Contradiction Studies

Nils Kohlmeier

Contradictions-Responsivity of Law: Search Formula for critical Sustainability Transformations of EU Free Trade Agreements

The starting point of my dissertation project is a critique of the prevailing concept of sustainability in EU Free Trade Agreements. This concept ignores contradictions that go hand in hand with a “just transition” of the global North, which is reflected, among other things, in the deficient design of Trade and Sustainability Chapters in EU Free Trade Agreements. In order to enable (contradiction-)just socio-ecological (legal) transformations, these contradictions must be inscribed in the law and negotiated therein, which means a transformation of both the contradictions and the regulations of the Sustainability Chapters.

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Research interests

International Law
European Law
Transnational Law
Critical (Law-)Theory
Assembly Law
Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Vita

2019 – 2022
Legal Clerkship, Higher Regional Court [Oberlandesgericht] Bremen (stations including BBG und Partner, Bremen and Higher Administrative Court [Oberverwaltungsgericht] Bremen. Degree Second German State Examination.
2018 – 2020
Research Assistant in the ERC-funded Project Transnational Force of Law supervised by Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, University of Bremen.
2011 – 2017
Studies of Law, University of Bremen. Degree First German State Examination.

Publications

2024
Was lange währt, wird endlich gut? Staatsanwaltschaft braucht drei Anläufe und fast drei Jahre, um gegen einen Neonazi vorzugehen, der erkennbar gegen Jüd:innen hetzt (co-authored with Julia Gelhaar). In: Austermann/Fischer-Lescano et al. (Edt.), Recht gegen Rechts. Report 2024, S. Fischer Verlag, p. 255-261.
2024
Verfassungsblog Article Nachhaltig nicht-nachhaltig: Rechte indigener Gruppen im Freihandelsabkommen EU-Mercosur (with Andreas Gutmann). Accessible at: https://verfassungsblog.de/nachhaltig-nicht-nachhaltig/
2023
Verfassungsblog Article Widerspruchsresponsive Nachhaltigkeit: Das Freihandelsabkommen der EU mit Neuseeland verpasst die Etablierung eines kritischen Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs. Accessible at: https://verfassungsblog.de/widerspruchsresponsive-nachhaltigkeit/
2020
Rassistische Beamt*innen: Und wie der Staat sie wieder loswird (with Tore Vetter). In: Austermann/Fischer-Lescano/Kaleck u.a. (Eds.), Recht gegen Rechts: Report 2020, Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., 2020.
2020
Legal Commentary on § 13 VersammlG (with Sebastian Eickenjäger and Elena Sofia Ewering), § 13 SächsVersG (with Sebastian Eickenjäger and Elena Sofia Ewering), Art. 12 BayVersG (with Hanna Haerkötter) and § 3 VersFG SH (with Elena Sofia Ewering). In: Ridder/Breitbach/Deiseroth (Eds.) Versammlungsrecht des Bundes und der Länder, 2. Edition, Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2020.
2020
Verfassungsblog Article Versammlungsfreiheit Corona-konform (with Andreas Gutmann). Accessible at: https://verfassungsblog.de/versammlungsfreiheit-corona-konform/.

Talks

2024
Widerspruchsresponsives Recht: Nachhaltige (Rechts-)Transformationen, talk at Panel 5: Law, Institutions and Regulations towards or against Transformation? at the Sustainability Transformation Workshop 2024, U Kassel.
2022
Das Recht und seine Widersprüche, talk with Lilli Hasche at the Colloquium of the RTG Contradiction Studies, U Bremen.

Teaching

Summer Term 2024 | U Bremen
Migration Law in Practice (Colloquium) with Julia Gelhaar (LL.M.).
Summer Term 2023 | U Bremen
Migration Law in Practice (Colloquium) with Prof. Pia Lange and Julia Gelhaar (LL.M.).

Events with the RTG

01/13/2024
Talk: Widerspruchsresponsives Recht. Nachhaltige (Rechts-)Transformationen
12/20/2022
Internal, Talk: New party line and the attempt to assume power: How Marine Le Pen transforms the Rassemblement national from a fringe group to a people’s party
12/13/2022
Internal, Talk: Perspectives of Human Rights Clauses in Free Trade Agreements of the EU
11/22/2022
Internal, Talk: Law and (its) Contradictions