ILSA Chapter Happenings
of double taxation and the change of Brazil’s role, not being only an area subject to invest- ment but also an international investor. A third one is related to Brazilian petroleum. Brazilian laws on the exploration and technology regard- ing oil have substantially changed in the last six decades. Petrobras is a semi-public corporation (anonymous society) created in 1953 originally charged with the national monopoly of oil extrac- tion, transportation and refining. This monopoly was extinguished by the means of the 1995 Con- stitutional Amendment. Through those years, Petrobras found important oil fields in offshore basins and started investing in different energy resources technologies, as well investing abroad (in more than 20 countries), becoming a relevant actor of international relations, what must be studied in the light of international law, not only by Brazilians but also by academics of interna- tional oil and gas law in general.
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NEPEDI/UERJ is also concerned with organiz- ing activities in the University, so that other stu- dents, besides the group’s members can take benefit of the knowledge produced. In this re- gard, it’s possible to notice the organization of lectures, like the one, given on November 1 by Professor Jacob Dolinger, about “International Law and Legal Rebellion”. Professor Dolinger is an important scholar of private international law and he accepted to give a lecture offered during the “Legal Week” promoted by the Academic Center of UERJ law school (known as CALC). More than 200 students were in attendance and the lecture was a success.
The group operates through weekly meetings, where students discuss the themes above. Each week, a topic is elected to be studied and de- bates start sometimes from texts of books and academic articles, other times from articles in newspapers and magazines. In its coordination, NEPEDI, nowadays, counts on six students, who guide the meetings, and the group also is coor- dinated by international law professors of the
University, like Professor Marilda Rosado. As it can be seen, NEPEDI is a great experience to students that are interested on international law and who wants to know better about points like human rights and international markets.
M.S.O.I. TORINO ILSA CHAPTER
University of Torino Torino, Italy
Stefano Saluzzo, Member
M.S.O.I. is the Students Association for the Inter- national Organization, born in 1947 as a Students Committee, which in 1951 became a proper as- sociation; it’s the independent and autonomous movement of the Italian Society for the Interna- tional Organization (S.I.O.I.) and it’s a member of the World Forum of United Nations Associations Youth (WFUNA Youth). Since October 2011 we’re honored to be the ILSA Chapter of the University of Torino. For the next academic year, beside our “typical” activities, our chapter is going to orga- nize some new ones.
One of the main events will be the Model United Nations, held in December, which is open to all students in our University and which addresses the issue of the request for recognition to the United Nations presented by the Palestinian National Authority. Students participating in the competition must simulate a session of the UN Security Council addressing the issue of the rec- ognition of a Palestinian State, and at the end of the two-day competition they must be able to reach an agreement, eventually writing a resolu- tion on the case. Our chapter also participates and prepares teams for the ROMUN and the VI- MUN, Models of the United Nations respectively held in Rome and in Vienna.
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