Katja Schramm LL.M.
Expertise
Katja Schramm advises her clients on a wide range of administrative and constitutional law matters, including environmental and planning law. She supports project developers in all stages of their infrastructure and transformation projects.
Katja’s experience includes navigating complex approval procedures, and managing critical legal challenges. She represents her clients in administrative proceedings as well as before administrative and constitutional courts.
Katja’s practice focuses on the energy and transport sectors. She also has expert knowledge in the field of nuclear law. Her broad experience in the field includes advising on the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, on matters of interim and final storage of nuclear, as well as on the future of nuclear technology in Germany.
Background
Katja Schramm was admitted to the bar in 2012.
She studied law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Utrecht University and Nottingham Trent University (LL.M. in environmental, planning and regulatory law). Following her studies, Katja was a research assistant at a public law chair at Bucerius Law School and at the Institute for Ecclesiastical Law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. She completed her legal traineeship from 2010 to 2012 in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, with stages at the Administrative Court of Düsseldorf, the Federal Ministry for the Environment and a top-tier international law firm. Prior to the founding of pswp, Katja was a principal associate in the Düsseldorf office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Katja Schramm is an author of the Beck commentary on the German Act on Administrative Court Proceedings (Verwaltungsgerichtsordnung). She advises her clients in German and English.