Key areas of research
Research at the Chair focuses on public law in its transregional manifestations.
Transregional developments in legal norms – that is, phenomena spanning more than one region – are examined from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Within this framework, particular attention is paid to the following areas of law:
• national, European and international environmental and climate protection law
• public commercial law
• constitutional law
Publications
Publications
The five most important publications
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2020) Positive Integration – EU and WTO Approaches Towards the ‘Trade and’ Debate, Special Issue of the European Yearbook of International Law, Springer (editor).
Krämer, Rike U. (2013) The Coordination between Environmental Protection and Free Trade in a Multi-Level Legal Framework: The Case of Public Procurement Law, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen. Reviewed by Weiß, DöV 2015, pp. 290–291.
Articles and commentaries
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2022) Section 22, Article 2 and Article 3 of the LkSG in Kaltenborn/Krajewski/Rühl/Saage-Maaß, Duty of Care Law, Beck Commentary (forthcoming).
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2021) ‘The Climate Protection Order of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the North-South Divide’, *German Law Journal*, pp. 1393–1408.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2021) ‘When do courts step in? Air quality litigation and adjudication in Germany and India’, *Indian Law Review*, pp. 210–228.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2020, 2021) Sections 37–41 IFSG (Section 7: Water), in Andrea Kießling, Infection Protection Act. Commentary. Beck, 1st and 2nd eds., pp. 340–365.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2020) Introduction—Positive Integration: EU and WTO Approaches Towards the ‘Trade and’ Debate, in: Krämer-Hoppe (ed.), Positive Integration – EU and WTO Approaches Towards the “Trade and” Debate, Springer, pp. 1–15.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2020) Adjudication and Positive Integration: The Role of the European Court of Justice and the Dispute Settlement Body in the “Trade and Environment” Debate, in: Krämer-Hoppe (ed.), Positive Integration – EU and WTO Approaches Towards the “Trade and” Debate, Springer, pp. 121–144.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2019) Project description: Dignity in urban space, infrastructural spaces enabling dignified coexistence: the example of Dortmund’s Nordstadt district, in: Haultaufderheide/Otte/Weber (eds.) Space and Dignity – Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Relationship between Normativity and Spatial Reality. Urban Development – Transitorte – Hospices, Transscript 2019, pp. 27–40. (Co-authored with Reza Mosayebi, Martin Rademacher and Philipp Weber)
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2019) Sustainable Public Procurement in Europe: Creating Markets or Distorting the Internal Market, in: Singh/Cremer/Kumar, Open Markets, Free Trade and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from the EU and India, Springer, pp. 137–156.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2019) The enforcement deficit in gambling law as a (constitutional) legal problem, in: Krüper, Structural Issues in Gambling Regulation: Fundamentals – Enforcement – Future, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 1–20.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2019) Constitutional Standards and Requirements for the Effective Regulation of the Platform Economy: The Case of Short-Term Residential Lettings, in: Krönke, ‘Regulation in the Age of the Digital Economy’, Mohr Siebeck, pp. 73–97.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2018) Commentary on Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), judgement of 27 February 2018 – 7 C 30.17 and Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), judgement of 27 February 2018 – 7 C 26.16, Diesel driving bans: Legal admissibility, the path to it and the way forward, DVBl., pp. 1552–1563.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2018) The Relationship between ‘Luxembourg’ and European and national administrative bodies, Journal of European Integration, pp. 803–817.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2018) Law enforcement and the will to (constitutional) law – The normative power of the constitution, Conference proceedings, Jurisprudence, pp. 96–102.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2018) First-year term paper – Public Law: Fundamental Rights – The Sharing Economy, *JuS*, pp. 846–852.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2017) Introductory exam on fundamental rights: ACAB = an insult?, JURA, pp. 621–629.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2017) International Adjudication as a Mode of EU External Governance? The WTO Seal Case, Journal of Common Market Studies (with Tilman Krüger), pp. 535–550.
Krämer, Rike U. (2015) Administrative Self-Regulation (“Internal Law”) and Global Administrative Law, epùblica issue 6.
Krämer, Rike U. (2015) The New Guidelines on Environmental Aid, in: Thomas Jaeger and Birgit Haslinger, Yearbook on State Aid Law, NWV Verlag, Vienna, pp. 327–342.
Krämer, Rike U. (2015) The Dialogue between the Courts – The Further Development of the Protection of Personal Rights within the European Multilevel System, Europarecht 2/2015, pp. 169–189 (co-authored with Judith Janna Märten).
Krämer, Rike U. (2015) The ‘disappearing’ state and the tension between free trade and environmental protection: Diagonal Conflicts in Public Procurement Law, in: Neubauer/Pirker/Wagner (et al.), L’État, c’est quoi? State Power in Transition, 54th Public Law Research Assistants’ Conference. pp. 237–255.
Krämer, Rike U. (2014) ‘Trade and’ Environment: Diagonal Conflicts in WTO, EU and US Procurement Law, Jean Monnet Working Paper 13/14.
Krämer, Rike U. (2014) ‘Europeanisation with Many Unknowns: National Company Law Reforms after Centros’, *West European Politics*, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 786–804 (co-authored with Michael Blauberger).
Krämer, Rike U. (2013) European State Aid Law – Crisis and Law or Crisis of the Law? in: Thomas Jaeger and Birgit Haslinger, Yearbook on State Aid Law, NWV Verlag, Vienna, pp. 339–356 (co-authored with Jasper Finke).
Krämer, Rike U. (2013) ‘European Competition vs. Global Competitiveness: Transferring EU Rules on State Aid and Public Procurement Beyond Europe’, *Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade*, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 171–186 (with Michael Blauberger).
Krämer, Rike U. (2012) The Federal Constitutional Court’s ‘activism’ in tax policy as a path-dependent development, Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 7–26 (with Henning Deters).
Krämer, Rike U. (2011) State Aid (Subsidies) in International Trade Law, in: Erika Szyszczak (ed), State Aid Handbook, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 404–424 (with Markus Krajewski).
Krämer, Rike U. (2011) The Notion of Diagonal Conflicts as a Key Concept of European Conflicts Law, in: Christian Joerges (ed.), After Globalisation, New Patterns of Conflict and their Sociological and Legal Reconstructions, ARENA Report No. 4/11, pp. 145–158.
Krämer, Rike U. (2010) WTO Compatibility of Border Tax Adjustments as a Means for Promoting Environmental Protection, elni Review 2/2010, pp. 53–58.
Krämer, Rike U. (2010) ‘European Competition vs. Global Competitiveness: Transferring EU Rules on State Aid and Public Procurement beyond Europe’, in: CCP Working Paper 10-10, University of East Anglia, Centre of Competition Policy (co-authored with Michael Blauberger).
Krämer, Rike U. (2010) Looking through Different Glasses at the Lisbon Treaty: The German Constitutional Court and the Czech Constitutional Court, in: Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Christian Joerges & Arndt Wonka (eds.), The German Constitutional Court’s Lisbon Ruling: Legal and Political Science Perspectives, Bremen: ZERP Discussion Paper 01/2010, pp. 11–19.
Blog posts, expert opinions and other contributions
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2021) Book Review: Anuj Bhuwania, *Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India*, in: *VRÜ* 4/2020, pp. 509–512 (expected to be published in April 2021).
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U (2020) Book Review: Erin Daly and James R. May (eds.). Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism—Current Global Challenges, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2020, pp. 308–310.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2020) Venturing into ‘uncharted territory’ in financial constitutional law: The ‘CO₂ tax’ and constitutional law, VerfBlog, 16 January 2020, https://verfassungsblog.de/den-schritt-in-finanzverfassungsrechtliches-neuland-wagen/, DOI: 10.17176/20200120-125550-0 (external link, opens in a new window).
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2019) ‘Life in Nordstadt takes place on the streets’ – A conversation with Jasna and Milena Rethmann about community life at Dortmund’s Nordmarkt (in collaboration with Philipp Weber) in: Haultaufderheide/Otte/Weber (eds.) Space and Dignity – Interdisciplinary Contributions to the Relationship between Normativity and Spatial Reality. Urban Development – Places of Transit – Hospices, Transcript 2019, pp. 41–47.
Krämer-Hoppe, Rike U. (2016) ‘Sharing economy vs. housing market – Berlin’s ban on misuse of property’, juwissblog, https://www.juwiss.de/tag/rike-kraemer-hoppe (external link, opens in a new window).
Krämer, Rike U. (2016) Book Review: Emily Reid, *Balancing Human Rights, Environmental Protection and International Trade: Lessons from the EU Experience*, Hart Publishing, 2015, in: *Journal of International Economic Law* (2016), pp. 1–5.
Krämer, Rike U. (2011) Book Review: Sue Arrowsmith and Peter Kunzlik (eds), Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law: New Directives and New Directions, Cambridge University Press, 2009, in: EUSA Review Vol. 24, No. 3, p. 9.
Krämer, Rike (2010) Expert report commissioned by WEED and CIR on the consideration of labour and social standards through tenderers’ declarations in the contract performance conditions, using the example of PCs and workwear (in collaboration with Markus Krajewski) http://www2.weed-online.org/uploads/bieterklaerung_beschaffung_2010.pdf (external link, opens in a new window).
Presentations
7–8 July 2022 Workshop: Challenges to the European Rule of Law, organised by Prof. Dr Uerpmann-Wittzack at the University of Regensburg, presentation: The Rule of Law in the EU and Courts – The implementation of court decisions and the use of the “sword”
8 April 2022 German Law Journal 2022 Spring Symposium on Climate Change, lecture: The Climate Protection Order of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the North-South Divide
10 February 2022 Insper Research Seminars, presentation: The Climate Protection Order of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and the North-South Divide
10–11 June 2021 Annual Conference of the World Comparative Law Network (WCL) / Working Group on Overseas Comparative Constitutional Law (AÜV), presentation: Access to justice and prospects of success – The German Constitutional Court’s climate action judgement and its new role viewed through the lens of environmental litigation in India
4 March 2021 Workshop “SDG 12 Implementation – Issues and Best Practices in Different Countries and Sectors”, organised in collaboration with Prof. Andréia Costa Vieira, ACV International Law Institute
19–20 July 2018 Workshop “Regulation of the Digital Economy” at the Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich, paper: Standards and requirements for the regulation of platforms, using the example of short-term lettings
6–7 April 2018 Workshop ‘Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Law in India’ at the Jindal Global Law School in Delhi, paper: ‘The development of the concept of judicial review of administrative decisions from a comparative perspective in environmental law cases: Germany and India’
20 October 2017 Second Bochum Symposium on Gambling Law: Structural Issues in Gambling Regulation – Fundamentals, Enforcement and the Future at Ruhr University Bochum; paper: Enforcement Deficits in Gambling Law as a (Constitutional) Legal Problem
20 September 2016 “Protecting the Unprotected” pre-conference workshop, short presentation on “Academic Career Development: Ideas for the Post-Doc Period”, followed by a discussion with PhD students in small groups
9–10 May 2016 Conference ‘Trade and Environment – Positive Integration in the EU and the WTO’ at Ruhr University Bochum, paper: ‘Trade and Environment – Positive and Negative Integration and the Role of the European Court of Justice in Greening EU Public Procurement Law’
13–15 March 2016 Joint Indo-German Conference – Open Markets, Free Trade and Sustainable Development – Friends or Foes? in Delhi; paper: Sustainable Public Procurement in Europe – Creating Markets or Distorting the Internal Market?
3–4 March 2016 Conference ‘Implementation and judicial politics: Conflict and compliance in the EU multi-level system’ at the Berlin Social Science Centre, paper: Judicial Politics in Europe: Impact of Judicial Politics on National Administrative Bodies’ Decisions in Public Procurement Law
6–8 September 2015 Annual UACES Conference in Bilbao, paper: ‘Green Public Procurement and the Future for Europe’
25–27 March 2015 Conference “The Transnational in International Law” at the University of Bremen, paper: “Global administrative law vs. transnational administrative law: A polycentric approach in waste management”
16–18 December 2014 Annual Conference of DAAD Lecturers, presentation on ‘The German Constitutional Court and the UK Supreme Court: differences and similarities’ (with Dawn Oliver)
28 November 2014 Lisbon International Workshop on Global Administrative Law: ‘Global Administrative Law and the Concept of Law’, paper: ‘The missing perspective to empower in Global Administrative Law’
23–25 July 2014 DAAD Lecturers’ Summer Meeting, presentation: Regional Integration and Courts: ASEAN and the EU (with Aletta Mondré)
26 February 2014 EU Global Lunchtime Seminar at University College London, organised by the ESIL Interest Group on the EU as a Global Actor, paper: ‘International Adjudication as a New Mode of European External Governance: The WTO SEAL Case’ (with Tilman Krüger)
11–15 February 2014 Public Law Research Assistants’ Conference in Graz, paper: ‘The “disappearing state” and the tension between free trade and environmental protection: the case of European and international public procurement law’
18–19 September 2013 International Conference ‘Beyond the Single Market – External and international dimensions of services of general interest in EU law’ in Erlangen, commentator on the paper ‘International Procurement Law’
2–3 July 2013 CRONEM Annual Multidisciplinary Conference 2013, paper: ‘International Adjudication as a New Mode of European External Governance: The WTO SEAL Case’ (with Tilman Krüger)
7–8 March 2013 Workshop in Copenhagen: ‘Social Europe in Times of Crisis. On implementation, governance and re-established boundaries of welfare’, paper: ‘Europeanisation with many unknowns: National company law reforms after Centros’ (with Michael Blauberger)
28 November 2012 Staff Research Seminar, University College London, paper: “Trade and Environment: Diagonal Conflicts in WTO, EU and US Procurement Law”
12–13 September 2012 ESIL Biennial Conference, Valencia; discussant on Carina Costa de Oliveira’s paper ‘The International Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development: Insufficient Focus on National Implementation’
26–27 January 2012 Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics of the Society of International Economic Law (PEPA/SIEL), paper: ‘Trade-offs Across Multiple Levels of Governance: Diagonal Conflicts in WTO, EU and U.S. Procurement Law’
9 November 2011 Jean Monnet Fellows Workshop, New York University, paper: ‘Different Goals at Different Levels: Diagonal Conflicts in WTO, EU and US Procurement Law’
17–18 September 2010 Conference ‘Legal Research as an Interdisciplinary Challenge’, Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, paper: Path-dependent judicial activism? Politics and constitutional jurisprudence in tax and social legislation (with Henning Deters)
5–7 September 2010 Workshop ‘After Globalisation: New Patterns of Conflict’, Loccum, paper: ‘The Notion of Diagonal Conflicts as a Key Concept of European Conflicts Law’
25 September 2009 Workshop ‘Lisbon Ruling BVerfG’ at the BIGSSS (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences), paper: ‘From integration through law to restrictions through courts?’
7–8 September 2009 University of Nottingham Public Procurement PhD Student Conference 2009 Paper: The consideration of environmental criteria in European and international public procurement law