Manuela Niehaus

Manuela Niehaus is a joint PhD candidate in International Environmental Law at the University of Hamburg and Macquarie University Sydney. She is a research assistant at the Institute for International Affairs Hamburg (Chair of European and International Law) and a legal trainee with the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg.

Symposium
Comparative Climate Litigation in North-South Perspective

Protecting Whose Children?

Manuela Niehaus

In the fight against climate change, going to court has become one of the most powerful strategies of climate activists. Since the Urgenda v. the Netherlands ruling of 2015, many...

Symposium
Climate Justice

Klimagerechtigkeit – ein Recht auf Heimat?

Manuela Niehaus

Das Thema Klimagerechtigkeit hat in den letzten Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Die explizite Aufnahme von Klimagerechtigkeit in die Präambel des Pariser Übereinkommens von 2015 wurde sowohl von Aktivisten als auch...

Symposium
Russian Perspectives on International Law

Symposium: “Russian Perspectives on International Law”

Dana Schmalz Valentin Jeutner Manuela Niehaus

We are excited to launch the Symposium “Russian Perspectives on International Law”. It has been in planning for a while, and we were enthusiastic about the response to our call...

Article

Nature as a bearer of rights – a legal construction in pursuit for better environmental protection?

Manuela Niehaus

The World Climate Conference (COP 23), held in Bonn, Germany, has ended on November 17th and some of its key outcomes seem to be auspicious (e.g. the coal phase-out promoted...