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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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Two Laotian lecturers, Mr Bounleuth XAPHAKDY and Mr Somsack HONGVICHIT, were welcomed by the University of Luxembourg for a two-month research stay in May and June 2019. Soon after their arrival, the lecturers had to present their intended research topic at an event organised by Uni.lu Doctoral School of Law (DSL). They had the chance to receive feedbacks from law professors and to meet other PhD students.
They attended a number of seminars and conferences at the FDEF, made use of the University of Luxembourg facilities’ in particular the e-library. They also had time to discuss in-depth their paper with law professors acting as their mentor and other researchers. Both are currently drafting their research paper under the supervision of the Liaison officer, which will support them to publish it in a peer-reviewed law journal in English. Both studies are very relevant and topical for Laos: Mr HONGVICHIT is working on « The development of an enforcement mechanism under the former European Economic Community Treaty: what lessons for the ASEAN?” and Mr XAPHAKDY on the “Critical Analysis of the Legal Framework for Combating Corruption in Lao PDR”.
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The Inter-University Project organised the 3rd edition of its “Seminar on Legal Research and Methodology” from 21-23 of May 2019. The delegation from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance – Luxembourg, headed by Pr. Stefan Braum, accompanied by Mr. Jean-Marc Ceci, Dr. Sofia Mirandola, Mr. Andrii Hubai and Ms. Marie Gerardy.
The 3-days seminar covered extensively methodology in legal research, it is about providing teachers with basic legal research skills.
The seminar offered some plenary lectures such as “Law as an academic discipline”, “The role and the function of the judiciary”, some plenary workshops such as “Referencing, plagiarism and academic ethics” or “Teaching skills” as well as some more specific workshops for which participants were split into groups to join more basic or advanced workshops on methodology (e.g. “Designing a good legal research: steps and concrete examples of legal research”; “How to comment a court’s judgement”, etc.).
The delegation also paid a courtesy call to His Excellency Minister of Justice Xaysy Santivong on the 24th of May.
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As part of his visit the Head of the delegation, Pr. Stefan Braum, accompanied by Ph.D. and post-doc researchers paid a courtesy call to His Excellency Minister of Justice Xaysy Santivong on the 24th of May.
Moreover, Pr. Stefan Braum took the opportunity to discuss the progress of the Inter-University project between the FLP and FDEF with various actors in the fields of education and law. In particular, he met with Ass. Pr. Houngphet Chanthavong, Vice-President of NUoL. They reaffirmed their commitment to set up, through this concrete cooperation between our two Law faculties, a model for other NUoL’s faculties.
In view of better connecting legal education with the needs of practice and have a better understanding of the Lao context, Pr. Stefan Braum and Dr. Perrine Simon also had the chance to meet on 27th and 28th of May with Mr. Bounta S. Phapmixay, Director of National Institute of Justice and with Mr. Khamsay Soulinthone, President of the Lao Bar Association.
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For four days, from Tuesday 23rd until Friday 26th of April 2019, the Faculty of Law and Political Science of NUOL in cooperation with the University of Luxembourg welcomed Dr. Basak Baglayan for a seminar dedicated to “International Human Rights Law”.
Dr. Basak Baglayan is a distinguished expert in human rights and has written extensively in this field, in particular on business and human rights. She gave a series of lectures to around 15 FLP lecturers tackling general and specific aspects of International Human Rights Law including a focus on foreign investments. Participants engaged in fruitful discussion and all received a certificate of participation.
Ms. Baglayan invited Dr. Boulaphiane Sisouk, lecturer at the FLP to contribute to the seminar with a presentation on Human Rights in ASEAN law.
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On the 21st of March 2019, Dr. Perrine SIMON, Liaison Officer of the University of Luxembourg based in Vientiane, organized a workshop on ‘What is Legal Research?’. Around 20 teachers and members from FLP and the Research Division of NUoL attended the workshop. The workshop created a platform for attendees to learn and discuss about the commonalities and the distinctions between research methodologies in law and political science.
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Congratulations to the Lao team participating in the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Court which took place in March 2019 in Hong-Kong.
The Liaison Officer has been coaching the students for the national rounds in 2018 and 2019 and for these international rounds. For the first time in Hong-Kong, the Lao team put in a very competitive performance against the best universities in Asia, coming in ahead of Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Last November 2019, the University of Luxembourg organised an its second intensive course on mooting competition at the FLP led by two external specialists of mooting (Dr. Lawrence Siry and Dr. Heleen De Geest, former coaches at Uni.lu for the JESSUP Moot).