Dr. Lisa-Karen Mannefeld
Expertise
Lisa-Karen Mannefeld's advisory practice covers the main areas of public economic law In particular, she advises on strategically important issues of environmental, planning, construction, regulatory and constitutional law and represents her clients before German and European authorities and courts.
In the area of environmental and planning law, Lisa-Karen Mannefeld advises companies, in particular in the energy and transport sectors, in all project phases of the implementation of major infrastructure projects. She also has specific expertise in nuclear law and advises on issues relating to the decommissioning and dismantling of nuclear power plants as well as the interim and final storage and transport of radioactive waste.
Lisa-Karen Mannefeld is also an expert in the field of public construction law and in this context advises on administrative and court proceedings relating to the authorisation of new or alteration projects as well as the creation of their planning law basis.
She also specialises in advising on vehicle regulation law. Lisa-Karen Mannefeld has extensive expertise in the area of type approval and registration of vehicles and advises companies in the automotive sector, in particular in regulatory and administrative court proceedings.
Lisa-Karen Mannefeld is also an expert in the field of freedom of information and environmental information law. She represents both applicants and third parties throughout administrative and judicial proceedings.
Lisa-Karen Mannefeld speaks German, English and Italian.
Background
Lisa-Karen Mannefeld has been a lawyer since May 2018. She studied law at the University of Osnabrück. Her studies focussed on European public law, including comparative European constitutional and administrative law. At the same time, she completed a three-year foreign language training programme in Italian law. Following her studies, Lisa-Karen Mannefeld worked as a research assistant at the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück, where she completed her doctorate in comparative law on a constitutional and European law topic. She completed her legal clerkship from 2015 to 2018 in the Higher Regional Court district of Düsseldorf, including stations at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia in the department for fundamental issues of constitutional, European and international law, at a major international law firm and at the Düsseldorf Administrative Court.
She is the author of several publications in the field of freedom of information and environmental information law.