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Team Teaching "Comparative Property Law"
23/24 Oct and 13/14 Nov 2014
For the fourth time, Prof. Dr Godt taught the course "Comparative
Property Law" together with Prof.
Alison Clarke (emer. University of Surrey) in the current winter semester 2014/15 as part of a double two-day block course. Here, the
course poses at the end of the course on 14 Nov. 2014 in front of the "Smart House" at the University of
Oldenburg.
Team Teaching with Prof A. Clarke
23/24 Oct and 13/14 Nov 2014
For the fourth time, Prof. Dr Godt is teaching "Comparative Property Law" together with Prof. A. Clarke as part of the Hanse Law School (3rd semester). The centre of the course is the comparison of English and German property law. On 24 Oct. 2014, we will welcome Mr Björn Hoops, LL.M., currently assistant at the University of Groningen, who will integrate a unit on Dutch property and insolvency law into the course.
Lecture on "Patenting in medicine: The significance of the major disputes over 'Myriad' and 'Brüstle' "
18 Oct. 2014, Catholic Academy Schwerte.
Prof. Godt will give a lecture on the two major disputes in medical gene patenting, DNA sequences and embryonic stem cells, at the law student council conference of the Cusanus-Studienwerk on 18 Oct. 2014. The lecture is part of a weekly programme of the Cusanus law student body on "Medical law - a balancing act between ability and permission" (16.10.-19.10.2014) at the Kath.
The lecture presents the development of the legal debate on these two cases up to the most recent supreme court decisions and asks about the significance of "patents" for science on the one hand and for public discourse on the other in the context of these disputes.
Lecture at the retreat week "Seeds as a commodity and as a public good"
29 Sept. 2014, LM University Munich.
At the invitation of Dr S. Schleissing, Prof Dr Godt gave a lecture on "Intellectual property: an instrument for achieving the CBD goals" at the BMBF-funded retreat week of the Institute of Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences (TTN) at LM University Munich (29 Sept. - 2 Oct. 2014) at the Schönwag Study House in Weilheim. The centre of attention was the dazzling role of intellectual property rights as both a driver of biodiversity loss and a belt of benefit-sharing, which the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) provides as a mechanism for sustainability and an incentive for biodiversity conservation. The presentation will be published as part of the conference documentation.
Presentation "Liability for Vessel Collisions in International Waters" at the workshop "Comparative Law and Governance"
19 Sept. 2014, University of Groningen.
Prof. Dr Godt gave a lecture on 19 Sept. 2014 at the invitation of Prof. Dr Dr A. Colombi Ciacchi entitled: "Liability Rules in No-One's Land: Liability for Vessel Collisions in International Waters". At the centre is the question of which liability rules apply in cases of extraterritorial ship collisions in international waters and what the legal practice for regulating these cases looks like. In terms of substantive law, these cases are governed by the internationally agreed so-called "ColRegs". Legal practice (including German lawyers) seeks to avoid the jurisdiction of German courts. The Hanse Law School's comparative law programme provides excellent preparation for this international legal practice.
Presentation at the ESF workshop "The Future of Patent Governance in Europe"
2 Sept. 2014, University of Hamburg.
At the invitation of PD Dr Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg, and Prof. Dr Esther van Zimmeren, University of Antwerp, Prof. Dr Godt gave a lecture on "Good Patent Governance: Norms, Criteria and Procedures" at the workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation on 2 September 2014. At the centre of the lecture is the tension between the legal guiding principle of the separation of powers and the new legitimation norms of political science, which are brought together under the term "governance". Using three examples, she explains the tension and shows ways in which the law can "translate" modern legitimisation claims and resolve the tension in specific cases. A short version will be posted on the webpage of the University of Hamburg. The written version of the lecture will be published in a conference volume.
To the conference programme: www.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereiche-einrichtungen/biogum/aktuelles/esf_1_9-2_9_2014.pdf
Lecture "Regulatory embedding of technologies in intellectual property"
18 July 2014, University of Bayreuth
At the invitation of the Research Training Group "Intellectual Property and Public Domain" (Prof. Dr Michael Grünberger/Prof. Dr Rupert Podszun), Prof. Dr Godt gave a lecture on 18 July 2014 at the conference "A more technological approach for intellectual property law" on the question of what approaches could be expected from a transposition of the more economic approach from European competition law as a more technological approach in intellectual property law. In particular, she emphasised the impact orientation. The written version of the lecture will be published in the Zeitschrift für geistiges Eigentum (ZGE).
Hanse Law School students receive German-Dutch Law Prize
20 May 2014, Münster
Hanse Law School graduates Björn Hoops and Kilian Rolfs have been honoured with the German-Dutch Law Prize. Björn Hoops received the honour for the best paper submitted to the Dutch jury; Kilian Rolfs received the prize for the best paper submitted to the German jury. The (double) prize has been awarded for 14 years by the German law firm Alpmann Fröhlich and the Dutch law firm JPR for two outstanding seminar papers or theses in which cross-border legal problems are addressed. The prize is endowed with a total of 5,000 euros.
Björn Hoops completed his Master's degree at the Hanse Law School in 2013 and received the prize for his Master's thesis on the German-Dutch legal comparison in insolvency law. Prof Aurelia Colombi-Ciacchi, member of the Dutch jury and professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, praised the depth of the thesis, which was otherwise only found in the work of Dutch professors. Björn Hoops is now a lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. After completing his Bachelor's degree at the Hanse Law School, Kilian Rolfs completed a Master's degree in Business Law at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. He was also honoured for his Master's thesis, which dealt with the choice of Swiss law and the resulting advantages of opting out of European consumer law for international companies. André Janssen, jury member and lecturer at the University of Münster, emphasised the "extreme practical relevance" of the thesis. Kilian Rolfs now works as a contract engineer in the offshore energy sector. The Hanse Law School is a legal association of the universities in Bremen, Oldenburg and Groningen and prepares students for legal work in the international arena.
Picture by Till Leckebusch
Lecture on Equitable Licensing
30. 1. 2014, Humboldt University Berlin
Prof Dr Godt gave a lecture on "Equitable Licensing" on 30 January 2014 at the invitation of the UAEM Group in Berlin, Charité. The lecture was organised as a double event with the biochemist Prof. Dr Peter Seeberger, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam. A lively discussion highlighted overlaps between law and practice and provided the group with impetus for future work. Film recordings and slides will soon be available for download on the UAEM server.