Liu Jiangshan - SLI Participant in 2011
"Do not hesitate. It will be a great experience"
中文
It was an honor to have the opportunity to take part in the Summer Law Institute in China-Intellectual Property Rights and China (IP-China). I want to thank Prof. Paolo Farah for his support and for coordinating this Programme.
As an old Chinese saying goes, a single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. In the Summer Law Institute, the well-known experts and professors from Europe and China had delivered wonderful lectures, in which I learned IP theoretical frontiers that are truly valuable.
Greta Lacchini - SLI participant 2011
"Who would have thought that a summer school of one month would be the springboard to a whole new world full of so many surprises?"
Why did you decide to attend a summer school in China? I am often asked this question when I begin to explain my previous studies. It is still somewhat unusual for most of the people to study so far away, in a place so different from the "normal" European countries. What made me decide on this summer school was its curriculum related to environmental protection; I had previously taken another course on the Kyoto protocol and the discipline of energy, both issues that greatly interest me. I saw the summer school as a chance to deepen my knowledge in this sector from an international perspective.
Luca Grandi - SLI participant in 2011
"... never fail to discover a country and meet new people... especially in China..."
Lingua originale italiana
I decided to apply for the Summer Law Institute in China 2011, when I was still abroad running my Erasmus Program. The wish to get to know a new culture and to attend two very important courses, IP and Environmental Protection, strongly supported me in the choice. Yet I didn’t know what it would have brought to me, I mean a consecutive series of fruitful experiences.
The program was intensive and well-structured. Considering the short time and the extent of the topics, it gave me a very good overview of the same. Moreover I had the opportunity to meet some experts -from public and private companies- working in China at the time, and, among them, the head of the Italian IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Desk.
Andrea Caballe' - SLI participant in 2011
"The Summer Law Institute gave me an insight of the complexity of this country’s legal, political and social systems through controversial and actual subjects..."
Lengua original española - Langue originale française
In the summer 2011, I attended the Intellectual Property Rights and China Summer Law Institute and the Climate Change and Environmental Protection Summer Law Institute at the Peking University School of Government. Before that, I felt no real attraction towards China and its culture, although as a jurist specialized on Intellectual Property, I thought it would be most interesting to have an overview of the legal system of the country where almost all the counterfeit is manufactured. I honestly believed there wasn’t such a thing as the Chinese rule of law, and I was also eager to see in person the contradictory capitalistic miracle that this “communist” country has evolved into.
