Today, I attended the sessions under the XXXI Estonian Lawyers’ Days that take place in Tartu (Vanemuise Concert Hall, and Domus Dorpatensis) from 30 September to 1 October 2010. The idea is that the lawyers gather once every two years and discuss the most important at that time legal and policy problems. It has been […]

I (24 September 2010) The new semester’s introductive conceptual approach toward human rights The first lecture under the course “Protection of Human Rights under EU Law” was read today in the University of Tartu. B.A. and M.A. students from the University of Tartu (6 law students and one student of international relations), St. Petersburg State University (law), […]

Some interesting law books available at the library of the European University Viadrina, not available in the University of Tartu Library that could be quite are heavy for ordering: International Encyclopedia of Laws Law in radically different cultures West Publishing Co, 1983 Comparative Law Yearbook Certain volumes of International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Martindale Hubbell […]

  After the opening of the new semester (I have already held four lectures on state law, and am trying to read two more today), on 4th September I depart for Frankfurt (Oder), wishing to participate in the summer course “The European System of Human Rights Protection” at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. As I read a […]

A new article J. Erne, “Primary and secondary law-making in the renewed EU” has appeared in the journal of the humanities and social sciences „Trames“, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2010, pp. 250-270. Abstract The aim of the article is to explain the renewed primary and secondary law-making in the EU context. The article defines international treaties […]

Enjoying the possibility to order EU law and international law books for the Tallinn University Library, one of the books I selected was P. Birkinshaw, M. Varney (eds.), The European Union Legal Order after Lisbon (Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2010), published in the series European Monographs, being the 70th title in this […]

The questionnaire for the COSAC 14th Report is also available. Some questions seem quite difficult to answer, and they generally touch the following areas: ● Sustainable development in the EUROPE 2020 Strategy (worked out in collaboration with the Belgian Federal Council on Sustainable Development); ● Parliamentary Scrutiny of the Common Security and Defence Policy; ● […]