The Miniconference – Day 2

The Miniconference of seminar group 01 took place on Thursday 18^th April 2013 in Room 208 at the
Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno.  Everybody was registered on arrival and endowed with
program, information of presentations and paper for writing notes for presenters.

The first presentation was called “Positive discrimination as a lawful measure”. The presentation
included definition of discrimination, legal aspect, equality, positive discrimination and
interesting cases in the USA. The presentation was interesting and educational and we learned new
information. We asked classmates on their opinion and one of they say that the presentation
contained long and complicated definitions but the presenters had good speech and eye contact.

The next topic of presentation was called “Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia”. This presentation was
really interesting and I’m sure that not only for me. The presenters were well prepared. Students
from audience appreciated that the presenters didn’t reading from their notices. It included basic
facts, guardianship, the rights which are focused on gender parity and explanation the differences
between laws for women in Czech Republic and those in Saudi Arabia.

After discussion and feedback we were acquainted with presentation which was called “European
Commission”. They talked about concepts like European Union, European Commission and formation,
commissioners and other basic and important concepts and composition of the Commission,
responsibility to European Parliament, Information about commissioner, number of commissioners,
appointment and their work. At the end of presentation was prepared quiz which was good to
remembering key facts. Students appreciated a lot of information.

At the end of the mini-conference was announced and awarded the best presentation which was called
“Women’s rights in Saudi Arabia”.