The Old Aula

So yesterday, Jose K and I attended a seminar- "European Legal Integration: Contemporary Challenges" conducted by the EFTA Court. It was held at the Old Aula at Domus Academica. Lovely, lovely building as you can tell by the pictures.

For those of you interested in this kind of thing, the EFTA Court (as described in their web-page)" fulfils the judicial function within the EFTA system, interpreting the Agreement on the European Economic Area with regard to the EFTA States party to the Agreement. At present those EFTA States are Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway". EFTA states are not part of the EU but have some trade agreements with the EU states. Check out their official website at http://www.eftacourt.lu/

It was all rather exciting as we were amongst esteemed members of the legal, judicial and governmental fraternity. There were many lawyers from the big Norwegian firms, Supreme Court Judges and representatives from the various Ministries ( They have a Ministry of Modernization...cool).

Well.. at least that was the case on the advance registration sheet. Anyway, the turn out was quite good and I put on my most 'intelligent' face for the occasion.

I have to confess that today was the second day of the seminar but only Jose K has manfully gone down to attend it. I, on the other hand, simply could not get out of bed at 8 am on a lovely Saturday morning...