Dr. Moritz Reese
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Working Group Climate Change
Research group for International and European Environmental Law (Head)
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49-341-235 1987
fax: +49-341-235 45 1987
moritz.reese@ufz.de
Fields of research
European constitutional law/particularly environmental competencies, European environmental law, water law, waste law and resources management law, public environmental services, spatial and urban planning law, climate change and climate adaptation
Curriculum Vitae (excerpt)
since 2008
Lawyer and researcher at the UFZ, Department Environmental and Planning Law
2006-2007
Post doctoral research scholarship awarded by the German Scientific Association; title of the project: “Combining flexibility and effectiveness in cooperative multilevel lawmaking”
2001-2005
Environmental policy consultant at the German Advisory Council for the Environment (SRU) and within the network of European Environmental Advisory Councils (EEAC)
1997-2000
Research assistant and lecturer at the institute for environmental law, faculty of law of the University of Hamburg
Current positions and activities
- Editor in chief of the Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law (JEEPL, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill-Publishers)
- Chairman of the European Enviornmental Law Forum (eelf.info)
- Co-Chair of the Governance Section of the Centre for Advanced Water Research (CAWR)
- Editorial Board Member of the Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht (German Journal for Environmental Law)
Current projects at UFZ
Within the Helmholtz Research Program (POF)
Co-Chair of the Workpackage Management and Governance of the Integrated Project Healthy Aquatic Ecosystems
Co-Chair of the Workpackage "Water Infrastructures" of the Integrated Project "Urban Transformations"
3rd Party Projects
Herausforderungen für ein zukunftsfähiges Umweltrecht
KomUR − Network of Competence on Future Challenges of Enviornmental Law
Masterplan Water Framework Directive in the German State of Lower Saxony - institutional Reform Options for mor Effective Implementation
Completed projects at UFZ
CLAIM: Comparative law analysis on instruments for sustainable land management
InfraWass: Institutions of sustainable governance for long term infrastructures in the field of water supply and wastewater treatment in Europe under conditions of climatic and demographic change (Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research).
SynKon: Synergies and conflicts in adapting to climate change (funded by the German Environmental Agency)
Climate adaptation law: The need for legal actions for adaptation to the results of climate change − analysis, amendment and new development of legal instruments (commissioned by the German Environmental Agency, 10/2008-03/2010