Biography

Dr. Bilun Mueller, LL.M. (Bruges) is Assistant Professor (DAAD-Fachlektorin) and Co-Ordinator for the Law and German Programme in the School of Law. She teaches an Introduction to the German Legal System with a focus on German Constitutional Law as well as a module on German Civil Law and a course on German and European Law. In addition she lectures in the framework of the German Area Studies course in the Department for Germanic Studies. She also teaches an LL.M. module in European Energy Law and is lecturing in International Environmental Law for the TCD UCD Masters in Development Practice.

She is a fully qualified German lawyer (Assessorin). She has worked as academic assistant at the Law Department of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and taught European Law before coming to Trinity. She has been a visiting lecturer in German Law in University College Cork and in European Constitutional Law in Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

Her areas of interest include German and European constitutional and administrative law, in particular environmental and planning law, as well as energy law.

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Professional Qualifications

• Assessorin (2. Juristisches Staatsexamen, Berlin)
• LL.M. in European Community Law (Bruges)
• Ph.D. (Freie Universität Berlin)

 

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Representations

DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst ( German Academic Exchange Service)

 

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Administrative Functions

• Law and German Co-ordinator, 2010 - present
• Erasmus and Exchange Co-Ordinator, 2010-11

 

 

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Awards and Honours

• >TSM Grant of the European Commission
• Scholarship for Studies at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, of the DAAD
• Scholarship for Studies at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, of the European Movement Germany

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Education Details

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium

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Employment Details

• Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Humboldt-Universtiät zu Berlin, Germany
• Kammergericht Berlin, Germany

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Memberships /Associations

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Publications

• Die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung im Recht der Europäischen Union und ihre Einwirkungen auf das deutsche Verwaltungsprozessrecht, in: Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht e.V. (Hrsg.), Kollektivität - Öffentliches Recht zwischen Gruppeninteressen und Gemeinwohl, 52. Assistententagung Öffentliches Recht, Nomos, 2012, S. 119 ff.
• Die deutsche Schutznormtheorie gilt nicht mehr bei umweltrechtlichen Verbandsklagen, in: Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, 4/2011, S. 166 ff.
• Access to the Courts of the Member States for NGOs in Environmental Matters under European Union Law, in Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 23 (2011), Issue 3, p. 505 ff.
• Die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung im Recht der Europäischen Union und ihre Einwirkungen auf das deutsche Verwaltungsrecht am Beispiel des Immissionsschutzrechts, Nomos, 2010.
• EC Legislation Concerning Renewable Energy Sources: Promotion at the Community Level and Implementation in Germany, in: Journal for European Environmental and Planning Law No. 5, Sept. 2005, p. 393 ff.

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Postgraduate Research Students

Bilun Mueller is particularly interested in supervising student research in the following areas:

• European Administrative Law
• European Constitutional Law
• European Environmental Law
• European Energy Law

She welcomes approaches from prospective LL.M. students with proposals to conduct original research in these fields.

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Links

• www.daad.de
• www.studieren-in-deutschland.de

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