Gutmann, Andreas

Dr. Andreas Gutmann is a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, department ‘Just Transitions’, Kassel University, Germany. He studied law in Freiburg and Santa Marta and obtained a phd from Bremen University for a work on Rights of Nature in Ecuador, which has received several awards. He did his legal clerkship (Referendariat) at the Berlin court of appeals. He conducted various research stays abroad and held positions as a research fellow at the universities of Bremen (Germany) and Bern (Switzerland).

Area(s) of expertise: Rights of Nature, extractivism, critical legal theory, postcolonial legal theory, comparative law