Sven’s work at ACIL will focus on his thesis project on the law and legitimacy of Europe’s global climate action. Starting from the EU’s self-conception as a climate leader and promoter of norms, the project examines how law shapes the EU’s climate foreign policy, understood as its political practice of promoting climate action in other jurisdictions. It further aims to develop a normative justification for climate foreign policy rooted in a discursive understanding of global justice, thereby moving beyond the stalemate between parochialism and cosmopolitanism.

Sven holds law degrees from Georg August University Göttingen (2021) and Harvard Law School (2024). He is a research affiliate of the DFG Research Training Group 'DynamInt' and was previously a visiting research fellow at the European University Institute