Dr. Philipp Sauter
Head of Research Group Early-Career Research Group on Legal Issues in Fusion Energy Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Domerschulstr. 16, 97070 Würzburg
Email: philipp.sauter@uni-wuerzburg.de
Tel: +49 931 31-83250
Since April 2026: Head of the Early-Career Research Group on Legal Issues in Fusion Energy at the University of Würzburg
Since January 2025: Research Officer in the ReFus project at the MPIL
March 2022 – December 2024: Research Assistant at the MPIL
January 2022: First State Examination in Law, Tübingen
December 2021: Master of Science in Physics, Tübingen
June 2019: Maîtrise in International and European Law, Aix-en-Provence
April 2016 – January 2022: Studied law at the University of Tübingen
October 2016 – December 2021: Studied physics at the University of Tübingen
August 2018 – June 2019: Studied international and European law at the Université d’Aix-Marseille
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Pilot Project on Regulatory Framework for Fusion Facilities (ReFus) Status Report as at June 2026 – Draft for comment (in collaboration with M. Jopen, J. Herb, C. Heitsch, M. Kowalik, I. Petermann, K. Cohrs, J.-U. Schmollack, M. Englert, A. Kopp, C. Pistner, X. Z. Jin, D. Radloff). In : Report GRS-878, Society for Plant and Reactor Safety (GRS) gGmbH. Open Access
- Fusion Energy in Nuclear Weapons Law Fusion Energy in Nuclear Weapons Law – Tackling the Climate Crisis whilst Addressing the Risk of Further Proliferation. Nomos, Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, 2026, 330 pp. Open Access
- The Legal Power of Highest Possible Ambition: Setting Legal and Scientific Indicators to Assess Highest Possible Ambition under Article 4(3) of the Paris Agreement. In: Climate Law 15, 7–30 (2025). doi: doi:10.1163/18786561-bja10063 (in collaboration with Christina Voigt, Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, Joeri Rogelj, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner).https://brill.com/view/journals/clla/15/...
- The Emergence of Nuclear Fusion Energy: A New Nuclear Technology, a New Chance for Nuclear Disarmament?. In: Expanding Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament. Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament. Uppsala University, Uppsala 2023, 151–162. https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record....
- European Nuclear Weapons – Europe’s Nuclear Ambitions and the Constraints of International Law. Verfassungsblog, 20 February 2024.https://verfassungsblog.de/nuclear-weapo...
- Austerity at the Expense of International Law – The Debt Brake in Conflict with the International Climate Protection Regime. Verfassungsblog, 17 January 2024.Austerity at the Expense of International Law
- Russia’s Withdrawal from New START – The End of a Cold War Relic, but Not the Beginning of a New Nuclear Arms Race. Völkerrechtsblog, 1 March 2023.https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/russias-wi...
- Phasing out nuclear power? – No, thank you! Verfassungsblog, 25 August 2022.https://verfassungsblog.de/atomausstieg-...
- Safeguarding Nuclear Fusion – Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law in a Fusion-Powered Future. Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law (MPIL) Research Paper No. 2023-13, 2023. SSRN
- Nuclear threats in Ukraine. The response of international law to the destructive effects of the atomic nucleus in war. In: The Security Order in Europe, Arnd Uhle, Matthias Friehe (eds.). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2023, 201–224.
- Book review: Röhrlich, Elisabeth: *Inspectors for Peace*, Baltimore, 2022. In: *ZaöRV*, 2/2023, 367–372, 2023. https://doi.org/10.17104/0044-2348-2023-...
Max Planck Lawcast
Episode #10 (22 January 2024): Regulating Star Power: Legal Challenges for Nuclear Fusion
Summer Semester 2023
International Law Colloquium
University of Heidelberg
Winter Semester 2022/23
Introduction to Nuclear Law
Karlshochschule International University
Summer Semester 2022
Constitutional Law Seminar
University of Heidelberg
