Christiane Gerstetter
Ass. iur.
Fellow, Lawyer
Christiane Gerstetter is a lawyer and a Fellow for Ecologic Institute. Her main research interests are legal aspects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international trade agreements, development and ecological implications of intellectual property rights, legal issues of genetic manipulation, climate protection and sustainable development. She is also interested in legal and political theory. A native speaker of German, she is fluent in English, has a good knowledge of Spanish and French, and a reasonable knowledge of Arabic, Hebrew and Italian.
At Ecologic Institute, she has been involved in projects related to trade and intellectual property issues: The IPDEV project investigated the relationship between trade, intellectual property rights and sustainable development and resulted into an article in the Journal of World Intellectual Property. Moreover, Christiane Gerstetter is also the co-author of a policy paper for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation that deals, among other, with the intersection of trade and climate policies. She has also contributed to climate-related projects, in particular a legal expertise on Turkey’s status under the Kyoto-Protocol and a policy paper investigating the legal framework for adopting a climate protection law in Germany, written for the WWF. Christiane is also interested in sustainable development and has co-authored the “Global Partnership” chapter of the Eurostat 2009 Sustainable Development Report.
Christiane Gerstetter was admitted to the bar in Berlin in July 2009. She completed her compulsory post-graduate legal training in Berlin. As part of her training, she worked in the environmental department of the Berlin District Attorney’s Office and for the environmental law firm Gaßner, Groth, Siederer and Colleagues, where she gained experience in the practice of German environmental law. She also completed part of her training at the EU Department of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the German Embassy in Sana'a/Yemen.
Christiane Gerstetter studied law, philosophy and international relations in Heidelberg and Bremen and passed her law school exam in 2003. After her studies, she was employed as a researcher at Bremen University in a project on the tensions and interdependencies between international trade law and social regulation. Both prior to and after completion of her studies, she spent extended periods of time in Israel, Palestine and Central America, working on issues of human rights and development.
For many years, she has been involved in NGOs and social movements, especially in the fields of development and globalization. Alongside her work for Ecologic Institute, she is also completing a doctoral thesis on the WTO dispute settlement.
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