Guest Lecture: Dr. Patrick Abel on »Proportionality and Transformation in Climate Change«
23. Apr
23 April 2025 - 18:00 to 19:30 - Lecture Hall 4
The principle of proportionality is an essential component of public transformation law in the context of climate change. Administrative, constitutional, European and international law draw on the principle of proportionality to guide social transformation towards a sustainable way of life. After all, evaluation and balancing are part of the "legal mentality" (Rainer Wahl) in public law. But can the principle deliver what it promises?
This interdisciplinary lecture pursues the hypothesis that the principle of proportionality has its limits when it comes to shaping the content of transformation - but at the same time is versatile enough to help steer social transformation processes in a different legal-dogmatic form.
Dr Patrick Abel is a postdoc at the Chair of Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Law, European and International Economic Law (Prof. Dr Christoph Herrmann) at the University of Passau. After studying law in Münster, obtaining a Magister Juris at Oxford University and passing the Second State Examination in Berlin, Dr Abel completed his doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen on 'International Investor Obligations - Towards Individual International Responsibility for the Public Interest in International Investment Law'. He is currently working on his habilitation (second book) on 'Public Transformation Law: State and EU in Climate Change'.
