The Site Selection Act has created the first ever legal framework for the siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository in Germany. The act provides for a staged selection procedure which makes use of a variety of innovative procedural and organisational governance tools. Lisa Hamacher examines the extent to which this legal framework enables an inter-generationally just, knowledge-based, democratically legitimised, and publically accepted siting decision.
The Site Selection Act has created the first ever legal framework for the siting of a high-level nuclear waste repository in Germany. The act provides for a staged selection procedure which makes use of a variety of innovative procedural and organisational governance tools. Lisa Hamacher examines the extent to which this legal framework enables an inter-generationally just, knowledge-based, democratically legitimised, and publically accepted siting decision.
Lisa Pauline Hamacher
Geboren 1990; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft an der Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, und am Institut d'études politiques de Paris; Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht III der Bucerius Law School; Rechtsreferendariat am Hanseatischen Oberlandesgericht; 2020 Promotion und Zweite juristische Staatsprüfung; seit 2021 Referentin im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie.
Standortauswahlgesetz Pfadabhängigkeit Not-in-my-backyard-Phänomen Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung Prozeduralisierung