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Research Centers Forum Romanum
The Society for Roman Law and Classics Forum Romanum has a particularly rich
tradition. Established in 1970, it organizes discussion forums and social
activities on a weekly basis. Over the years, dozens of internationally
renowned professors have participated in its activities, including
authorities such as: Hans Ankum (Amsterdam), Peter
Birks (Oxford), Silvio
Ferrari (Milano), Gabor Hamza
(Budapest), Stephen
Hicks (Suffolk, Boston), Sally
Humphreys (Ann Arbour), Robert Hayden
(Pittsburgh), James
Klebba (Loyola, New Orleans), George Marovich (U.S.
District Court, Illinois), Charalampos
Papastathis (Thessaloniki), David Pugsley (England),
Olivia
Robinson (Glasgow), Peter
Stein (Cambridge), Alexander
Soloviev (Washington D.C.), Gerhard Thuer (Graz)
and Alan
Watson (UGA. Athens, Georgia). Several international legal scholars
publish their contributions in the Law Journal Annals of the
Faculty of Law in Belgrade. Institutio Oratoria Professor Avramovic also leads the Center for Oratory Institutio oratoria, which gathers all
those interested in developing public speaking skills and prepares them for
competitions. The traditional annual student oratory competition has become
an event that attracts interest of the entire University and the general
public. Following the example of the University of
Belgrade Faculty of Law, a number of other faculties organize their own
competitions, the winners of which participate in the Serbian universities
wide finals. In the competition students deliver
their speeches on free-choice and given topics, and on this occasion the
largest lecture hall of the Faculty is regularly filled to its full capacity.
This competition also represents an opportunity for students to express their
sincere and critical opinions in front of government officials sitting in the
front rows. Indeed, this event is a real spectacle. Alan Watson Foundation The Alan Watson Foundation (www.alanwatson.org), founded in 2005,
is a nonprofit scholarly organization established by the University of
Belgrade in honor of Alan Watson who is Distinguished Research Professor and
Ernest P. Rogers Chair of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law, and
doctor honoris causa of the University of Belgrade. The organization’s fundamental mission is to encourage and
disseminate a multidisciplinary understanding of law, and foster scholarship
broadly focusing on the correlation between law and society. By gathering
around the international scientific community devoted to research of law in
its social context, AWF is dedicated to the development of comparative law
and legal history via developing international cooperation in these fields,
publishing electronic publications, information dissemination and other
activities. The Foundation is led by Professor Sima Avramovic and the
International Advisory Board (John W. Cairns, Paul du Plessis,
Olivia
Robinson, Prakash
Shah, Jan M.
Smits, Gerhard
Thuer, David
A. Westbrook). Since 2005, gifted students have earned the Alan Watson
Prize for their contributions in the understanding of legal transplants and
the diffusion of law in specific historical contexts. |
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Copyright 2008, Sima Avramovic. All rights
reserved. Edited by Viktor
Milosavljevic (alan.watson@ius.bg.ac.yu) |
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