The Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy are pleased to invite you to the Seminar "Law and Morals" by Professor Ronald Dworkin. The seminar will take place on Thursday, May 6 2010 at the Fondation Universitaire (11 Rue d’Egmont, Brussels).

There are only 35 seats available. Please register by email to nicole.warnotte@ulb.ac.be . You will receive you confirmation by email together with an unpublished article of Prof. Ronald Dworkin that will be discuss during the seminar.

The Université Libre de Bruxelles is also pleased to invite you to the public lecture "Philosophy, Law and Justice" by Prof. Ronald Dworkin that will take place on Friday, May 7 2010 at Studio 4- Flagey.

The lecture is held as part of the Nobel’s Week at the Université Libre the Bruxelles and it is free and open to public upon registration at www.ulb175.com

The seminar by Prof. Ronald Dworkin is fully booked. We invite you to assist to his public lecture at Studio4- Flagey.

Detailed information can be found here.

Application form in attachement.

The European Master’s Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) - organised by the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) - is the primary Programme of the European Union to educate professionals in the field of human rights and democratisation. It is an intensive one-year multidisciplinary academic programme reflecting the indivisible links between human rights, democracy, peace and development with a practice-oriented approach.

The E.MA programme offers an action and policy-oriented approach to learning about international law, politics, philosophy, history and anthropology of human rights. Students coming from EUMember States and all over the world have the opportunity to meet and be taught by leading academics representing the 41 E.MA participating universities, experts and representatives of international organisations (including the European Union, the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe-OSCE) as well as NGOs, while studying in a multicultural environment.

E.MA students, upon completion of all course’s components, are expected to gain both academic and practical skills: on the one hand, the ability to conduct independent and interdisciplinary academic research in relation to human rights and democratisation issues; on the other hand, skills which are relevant to human rights practitioners such as reporting, fact-finding, and monitoring.

The Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) is pleased to invite you to its international cycle of public lectures/seminars on Transnational Human Rights Litigation.

Tuesdays from February 2nd to April 27th 2010; 6pm to 8pm

Free University of Brussels – ULB (Solbosch)
Room AY1.208 (except on March 9th - DB10.245)

ADMISSION FREE, No registration required.

Information: david.restrepo@ulb.ac.be

Agenda

Tuesday, February 2 2010
Introduction au séminaire et au contentieux transnational des droits de l’homme
Benoît Frydman (ULB) et Ludovic Hennebel (ULB)

Tuesday, February 9 2010
Ecueils et enjeux des poursuites des responsables des crimes de droit international humanitaire
Damien Vandermeersch (UCL)

Tuesday, February 23 2010
Perspectives sociologiques sur les mobilisations transnationales du droit
Liora Israël (EHESS- Paris)

Tuesday, March 2 2010
Le contentieux transnational de l’environnement
Makane Moïse Mbengue (Université de Genève)

Tuesday, March 9 2010
Les entreprises transnationales et le contentieux des droits de l’homme
Leïla Choukroune (Université de Maastricht)
Bâtiment D, Local B10.245 (Attention, changement de local exceptionnel)

Tuesday, March 16 2010
Le forum "non conveniens" dans les affaires transnationales des droits de l’homme
Arnaud Nuyts (ULB)

Tuesday, March 23 2010
Le global et l’universel
Antoine Garapon (IHEJ- Paris)

Tuesday, March 30 2010
L’humanité comme sujet de droit
Paul Martens (ULB – Ulg)

Tuesday, April 20 2010
Les cliniques des droits de l’homme
Bernard Duhaime (UQAM Montréal)

Tuesday, April 27 2010
Conclusions : Droit international, droit transnational, droit global
Gregory Lewkowicz (ULB), Ludovic Hennebel (ULB), Benoît Frydman (ULB)

The University in the age of Google and Wikipedia.

New potentials, new threats, new duties.

8th Ethical Forum of the University Foundation

Thursday November 19th, 2009, 2-6pm

Who has never used Google? Who has never consulted Wikipedia? Probably not a single European academic. Almost certainly not a single European student. Search engines and free online encyclopedias are having a profound and irreversible impact on many aspects of university life. This impact is further amplified by closely linked initiatives such as the digitalization of university libraries and other printed material (Google Book Search), online visual access to the entire planet (Google Earth), the cross-referencing of scientific publications (Google Scholar), the proliferation of scientific blogs (fostered by Google Blog Search) and of lecture courses available online, and the irresistible development of efficient networks of students who exchange tips on courses and teachers as well as home assignments and exam questions.

The question is not only what we need to do about these putative threats, for example by minding the design of intellectual property rights or by training our students for a critical use of what they find online. We must also ask ourselves what new positive duties emerge from the mind-blowing potential for knowledge creation and dissemination triggered by the blossoming of the web. For example, has it not become a new mission for all of us in higher education, whether students, researchers or professors, to contribute to the range, accuracy, intelligibility and user-friendliness of the information made easily accessible, worldwide and free of charge, thanks to a fast expanding variety of scientific blogs and to huge cooperative enterprises such as Wikipedia ?

Programme

Part I, 14.00 - 15.45

Welcome
Jacques Willems (UGent, chairman of the University Foundation)
Eric De Keuleneer (ULB, executive director of the University Foundation)

How does Google work? And should universities be worried?
Vincent Blondel (Ecole polytechnique de Louvain): "Google as a search engine"
Alain Strowel (Law Faculty, FUSL & ULg) : "Google as a digital library and global publisher"

Panel
Philippe Colombet (Google Books Europe)
Sylvia Van Peteghem (head librarian, UGent, partner with Google Books)
Yvo Volman (European Commission, DG Information Society)

Part II, 16.15 - 18.00

How does Wikipedia work? And should universities be thrilled ?
Yann Forget, co-founder of Wikimedia France
Thierry Desmedt, professor of media literacy, UCL and FUCAM

Interpellations from the floor

General discussion

Conclusions
Philippe Van Parijs, UCL, K.U.Leuven & Harvard, coordinator of the Ethical Forum

Arnaud VAN WAEYENBERGE will take part, this July 6 and 7, 2009, in the symposium organized by the "Center of European Governance" of the University Exeter of and financed by the Program Jean Monnet and the Commission European. He will present the result of his research there on the IFRS Norms (International Financial Reporting Standards : a new way to build European norms ?)