FDUL / ELPIS / LINCOLN
Students Research Online Interchange
During the Covid-19 pandemic, it was critical to find new pedagogical and innovative initiatives to promote the participation and integration of foreign and national students of partner universities as a way to bring students and professors together at a distance. In this sense, the ELPIS network together with the Lincoln Memorial University organized the ELPIS / LINCOLN Lectures, a program of a joint Seminar engaging professors and students of all the European and American institutions involved, coordinated by the Leibniz University of Hannover.
At the same time, a research competition between students of University of Lisbon Faculty of Law and Lincoln University | Duncan School of Law was organized (FDUL/LINCOLN Students Research Online Interchange), an innovative experience that took place in the 1st semester of the academic year 2021/2020, with the participation of 60 students (30 North Americans and 30 Portuguese). These students took part in a joint research project where the aim was to research and write a paper about a different theme of comparative law (Portugal/USA). Both students and teachers involved in this pedagogical experience considered the results achieved quite successful and decided to repeat this experience in the 2nd semester.
In the second semester, both initiatives came together: there was a second part of the ELPIS / LINCOLN Lectures, and a new initiative of the students competition, now with students from the Universities of LINCOLN, Hannover and FDUL. Therefore, the organizing committee, constituted by the Universities mentioned above, decided to promote an online conference in which the best students, that were the authors of the best papers of each Faculty, could meet and discuss their papers
The best papers prizes of the Students Research Online Interchange, in this second semester of 2021, are as follows (in alphabetical order):
University of Lisbon Faculty of Law: Gonçalo Sá Gomes, Luísa Perdigão Neves, Miguel Goulão, Raquel Barrela, Tânia Coelho.
Lincoln Memorial University | Duncan School of Law: Cydney Carter, Emily Benoit, Jennifer Barnes, Kristin A. Jones, Laura Witt.
In this sense, on July 1st, an Special Session of the ELPIS / LINCOLN, dedicated to the presentation and the discussion of papers, will take place on July 1st at 3 pm through the following link: