Baker & McKenzie Professorial Thesis Award 2009 Goes to PD Dr. Michael Droege
Firm News
February 26, 2010
Frankfurt/Main, February 26, 2010 – The 2009 Baker & McKenzie Award for the best professorial thesis (Habilitation) in commercial law has been awarded to PD (associate professor) Dr. Michael Droege. The 36-year-old received the prize along with a €6,000 cash award for his professorial thesis “Gemeinnützigkeit im offenen Steuerstaat” ("Nonprofit Status in the Open Tax State"). His work was supervised by Prof. Dr. Joachim Wieland.
Droege received the award during the graduation ceremony of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University’s Faculty of Law, which took place on February 12, 2010 in the ballroom of the Casino Building on the university’s Westend campus. “Supporting talented up-and-coming attorneys has traditionally been a special concern of our law firm,” stated Frankfurt Baker & McKenzie Partner Dr. Nikolaus Reinhuber, who presented Dr. Droege with the award.
For more than two decades the firm has been presenting this award annually for outstanding dissertations or professorial theses in commercial law, which bear the distinction of “summa cum laude” and are completed at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University’s Faculty of Law.
Baker & McKenzie has proven – not least with its Career Mentorship Programme (CMP) launched in 2008, which is so far unique for the entire law sector in Germany – that the promotion of young talent is an issue close to the Firm’s heart. Within the framework of this program, Baker & McKenzie supports ambitious trainee attorneys on a long-term basis as they complete their education, ideally until their start as an associate at the law firm. Recruitment successes show that the Firm has pursued the right path with its Programme: since its launch five mentees have become Baker & McKenzie associates.