Dr. Elisabeth V. Henn
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental and Planning Law
Working Group Climate Change
Working Group Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
KomUR - Network of Competence on Future Challenges of Environmental Law
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 1693
Elisabeth V. Henn

Current Research Focus
- European and German Environmental Law (conservation, biodiversity, forest, water and soil law)
- Environmental constitional law
- Access to justice
- International Environmental Law and WTO law
- Local and Regional Planning Law
Curriculum Vitae
since 7/2019
Post-Doctoral Researcher, UFZ
Lawyer in planning and environmental law
PhD thesis „International Human Rights Law and Structural Discrimination“, supervised by Prof. Andreas Zimmermann and prize-awared by the University of Potsdam (Germany)
Second German State Examination in Law (Zweites Staatsexamen, Berlin)
Legal Trainee at the Court of Appeal in Berlin and at the Council of Europe, Directorate for Legal Advice and Public International Law, Straßburg
Member of the Center for Research at The Hague Academy for International Law
Co-founder and editorial member of the Völkerrechtsblog
2013
Visiting Researcher, European University Institute Florence (Italy), with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service
2012 − 2015
Research Associate, mainly at the Potsdam University (Prof. Andreas Zimmermann)
2012
First German State Examination in Law (Erstes Staatsexamen, Land of Baden- Württemberg)
2008 − 2011
Research Assistant to Prof. Ralf Poscher, Albrechts-Ludwig-University Freiburg and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Section Africa) in Freiburg (Germany)
2006 − 2012
Studies of Law in Freiburg (Germany) and São Paulo (Brasil)
2005 − 2006
Studies of Agricultural Sciences in Rostock (Germany)