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Prof. Dr. Norbert Kämper
Prof. Dr. Norbert Kämper

Prof. Dr. Norbert Kämper

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  • Duesseldorf Germany
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Norbert has been advising companies and regulatory authorities on all questions of planning and environmental law for many years. His practice covers in particular infrastructure projects such as airports or inland ports - from the preparation of the application, the environmental impact assessment and the public participation procedure to the preparation of planning approval decisions.

Norbert is also an expert in environmental law, environmental law-related corporate organisation, emission control law, soil protection and contaminated sites law as well as commercial administrative law. Furthermore, he supports authorities in selection procedures for ground handling services and is also active at all instances of the administrative courts. Norbert is the author of numerous publications on environmental and planning law and lectures on construction and planning law at the Ruhr University of Bochum.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Environmental, planning & regulatory
Corporate crime & compliance
Environmental law
Public sector
Infrastructure planning
Traffic regulatory

Sectors

Aerospace & defence

CV

Since 2023 of Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2011 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1997 – 2010 Associate, Kleiner Rechtsanwälte, since 1999 Partner
1989 – 1997 In–House lawyer, legal department of ARAL AG, Bochum
1987 – 1989 Lecturer, Landesanstalt für Rundfunk NRW
1984 – 1987 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Peter J. Tettinger, Ruhr–Universität Bochum
2010 Named as Honorary Professor, Juristische Fakultät der Ruhr–University, Bochum
1988 Doctoral degree, Juristische Fakultät der Ruhr–University, Bochum
1983 Second state examination
1981 – 1983 Legal clerkship, Essen
1981 First state examination
1975 – 1980 Degree in law, Ruhr–University, Bochum

Career

Since 2023 of Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2011 Partner, Taylor Wessing
1997 – 2010 Associate, Kleiner Rechtsanwälte, since 1999 Partner
1989 – 1997 In–House lawyer, legal department of ARAL AG, Bochum
1987 – 1989 Lecturer, Landesanstalt für Rundfunk NRW
1984 – 1987 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Peter J. Tettinger, Ruhr–Universität Bochum

Education

2010 Named as Honorary Professor, Juristische Fakultät der Ruhr–University, Bochum
1988 Doctoral degree, Juristische Fakultät der Ruhr–University, Bochum
1983 Second state examination
1981 – 1983 Legal clerkship, Essen
1981 First state examination
1975 – 1980 Degree in law, Ruhr–University, Bochum

Publications

Fachplanung in Deutschland - geht das auch schneller? in: NWVBI, Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht und öffentliche Verwaltung, 2/2023

Spannowsky / Hornmann / Kämper (Hrsg.), Baunutzungsverordnung, Kommentar, 2018

Netz- und Anlagenplanung im Energiesektor: Lehren aus dem BVerfG-Urteil in Sachen „Garzweiler II“? in: Pielow (Hrsg), Runderneuerte Energiewende?

Ökonomische, juristische und politische Herausforderungen. Dokumentation der XVIII. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Berg- und Energierecht am 13. März 2014, S. 57 ff. (Bochumer Beiträge zum Berg- und Energierecht Bd. 63)

Die Festsetzung der Luftraumstruktur über der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ZLW 2013, 599 ff.

Windenergieanlagen und Luftverkehr, in: Ziekow (Hrsg.), Aktuelle Probleme des Luftverkehrs-, Planfeststellungs- und Umweltrechts 2012, 2013, S. 27 ff.
Kein Nachtflugverkehr mehr über Deutschland?, NVwZ 2013, S. 8 ff.

Kommunale Flugplätze, in: Thomas Mann/Günter Püttner (Hrsg.) Handbuch der kommunalen Wissenschaft und Praxis, Bd. 2, Kommunale Wirtschaft, 3. Auflage 2011, S. 639 ff.
Biokraftstoffe auf dem Rückzug?, UPR 2009, S. 365 ff

Das selbstständige Genehmigungsverfahren für Flugplätze, Teil I, ZLW 2008, S. 487 ff.; Teil II, ZLW 2009, S. 16 ff.

Neues Planungsrecht für Energieleitungen, RdE 2007, S. 112 ff.

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Auftraggebergemeinschaften, NZBau 2003, 303 ff. (gemeinsam mit Dr. Matthias Heßhaus)

Beteiligung öffentlicher Unternehmen an Ausschreibungen, NWVBl 2001, 377 ff. (gemeinsam mit Dr. Matthias Heßhaus)

Dynamische Gebietsentwicklung kontra Umwandlung des Gebietscharakters – Gibt es ein Recht auf Erhaltung der Nutzungsstandards in einem Baugebiet? In: Spannowsky/Hofmeister (Hrsg.), Praxisrelevante Themenfelder der BauNVO in der städtebaulichen Planung, 2018, S. 35 ff.

Privatisierung und Vergaberecht: Die Organisationshoheit der Städte ist zu beachten. (gemeinsam mit Dr. Matthias Heßhaus), Der Städtetag 5/2000, S. 36 ff.

Kommentierung in: Grabherr/Reidt/Wysk, Luftverkehrsgesetz, Losebl., 19.EL Juli 2017, §§ 30, 31 (Ausnahmen für Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei und Polizei)

Das Mandat im Planfeststellungsrecht, in: Johlen/Oerder Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Verwaltungsrecht, 4. Auflage 2017, § 19

Kommentierung §§ 72-77 Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz, in: Bader/Ronellentisch (Hrsg.) Beck'scher Online-Kommentar Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz, 41. Edition Stand 01.07.2018

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für den Betrieb von Drohnen, UPR 2017, 401 ff. (gemeinsam mit Katrin Isabell Müller)

Hafenentwicklung zwischen Fachplanung und Bauleitplanung, in: Hebeler/Hofmann/Proelß/Reiff (Hrsg.), Planungsrecht im Umbruch: Europäische Herausforderungen, 2017.

Wettbewerb um das Flughafenvorfeld vor der Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit. 20 Jahre Bodenabfertigungsdienst-Verordnung: Praktische Erfahrungen und Reformüberlegungen, NZBau 2017, 9 ff. (gemeinsam mit Dr. Michael Brüggemann und Wiss. Mitarbeiter Alexander Bothe)

Gestaltungsspielräume des Gesetzgebers bei der Festlegung von Lärmschutzzielen, UPR 2015, 424 ff.

Memberships & Associations

Gesellschaft für Umweltrecht e.V.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Verwaltungsrecht

Additional languages

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Awards

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Featured

Recommended lawyer for the transport sector

Legal 500 2025

Recommended lawyer for the public sector: planning and environment

JUVE Handbook 2024/2025

Frequently recommended lawyer for environmental and planning law

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024

Leading individual: Environmental Law

Recommended lawyer for the transport sector

Recommended lawyer for the public sector

"For me the best for airport planning", competitor; public law

Frequently recommended: environmental and planning law

Frequently recommended: transport sector

Leading individual: Environmental Law

Often recommended lawyer for the transport sector

Often recommended lawyer for environmental and planning law

“The best for airport planning”, Competitor

"great experience", competitors

"very calm, prudent and experienced professional with clear communication and strategic-forensic persuasiveness; very pleasant to deal with. "

Top Lawyer for environmental and building planning law

Leading individual: Environmental law

"proven expert in public sector planning and environmental law", client

Experience

Opposition proceedings on the German Federal Emission Control Act (BImSchG)

Clients from both the public and private sector on all opposition and legal proceedings regarding all legal aspects of the Federal Emission Control Act (BImSchG). Advice has included dangerous waste proceedings with respect to contaminated sites and ground protection in addition to all further aspects of environmental law and planning approvals across different industries.

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