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Academic Salon

Release Time: 2015-07-26      Browse:324

During this  Summer  Program, we have hosted two academic salons——“Introduction to the  Legal  System of  Your  Country/Region” and “Researchand  Practice  in  International  Law”,  which attracted numerous students to participate in, including domestic students and foreign students. Besides, Professor Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Judge Owada and Judge Crawford have listened closely to the participants’ presentation.


In the first academic salon, the participants have showed us diverse and characteristic legal culture indifferent countries and regions. Participants from Germany, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Philippine and severalother countries made a brief introduction about their country’s orregion’s constitution, court system, legal education and the relationship between domestic law and international law. What’s more, participants from China made an interesting speech about gambling.


In the second academic salon,participants have shared their opinion about several different aspects of International law. Many participants showed theirconcern about human rights in international law, especially about therights of refugee, and a couple of them presented theirpaper. Take the Bangladeshi participant for example, whosepaper’s topic was “Sordid Tale of Rohingya Refugee and the Threatened Principle of Non-refoulement”. Besides,the participant from Turkey shared his view on recent development and challenges of Polar law, and the participants from China made presentations about “the International  Legal  Issue on  Cyberattack”,  “Application  of International  Law in China”, “Information  Reporting  System of  Foreign Investment Law in China”, “Persistent Objector in Customary International Law”, “Commercial Arbitration in China”,and “the Right to  Choose  Applicable  Law in International Arbitration” respectively.


The two academic salons are certainly agood forum for students to share and exchange their perspectives about colorful legal culture and International law.

(By Wang Han)