Pauline Müller
Areas of practice
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.
Vita
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.
Clients
- International company – Advice on a carbon storage project (CCS)
- Waste management company – Advice on the production of renewable fuels from captured CO2 (CCU) and on the generation of hydrogen
- Various industrial companies – Advice on emissions trading law issues regarding the permanent binding of CO2 in products
- Start-up company – Advice on emissions trading law issues in the context of marine geoengineering
- International oil and gas corporation – Advice during a secondment in the field of environmental law, particularly immission control law, mining law, and radiation protection law
- Various steel industry companies – Planning and permitting advice on the decarbonisation of industrial processes
- Various companies in the cement industry – Advice on immission control law issues
- German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) – Legal opinion on planning and permitting modernisation
- Bavarian pension funds – Representation in proceedings on statistical reporting obligations before the Federal Administrative Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Representation of Verallia Deutschland AG in a Federal Administrative Court proceeding on environmental information law
- International chemical company – Environmental law advice, particularly on chemical and water law issues
- Italian toy manufacturer – Representation in a packaging law proceeding
Publications
Blog posts
Lectures
Memberships
- Netzwerk Young Tax & Legal Excellence (Young TLE)
Senior Associate
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Yelena Bade
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Henrik Fischer
Associate
Leipzig
Volkan Top
Senior Associate
Hamburg, Frankfurt a.M.
Vivienne Blank
Associate
Stuttgart
Vanessa Meireles Schilling, LL.M. (Geneva MIDS)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Dr Valerie Blettenberg
Associate
Munich
Ulrich Siegemund
Of Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Tim Rauschning
Partner
Hamburg
Tillmann Kamp
Associate
Cologne
Theresa Oesch
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Tarik Bilici, LL.M.
Consultant
Dusseldorf
Susanne Winkler, LL.M.
Associate
Stuttgart
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Counsel
Essen
Stephanie Quaß
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Stephan Bausch, D.U.
Partner
Cologne