Seminar Group 11 Miniconference – Day 1
We would like to invite you cordially to Seminar Group 11 Miniconference, which will be held
on Tuesday afternoon 9th
april 2013 at 16.40 at Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in room n.
211.
Program:
16.40 – 16.45: registration
16.45 – 17.05: The Amnesty (Seidlová, Sýkora, Hunalová)
17.05 – 17.10: discussion and feedback
17.10 – 17.30: Gay and lesbian adoptions in CZR an BG
17.30 – 17.35: discussion and feedback
17.35 – 17.55: Al Capone – No Subtitle Needed
17.55 – 18.00: discussion and feedback
18.00 – 18.10: coffee break
THE Amnesty
Our topic should concentrate on recent act and events of our ex-president – Amnesty.
As the first point, we introduce you amnesty as general term. Further we will cover where you
can find formal sources of law about amnesty in Czech Republic. We will continue with
basic facts about our amnesty in 2013 like how many inmates were released and what
convicts were included. There is a brief quiz for you on that subject.
As next issue, will be mentioned discussion about legality of this presidential act,
because it is still nowadays controversial topic that divides society. You will hear reaction of
foreign media, which were interested in Klaus’s amnesty too.
The end of the presentation will deal with constitutional complaint, which resulted
from amnesty.
The choice of the topic is very topical and controversial. And controversial is always
interesting. If done right this presentation may easily be the best one in the group.
The dangers here are that the presenters will tend to present their own opinions.
Other issue worth focusing on is the choice of the sources for the presentation that
should be not biased. In addition, the presentation will hopefully lead to an
interesting discussion with and among the audience members.
I am very looking forward to your entry, although I am not very keen on
constitutional law. I am very interested in what is your personal opinion about the
legality of Mr. Klaus' recent amnesty - for example if it was or wasn't a breach of
his presidential vow. In my opinion it was, because definitely there are reasons to
consider this act as an acting against the all people's interest. Maybe it could be
interesting if you could provide us some fact from historical background of the
institution of amnesty.
Gay and lesbian adoptions in CZR and BG
In our presentation we would like to concentrate our attention towards the topic of
adoptions realized by homosexual partners. The aim of our work is to introduce the
differences between English and Czech legislation regulating this topic in the context of
European legislation and political background.
After a brief introduction, in which we would like to introduce some basics institutes of
family law concerning the topic of adoptions, we would like to compare the Czech and the
English legislation in their most important points. Finally we will try to situate the current
legislation to Czech and British cultural and political background.
I consider this topic to be very up-to-date. That is why it should be discuss and why
it will be useful to learn something about it. I am looking forward to the
comparison of the Czech and English legislation. I hope that questions of
preferences and well-being of the adopted children will be also mentioned. As I
said, I would also appreciate a space for a discussion.
I have to admit that this topic is very attractive for me. Even today when we can
say we live in modern and advanced period of time I still see some people who
can’t stand manifestation of two persons of the same sex in public. I hope that this
presentation will give me more facts about the situation in CZR and will bring me
more comprehensive view of this social problem because I’m not really well
informed about our legislation of this topic.
Al Capone - No Subtitle Needed
Al Capone is one of the biggest names in the history of the organized crime. His name
does not need nay subtitle as he is unmistakably connected to the Prohibition year in the
United States of the 30's. However, he is not only known for his lifestyle and money he made
from bootlegging but also for the trial that led to his downfall and death in prison after his
conviction.
In our presentation we will focus on Al Capone with a brief overview of his activities
and then look over the events that led to the investigation and conviction. As the presentation
is related to the law we want to pay particular attention to the trial proceedings that led to the
imprisonment of this huge figure of the Chicago organized crime.
I absolutely agree with the first sentence of an abstract. When you say Al Capone,
there is nothing more what you need to say to introduce this legend. I am really
looking forward to this presentation, because the combination of words: crime,
prohibition, Al Capone and USA in 1930's makes me curious and excited.
The issue of organised crime has always been pretty exciting. A lot of stories as
well as movies were created about it. I consider it a good idea to choose such a
presentation topic, which combines a historical view of the 30´s in the United
States with the elements of trial. Plus we can learn something about the legend of
the organised crime that Al Capone certainly was. These are reasons why I am
looking forward to this presentation.