Pauline Müller

Pauline Müller’s practice includes advising companies on matters pertaining to public business and general and special administrative law, as well as providing representation in administrative dispute proceedings. In addition, she also assists companies in connection with the transformation to carbon neutrality, for example, in the fields of immission control, carbon storage and mining law.

Environment & Planning Law, Regulatory
State, Administration, Public Undertakings
Public Subsidies/State Aid Law

Pauline Müller studied law at the University of Münster (Germany) from 2013 to 2018, with an emphasis on international law. Whilst at university, she also spent a semester studying abroad at Paris Nanterre University (France). From 2016 to 2017, Pauline Müller worked at the Chair of Environmental and Planning Law held by Prof. Dr Schlacke. After passing her first state law exam, she carried out her legal training at the Regional Court of Münster, part of which involved working at the Ministry for the Environment of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Pauline Müller was admitted to the German Bar in June 2021, having previously successfully completed her legal training by passing her second state law exam, and has been working for Luther ever since. In addition to working as a lawyer, she also teaches environmental law.

• International oil and gas group – advice, whilst on secondment, on environmental, in particular immission control, mining and radiation protection law
• Various companies in the steel industry – advice on planning and approval law issues in connection with the decarbonisation of industrial processes
• International company – advice on carbon capture and storage (CCS) law
• International chemicals company – advice on environmental law issues, in particular on matters pertaining to chemicals and water law
• Bavarian pension funds – representation in proceedings regarding statistical reporting obligations before the German Federal Administrative Court and the European Court of Justice
• Verband der chemischen Industrie e.V. – legal opinion on the modernisation of planning and approval procedures
• Various (Italian) companies – advice on the German Packaging Act
• Various companies in the cement industry – advice on matters related to immission control law
• Verallia Deutschland AG – representation in proceedings on appeal on points of law before the German Federal Administrative Court regarding environmental information law

• Abschied von der Amtsverschwiegenheit? Neuer Schutz von Whistleblowern im Bereich der öffentlichen Hand, in: Luther White Paper vom 09.08.2022 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham))

• Netzwerk Young Tax & Legal Excellence (Young TLE)

• 21.03.2024: Luther Female Network: „Gender Equality als Lieferkettensorgfaltspflicht“
• 28.02.2024: Risiken bei Lieferketten aus China im Solarbereich – Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichten und Streitbeilegung
• 17.11.2022: Das neue Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz: „Do's & Don’ts“