Argelander Professorship for Sustainability Law and Ecological Transformation, part of the Transdisciplinary Research Area ‘Individuals, Institutions and Societies’ at the University of Bonn

Junior Professor Dr Jacqueline Lorenzen studied law at Heidelberg University, where she received her doctorate in 2019 from the Institute for German and European Administrative Law under Professor Dr Dr h.c. Wolfgang Kahl, M.A., with a dissertation on “Supervision of an Increasingly Differentiated Self-Administration in the European Union” („Kontrolle einer sich ausdifferenzierenden EU-Eigenverwaltung“). The dissertation was awarded the Ruprecht Karls Prize in 2020. After completing her second state examination at the Munich Higher Regional Court (2020), she worked as a Research Associate and later as an Academic Councillor (temporary appointment) at the Heidelberg Institute for German and European Administrative Law. From 2020 to 2022, she was also a postdoctoral researcher at the interdisciplinary research network “Environments – Transformations – Rethinking” („Umwelten – Umbrüche – Umdenken“) at Heidelberg University.

Since 1 April 2023, she has held the Argelander Professorship for Sustainability Law and Ecological Transformation at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on sustainable urban development, EU and constitutional law issues relating to sustainability, and in particular climate protection, climate adaptation, and environmental energy law. Her habilitation, which she will complete in the coming years, focuses on security law.

She particularly values the exchange and close cooperation with other disciplines that also address ecological transformation. The Transdisciplinary Research Area “Individuals, Institutions and Societies” at the University of Bonn, where the professorship is based, provides an excellent platform for exchange, enabling researchers at the university to network and initiate joint projects. She is also a member of the WHATS-UB network for female scientists at the University of Bonn.

Legal Tribune Online interviewed her about her professorship, interdisciplinary collaboration, and current research; the interview can be read on the LTO website.

The University of Bonn has published a video in which she presents her main areas of research, available here.