutzes im Recht, Fachagung zur Vorstellung und Diskussion der vorläufigen Ergebnisse des Vorhabens "Rechtliche Instrumente des allgemeinen Ressourcenschutzes", Tagungsbericht, NVwZ 2016, 1146-1147.
  • The oral hearing on the "nuclear phase-out" before the Federal Constitutional Court, hearing report, UPR 2016, 218-219.

 

Book Reviews

  • Book review of Langstädtler, Effective Environmental Legal Protection in Planning Cascades. Examined for the planning procedures of the FStrG, NABEG and StandAG, NVwZ 2021, 948.
  • Book review via Kürschner, Legalplanung. A study using the example of the Site Selection Act for a nuclear repository, ZUR 2021, 318.
  • Book review via Langer, The Search for a Final Repository under the Site Selection Act. Norm setting between consistency and contradiction, ZNER 2021, 40-41.
  • Book review via Brunnengräber (ed.), Problemfalle Endlager, Gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Atommüll, ZNER 2017, 189-190.
  • Book review via Raetzke/Feldmann/Frank (eds.), Aus der Werkstatt des Nuklearrechts, News from the Front Lines of Nuclear Law, Proceedings of the AIDN/INLA Regional Meeting held in Nuremberg on September 28-29, 2015, ZNER 2017, 190-191.
  • Book review via  Smeddinck(ed.), Standortauswahlgesetz (StandAG), Kommentar, ZNER 2017, 107.
  • Book review via Ludwigs (ed.), Der Atomausstieg und seine Folgen, ZNER 2016, 454-455.

 

Presentations and conference papers

  • Safety in law - legal bases for safety-related decisions on technology in Germany: hazard, risk, residual risk and best-possible safety in nuclear disposal, Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal (safeND), 13-15.9.2023, Berlin. 
  • Endlagerung als letztes Kapitel der Atomkraft, presentation, Fünf vor Zwölf (Junges Forum Umweltrecht), 24.11.2022.
  • The Search for a Geological Repository Site in Germany - Its Unique Features and the Safety Case (co-author), poster presentation and discussion paper at the Site Selection Days, 8-10.6.2022, RWTH Aachen.
  • Enabling and supervising a unique & novel procedure - BASE's statutory tasks & view on the German approach to site selection for a deep geological repository for high-level waste and its current status (co-authored with Christine Weiss, Christoph Borkel, Steffen Drees), DAEF Conference 2022: Challenges of a Site Selection Process: Society - Procedures - Safety, 4-6.7.2022, Cologne. 
  • The Site Selection Process for a Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste (together with Matthias Riede), FORUM Bergrecht 2021, 2.12.2021, Berlin.
  • The Joint Effort Journey to Finding a Deep Geological Repository for German High-Level Waste (International Experiences and Regulatory Framework Concerning the Science-Based Site Selection Process in Germany) (Author), poster presentation and discussion paper at the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management: Solutions for a Sustainable Future (CN-294), 1-5.11.2021, IAEA, Vienna.
  • The Search for a Geological Repository Site in Germany - Its Unique Features and the Safety Case (Co-Author), Poster Presentation and Discussion Paper at the International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management: Solutions for a Sustainable Future (CN-294), 1.-5.11.2021, IAEA, Vienna
     

Memberships

Research focus

  • Nuclear law in general
    • Law of final disposal 
    • Law of nuclear phase-out
  • Energy law in general
    • Law of renewable energies
    • Law of grid line expansion
  • Constitutional law in general
    • Art. 12 GG
    • Art. 14 GG
    • Art. 20a GG
  • Legal risk management
    • Law of genetic engineering
    • Law of nanotechnology
  • Administrative law in general
    • Economic administrative law
    • Environmental administrative law
    • Environmental information law
    • Public participation law
  • Environmental law in general
    • Water protection law
    • Immission control law
  • Comparative law

Theses

Bachelor theses

  • The judgment C-543/16 and its impact on the Fertilizer Regulation 2017 (first supervision)
  • Employee data protection in video surveillance for employee monitoring under the European General Data Protection Regulation (second supervision)
  • The data protection officer under the General Data Protection Regulation: liability issues and operational involvement (second support)
  • The digital estate in the area of conflict between inheritance law, data protection law and post-mortem personality protection (second support)
  • The functions of the data protection officer for compliance with data protection law, in particular for employee training in a company (second supervision)
  • Climate protection in the Basic Law - possibilities and limits of state objectives (first supervision)
  • Co-entrepreneurial risk and initiative in freelance partnerships (second supervision)
  • Siting of Wind Energy and Photovoltaic Plants - A Conflict between Nature Conservation Law and Environmental Protection (Second Supervision)
  • Data retention 2.0? The compatibility of the law on maximum retention periods with the requirements of the BVerfG (second supervision)

 

Master theses

  • "Personal Pricing" and Compliance - Analysis of the legal framework in the insurance industry (second supervision)
  • § Section 219a of the German Criminal Code - The ban on advertising abortions (second supervision)
  • Art. 80 GG - The statutory instrument as a means of flexible lawmaking using the example of the Corona Protection Ordinance (Secondary Care)
  • Residence law amendments 2019 from the perspective of the foreigners authorities (second support)
  • Opportunities for collecting contributions for statutory accident insurance through subcontractor liability in the CEP industry (first support)
  • Climate engineering - a contribution to climate protection? - illustrated by ocean fertilization and its environmental effects (second supervision)
  • The Immigration Office - Welcome and Regulatory Authority? (second support)
  • The Pay Transparency Act - Questions of Interpretation and Implementation Difficulties (Second Supervision)
  • The concept of aspiration in the Federal Constitutional Protection Act (Zweitbetreuung)
  • The tenant as a driver of the energy transition? (Second support)
  • The Standard Needs of the Second Book of the German Social Code in Times of Crisis (Zweitbetreuung)
  • The competitive dialogue: legal prerequisites and evaluation of the award procedure (initial support)
  • The lifting of the prohibition of cooperation in the science sector of universities. An Examination of the Achievement of the Goals of the Basic Law Amendment of Article 91b (1) GG Using the Example of the Integration of the Berlin Institute for Health Research into the Charité (Second Supervision)
  • The introduction of a citizens' insurance as an alternative to the dual system of health insurance in Germany (first supervision)
  • E-mail control in the tension between employee data protection and compliance (second support)
  • The possibility of a notification obligation for tax structuring models in Germany under constitutional requirements (second support)
  • The Amendment of the Site Selection Act with Regard to Public Participation in the Search for a Final Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste - An Advantage for Citizens? (Initial support)
  • The Reich Citizens' Movement in the Interaction of Freedom of Expression and the Free Democratic Basic Order (initial support)
  • The awarding of services as a cause for a transfer of business (initial support)
  • The Future of Public Administration through the Use of Legal Tech - Constitutional Possibilities and Limits (Initial Support)
  • The use of artificial intelligence in public administration in the tension between digital transformation and the reservation of functions under civil service law (initial support)
  • Increasing local energy production through cooperatives - possibilities for reform in energy law (initial support)
  • Gold Plating in the area of tension between subsidiarity and proportionality - analysis of the relationship between European and national funding law in the area of the European Structural and Investment Funds (second support)
  • Re(a)garding in Times of Crisis: Relief Measures of the German Government as a Result of the Russian War of Aggression on Ukraine (first supervision)
  • Intertemporal Freedom Protection - A New Dimension of Generational Justice in German Social Security? (Initial support)
  • IT Security in Critical Infrastructures in the European Union: Competencies, Regulation and Actors (Second Supervision)
  • Child Care in Post-Separation Families: A Comparative Analysis of Different Models and their Legal Implementation (First Supervision)
  • Human Trafficking in Germany in the Context of Legal Residence Options for Refugees Using Women from Nigeria as a Case Study (Initial Support)
  • Possibilities and Limits of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service in Countering Aspirations According to Section 1, Paragraph 1, No. 1 of the MADG (Secondary Care)
  • Reassessment of the ministerial authorization pursuant to Section 42 GWB after the Edeka-Tengelmann case (second supervision)
  • Need for reform of the internal liability of the executive board and supervisory board of a stock corporation? - Necessity, reform perspectives and recommendations for action (second support)
  • Need for reform in animal protection law (initial support)
  • Regulation of prostitution in Germany (second support)
  • Social Integration and the Legal Framework of Migration Policy - An Analysis of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of Sweden (first aid)
  • Euthanasia in old age - legal limits and possibilities for further development A comparison between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Swiss Confederation (first supervision)
  • Turnover taxation of legal entities under public law. The Limitation of Entrepreneurial Status in Auxiliary Transactions (Secondary Care)
  • Causes of Weak Institutionalization of Positive Action - An Investigation Using the Example of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency on the Fields of Action Gender Equality and Cultural Diversity (Second Supervision)
  • Publication of Video Recordings of Police Operations. Evidence or Violation of Fundamental Rights (Secondary Care)
  • Further development of statutory regulations on short-time working allowances due to current and future transformation processes in the labor market (first support)
  • Further development of performance-related pay in the public sector (first support)
  • Admissibility of retroactive absorption of windfall profits using the example of Electricity Generators 2022 (first supervision)

 

You can access the moodle course with information on the assignment of theses at the Institute of Business Lawhere https://moodle.uni-kassel.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=939.