Bucerius Law School's doctoral prize awarded - Corinna Coupette wins award donated by Noerr

Dr Corinna Coupette has been awarded the Bucerius Law School doctoral prize for the this year’s best doctoral thesis. The award, which is endowed with 3,000 euros in prize money, was donated by the law firm Noerr LLP and awarded for the second time after 2017.

With her dissertation "Legal Network Research. Modelling, Quantification and Visualisation of Relational Data in Law", Corinna Coupette received her doctorate under the supervision of Professor Christian Bumke (holder of the Commerzbank Endowed Chair for Foundations of Law at Bucerius Law School). Corinna Coupette studied law at the Bucerius Law School and at Stanford Law School and is now a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich as well as a lecturer at the Bucerius Law School and at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Her research focuses on legal networks and issues relating to law and technology. Professor Bumke emphasises: "This is an outstanding research achievement that for the first time and in a comprehensive way opens up the method of network research practised in the natural and social sciences to German jurisprudence and makes it exemplary. It is an outstanding and pioneering interdisciplinary achievement."

The award certificate was presented by Christian Bumke together with Professor Kai-Michael Hingst, partner in Noerr's Hamburg office, at the Bucerius Law School Academic Celebration. "By donating the doctoral prize, we want to encourage young lawyers to engage scientifically with legal issues in depth - also and especially in the context of social, economic and technical developments," said Hingst, who teaches philosophy at the Bucerius Law School as an honorary professor.