Dissertation by GvW attorney Dr. Katja Göcke honored with the Fritz Grunebaum Prize

"Indigenous Nation Laws in an International Comparison" (Indigene Landrechte im internationalen Vergleich) is the title of the dissertation by Dr Katja Göcke of the law firm GvW Graf von Westphalen which has now been published in the Springer Verlag. The Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg awarded the Fritz-Grunebaum Prize for the 750 page work thesis by the Hamburg attorney.

The dissertation by Dr Göcke is a comparative study of the law on recognizing indigenous nation laws in Canada, the United States of America, New Zealand, Austria, Russia and Denmark/Greenland. She addresses what is to be understood under indigenous national laws which are at the interface between public law, comparison law and international law, how they are realized in an international comparison and whether the protection and enforcement of indigenous national laws in the individual countries is in accordance with the minimum requirements under international law.

The Fritz-Grunebaum Prize honors top-level work at the Ruprecht-Karl University in Heidelberg involving economics or commercial law. Dr Göcke wrote her dissertation during her many years of work as an assistant at the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She has worked since 2013 in the Hamburg customs and foreign trade law team.