Profile

Dr. Christopher Langer

Lawyer | Salary Partner

Christopher Langer’s practice focuses on public law, mainly on advising and representing private individuals and the public sector in the field of building planning and building code law in the creation, modification and safeguarding of building rights as well as historical landmark protection, tax and nature conservation law.

Christopher Langer advises in particular on complex planning permit and urban land-use planning procedures as well as negotiations on public law contracts.

In addition, he has academic expertise in specialist planning law, particularly in energy and nuclear law, as well as in-depth knowledge of European law, having completed an accompanying course of study at the University of Würzburg with the title of European Lawyer.

Before becoming a lawyer, Christopher Langer worked for more than 10 years for various authorities of the Free State of Bavaria as a Diplom-Verwaltungswirt (FH) (graduate in public administration).

Biography

Law studies
Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, FHVR Hof and the Mykolis Romeris University Vilnius

Legal clerkship
in Würzburg

Doctorate
The site search according to the Site Selection Act – standardization between consistency and contradiction [German only], Würzburg 2020

Admission to the bar
2022

Foreign language
English

Expertise

Public building and planning law
Urban land-use planning procedures, building permit procedures, urban development contracts and development agreements, urban development measures, reallocation, planning approval procedures, administrative and constitutional appeal procedures

Public-law project development
Development and implementation of utilization concepts, particularly in connection with building law designations or conversions

Municipal and municipal constitutional law

Tax law
Municipal tax law, local improvement assessment law

German and Bavarian constitutional (procedural) law

Publications

Books

“Kapitel 11 – Rechtliche Umsetzung durch Änderung/Ergänzung der BauNVO” in: Schmid, K./Lissack, G./Mühlthaler, E. (Hrsg.), Handbuch und Planungshilfe Bonus-Geschossflächen, Berlin 2024, together with G. Lissack

“Kommentierung § 1a EnWG”, in: Elspas, M. E./Graßmann, N./Rasbach, W. (eds.), EnWG-Kommentar, 2nd Edition 2023, Berlin 2023, together with M. Ludwigs

Die Endlagersuche nach dem Standortauswahlgesetz – Normgebung zwischen Konsistenz und Widerspruch, Dissertation, Berlin 2020

“Kommentierung § 1a EnWG”, in: Elspas, M. E./Graßmann, N./Rasbach, W. (eds.), EnWG-Kommentar, Berlin 2018, together with M. Ludwigs

Articles/journal contributions

Review: “Befreiungen vom vorhabenbezogenen Bebauungsplan – von der Notwendigkeit sachgerecht flexibler Rechtsanwendung” NVwZ 2024, S. 1892-1898, together with G. Lissack

Review: „Rechtschutzverkürzung als Mittel der Verfahrensbeschleunigung“ by Julia Wulff (née Chladek), UPR 2023/5, pp. 176-177

Examination essay: „Der politische Bürgermeister und die Grenzen des Rechts“ BayVBl. 2019/11, pp. 395-396 and 2019/12, pp. 425-432

Examination discussion: „Der steinige Weg zu einem Endlager“, GewArch 2017/9, pp. 334-338

“Tagungsbericht zur Tagung ‘Klimaschutz, Versorgungssicherheit und Wirtschaftlichkeit in der Energiewende’“, RdE 2017/7, pp. 322-323

“Tagungsbericht zum Symposium ‘Energiewende und Finanzkrise als aktuelle Herausforderungen des Europarechts’“, EWS 2015/2, pp. 91-95

WAGENSONNER Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft mbB
Nymphenburger Straße 70
80335 München

Telefon
+49 89 123 985 – 0

E-Mail
christopher.langer@wagensonner.com