Malin Nischwitz is a fully qualified German Lawyer (Rechtsassessorin). Currently, she is a Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at the Law Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research interests cover sustainability and climate change law as well as public business law and local law. In August and September 2022, she was a secondee at the Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance (University of Western Ontario) through the European Union funded LoGov RISE project. During her secondment, she researched climate change as a (financial) challenge for municipalities and focused on differences between urban and rural areas.