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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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In the framework of the Inter-University Cooperation Project, the University of Luxembourg is supporting teaching capacities at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of the National University of Laos. In this regard the Inter-University Project invited Professor Dr. André Prüm to give a seminar on contract law.
The main objective of this 3-day seminar was to introduce the participants to the principles of contract law and specifically explore “the New Civil Code of Laos in light of International Practices”. The seminar was organized from 4-6 April 2023 at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Vientiane.
The seminar focused on the definition of the contract from both domestic and international interpretation, freedom and enforceability of contracts, conditions for a valid contract, and contract performance. The Inter-University Project brought together lecturers from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the National University of Laos, lecturers from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) of Vientiane, and Practitioners – namely lawyers, members of the Lao Bar Association; judges from Lao People’s Supreme Court; and prosecutors from the Lao Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor.
The first day of the seminar started with an opening remark and warm welcome from Assoc. Prof. Viengvilay Thiengchanxay, Dean of Faculty of Law and Political Science. The morning session of the seminar was dedicated to an introduction of the participants in order for Prof. Dr. Prüm to know the background of each participants, then Prof. Dr. Prüm started the lecture by recollecting the different legal tradition, especially drawing a distinction between civil law and common law systems. In the afternoon session, participants learned about the binding nature of contracts and compared of the specific article from the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts (2016) with the New Civil Code of Laos.
The second day of the seminar was devoted to revisions and allowed participants to discuss their questions from the previous lesson with Prof. Dr. Prüm. This allowed for interactive discussions on the implementation of the New civil code of Laos, discussion also centered around the difference between Civil law and Common law traditions.
In the afternoon of the second day, FLP students and lecturers were invited to an open lecture on “Investor-State Arbitration”. This allowed students to learn more about the background and development of investor-state arbitration and many international treaties as well as the New York Convention and The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID Convention). The participants first explored foreign investment promotion laws in Laos. Prof. Dr. Prüm then explained the need for investor-state arbitration and the different recourses available to investors. He explained different recourses for investors in case of absence of an investment treaty and the difference in available recourses when a treaty has been signed. The participants looked at the relevant treaties signed by Laos DPR and learned about some international arbitration cases that have been brought under international treaties. The lecture concluded with the question of importance of arbitration laws to attract and secure foreign investment.
On the last day of the seminar, participants had the opportunity to learn more about offer and acceptance of a contract, void and voidable contracts and the effect of non-performance of a contract. At the end of the session, all participants were provided a certificate of attendance handed to them by Prof. Dr. Prüm.
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Congratulations to the Lao team participating in the 21st Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot Court 2023 in Hong Kong between 8 – 11th March 2023, which was organized as a face-to-face competition, after a long period of restrictions due to Covid-19. The competition hosted 24 teams of law students from different universities in the Asia-Pacific Region. The University of Luxembourg has been actively supporting NUoL’s participation in this international competition! For this year, Dr. Perrine Simon supported the team and the project as Co-coach jointly with Ms. Paulina Baschton who is the Liaison Officer of Uni.lu.
The Lao team has been trained intensively until the last day of the competition after winning the National Round in December 2022. They worked extremely hard and put a lot of effort into this highly competitive moot court on International Criminal Law, entirely in English, to challenge universities from the Asia-Pacific region.
After four days of competition, with a total of 24 teams of law students from across the Asia-Pacific, the University of Adelaide (Team from Australia) won the competition. The first runner-up was awarded to the University of Auckland, Ms. Annalise Delic from the University of Adelaide was awarded as the Best Mooter of the Final Round. The best prosecution memorial was awarded to Brickfields Asia College of Kuala Lumpur and the best defense memorial went to Singapore Management University. For more details on the 21st IHL Moot Court competition results and announcement, you can find the link here: https://www.redcross.org.hk/en/moot21/results.html
The moot problem the participating teams faced this year focused mainly on the war-related environmental protection problems. This moot problem raised the team’s awareness on using chemical weapons in an armed conflict, particularly the use of natural environments as military targets, the deprivation of the fair trial rights of war criminals, and the forced participation of enemy civilians in military actions against their own country. The moot problem also incorporated relevant topics from current issues like the definition of mercenaries and their legal status.
During the days of the event, students also had an opportunity to attend the Keynote Seminar which was organized under the topic “The Use of Indiscriminate Weapons and Their Impact on the Environment”. The panel discussion of this Keynote Seminar was led by Dr. David Michael Baker (Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU), Dr. Nishara Mendis (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo), and Ms. Kelisiana Thynne (Head of the Legal Department ICRC Manila). At the end of the session, participants also had a chance to raise their question to discuss more with the panelists.
Unfortunately, and despite best efforts the team from NUOL did not pass on to the quarter finals but the team received very positive feedback from the judges during the oral pleading of the general rounds! They also managed a good scoring in the written memorials with an average of adequate-good.
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 critical thinking and problem solving skills, analyzing skill, presentation skills, debating skills and also their English!
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In the Inter-University Cooperation Project framework, the University of Luxembourg is supporting the teaching at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of the National University of Laos.
In this context, a 10-hour seminar, dedicated to International Tax Law, has been held from 6-8 February 2023 at the FLP in Vientiane. We welcomed Prof. Werner Haslehner, the second professor from the University of Luxembourg to hold a seminar in Laos in 2023.
The seminar focused on introducing International Tax Law, Tax treaties, their interpretation, and their relevance. The Inter-University Project brought together ten lecturers from the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of the National University of Laos, three lecturers from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) of Vientiane, and Practitioners – namely three judges from Lao People’s Supreme Court; and three prosecutors from the Lao Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor.
Moreover, this marked the first time that the Inter-University Cooperation Project has organized an open lecture for FLP students on top of the seminar for the lecturers. The open lecture was disseminated to all FLP students, particularly business law and civil law students, and was very well attended.
The first day of the seminar started with an opening and welcome from Paulina Baschton, the new liaison officer for the Inter-University Cooperation Project, who began her first day as liaison officer in Vientiane with this seminar. The first day of the seminar was dedicated to the Introduction to International tax law, definitions and relation to domestic tax law. The different angles regarding taxation, and especially differences between Luxembourg tax law and Lao tax law were raised during the seminar and discussed interactively.
The second day of the seminar was devoted to International Tax Law as part of International Law, focusing on double taxation treaties, their relationship with domestic law, interpretation of tax treaties, and resolution of disputes on taxation. Especially the subject of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital were of great interest to the audience, explained by Prof. Haslehner with many practical examples and interactive exercises for the audience. This allowed for interactive discussions pointing at dispute resolution regarding taxation.
On the third and last day of the seminar, participants had the opportunity to discuss more on the treaty between Luxembourg and Laos and to understand its functioning; Prof. Haslehner briefly introduced the issues beyond tax to allow the participants to have an overview of transfer pricing, global minimum taxation, and tax transparency.
On the same day, in the afternoon, the open lecture occurred, focusing on the basic principle of taxation, to introduce the students to relevant principles, and deepen their understanding of functions, legislation, and policy regarding taxation. Nearly 30 students attended this open lecture and impressed Prof. Haslehner with an energetic atmosphere throughout the questions and discussions raised during the lecture.
The visit to the FLP of Prof. Haslehner significantly contributed to the teaching angle of FLP and strengthened the knowledge of all participants. With the success of the open-lecture initiative, the project will continue to engage the visiting professors from the University of Luxembourg in open lectures to the student in order to enhance the knowledge of both lecturers and students concurrently.
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On 23-27 January 2023, the Inter-University Cooperation Project Laos-Luxembourg organized a 5-day E-Resources Training and Facilitation Workshop at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of NUOL. It was the first face-to-face E-Resource Training organized by the Project.
16 FLP librarians and ICT volunteers attended the training led by Ms. Jevgenija Sevcova from the EIFL. Mr. Pathanaphone Nammalath, the Project Assistant for the Inter-University Cooperation Project, was in charge of the interpretation for all 5 days of training. The training follows the “train the trainer”-principle; the goal is to equip a group of volunteers with the relevant skills, so that they in turn can become E-Resources trainers at the FLP. The training focused on how to facilitate and organize the training on E-library. The FLP librarian volunteers also learned more deeply about searching on the E-library website.
The first day of the training was dedicated to the participants’ introduction. The trainees were also provided a self-assessment on learning, in which they discovered their best learning style by making a paper hat. Moreover, they were divided into five groups to assess the audience’s emotions and handle the participants’ bad behaviors through stimulation.
On day 3, the trainees explored the search platform more in-depth by doing practical exercises consisting of finding specific resources. On this day, Ms. Jevgenija invited a special guest. This allowed them to learn how to find resources for their classes and conduct research. They actively engaged with Ms. Jevgenija by asking questions and sharing their search results.
On the fourth day, the trainees leaned how to prepare and create the best presentation. Some presentation tips were also introduced to them. Sixteen trainees did exercises and applied all lessons learned to prepare a presentation on how to give the best presentation, the next day.
On the last day, the groups of trainees presented their presentation and were given feedback and comments on it. All participants did very well, and the feedback was really good.
All students received certificates after completion of the training.
This workshop is a tool to strengthen access to knowledge and a concrete tool for the library and ICT volunteers to prepare themselves to become trainers. Hopefully, we will witness a training from these future trainers for the FLP soon!
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In the framework of the Inter-University Cooperation Project, the University of Luxembourg is supporting the teaching at the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of the National University of Laos.
In this context a 3-day seminar, dedicated to International Private Law, was organized from 17-19 January 2023 at the Faculty of Law and Political Science in Vientiane. We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Thomas Mastrullo, a professor at the University of Luxembourg, to lead the seminar.
The seminar focused on resolving conflicts of jurisdiction in private international law, particularly comparing French and Lao law, and strengthening the participant’s teaching skills on international private law. The Inter-University Project brought together lecturers from the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLP) of the National University of Laos, lecturers from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) of Vientiane, and Practitioners – namely lawyers, members of the Lao Bar Association; judges from Lao People’s Supreme Court; and prosecutors from the Lao Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor also attended our seminar.
The morning session on the first day of the seminar was dedicated to the Introduction of International Private law, which related to definitions and rules of private international law. In the afternoon sessions, participants were provided with general aspects of private international law, including the privilege of jurisdiction, clause conferring jurisdiction, and conflicts between procedures.
The second day of the seminar was devoted to revising and allowed participants to discuss their impressions and questions from the previous lesson with Prof. Thomas Mastrullo. This allowed for interactive discussions on legal principles on jurisdiction and procedure, legal certainty, and the meaning of certain provisions between French and Lao Law. The afternoon session focused on resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction.
On the last day of the seminar, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the recognition and effects of the foreign judgment in French Law. At the end of the session, all the participants were provided a certificate for attending this seminar by Prof. Thomas Mastrullo.
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The University of Luxembourg is proud to announce the opening of applications to grant two internships for a legal research stay in Luxembourg, which will take place in October and November 2023.
The Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance (FDEF) of the University of Luxembourg will provide a friendly international environment in which the selected researchers can gain experience in research methodology, in presenting their research, attending seminars, and develop contacts with Professors of the faculty and other researchers. The research stay aims to enable candidates to finalise and publish an article or a research paper written in English in a law journal.
Criteria
The research stay programme is dedicated to Lao lecturers who desire to gain experience in an international environment to improve their academic and research skills in the legal field, in order to strengthen the capacities of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the National University of Laos. Applicants must be lecturers at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of NUOL, with at least a Bachelor’s degree in law or with a strong component in law. There are no criteria in terms of age. Candidates will be selected based on merit. The University of Luxembourg will have full discretion in selecting and/or rejecting the applications.
Supervision
The Project will provide thorough research guidance before and during the research stay program. The selected candidates will be supported to carry out their research and be supervised by the Project’s Liaison Officer and Project leader during their stay.
Selected candidates will be required to participate fully in capacity-building activities organised by the Inter-University Cooperation (seminars, research workshops, etc.) also University of Luxembourg. They will be committed to presenting and publishing their research papers in English in a law journal within the designed time.
Selected candidates shall ensure that their research complies with the University of Luxembourg procedures, particularly research ethics and plagiarism.
Administration
The project will facilitate the successful candidate with Visa and Housing applications. All expenses (travel, accommodation and per diem) will be covered.
The candidates will be entirely responsible for the management of the funding allocated; no extra-costs will be borne by the Project.
Application
The application must be written in English and should encompass:
– A CV with full contact details;
– A motivation letter;
– A description of the research subject and methodology (maximum 500 words).
Application deadline: 7 April 2023
The pre-selected teachers will be invited for an interview at the FLP.
Applications must be sent to the Liaison officer:
Paulina Baschton: Paulina.baschton@ext.uni.lu
We are looking forward to your papers and to welcoming you in Luxembourg!
Download our call of application: Click here
Would you like to have guidelines on Legal Research Methodologies? Click here
You can also to our MOOC to watch VDO and answer quizzes on Legal Research Methodologies to deepen your understanding!