Team
Prof. Dr. Oliver Ruppel specializes at the Research Center ClimLaw at Graz University in the field of climate change law and is professor for public and international law at Stellenbosch University.
His research is focused on environmental and climate change law, as well as world trade law and the right for sustainable development.
Gerhard Schnedl is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science and member of the research center on climate law ClimLaw: Graz.
His research focuses on Austrian and European environmental and industrial installations law. He is the author of the textbook "Umweltreht" and various other publications on climate law. Further, he is co-editor of the journal "Nachhaltigkeitsrecht (NR)" and co-organiser of the Environmental Law Forum Graz.
Renate Pirstner-Ebner is assistant associate at the Institute of Public Law and Political Sience.
Her topic of research is Energy Law focused on Climate Protection Energy Law (particularly renewable energy and energy efficiency).
Carlotta Garofalo is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Public Law and Political Sciences at the University of Graz and a member of the Doctoral Programme Climate Change. Her main research interests include transnational and comparative climate litigation, eco-centric approaches to environmental and climate policy, and the intersection between climate science and law.
Negar Ghezel Sefloo M.Sc. is a project assistant at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz and works in the "RegPhytoTech" project at Climlaw. She is a PhD student at the Institute of Plant Protection at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna. In her research she focuses on interdisciplinary questions of sustainable environmental protection using new technologies.
Larissa Jane Houston is a project researcher at ClimLaw: Graz, as well as a Doctoral candidate at the University of Graz in the Institute of Public law and Political Science. The focus of her research is climate change law, with a particular focus on just decarbonisation, energy law, EU-AU environmental law relations and sustainable development practices.
Christoph Romirer is a research associate at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science and conducts research primarily in the field of environmental and environmental-based traffic law, as evidenced by numerous publications, lectures, and his participation in corresponding projects. In his dissertation on "Balancing interests in Climate Change Law", he deals with interdisciplinary approaches that allow the protection of the climate to be valued in monetary terms, and seeks ways of implementing them into the legal decision-making process.
Julia is a university assistant since January 2021 and works on climate change with particular attention to related legislation and jurisprudence in Austria.
The focus lies on climate change lawsuits against states based on fundamental rights, which enable the individual to sue for the state’s climate-friendly behavior and demand compliance with its obligations under international law.
Ass.jur. Simon Haas, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Email: simon.haas@edu.uni-graz.at
Simon is a research associate at Climlaw and a PhD student at the Department of Public Law and Political Science at the University of Graz. His dissertation focuses on international trade law (AfCFTA) and intellectual property law, in particular the protection of geographical indications in the wine sector.
The focus of his research is domestic and international environmental law from a trade law perspective.
Contact
Univ.-Prof. (Stellenbosch) MM Dr.
Oliver Ruppel
LL.M.ClimLaw: Graz
Attemsgasse 11/EG
8010 Graz
