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My Welcoming Remarks for Conference
It
is particularly appropriate that this event is dedicated to Slobodan
Jovanovich, a prolific jurist, historian, and statesman, prime minister in
the Yugoslav government-in-exile during World War II and a leader of the
Serbian intelligentsia, who was a progressive advocate of international
understanding. This conference is dedicated to realizing his vision of a
world that can be made peaceful through a strong rule of law. We are very
proud that this conference is taking place on the fiftieth anniversary of the
death of Slobodan Jovanovich, who was a faculty member of the Belgrade School
of Law. He was a leading proponent of establishing world peace through a
strong and unified rule of law. I
am particularly pleased to be here. The goal of the Alan Watson Foundation is
to further international understanding particularly through the diffusion of
law and the adoption of legal transplants. Our fundamental mission is to
encourage and disseminate a multidisciplinary understanding of law, and
foster scholarship broadly focusing on the complex correlation between law
and society. The technology of the internet is exciting, because by its
nature it furthers international interchange, provides a mechanism by which
scholars in Serbia can communicate their legal thought with legal experts
from all over the world. I’m very please that Suffolk is helping us to take
this step towards cross-national legal education and I hope to be talking to
the people of the Suffolk Law School additionally in the future. Once this
precedent has been established, my hope and expectation is that this will be
the first of many interchanges of this kind with both the Suffolk Law School
and a wider legal community. The
travel has been difficult for Serbians in the recent years and the internet
is a wonderful mechanism for bringing back the age in which Serbians freely
traveled to other countries. The
internet is the best technology for the sharing and furthering of legal ideas
and will be the central mechanism for legal reforms and the acceptance of
legal transplants. I am pleased that the Alan Watson Foundation will have the
opportunity to establish a website that will contain the research on Serbian
internet law that’s been conducted over this semester by Professor Thomas
Koenig’s class. This is a significant step towards improving legal education
and legal understanding between the United States and Serbia, two nations
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Copyright 2008, Viktor Milosavljevic. All
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