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We aim to enrich academic programmes, competence and capacity of individuals in the field of law. By doing so, we seek to strengthen the Rule of law and justice institutions in Lao PDR.
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LATEST NEWS
Project supported by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action
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The first Steering Committee of our phase II took place of the 12th of July 2021. Despite the difficulties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions in place, the Committee convened in a hybrid format, with the FLP counterparts and Dr. Perrine Simon (Liaison Officer) physically present at the FLP, and the representatives of and Uni.lu-FDEF, the Luxembourg Embassy in Laos, LuxDev and ILSTA joining online via WebEx.
The Committee meets at least a year to ensure the monitoring and evaluate the progress of the Project, as well as to decide upon future directions based on the annual plans proposed by the concerned universities. This year’s Steering Committee was held successfully and was quite special as it concluded the end of phase I (2017-2020) and officially launched the phase II (2021-2024) of the Project.
Committee members underlined the continuity and dynamism of the Inter-University Project in the last 4 years. Pr. Stefan Braum, Project leader for UNI.lu stressed the importance of the research stays in Luxembourg which have been a success and led a to a special publication in a law journal. They reflect the “pragmatic individual approach” taken to help Lao lecturers to develop their research capacity. He also highlighted some of the Project’s significant achievements such as the establishment of a e-library and the gradual involvement with students with moot court, lectures and student exchanges.
Dr. Perrine Simon summarised the activities that have been organised in the past year and presented the Annual report for 2020 and the general report highlighting the achievement of the Inter-University Project between 2017-2020 (see brochure). She also presented the novelties of the phase II and the planned activities for 2021. She also introduced the new Project Assistant, Ms. Thongkhoon Xayyahong recruited in July 21.
The Project foresees, in phase II, research is scaling-up with the selection of up to 3 Lao candidates for a PhD in Luxembourg for which a public call for applications is set to open very soon, as well as with new research grants supervised by the Project. The Project will also from now on provide scholarship opportunities for a master in Luxembourg, and internship opportunities, for the FLP and UNI.lu students.
The next Steering Committee, also the first reporting on activities of the phase II, is set to be organised in February 2022.
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In the framework of the Inter-University Cooperation Project Laos-Luxembourg, the University of Luxembourg organized a special lecture on “Money Laundering and the Use of Indirect or Circumstantial Evidence (Article 130 of the Penal Code)”, given by Mr. Chris Batt from UNODC who is the Anti-money laundering/counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) Advisor for the Mekong region, based in Vientiane. The lecture was attended by 30 criminal law students and teachers from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of NUOL on 17th of March 2021.
Money Laundering is a serious crime that impacts on the economy of every country. Mr. Batt analysed the different elements of the offence of money-laundering, insisting in particular on notion such as predicate offences. As a former policeman specialised who has led financial investigation, the speaker gave very real insights on money-laundering and many examples from real cases to the audience that was captivated.
Given this fruitful first lecture given in partnership with UNODC, the Inter-University Project plans to do more in the future!
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The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic acted as an accelerator to start developing an online teaching offer, from now on foreseen in the new phase of our project in the form of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). The Liaison Officer Perrine Simon has developed a series of 7 videos on legal research methodology with the contribution of some Luxembourg PhD students that came during the previous editions (Florence d’Ath, Jean-Marc Ceci, Andrii Hubai and Teresa Quintel), a lao translator – Mr. Detsada Souksaseum – and a team of talented young students for shooting and video editing (JPEG Film). More information will be released soon on how to access our first module!
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The Inter-University Cooperation is actively supporting the development of an institutional repository for NUoL, in collaboration with the LuxDev Project Lao/031. We do so with the kind assistance of our partner EIFL.
An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of a research institution. Repositories contain the research produced by the academic institution/University: books and books sections, conference papers, journal articles, reports, theses and dissertations, working papers and other documents. Most universities around the world have set up open access repositories, including in Asia and Southeast Asia (see for example among many Universities National University of Singapore, Mahidol University in Thailand). Having an institutional repository for a University allows to strengthen research, to preserve and research outputs, but also to improve the dissemination and visibility of a variety of scholarly materials, and to provide a free and persistent point of access to them.
We have recently organised the first two consultation meetings on the Development on the institutional repository for NUoL and the FLP (on 3rd of February 2021 and 17th of March 2021) with a hybrid format. Experts from EIFL were present via Zoom to help designing the road-map to establish NUoL’s repository.
These consultations brought together stakeholders from the central level of NUoL, and the faculty level (FLP). The meeting was chaired bу Assoc. Prof. Bounthieng Phommachanh, Vice Dean of the FLP and attended by the Director and Deputy director of NUoL Central Library, the Director of NUoL ІСТ Center, the Head of Research Office of NUoL, the Deputy head of Post Graduate office of NUoL, the Head of the FLP Lіbrагу, the Deputy head of FLP Research Division, and the persons in charge of Software Development Division of the ІСТ Center and FLP.
The participants discussed the next steps to take and agreed that effectively establishing such a repository was highly important for NUOL’s research development. The next steps towards this institutional repository will be to meet with NUOL’s presidency to officially adopt a roadmap and policy attributing responsibilities and workflows for NUoL’s open access repository.
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Congratulations again to the Lao team participating in the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Court, which was exceptionally organized through a virtual format for the first time this year, on 11-12 March 2021. The University of Luxembourg is actively supporting NUoL’s participation in this international competition! Dr. Perrine Simon, the Liaison Officer of Uni.lu, hosted the team during the competition at the Project’s office at the Faculty of Law and Political Science.
The Lao team has been trained intensively after winning the National Round in December 2020 until the last day of the competition by Perrine, both face-to-face and virtually. They worked extremely hard and put a lot of effort into this moot court competition on International Criminal Law entirely in English to compete against universities from the Asia-Pacific region. The team scored very well in written memorial and got many positive comments and feedback from the judges during the oral pleading of the general rounds. We are currently waiting for the final ranking.
This Moot court organised by the ICRC is a great way to stimulate legal thinking, by learning how to develop legal arguments appropriately. Students also have improved their presentation skills, debating skills and English!
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The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) of Luxembourg keeps supporting training on “ How to use the E-library “. Ms. Jevgenija Sevcova, Programme Coordinator, from EIFL led two half virtual training sessions on the 21st of December 2020 and the 2nd of February 2021, accompanied by Dr. Perrine Simon.
Ms. Jevgenija was presenting through Zoom and the presentation was translated by an interpreter in the training room at the FLP. The training targeted around 15 FLP librarians and ICT volunteers. They learnt how to access and use the E-library . The aim is for them to be able to assist other users to use the newly established e-library effectively as librarians and ICT volunteers of the FLP.
The E-library is a digital version of a library accessible via internet which gives access to online databases containing books (e-books), academic journals and many other resources such as magazines and newspapers.