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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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In February 2019, for the first time, the Steering Committee of the Inter-University Cooperation Project with the National University of Laos (NUOL) took place in Luxembourg city. The delegation going to Luxembourg included Ass. Pr. Viengvilay Thiengchanhxay, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of NUOL and Mr Somsack Silithip, Coordinator of the Project for the FLP. They were accompanied by Dr. Perrine SIMON, the Liaison Officer of Uni.lu based in Laos. Their trip to Luxembourg included several visits such as the European Court of Justice, a meeting with the Head of the Doctoral School in Law of UL and PhD students as well as an official meeting with the Lao Ambassador in Brussels.
It was the first visit of the Dean of the FLP to the University of Luxembourg.
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For two days, on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st of December 2018, the FLP in cooperation with the University of Luxembourg, welcomed Dr. Basak Baglayan for a series of lectures on “International Human Rights Law”. Dr. Basak Baglayan is a Human Rights expert, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg where she did a PhD on “Corporations and Human Rights: Searching for International Norms for Corporate Conduct in Domestic Case Law”.
Around a hundred bachelor students and teachers attended the four lectures on ‘History of International Human Rights Law’, on ‘The United Nations charter-based system’, on ‘The United Nations Treaty-based system’ and on ‘Globalisation and Human Rights’.
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On Wednesday 28th of November 2018, the national round of the Asia Pacific International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) took place at the Faculty of Law and Political Science. This competition is actively supported by the University of Luxembourg, The students have been trained by Dr. Perrine Simon, Liaison Officer of the University of Luxembourg based in Vientiane, and Dr. Lawrence Siry from the University College Cork gave them a week-long intensive course on Mooting.
We congratulate all the students involved, in particular the two best mooters that going to Hong-Kong for the international round in March 2019.
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For the first time, the Inter-University Project organised a crash-course on mooting led by an external specialist of mooting, Dr. Lawrence Siry. Lawrence ran a 5-day course on moot court for students at the Faculty of Law who will take part in the Asia Pacific International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition.
Dr Lawrence Siry, Lecturer at the University College Cork (Ireland) and former researcher at the University of Luxembourg, visited the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of NuOL (Vientiane) from 5th to 9th of November. He used to be the coach for the JESSUP Moot at the University of Luxembourg, and he is a former Criminal Defence Lawyer (US).
Dr Lawrence Siry also gave an open lecture organized on “Structure and actors on international criminal law” for more than 100 students and teachers of the FLP, in the framwork of our cooperation with ILSTA (ILSTA’s open lectures at the FLP).
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Dr. Lawrence Siry, Lecturer at the University College Cork (Ireland) and former researcher at the University of Luxembourg, was visiting the Faculty of Law and Political Science of NUOL (Vientiane) from the 5th to the 9th of November. Dr. Siry came in the framework of the Inter-University Cooperation Project Laos-Luxembourg to give a week-long training for students to prepare them for the national round of the ICRC IHL Moot Court Competition.
As part of his visit, he also kindly agreed to give a special open lecture at the faculty as part of our collaboration with ILSTA on “Structure and actors on international criminal law” on the 7th of November. The lecture introduced the participants to International criminal law and to the role and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. It took place at the FLP’s lecture room and was attended by more than 100 students and teachers of the faculty. Many questions were raised by the participants showing how fascinating International criminal law can be!
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Dr. Perrine Simon, the Liaison Officer of the University of Luxembourg gave a special open lecture on “The Concept of Rule of Law”, on 2nd of November 2018 at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the National University of Laos.
This lecture is part of the Inter-University Project’s cooperation with ILSTA who organises open lectures for students at the FLP. The University of Luxembourg regularly contributes to them.
The event brought together more than 100 students and teachers as well as law professionals.