Sven Siebrecht
Dissertation project: Climate Foreign Policy – Law and Legitimacy in Europe’s Global Climate Action
Résumé
Undergraduate law studies in Göttingen and Valencia from 2015 to 2021, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2021, Ph.D. candidate of Prof. Dr. Till Patrik Holterhus, MLE., LL.M. (Yale) at Saarland University’s Europa-Institut, funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, partly as a research assistant at the Chair for Public Law and Public International Law at Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Europa-Institut. LL.M. studies at Harvard Law School in 2023 and 2024, funded by the ERP program of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service. Research stays at the European University Institute and the Amsterdam Center for International Law in 2024 and 2026.
Research Interests
- German and European Constitutional Law
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Constitutional Theory
- Climate Law
Publications
Articles
- Rights Critique in a Warming World – An Essay on Critical Legal Studies and Rights of Nature, in: Bayer/Obermayr (eds.), Rechtsphilosophie (RphZ), Special Issue: The Legacy of Legal Form Critique, 2026 (forthcoming)
- Functions of Constitutions, in Grote/Lachenmann/Wolfrum (eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press 2024 (with Till Patrik Holterhus)
- Entschädigungslose Enteignung russisch kontrollierter Energieinfrastruktur, JuristenZeitung 2023, 321 (with Till Patrik Holterhus)
- Anfängerhausarbeit: Punks auf Sylt, Zeitschrift für das Juristische Studium 2023, 831
- Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing within the Regime Complex for Ocean Fisheries, EILS Jean Monnet Paper 3/22
Blog Posts and Interviews
- Regulatory Chill – How Foreign Fossil Fuel Investors Thwart Climate Action, The [F]law 05/02/2025
- Sven Siebrecht on Climate Change, Democracy, and Judicial Litigation, EUI Research Story 23/01/2025
- Das AfD-Verbot in der Sackgasse? – Zur Wirkung vorgezogener Neuwahlen auf das im Bundestag beantragte Parteiverbotsverfahren gegen die AfD, Verfassungsblog 23/12/2024 (with Eva Isabell Martin and Janosch Wiesenthal)
- Rosneft am Ende? – Zum jüngsten Urteil des BVerwG betreffend die Treuhandverwaltung von Rosneft Deutschland, Verfassungsblog 16/03/2023 (with Till Patrik Holterhus)
- Im Griff des Bären? – Zu den (geringen) Erfolgsaussichten eines gerichtlichen Vorgehens gegen die Treuhandverwaltung von Rosneft Deutschland, Verfassungsblog 26/09/2022 (with Till Patrik Holterhus)
Presentations and Panel Discussions
- „Klimaklagen und die Politik der Rechte“, 3rd Graduiertenkolloquium LEUCOREA, 03/12/2025
- „Conversation with Judges – Can Courts Protect Democracy?“, Conversation with Natalia Ángel Cabo and Johanna Schlingmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, 30/06/2025
- „The External Climate Law of the European Union“, Max Planck Masterclass 2025, Young Scholars‘ Workshop, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, 11/06/2025
- „Klimaschutz im Europäischen Außenverfassungsrecht“, 3rd Meeting of the Union Law Working Group, University of Münster, 14/02/2025
- „Climate Litigation and the Politics of Rights“, Human and Fundamental Rights Working Group & Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group, European University Institute, 30/10/2024
- „Rechte der Natur? Eine Kritik“, Annual Conference of the ERP and McCloy Scholarship Programs, Washington D.C., 23/03/2024