1. INTERNATIONAL WEEK at our Faculty
The first edition of INTERNATIONAL WEEK - a new initiative in the field of international academic cooperation at our Faculty - is coming to an end.
This week we are hosting as many as 15 scientists and employees of international cooperation offices from around the world at our Faculty. Since last Sunday, we have been receiving guests from partner universities from: Armenia (Eurasia International University), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Vitez University), China (Ocean University of China), Georgia (Caucasus University), South Africa (University of Johannesburg), and Uzbekistan (Tashkent State University of Law).
Our foreign guests were met and officially welcomed at the Faculty by the Dean, Prof. Dr. habil. Wojciech Zalewski - who thanked the participants for the cooperation and invited them to further develop and strengthen it.
From Monday, our guests, under the supervision of the Faculty's International Team, held meetings and training in the field of international cooperation, visited our Faculty and the Oliwa Campus. Academic networking allowed participants to establish relationships with other representatives of our partner universities.
One of the important points of the program, which had been planned for over a year, was a meeting of representatives of the Student Legal Clinic of our Faculty (Dr. Maciej Mikliński) and the Student Legal Clinic of the University of Johannesburg (attorney Elton Romeo Hart) aimed at establishing cooperation and exchanging experiences. The Student Law Clinic in Johannesburg is a very valuable and interesting partner. The clinic celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2021. It has invaluable and extensive experience in organizing the process of introducing law students to providing legal assistance to the most needy people who cannot afford a commercial legal representative. It is worth adding that in accordance with the rules applicable at the Faculty of Law of the University of Johannesburg, all students are obliged to practice at the Clinic. Moreover, the South African Clinic began its operation during the apartheid era, building the first bridge between South Africans regardless of skin color and significantly contributing to ending the dark period of racial segregation.
In addition to training and academic topics, guests visited the main attractions of the Tricity and the region.
The success of the first edition of International Week makes us want to continue and develop it in the next academic year.
