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INTRAlaw Inauguration Seminar

We are pleased to invite you to this seminar which will celebrate the establishment of the research centre INTRAlaw (International and Transnational Tendencies in Law) within the Department of Law at Aarhus University. The formal opening of INTRAlaw is accompanied by the inauguration lecture of Professor Edward Canuel who has been appointed honorary professor of law at Aarhus University.

Info about event

Time

Friday 24 October 2014,  at 09:30 - 15:00

Location

Conference room M1 in the conference centre at Aarhus University, Fredrik Nielsens vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Organizer

INTRALaw, Department of Law

Thanks to a grant from the Aarhus University Research Foundation, the centre will provide the
framework of coordinating the research activities of a number of senior staff members at the
Department of Law in 2014-2018. These activities will be reinforced by recruiting five new junior
research fellows who are going to join INTRAlaw during the next few months.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday 24 October!

Registration
Please register for the seminar to Tinna Meyer, email: tme@law.au.dk
no later than 17 October 2014.

Time and place
The seminar takes place in conference room M1 in the conference centre at Aarhus University,
Fredrik Nielsens vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. It starts at 9.30 a.m.

Seminar programme
9.30:   Registration and coffee
10.00: Welcome and opening remarks
10.15: Unraveling Arctic Law
          Edward Canuel, Professor at the US Military Academy and
          Honorary Professor at Aarhus University
10.40: Questions and comments
11.00: Coffee break
11.15: The Interweaving of Laws Illustrated by Mining Licensing in the Arctic
           René Franz Henschel, Professor at Aarhus University
11.40: Questions and comments
12.00: Presentation of the four INTRAlaw research areas:
           » Scandinavian law in a globalised world (Simon Engell Kamber)
           » The globalised business community (Hans Henrik Edlund)
           » Transnational human rights obligations (Jens Vedsted-Hansen)
           » Legislative developments in Greenland and the Arctic (Ellen Margrethe Basse)
12.30: Lunch
13.30: Secret Surveillance and Its Meaning for International Human Rights Law
          Mark Gibney, Belk Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina and
          Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Faculty of Law, Lund University
13.55: Questions and comments
14.15: Informal discussion on future research perspectives
15.00: Closing of the seminar