Sabine Schlacke

Prof. Dr. Sabine Schlacke (*25. 02. 1968 in Osnabrück) studied law in Göttingen and Lausanne between 1987 and 1993 and received her doctorate in 1997 from the University of Bremen on the subject ‘Risk Decisions in European Food Law’. After her second state examination in 2000 Sabine Schlacke became scientific assistant and coordinator of the Baltic Sea Institute for Maritime Law, Infrastructure and Environmental Law at the University of Rostock from 2000 to 2007. In 2007, she conferred qualification as a professor in Public Law, European Law and Comparative Law. Her postdoctoral thesis is entitled ‘Supraindividual Legal Protection’. After holding a chair at the University of Leipzig (WiSe 2007/2008), she was appointed Professor of Public Law at the University of Bremen in 2008. In 2013 she joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. Professor Schlacke teaches Public Law, in particular Construction, Planning and Environmental Law. She is Managing Director of the Institute for Environmental and Planning Law (IUP), Director of the Central Institute for Spatial Planning Law and a founding and board member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research at the University of Münster. Since 2008 Sabine Schlacke is a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and was promoted to co-chair in 2016. Additionally, she is member of the Bremen State Court since 2011. Sabine Schlacke is a member of the board of the Society for Environmental Law and active in numerous other scientific committees.