Prestigious international conference on territorial disputes in Asia and Eastern Europe
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Held from 26 to 29 October 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia
Prof. Irena Ilieva, PhD, Acting Director of the Institute for the State and the Law, took part in a prestigious international conference on territorial disputes in Asia and Eastern Europe. The event was organised by the University of California, School of Law (Berkeley) and the Korea Law School, and was held from 26 to 29 October 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Some recent arbitral awards in disputes between the Philippines and China, as well as between Croatia and Slovenia, were discussed. Special attention was given to the "Crimea" case.
Distinguished scholars took part in the conference, such as Prof. John Yoo, Prof. Julian Ku, Prof. Sima Avramovic – Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, Prof. Miha Juhart – Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, Prof. Jakub Zajaczkowski – Director of the Institute of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the University of Warsaw, Assoc. Prof. Maria Gavouneli of the University of Athens, Prof. Han-Taek IM of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea, Igor Lukšić – former Prime Minister of Montenegro and official candidate for UN Secretary-General, Radosław Sikorski – former Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marshal of the Polish Sejm, and eminent American legal practitioners and specialists in the field of international security and NATO.