Since November 2023 project manager at the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues in the field of environmental law and participation. Studied law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Université Sorbonne in Paris with a focus on international and European law. LLM in International Environmental and Maritime Law at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands).

Legal clerkship with stations at the Federal Environment Agency, at the law firm Thorsten Deppner, which specializes in environmental protection, and at Client Earth Berlin. Her main areas of specialization were environmental association lawsuits, access to justice, environment and human rights, as well as international environmental law in the field of deep sea mining and geoengineering.

She gained further practical experience as a legal officer at the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in the field of climate protection and sustainability, as an editor of the LTO press review and at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea.

 

Projects:

BeLIFE: Better Enforcement, (2024 – 2027)

ENRICH: Environment, Rights, Children, (2024 – 2026)

Climate protection zones in the North Sea and Baltic Sea – Feasibility study to investigate the legal options for designating climate protection zones in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea, (2024 – 2025)

Aarhus Strong, (2021 – 2024)

Legal protection 2 – Scientific monitoring of the development of legal protection in environmental matters at European, international and national level in the 20th legislative period, (2021 – 2024)

 

Publications:

Zschiesche, M; Schneider, L; Schmidt, A (2025): Scientific support for legal protection in environmental matters in the 20th legislative period, UBA-Texte 37/2025

Schneider,L (2024): UfU Policy Paper: Digital Public Participation in Environmental Matters – Focus on EU law and implementation in EU member states

Kiss, C; Petek, A; Reichert, M; Schneider, L; Seidel, T; Sperfeld, F; Vaarmari, K; Vicioso, M; Zschiesche, M (2024): Strengthening electronic participation rights in environmental protection in the European Union | Case Studies from Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, Spain and Hungary, UfU-Paper 01/2024

Reichert, M; Schneider, M; Seidel, T; Sperfeld, F; Zschiesche, M (2024): Strengthening electronic participation rights in environmental protection in the European Union | Country report on the status of digital public participation in Germany, UfU-Paper 01a/2024

Department
Environmental Law & Participation

Fully qualified lawyer (Ass. iur.), LLM

Project manager

Phone: 030 4284 993 41
Email: luisa.schneider@ufu.de