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September 1,
2021 | The 2020/21 Competition of the Alan Watson Foundation is
announced, with new conditions! The main subject is "Legal Transplants
in the Law of the First Yugoslavia", but any student papers on the
subject of legal transplants written in 2021 are eligible as well!
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March 20th, 2021 |
"The Alan Watson Foundation contest for 2020/21 was won by Milica Ristić,
a master's student of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. Her
paper was entitled "Halfway between Byzantium and Serbia: the Marriage
Law Provisions of the Žiča Charter". Due to epidemiological
restrictions, the awarding ceremony was held online, during the opening
of the Second student conference on legal history "Iustoria 2021"
January 10, 2021 |
Alan Watson Foundation contest for 2020/21
Deadline extended until March 1st, 2021
February 10, 2020 | The Alan Watson Foundation
contest for 2019/2020 was won by Đorđe Stepić, a third year student,
winning with a paper on the Serbian Law on Churches and Religious
Groups. The prize was awarded by Prof. Dr Sima Avramović, the president
of the Foundation, during the celebration of Saint Sava's Day (January
27th) at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. As the Faculty is
about to launch a student journal dedicated to legal history, the
winning paper of the AWF contest will be published in a special section
of this journal!
November 15th, 2020 |
Đorđe Stepić's winning paper from our last year's contest has been
published in the first issue of the new student journal "Herald of Legal
History"
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October 2, 2020 | The 2020/21
Competition of the Alan Watson Foundation is announced: the subject is
"Marriage Law and Legal Transplants"
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October 5, 2019 |
Foundation is up and running again! After Professor Watson's passing,
the Foundation is now fully funded by the University of Belgrade Faculty
of Law. The subject chosen for this year’s contest is “The Relationship
Between the State and the Church and Legal Transplants”
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November
7,2018 |
We regret to inform you that Professor Alan Watson passed away on November 7th, 2018. We shall remember him as a distinguished scholar of Roman and comparative law, as the creator of the well-known legal transplants theory, the author of many significant books and studies, doctor honoris causa of the University of Belgrade, the founder of this Foundation and many other things, but perhaps most of all as a dear friend who could always share both the best and the worst moments with us.
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January
26, 2015 | Students received the Alan Watson Foundation Prizes
for papers on Legal Transplants and and Vidovdan Constitution of 1921
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January 21, 2015| New
Electronic Publication:
The Oregon Constitution: Legal Borrowing And Sources Of Law -
Bradley J. Nicholson
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October 24, 2014|The 2014/15 Competition:
Legal Transplants and Vidovdan
Constitution of 1921
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November 8, 2013| The 2013/14 Competition of the Alan
Watson Foundation is announced
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January
27, 2013 | Isidora Miletić received the Alan Watson
Foundation Second Prize for his paper on Legal Transplants and 1888
Constitution
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November 01, 2012| The 2012/13 Competition of the Alan
Watson Foundation is announced
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January
27, 2012 | Vladimir Petrović received the Alan Watson
Foundation Second Prize for his paper on Valtazar Bogišić and
Legal Transplants
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October 18, 2011| The 2011/12 Competition of the Alan
Watson Foundation is announced
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February 5, 2011 |
David A. Westbrooke – “Deploying Ourselves: Islamic Violence
and the Responsible Projeciton of US Force”
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The Alan Watson Foundation (AWF), founded in
2005, is a nonprofit scholarly organization established by the University of Belgrade in honor of Prof. Alan Watson.
Our fundamental mission is to encourage and disseminate a
multidisciplinary understanding of law, and foster scholarship broadly
focusing on the correlation between law and society.
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Milica Ristić, master's student
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Our mission is to inspire
and reward the achievements of our students. Since 2005, gifted students
have earned the Alan Watson Prize for their contributions and innovations
in the understanding of legal transplants and the diffusion of law in
specific historical contexts.
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Alan Watson is doctor
honoris causa of the University
of Belgrade, and is
Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the
University of Georgia School of Law. He is regarded as one of the world's
foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and
law and religion.
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