Anna Beckers awarded Second Prize in the German Thesis Award (Humanities)
Anna Beckers, MEPLI fellow and EUI researcher has been awarded second prize in the humanities category of the German Thesis Award. The German Thesis Award (Deutscher Studienpreis) is a prestigious prize in Germany awarded by the Körber Foundation (Körber-Stiftung). Annually there are nine prizes awarded in three categories: humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. In each category, one first prize and two second prizes are awarded. 418 PhD’s applied for the prize, thirty candidates were shortlisted to present and defend their research in front of a committee. As organizer of this prize, the Körber Foundation values the outstanding academic quality and significant societal impact of her thesis ‘Taking Corporate Codes Seriously: Towards Private Law Enforcement of Voluntary Corporate Social Responsibility Codes’. After a successful defense that resulted in a cum laude in October 2014, Hart Publishing Oxford published the manuscript.
Our very warm congratulations!
-
Comparative Insights on the Role of Values in Contract Law
M-EPLI welcomed Dr. Timothy Dodsworth on 19 February as a speaker in the M-EPLI Talks series. Dr. Dodsworth’s talk entitled, The Underlying Values of German and English Contract Law, focused on looking at German and English court decisions to extract insights into how legal systems balance competing...
-
Clarifying the Legal Status of Online Logistics Platforms in Europe
Our recent study (with Prof. Wouter Verheyen University of Antwerp) explores the legal uncertainties associated with the rise of online logistics platforms, which optimise the flow of goods through digital procurement mechanisms but lack a clear regulatory framework akin to international transport...
-
Breaking Legal Boundaries: How Private International Law Can Keep Up With Global Value Chains
On Wednesday 29th January, M-EPLI welcomed Prof. dr. Toshiyuki Kono, Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Kyushu University, Japan. The event was moderated by Dr. Daniel On, followed by an insightful commentary by Prof. dr. Marta Pertegas and discussion with the participants.
