Lorenz Wielenga
Lorenz Wielenga studied law at the University of Münster, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He majored in human rights protection, international law and comparative law. He also completed additional studies in Anglo-American common law. He is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation.
Lorenz worked as a student assistant for Prof. Dr. Petra Pohlmann at the Institute for International Business Law at the University of Münster. While working for the NGO "Advocates Abroad", he advised refugees in Athens on the asylum process. In 2021, he worked as campaign manager for the Bundestag candidacy of Federal Minister Svenja Schulze. Since January 2022, he has been a research assistant and doctoral student at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne. Lorenz is a Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (AjV) member. In the spring of 2023, he was researching judicial review at the University of Oxford.
Lorenz Wielenga, PhD student at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection since January 1, 2022, passed away on April 25, 2025 after a long, serious illness at the age of 28. With his kindness and warmth, his sensitivity, his social commitment and also with his wealth of ideas and academic brilliance, he was a role model for everyone.
We will name our library the Lorenz Wielenga Library after him and keep his memory close to our hearts.
Areas of Research
- European Human Rights Protection
- International Law
- Constitutional Law (Fundamental Rights Protection, Constitutional Courts, Separation of Powers, Comparative Constitutional Law)
- Climate cases
Current research project
Currently, Lorenz Wielenga is researching climate jurisprudence in supreme courts. In particular, he is addressing the questions of whether specific features of climate cases in democratic states that have introduced judicial review lead to a shift of power in favor of the judiciary and whether selected supreme courts and constitutional courts address separation of powers concerns in their climate jurisprudence.
Exposé
List of publications
Publications
Contact
Contact
Kerpener Str. 30
50937 Köln
Telephone +49 221 470-2095
E-mail lorenz.wielenga(at)uni-koeln.de