Name: Manuela Niehaus
Home Institution: University of Academic Sciences Speyer

Manuela Niehaus is a fully qualified lawyer and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. Currently, she is a substitute professor at University of Bremen. Prior to this, she worked as a research associate at the University of Hamburg, where she also taught seminars on constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law. She studied law at the University of Münster (Germany) where she completed the course in specialist Spanish for lawyers (FFA) and at FGV Direito Rio (Brazil). She completed her doctorate in international environmental law in a joint PhD programme at the University of
Hamburg and Macquarie University, with a one-year research stay in Sydney. During her legal traineeship, she worked, among other things, at the Federal Foreign Office (Department for General International Law) and at the GIZ office in Costa Rica in the
programme "DiraJus – Regional International Law and Access to Justice". She has given presentations in various countries and written several articles and blog posts on topics such as climate change and human rights and global climate constitutionalism.