Raffi (Philippe) Kalfayan is an international attorney with extensive experience in human rights. He is lawyer and consultant with Stradev Conseils outside Paris, specializing in international law.He has served as a expert...
November 29, 2011
The application of the term “genocide” to the annihilation and expulsion of millions of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire has been in the center of the efforts of the Armenian communities worldwide and is apparently...
November 15, 2011
Rule of law is a prerequisite for economic and political advancement, and for most people, rule of law means fair, predictable court rulings for all. Twenty years after independence, many still feel that our judiciary is not...
On November 4-5, 2011, AUA Law Department...
October 18, 2011
What makes law legitimate? How does our sense of justice predetermine our attitudes toward rules and policies? Should we disobey unjust laws?
Participants of the October 18th seminar attempted to answer these and related...
October 11, 2011
The second in a series of Tuesday-night lectures held by the AUA Law Department featured a Georgetown University scholar, Sam Potolicchio, who presented the topic “How to Have a (Liberal) Constitutional Democracy?” After...
October 4, 2011
After 20 years of independence where does Armenia stand along the trajectory toward greater transparency and rule of law? This question served as a starting point for the first discussion in a series which will be taking …
with Dr. Armen Mazmanyan
Seminar Series
AUA Law Department
October-November, 2011
This seminar series is designed as a forum for deliberation on issues of public concern in Armenia and is open and free to experts,...