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Robert H.D. Reimer LL.M., M.A.

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer)

Cologne
  • Master of Laws (Government and Administration in Europe)
  • Master of Arts (European Studies)

Robert H.D. Reimer has been practicing law at our Cologne office since 2019. His practice and publications focus on circular economy law, product law, and materials law, particularly in the context of corporate compliance, regulatory practice, and legal advisory services on legislation. His advisory work primarily covers packaging law, market surveillance law, and chemicals law, as well as issues related to extended producer responsibility (EPR) across all legal and policy areas. In addition to his expertise in public commercial and environmental law, he also advises on funding and EU state aid law, particularly in the areas of public grants and budgetary matters. Furthermore, he focuses on issues of state immunity and international jurisdiction in international commercial law and represents clients in constitutional and European law proceedings, as well as in administrative offense and criminal proceedings.

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • French

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Practices

Publications

Monographs

  • Packaging Policy and Circular Economy – The Packaging Legislation of the European Union under the European Green Deal, Berlin (Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA) 2026
  • Staatenimmunität und Staatsverschuldung – Hoheitliche Zwangsrestrukturierung ausländischer Staatsanleihen vor nationalen Gerichten (State Immunity and Public Debt – Sovereign Forced Restructuring of Foreign Government Bonds before National Courts), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020, review of Christoph Thole, IWRZ 2023, 299

Essays

  • Grundstrukturen der kreislaufwirtschaftsrechtlichen Obhutspflicht (Basic structures of the duty of care under circular economy law), AbfallR 2023, 31-43
  • Die Abfallhierarchie im Verpackungsrecht – Zur Wiederverwendung als Maßnahmenkategorie sui generis und zum verpackungsrechtlichen Gleichrangigkeitsprinzip (The waste hierarchy in packaging law – On re-use as a sui generis category of measures and on the principle of equal priority under packaging law), EurUP 2022, 165–176
  • Die Klage aus vertraglicher Haftung im Europarecht (The action for contractual liability in European Law), DÖV 2020, 52-61

Notes

  • Comment of the Federal Court of Justice ruling of A, judgement of 16.01.2025 – IX ZR 60/24 – “Staatenimmunitätsverzicht und internationale Zuständigkeit im europäischen Insolvenzanfechtungssystem des Unionsrechts“ (Waiver of State Immunity and International Jurisdiction in the European Insolvency Challenge System of Union Law), IWRZ 2025, 154-157
  • Comment on the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, judgment of 15.04.2024 – 3 U 43/23 -,Das Dilemma der Inkohärenz von Staatenimmunität und internationaler Zuständigkeit in der europäischen Insolvenzanfechtung (The dilemma of the incoherence of state immunity and international jurisdiction in European insolvency avoidance), IWRZ 2024, 246-249
  • Note to ECJ, judgment of 9.7.2020 – C-186/19 -, The distinction of acta iure imperii and acta iure gestionis in European law, IWRZ 2020, 279-283
  • Note to Advocate General at the ECJ (Saugmandsgaard Øe), final opinion of 02.04.2020 – C-186/19 -, The distinction between acta iure imperii and acta iure gestionis in European law, IWRZ 2020, 223-226
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