Prof. Dr. jur. habil., Dipl.-Pol. Edmund Brandt
Edmund Brandt studied law and political science in Freiburg i.B. and at the Free University of Berlin. There he received his doctorate with a thesis on constitutional organization law. This was followed by his habilitation at the University of Hamburg with a habilitation thesis on “Altlastenrecht”, venia legendi for constitutional and administrative law and administrative sciences. In 1992, he became the holder of the first chair in environmental law in Germany at the BTU Cottbus. After turning down a call to the University of Leipzig in 1996, Brandt moved to the University of Lüneburg, where he held the Chair of Public Law, in particular Energy and Environmental Law, and was also Dean of the Department of Environmental Science until 1999. From 2004 to 2008, he was President of Clausthal University of Technology, and from 2009 to 2021, he held the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law and Administrative Sciences and was Managing Director of the Institute of Law at Braunschweig University of Technology, as well as Head of the Wind Energy Law Coordination Office and the Mobility Law Research Center.
Edmund Brandt’s work is explicitly inter- and transdisciplinary in nature – with specific roots in energy, environmental and constitutional law. Several hundred book and journal publications as well as several decades of consulting activities for federal, state and municipal institutions and environmental organizations bear witness to this.
As a university lecturer, Edmund Brandt has supervised around 70 dissertations and 3 habilitation projects.
He has been associated with UfU for over 25 years, including many years as a member of the advisory board.
Fellow & Scientific Advice
Law, Political Science, Administrative Sciences
E-mail: edmund.brandt@web.de