22:09, 29 November 2009
The bilingual conference „Law Journals: National, Regional, International” / “Juristische Zeitschriften: national, regional, international” takes place at the Conference Hall of the University Library at Tartu on 30th November and 1st December 2009, under the framework of the 90th Anniversary events of the Estonia’s national university. The distinguished law professors Raul Narits (University of Tartu), Paul [...]
2:08, 26 November 2009
I have already mentioned here of having a representative from Turkey attending my human rights course at the University of Tartu. We have already discussed the decisionmaking system in the EU and Turkey, and have found those systems owning similar features. But the course began with the concept of democracy and democratic values in Europe, [...]
2:48, 23 November 2009
I happened to read from the Preamble of the Directive 2006/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation that the aim of the Directive was to recast by [...]
23:18, 20 November 2009
The Institute of Political Science and Governance of the Tallinn University celebrated its 15th Anniversary today with a reception at the Mustpeade Maja (Blackheads House) at Tallinn. The reception followed the conference „Challenges for Central and Eastern European Statehood in the Second Phase of Transition“.
After the conference, two scientific journals of the Institute of Political [...]
0:18, 19 November 2009
One can read at http://www.esil-sedi.eu that the 4th ESIL Research Forum “International Law and Power Politics: Great Powers, Peripheries and Claims to Spheres of Influence in the International Normative Order” will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on 27-28 May 2011. And that the Call for Papers will be circulated in September 2010 during the Cambridge [...]
0:28, 17 November 2009
In 2005, the European Commission published Transparency Initiative in a Communication issued on 9 November 2005 that suggested actions be taken in the following fields:
Information about beneficiaries of EU funds;
Improving public awareness and information about fraud.
Ethical standards and accountability of EU lawmakers – The Commission inter alia proposed to make more of its mail public, including mail addressed to [...]
17:48, 13 November 2009
Cognition, although determining the largest part of our lives, is an immeasurable category. Nevertheless, people use cognition as tool for transmission of knowledge. Meaning that knowledge is transmitted from one generation /person (transmitter / teacher) to another (recipient / learner).
If one understands pedagogy as:
● transmitting semantic knowledge by communication, or
● as a human-specific cognitive adaptation [...]
23:36, 11 November 2009
This Monday, I continued with my EU Law course with a lecture on Free Movement of Capital and the euro, at the Tallinn University. Preparing for the lecture, I found (There is no better way of studying than teaching!) an interesting, though perhaps not the freshest, case from my King’s College study materials – Case C-222/02 Peter [...]
2:53, 10 November 2009
I like structuring, because it brings some order into the otherwise chaotic ideas. Considering structuring reasonable, I have researched the structures of the ECJ judgments (they differ, for example, in the cases of free movements; state liability, competition, etc.).
Now, a study has appeared about the structure of the judgments of the ECtHR - Robin C. A. [...]
22:55, 7 November 2009
Connected to my last post – I was neutrally discussing the ECtHR’s judgment in the case Lautsi vs. Italy during my last Friday’s human rights lecture at the University of Tartu. When discussing the judgment, I started to think about the argument of democracy in it – Because it somehow feels as the ECtHR is [...]
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