Nils Kohlmeier
Contradiction-Responsive Law: A Search Formula for Just Socio-Ecological (Legal) Transformations
Lithium mining in South America, which is essential for the European Green Deal, leads to socio-ecological crises, which in turn are rooted in contradictions between economic rationalities on the one hand and social and ecological rationalities on the other. My dissertation project is based on the hypothesis that these contradictions have inscribed themselves into the norms of the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) and the Free Trade Agreement between the EU and Chile (FTA EU-Chile).
In order to negotiate these contradictions in the sense of just socio-ecological (legal) transformations, a negotiation standard must be developed in the respective standardizations: On the one hand, the norms of the CRMA and the FTA EU-Chile must comply with the sustainability requirements under EU and International Law. However, because the law has both a transformation-promoting and transformation-inhibiting effect, these sustainability requirements themselves must – on the other hand – also be made accessible to criticism. By way of legal transcendence, these requirements must be questioned in an interdisciplinary manner and the findings from this must in turn be transferred to the law’s own operations.
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.).