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Photo: Private	Dr Andreas Gutmann (Field of Expertise: Just Transitions, Kassel Institute for Sustainability, and Institute for Social Sciences, University of Kassel) Studied law in Freiburg and completed his doctoral research at the University of Bremen with the thesis titled "Hybrid Legal Subjectivity, the Rights of 'Nature' or 'Pacha Mama' in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008." Following his legal clerkship at the Kammergericht Berlin, with placements at institutions such as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Federal Constitutional Court, he currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kassel Institute for Sustainability at the University of Kassel.
Photo: © Federal Constitutional Court │ lorenz.fotodesign, Karlsruhe	Professor Dr Gabriele Britz (Chair of Public Law and European Law, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, former Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court) Gabriele Britz studied law at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and obtained her doctorate in 1993 after passing the first state examination in law. Her dissertation focused on "The Significance of European Community Law for Local Energy Supply with Particular Consideration of Municipal Design Options." In the year 2000, she completed her habilitation in Frankfurt with a work on "Cultural Rights and the Constitution." In 2001, she accepted a professorship at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she has held the Chair of Public Law and European Law since then. From 2011 to 2023, she served as a judge on the Federal Constitutional Court in the First Senate, with a focus on cases related to family law, environmental law, and data protection law, including the climate protection decision of 2021 (BVerfGE 157, 30).
Photo: Thomas Heimer	Professor Dr Thomas Heimer (Rhine-Main University) Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimer (Hochschule RheinMain) studied economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1983 to 1988. Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University from 1988 to 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 with a thesis on "The Economics of Technology Emergence." As part of the activities of the European Social Fund, he served as a consultant and lecturer for the design and implementation of European adult education programs from 1988 to 1995. In 1990, he had a research fellowship at Columbia University in New York and a DAAD guest lecture on economics at the University of Leipzig during the winter semester of 1990-1991. From 1995 to 1999, he was the head of the Society Division at the VDI/VDE Technology Center for Information Technology in Teltow. From 1999 to July 2009, he held the position of Professor of Innovation Management and Executive Dean at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt am Main. Since August 2009, he has been a Professor of Innovation Management and Project Management at Hochschule RheinMain in Rüsselsheim. Thomas Heimer is the chairman of the advisory board of the "Go-Cluster" of the BMWK and a member of the Expert Council on Climate Issues. He also serves as the chairman of the board of the Carolinum Foundation and is the scientific director of Technopolis Deutschland GmbH, a research and consulting institute specializing in innovation and technology policy.
Photo: Helen Wentzien	Ulrike Jürschik (Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Government on Global Environmental Changes, University of Greifswald) Ulrike Jürschik is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental, Energy, and Maritime Law. Her recent responsibilities include providing support to Sabine Schlacke in her role as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board on Global Environmental Changes. Ulrike Jürschik is pursuing her doctoral research on the topic of "Sufficiency and Law" at the University of Münster and is currently completing her legal clerkship at the Münster District Court.
Photo: Jan Dönges	Luisa Keßler (Justus-Liebig University Giessen) After completing her first state law examination in 2022, Luisa Keßler works as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Law and European Law of Prof. Dr Gabriele Britz at Justus Liebig University. In addition to teaching mainly in the field of constitutional law, she is doing her doctorate on the topic of "Sufficiency as a legal principle and its constitutional framework". Since the current winter semester, she has also been a lecturer at the Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security.
Photo: Leonie Stambke	Dr Phillipp Lottholz (Philipps University Marburg) Philipp Lottholz is a Research Fellow (Post-Doc) at the Center for Conflict Research at Philipps University Marburg and is also affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio "Dynamics of Security." His research interests are at the intersection of peace, conflict, and security studies, encompassing urban activism, peacebuilding, knowledge production, post- and decolonial theory, as well as cooperative, dialogical, and activist research approaches.
Photo: Oxfam	Dr Franziska Humbert (Oxfam Germany) Franziska Humbert studied law in Heidelberg, London, Bern and Berlin. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Word Trade Institute at the University of Bern with a thesis titeld "The Challange of child Labour in International Law." In 2021, her habilitation thesis on World Trade and Constitutionalism in Interantional Law was accepted by the Faculty of law at the University of Bern. From 2001 to 2003 she worked as a lawyer specializing in labor, media, and competition law. Since 2004, she has been working at the international non-govermental oragnization Oxfam in the field of Business and Human Rights, including topics like the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, and she heads the "Just Economics" team there. She conducts research on human rights in supply chains, publishes studies, and collaborates with business and political decisions-makers. She has taught international economic law at the University of Zurich and led several courses on Business and Human Rights at the University of Lüneburg.
Photo: Natascha Unkart and Isabelle Köhler	Dr Christian Richter-Schöller Dr Christian Richter-schöller practices law in banking, capital markets, and insurance law. His particular focus is on ESG (Enviromental, Social, and Governance) law and sustainability law. He is, among other roles, the Co-Leader of the DORDA Sustainability Group and heads a European ESG legal network. His specializations include Sustainable Finance and regulations related to supply chains/ value chains.

Dr Andreas Gutmann (Field of Expertise: Just Transitions, Kassel Institute for Sustainability, and Institute for Social Sciences, University of Kassel)

Studied law in Freiburg and completed his doctoral research at the University of Bremen with the thesis titled "Hybrid Legal Subjectivity, the Rights of 'Nature' or 'Pacha Mama' in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008." Following his legal clerkship at the Kammergericht Berlin, with placements at institutions such as the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Federal Constitutional Court, he currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kassel Institute for Sustainability at the University of Kassel.

Photo: © Federal Constitutional Court │ lorenz.fotodesign, Karlsruhe

Professor Dr Gabriele Britz (Chair of Public Law and European Law, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, former Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court)

Gabriele Britz studied law at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and obtained her doctorate in 1993 after passing the first state examination in law. Her dissertation focused on "The Significance of European Community Law for Local Energy Supply with Particular Consideration of Municipal Design Options." In the year 2000, she completed her habilitation in Frankfurt with a work on "Cultural Rights and the Constitution." In 2001, she accepted a professorship at Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she has held the Chair of Public Law and European Law since then. From 2011 to 2023, she served as a judge on the Federal Constitutional Court in the First Senate, with a focus on cases related to family law, environmental law, and data protection law, including the climate protection decision of 2021 (BVerfGE 157, 30).

Professor Dr Thomas Heimer (Rhine-Main University)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heimer (Hochschule RheinMain) studied economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 1983 to 1988. Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Economics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University from 1988 to 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 with a thesis on "The Economics of Technology Emergence."

As part of the activities of the European Social Fund, he served as a consultant and lecturer for the design and implementation of European adult education programs from 1988 to 1995. In 1990, he had a research fellowship at Columbia University in New York and a DAAD guest lecture on economics at the University of Leipzig during the winter semester of 1990-1991.

From 1995 to 1999, he was the head of the Society Division at the VDI/VDE Technology Center for Information Technology in Teltow. From 1999 to July 2009, he held the position of Professor of Innovation Management and Executive Dean at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Frankfurt am Main.

Since August 2009, he has been a Professor of Innovation Management and Project Management at Hochschule RheinMain in Rüsselsheim. Thomas Heimer is the chairman of the advisory board of the "Go-Cluster" of the BMWK and a member of the Expert Council on Climate Issues. He also serves as the chairman of the board of the Carolinum Foundation and is the scientific director of Technopolis Deutschland GmbH, a research and consulting institute specializing in innovation and technology policy.

Ulrike Jürschik (Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Government on Global Environmental Changes, University of Greifswald)

Ulrike Jürschik is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental, Energy, and Maritime Law. Her recent responsibilities include providing support to Sabine Schlacke in her role as Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board on Global Environmental Changes. Ulrike Jürschik is pursuing her doctoral research on the topic of "Sufficiency and Law" at the University of Münster and is currently completing her legal clerkship at the Münster District Court.

Luisa Keßler (Justus-Liebig University Giessen)

After completing her first state law examination in 2022, Luisa Keßler works as a research assistant at the Chair of Public Law and European Law of Prof. Dr Gabriele Britz at Justus Liebig University. In addition to teaching mainly in the field of constitutional law, she is doing her doctorate on the topic of "Sufficiency as a legal principle and its constitutional framework". Since the current winter semester, she has also been a lecturer at the Hessian University of Applied Sciences for Public Management and Security.

Dr Phillipp Lottholz (Philipps University Marburg)

Philipp Lottholz is a Research Fellow (Post-Doc) at the Center for Conflict Research at Philipps University Marburg and is also affiliated with the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio "Dynamics of Security." His research interests are at the intersection of peace, conflict, and security studies, encompassing urban activism, peacebuilding, knowledge production, post- and decolonial theory, as well as cooperative, dialogical, and activist research approaches.

Dr Franziska Humbert (Oxfam Germany)

Franziska Humbert studied law in Heidelberg, London, Bern and Berlin. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Word Trade Institute at the University of Bern with a thesis titeld "The Challange of child Labour in International Law." In 2021, her habilitation thesis on World Trade and Constitutionalism in Interantional Law was accepted by the Faculty of law at the University of Bern. From 2001 to 2003 she worked as a lawyer specializing in labor, media, and competition law. Since 2004, she has been working at the international non-govermental oragnization Oxfam in the field of Business and Human Rights, including topics like the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, and she heads the "Just Economics" team there. She conducts research on human rights in supply chains, publishes studies, and collaborates with business and political decisions-makers. She has taught international economic law at the University of Zurich and led several courses on Business and Human Rights at the University of Lüneburg.

Photo: Natascha Unkart and Isabelle Köhler

Dr Christian Richter-Schöller

Dr Christian Richter-schöller practices law in banking, capital markets, and insurance law. His particular focus is on ESG (Enviromental, Social, and Governance) law and sustainability law. He is, among other roles, the Co-Leader of the DORDA Sustainability Group and heads a European ESG legal network. His specializations include Sustainable Finance and regulations related to supply chains/ value chains.

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