Jaanika Erne

21:48, 24 February 2010

I found an interesting page from EurActiv about expertise-based EU policymaking.
What is expert-policymaking? You can read about it at http://www.euractiv.com/en/innovation/eu-policymaking-rooted-science/article-183615
Though the point that Edward Schiappa makes in the already referred in this blog: Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) is that politics always is declined.

23:53, 5 February 2010

It was the final deadline today to submit article proposals to one of the most prestigeous Estonian peer-reviewed journals “Riigikogu Toimetised” (could be translated as The Parliament’s Editions, although the name in the Estonian language of the Estonian Parliament is Riigikogu). Having felt neglected for quite a while, I submitted 8 proposals as follows: “Human [...]

16:45, 13 January 2010

The Estonian lawyers have kindly been invited to attend a rather academic club event at the Tartu Café Vilde tonight. Although all lawyers are invited, I do somehow not feel much waited for. Why do I feel insecure – only because of my beautiful bright eyes, looking into which people feel home?

2:33, 10 January 2010

The ASIL Teaching International Law Interest Group, in cooperation with the Society’s Legal Education Advisory Committee, has created a trial compilation of teaching materials on a limited number of international law topics. The materials are available at http://www.asil.org/search.cfm?displayPage=1149  
How to approach such sharing? Wouldn’t it be plagiarism if a lecturer uses other lecturer’s teaching aids? [...]

23:32, 31 December 2009

 
The regrets:
If I had to apologize before someone, that person would be my Father Jaan. Who has been a honest and hardly working man through his entire life. Who has always supported his family and hoped for the best. And who, by now, has been almost destroyed by my problems. It is too late to [...]

23:46, 29 December 2009

Today, for the first time, I visited a meeting of the Estonian Society of Ancient Sciences that took place at the Tallinn Hotel Reval Inn. I was called there by a woman whom I know for years – Tiiu Kolts – an active and strong personality, and mother of two sons.
What is the Estonian Society [...]

23:52, 16 December 2009

The Institute of Political Science and Governance of the Tallinn University held two working meetings today. Inter alia, the questions concerning the joint European research area, cooperation networks of universities / research institutions, possible coordinated specialization of universities, governance and local initiatives were discussed.
A relevant policy paper (that was directly not discussed) is available at http://ec.europa.eu/research/era/pdf/community_research_policy_role.pdf
After the meetings, the Institute’s [...]

0:53, 5 December 2009

The Jewish ancient candelabrum, menorah, classically had seven branches, thus I was considering changing the picture of my previous posting. But I didn’t, because the later Hanukkah menorah has nine branches – a branch for a candle for each of the eight days of Hanukkah and the shamash (”helper or servant”) for a candle used to light [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]