Prof. Dr. Eike Albrecht is head of the Department Civil Law and Public Law with References to the Law of Europe and the Environment at the Faculty for Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Germany. His main research field is environmental law including international and European environmental law. Dörte Schneemann, B.Sc., was a member of the project group on assessing fracking law and practice inside the EU; a project of the Department Civil Law and Public Law with References to the Law of Europe and the Environment (Prof. Albrecht) at BTU. She has written her Bachelor thesis on this topic, which was awarded best Bachelor thesis at the Faculty for Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering at BTU in 2013.