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Dr Lena Hehemann, PhD

2nd December 2020

was awarded a PhD from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, for her thesis on the authorization of animal experiments. Her thesis focused on the conflict between the priorities of animal protection and scientific freedom in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Her publications include, inter alia, “The administrative appeal in animal experimentation law” (Schweizerische Juristen-Zeitung 12/2012, 403, in German) and “The Protection of the Dignity of Laboratory Animals in Switzerland” (Global Journal of Animal Law, 6/2018). She received a Bachelor of Law from the Technical University of Dresden, and a LLM from Reykjavík, Iceland, in international environmental law and natural resources law. In her master thesis she analysed the role of the European Union in relation to the conservation of endangered shark species. Presently, Dr Hehemann is a scientific researcher for the Federal Office for the Environment in Switzerland. She also works as an independent researcher. She collaborates, among others, with the Swiss animal protection organisation “Tier im Recht”.