The Faculty of Law mobilizes around inclusion

After tackling childhood and migration in 2022-2023, then harassment in 2023-2024, this year the Faculty devoted its Fil Rouge to a fundamental topic: inclusion. With the slogan "Let's live inclusion!", the 2024-2025 edition raised everyone's awareness of the importance of a society where everyone finds their place, whatever their origin, gender, social class, age, physical or mental abilities, sexual orientation...

Look back at some of the highlights of this second quadrimester.

On February 19, 2025, the final of the eloquence tournament took place, featuring powerful messages and inspiring performances. The tournament saw eight brilliant finalists compete, starting with Stephen Hawking's quote, "Disability cannot be a handicap".

• First prize and the audience prize were won by Aude Cavillot (student in BLOC 1)
• Second prize was won by Soraya El Kajjal (student in BLOC 3)
• Third prize was won by Natéo Carnot (student in BLOC 1)

On February 27, Benjamin Gisaro, a Belgian performer of Congolese origin, accompanied by Marie Dusingize, a doctoral student in socio-anthropology and specialist in Afro-descendant identities at ULiège, met with students in the Logic and Argumentation course taught by Thibault de Meyer. After enlightening them on the mechanisms of trivialized racism, anchoring the presentation with topical elements, and inviting them to write about their experiences, two of the actors from her show "Évidemment, c'est fâcheux" presented extracts from it, to then debate with the audience racist discourses and their deconstruction.

From March 10 to 14, the Faculty hosted an academic event of international stature: the European Moot Court Competition. Supervised by Jean-Marc Van Gyseghem, lecturer at UNamur and deputy director of the Centre de recherches Information, Droit et Société (CRIDS), this initiative was organized as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) and brought together five European universities: the Catholic University of Lyon, Poitiers, Aristotle of Thessalonica (Athens) and ELTE Eötvös (Budapest), in addition to UNamur.

The aim of such a project was to immerse students in an immersive and formative experience, through a French-language pleading competition, articulated around human rights and preceded by an online preparatory course lasting around 25 hours.

In close collaboration with the City of Namur, the Faculty organized a competition for video creations to raise awareness of inclusion and non-discrimination on campus, in town and everywhere... Open to two categories of artistic creations, from students or staff members, it highlighted the talents of four winners.

In the student category:

• First prize: The digital divide, by Maya Bernard, Jade Botton and Lou de Potter
• Second prize: Blinded by digital advances, by Léna Lampasona, Chloé Petron, Achille Dewez and Romain Gilsoul
• Third prize and audience award: BREF, le numérique c'est génial... ou pas, by Louise Defrang and Violette Davreux

In the staff member category:

• Sarah Larielle, assistant and PhD student

The thread that will weave its way through the Faculty of Law in 2025-2026 will be dedicated to the theme of "Reenchanting the Earth!". Many more motivating activities in prospect!