Week of great activity in the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences

The week of July 1 to 5, the activity of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences promises to be frenetic. In the first place, with the inauguration of the twentieth edition of the URJC Summer Courses and the awarding of two different prizes. On the one hand, the URJC Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, located on the Madrid campus, will be the venue for the presentation and inauguration of the URJC summer courses. The opening conference will take place at 19.30:2015 p.m. and will be attended by Leonardo Padura, a Cuban writer and journalist who was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award for Letters in XNUMX.

The author of "The Man Who Loved Dogs" and creator of the detective Mario Conde, is one of the most outstanding authors of the moment and his work is considered essential to understand the revolutionary process in Cuba and its evolution over time.

Among the courses that appear this year, those dedicated to advances in innovation and technology stand out; analysis of the current political situation; the management of the family business; the new social paradigms in matters such as equality or religion; the terrorist threat; the challenges of the welfare society or the new manifestations of culture. The Summer University, in addition to modernizing its image on this anniversary, has made an effort to provide courses with top-level content and speakers, addressing issues from a plural and intercultural perspective. Course details can be found at this link.

very active schedule

During this week, the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences will host up to three activities between courses, congresses and seminars. On July 2 and 3, it will host the celebration of the IV Permanent Seminar on the study and updating of the 'Right to Social Security through jurisprudence'. These training sessions in the field of law will take place in room 062 of the departmental building on the Madrid campus.

The Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the URJC will also witness the IV International Congress of Education. Under the motto of 'Create, Motivate, Learn', the congress wants to "deepen into those issues that are current and in which society is investing a lot of time and effort, but that have not been resolved", in the words of the organizers of the event.

There will be three days of frenetic activity, with conferences, workshops, round tables... From July 3 to 5 there will be numerous activities under a common denominator: the approach to equality, science and health as three disciplines that are closely connected and in which that progress is constantly being made for the betterment of human life.

In addition, the congress wants to raise awareness of the importance of equality in all its aspects, including respect, coexistence and tolerance, trying to reverse the setback that is being detected lately in this area. Secondly, the promotion of scientific thought and STEAM vocations, which would be Natural Sciences, Technology and Mathematics.

Finally, among the events that the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences will host this week are the specials of the IEJI Reading Club, which will be on July 3,8, 15 and 059. This Wednesday's talk will be in room XNUMX of the departmental building. The specials will deal with three authors of maximum relevance in the current American narrative that were not seen in the Reading Club.

Richard Ford, whose Frank Bascombe tetralogy is an x-ray of the American middle class and its evolution throughout the 4,3,2,1th century; Philip Roth and his American trilogy, a benchmark, which shows us three moments of American reality after World War II, the sixties, the fifties and the nineties; and, finally, Paul Auster and his novel XNUMX, which has been described by some critics as the most recent 'great American novel', a distinction for which all American novels compete, and most of them with merits more than enough.

On the other hand, to the professors of Commercial Law at the URJC Antonio Serrano and Enrique Ortega, who have been recognized by the Todojuristas.com portal as the best professors in this field of Law. In addition to this, the doctoral student of the Social and Legal Sciences program Joanna Pereira has received the XIV 'Castán Tobelas' Private Law Prize for her work "The protection of people with disabilities seen from the triad: legal capacity, support systems and autonomy of the will, based on the novel approach of the New York Convention of 2006".