"Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol into German Law"

• Nov. 2011 - June 2012 Expert opinion for the Federal Ministry for the Environment: "Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in German Law" (R&D project FKZ 3410 810100).

• Results in preparation for publication.

"Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge "

• Dec. 2006-Dec. 2008 Participation in the DFG project "Law and practice of access to genetic resources and benefit-sharing - the example of Kenya, Brazil and Germany".

• Project leader: Prof. Dr G. Winter, staff: Dr E. Kamau (Kenya); Dr J. Kleba (Brazil); Dr S. Kishi (Brazil); PD Dr C. Godt (Germany).
  

• C. Godt contribution: Law of the "recipient states" (Germany, European Community).

• currently published: E. Chege Kamau/G. Winter (eds.), Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge & the Law - Solutions for Access & Benefit Sharing, Earth Scan, 2009. My contribution: "Enforcement of Benefit Sharing Duties in User Countries Courts".

• The project analysed the practice of bioprospecting in the resource donor countries Brazil and Kenya, and the resource recipient country Germany. It analyses the difficulties of biodiversity use on both sides and aims to make legal policy proposals that facilitate cooperation

"Innovation Law "

• Since 2004-2008 member of the research network "Innovation Law" under the direction of RiBVerfG Prof. Dr W. Hoffmann-Riem, Hamburg, and Prof. Dr M. Eifert, Giessen.
  
• C. Godt contribution: Intellectual property law.
  
• The project takes an intra- and interdisciplinary approach to the legal localisation of responsibility for technical innovation. It is structured according to the main focus areas: Competition, Intellectual Property, Regulation and Responsibility. Interdisciplinary conferences have been organised on these focal points. The project maintains an internal information platform(www.innovationsrecht.de/default.aspx).
  

"Global Governance

• Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006 Project "Global Trade and Social Regulation" (A1), Phase 1.
  
• One of 15 projects of the Bremen Collaborative Research Centre 597 "Statehood in Transition" funded by the German Research Foundation (and extended in Nov. 2006).
  The A1 project was both developed (1999-2001) and carried out in the field (2002-06) together with Prof. Dr J. Falke and Prof. Dr C. Joerges. The proposal was honoured by the DFG in November 2002 as an "excellent" project, grade "A". Documents are available at www.sfb597.uni-bremen.de.
  
• The project describes the integration of social regulation and free trade as a framework condition of modern markets in a comparison between the WTO and the EU. In the first phase (2002-2006), the environmental and food policies of the EC and the WTO were compared in the design of a 4-field model. This study design made it possible to explain the different depth of regulation between the policy areas and to differentiate precisely between the functioning of the EC and WTO. The project was extended for another four years in November 2006. For this second project phase, the investigation of food policy will be continued and contrasted with services policy (telecommunications).
  

"Ownership of information "

• 1998-2004 Habilitation project
• Published by Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2007.
• Funded by the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR).
  
  

"Implementation of the EC Biotechnology Directive into German Law "

• August 2003-Dec. 2003
• Expert opinion on behalf of Greenpeace Germany on three contentious issues concerning the transposition of the EC Biotechnology Directive into German law,
• Published as ZERP Discussion Paper 2003 (see list of publications).