Dr. Bodo A. Baars* M.A.

  • Born 1941.
  • Studies at the Universities of Marburg an der Lahn, Tübingen and Hamburg from 1960 to 1965 and at the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 / 68.
  • 1968 Master of Arts (Public Policy) at the University of California at Berkeley.
  • 1970 second state exam (Assessor) in Hamburg.
  • 1970 to 1980 civil servant of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Departments of the Interior, of Education & Science and of Research and Technology in Bonn.
  • 1973 Dr. jur. (Ph.D.) at the University of Hamburg.
  • 1974 delegated assistant to the Director General of the International Institute for the Management of Technology in Milan / Italy.
  • From 1980 until 1989 Chief of Staff (Chef du Cabinet) and then section head (Ministerialdirigent) with the Department of Regional Planning, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry of the State of Hesse in Wiesbaden.
  • 1989 to 1995 Managing Director of a German waste management holding company (Deutsche Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH) in Hamburg and Lübeck.
  • 1994 admittance to the bar as attorney (Rechtsanwalt) in Hamburg.
  • 1995 establishment of the law firm Baars.

Memberships

  • "German Society for Environmetal Law" (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht)
  • Working group "Administrative Law" of the "German Lawyer's Association" (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verwaltungsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltsverein e.V.)
  • German "Association for the Support of Research on Environmental Law" (Verein zur Förderung der umeltrechtlichen Forschung e.V.)

Languages

English fluently in writing and speaking; French, Italian.

Professional focus

  • Public Law, especially Waste Law, Energy and Environmental Law
  • Product regulations concerning waste, especially VerpackV and ElektroG
  • Law of Renewable Energy Sources
  • Privatisation of Public Organisations and Services
  • Public Private Partnership
  • Licencing and Planning Law

Publications

  • Numerous articles in magazines and journals on topics within his fields of interest

 

 

* = Senior Partner of Kuhbier.Rechtsanwälte