Synergy #33 Spring edition 2003 - European Law Students ...
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18<br />
Magazine of The <strong>European</strong> <strong>Law</strong> <strong>Students</strong>’ Association<br />
Irena Bojadzievska<br />
Vice President Seminars & Conferences<br />
ELSA International<br />
S&C -a<br />
synonym<br />
for:<br />
- Motivation – well, if you have a look at the <strong>Synergy</strong><br />
articles in the previous <strong>edition</strong>s of our magazine, it’s very easy<br />
to see that people who wrote a column expressing their<br />
excitement of attending a seminar, in one of the next <strong>edition</strong>s<br />
show up as authors again. Only this time they are acting not as<br />
participants but as a member of an organising committee. Seems<br />
like joining our events is an experience, which turns into an<br />
ambition to reconstruct the feeling in your own city.<br />
- Commitment - a great number of the international<br />
events organised within the network, especially our law schools<br />
and the institutional study visits are accomplished in co-operation<br />
with the <strong>European</strong> Institutions or they are done under a hot<br />
topic related to Human Rights, which is one of the fields our<br />
association is committed to. Moreover, it was proved once<br />
again that our key area is the perfect opportunity to implement<br />
the International Focus Programme. Namely seeing that a few<br />
months after the new IFP topic has been selected, there are<br />
many seminars and even a law school being organised in relation<br />
to it.<br />
- Challenge – well at least I would call it so. The events<br />
we organize give us the opportunity to learn from people with<br />
great academic accomplishments. The academic level of the<br />
events organised is impressing and puts us one step ahead. So,<br />
is it a challenge attending our events? Mmmm, let me see,<br />
what more can any student wish for then getting tutored by<br />
the top legal minds?<br />
- Creativity – no need to be modest. We are law<br />
students after all, modesty is not our strong point but only by<br />
joining our events will you see how creative people turn out to<br />
be when it comes to the social programme. At the parties we<br />
share a part of our culture by introducing our national drinks to<br />
each other. Standing there trying to pronounce the name of<br />
the drink you are having you realize that it’s not just any crowd<br />
but a crowd of 20 different nationalities 20 different cultures<br />
and 20 different languages. It makes you realize how important<br />
it is to have not only academic knowledge but also cultural and<br />
social skills.<br />
- Tradition – When I was in primary school, I remember<br />
my physics teacher saying: “If something happens once, there<br />
is a chance that it never happens again, but if it happens twice,<br />
then for sure it will be happening in the future again”. So what<br />
is the connection between S&C and physics? Well the network<br />
is a good jury. The good news about a quality and successfully<br />
organized event is easily spread around the network. And then,<br />
we have plenty of our members who are just looking forward to<br />
the same event and plan their trip ahead. The organising group<br />
just has to look through the files from last year and learn from<br />
the experiences made – good and bad. This is the way our<br />
most successful events turn into annual projects, becoming a<br />
part of the ELSA tradition.<br />
Charlotte Tvede Andersen<br />
Head of OC<br />
Business as<br />
usual<br />
… or is it?<br />
As every year we started to prepare for the summer seminar.<br />
We came up with a topic: International Trade <strong>Law</strong> and the<br />
Environment - The Regulation of Trade in an Environmental<br />
Perspective.<br />
The globalisation has created a greater coherence and<br />
dependency between decisions made by international players. The<br />
derived effect of both economic and political decisions made by<br />
States and other international players, e.g. multinational companies<br />
and nongovernmental organizations, have diverted and perceptible<br />
effects in other parts of the world. Relations which sovereign<br />
States could earlier regulate on their own are now being heavily<br />
influenced because of the international context.<br />
Earlier trade politics were merely a question of tariff rates<br />
and importation quotas. However the development has shown a<br />
need to involve more issues under the trade agenda. Issues which<br />
as a starting point are not trading political - but are important for<br />
the interplay of the international trade, e.g. labour law, nutrition<br />
security, consumer law and last but not least environmental topics.<br />
The environmental issue has gained more attention both national<br />
and international. It has been recognised that an effective protection<br />
of the environment cannot be attained without international<br />
collaboration. At the same time it has been questioned whether<br />
environmental regulation, or the absence of such, could be an unfair<br />
competition advantage for both free trade and the environment.<br />
The World Trade Organisation, WTO, is the centre of the<br />
global trade negotiations and deserves a closer look and<br />
examination. This is one of the tasks of the seminar.<br />
Enough said about the topic. I hope this has caught your<br />
interest.We are preparing and planning everything. And the only<br />
thing we need now is participants. That is were you come into the<br />
picture. We need you. As former “social team” responsible (yes,<br />
I was in charge of the parties the last two years, and now I am<br />
responsible for the whole seminar, so don’t tell me that dreams<br />
don’t come true) I can assure you that the social programme will<br />
be beyond every expectation, too.<br />
Because we are among friends I will give you ELSA Copenhagen’s<br />
recipe for a successful seminar:<br />
60 happy law students<br />
5 great parties<br />
3 exciting lectures<br />
2 exciting workshop<br />
A lot of sun and summer<br />
And last but not least a big amount of Gammel Dansk (You can’t<br />
expect to come to Denmark without getting a lot of that).<br />
And we promise you that you will have a lot of good stories to tell<br />
your grandchildren. All this takes place from the 29th of<br />
July to the 3 rd of August in Copenhagen. For further information<br />
see www.elsa.dk or contact copenhagen@elsa.dk