Dr. Rike Sinder
Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law, Legal Philosophy, Islamic Law, Political Theory
Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research
October 2021 - September 2024
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Rike Sinder is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg, Germany. She studied law, Islamic studies and political science at Freiburg, Grenoble and Damascus. Rike Sinder earned her doctorate in law at the University of Freiburg. Her studies and her doctorate were funded by the German National Academic Foundation. Rike Sinder’s thesis on “The Systematisation of Islamic Law” was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2021 and the 2022 research award of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (German Section). Following her doctorate, she served as a legal trainee at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court, clerking inter alia at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Rike Sinder is currently working on constitutional and administrative law with a focus on climate protection.
Selected Publications
- Die Systematisierung des islamischen Rechts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte teleologischen Naturrechtsdenkens, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020.
- Urbane (Un-)Ordnung. Zur Konvergenz der baurechtlichen Gebietstypen in der Smart City, Die Verwaltung 54 (2021), p. 157–187.
- Anthropozänes Verfassungsrecht als Antwort auf den anthropogenen Klimawandel. Besprechungsaufsatz zu BVerfG, Beschl. v. 24.3.2021 – 1 BvR 2656/18 u.a., JZ 2021, S. 1078-1087.
- Summer in the City. Klimaanpassung im Bestand als Zeitproblem des Umweltrechts, EurUP 2022 (forthcoming).
- Energieversorgungssicherheit, NVwZ 2023 (co-authored with Thilo Wiertz) (forthcoming).
- Gaia vor Gericht. Rechtssubjektivität jenseits der Person am Beispiel des Umweltrechts, in: Michel Dormal/Jürgen Förster/Emanuel Richter/Hans-Jörg Sigwart (Hrsg.), Personen und Subjekte des Politischen, Baden-Baden: Nomos (forthcoming).
YAS-Project
- Political and Legal Discourses on Energy Security in Germany (with Thilo Wiertz)
- Workshop on "The Politics of Legal Processes to Redress Environmental Injustices" (with Cristina Espinoza)
Other projects & third-party funding
- Habilitation project on fundamental rights doctrine
- Project on energy security
