BBH EXPERTS

• Decentralised energy supply and district heating
• Administrative law (with a particular focus on environmental, building and planning law)
• Constitutional law
• International investment protection law

Barbara von Gayling-Westphal focuses on aspects of administrative law relating to site-specific energy management and the heat transformation.
 

• Born in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1987
• 2006-2012 studies of law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, University College London, UK, and Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2013-2015 research associate at the University of Konstanz (chair of public law with international focus) and the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels; since 2015 expert in the legal advisory task force of the Energy Charter Secretariat
• 2015-2018 legal traineeship at the Court of Appeal in Berlin with placements at, among others, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Since 2018 lawyer at BBH Berlin
• Since 2023 counsel at BBH
   
• Since 2019 lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
• Various publications on, among others, matters of investment protection law