Experience

Julia joined the firm in 2000 and has been counsel since March 2008. Her work focuses on regulatory law and compliance work, among others telecommunications law and data protection law. Her work comprises representing clients before authorities and in court proceedings, advising on transactions and auctions, contract negotiations and compliance investigations.

In 1995, Julia completed her legal education at the Universities of Hamburg, Geneva and Heidelberg. She was a research assistant at the Max-Planck Institute for Public International Law and received a doctor of law degree for her thesis on European law. Before joing the firm she worked alongside her thesis for a local law firm in Dresden, representing municipalities and the local government. Julia also was a trainee at the German Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo, at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington and New York City and at the United Nations Environment Programme in Geneva. In 2004, Julia was working for five months in the firm's Brussels office on competition law matters.

She speaks German, English and French.

Qualifications

Rechtsanwältin, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Publications

Les déchets, de l'autosuffisance et de la libre circulation des marchandises, Revue du Marché Commun 1994, p. 246

Concepts and Principles of International Environmental Law, Co-Autorin, UNEP/UNO, 1994

Abfälle, Autarkie und freier Warenverkehr – Eine Darstellung der EG-Abfallverbrin­gungsverordnung, WasserAbwasser Praxis, 1994, p. 71

Environmental Law-Making by International Organisations, ZaöRV (MPI) 1996, p. 628

Recht für Gemeinde- und Stadträte, Kap.3 Handbuch Grundwissen für Kommunalpoli­tiker, BKS, 2000

Energiesparcontracting aus rechtlicher Sicht, Tagungsband BKS, 2000, p.13

Akteneinsichtsrechte vor Gericht – Auswirkungen der Neufassung des § 99 Abs. 2 VwGO auf die gerichtliche Überprüfung von Regulierungsverfahren im Bereich Telekommuni­kation, Co-author, K&R 2002, p. 456

Verwaltungskooperation am Beispiel administrativer Informationsverfahren im europäischen Umweltrecht, 2003

Akteneinsichtsrechte vor Gericht zum Zweiten – Das BVerwG setzt Maßstäbe für das Ver­fahren nach § 99 VwGO, Co-author, K&R 2004, p. 67

Informationskooperation am Beispiel des europäischen Umweltrechts, in: Schmidt-Aß­mann/ Schöndorf-Haubold (ed.), Der Europäische Verwaltungsverbund, 2005, p. 57

Wider die Instrumentalisierung des Datenschutzrechts, Anmerkung zum Urteil LG Frankfurt Az. 2-21 O 78/08 vom 8.5.2009, Co-author, Corporate Compliance Zeitschrift 2010, p. 39

Information cooperation procedures – with European environmental law serving as an illustration, in: Jansen / Schöndorf-Haubold (eds.), The European Composite Administration, 2011, p. 55

Languages

German, English, French

Contact details

julia.sommer
@freshfields.com

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