Dear Friends,
Yes, it’s true! The Ráday Salon finally returns for a new season in Budapest!
We are extremely pleased to be starting up our new Salon season next Thursday, October 9th, with a presentation by Professor Tibor Varady on Kosovo/a – Beliefs and Misbeliefs.
Professor Varady is a highly-esteemed legal scholar whose name should be known to many of you, especially those of you who are or have been students at Central European University.
For a “formal” introduction to Professor Varady, we offer you the following profile from the CEU website:
Tibor Varady is an internationally-recognized scholar and expert on international commercial arbitration, private international law, and international business transactions. He was on the faculty of the Novi Sad Law School in the former Yugoslavia and served as director of its Center for International Studies for many years. Since 1993 he is a professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest, and Chairman of the International Business Law Program. He is holding the title of a “university professor” at the CEU, and he was also been appointed by the President of Hungary as a “university professor” in Hungary. Professor Varady was appointed as a full professor at Emory University (Atlanta) in 1999, and teaches each Spring courses on international commercial arbitration and international business transactions. Professor Varady is a Member of the Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration, and he is on the list of arbitrators of eight arbitral institutions including institutions in the former Yugoslavia, in Hungary, in Egypt. He has been acting as agent, counsel and advocate in 11 cases before the International Court of Justice. He has about 250 publications written in five languages. His most recent publications include: International Commercial Arbitration (co-authors: J. Barcelo and A. Von Mehren) 3d Edition Thomson & West 2006; Language and Translation in International Commercial Arbitration, T.M.C. Asser Press 2006. Professor of Law. Law graduate and LL.M Belgrade Law School (1962 and 1967); LL.M and S.J.D Harvard Law School (1968 and 1970).
That is indeed a formal introduction, but our purpose at the Ráday Salon is to bring people together to discuss important issues in an informal context. To echo what we wrote when we hosted a discussion on Iraq last year, Kosovo/a is a region about which much may be heard in the news, but which is often little understood. So we encourage you to take the opportunity to join us next Thursday, to hear Prof. Varady’s insights on Kosovo/a, and to participate in an active discussion afterwards.
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