Fall 2023 Comparative Legal Research Poster Topics -- 11 groups from USF and ULIM, USF and USM -- USF - Moldova Global Classroom

Students worked together this semester (from University of South Florida - USF and the Free University of Moldova (ULIM) and Moldova State University (USM) -- working in groups comparing and contrasting decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and the European Court of Human Rights on similar legal questions.

Here are the 11 group topics from Fall 2023:

 

Group 1

Regulating the Death Penalty: Soering v. UK (1989) and Furman v. Georgia (1972) 

 Isac Alina-Alexandrina, Ursan Ilie (RI -ULIM)

Natalie Burke, Haley Dargay (University of South Florida)

 

Group 2

 ECHR Article 3 Prohibition of Torture; US Constitution, 8th Amendment Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Comparing Solem v. Helm and Mozer v. Republic of Moldova and Russia
Steven Duverge, Noah Aktas, Simona Patras, Alexandrina Colac, Maria Tarasova

 

 Group 3

ECHR Article 6, Right to Fair Trial; U.S. Constitution:Comparing and Contrasting Individuals’ Rights in Police Custody

  Hussein Hijazi, Anna McQuiggan, Sorin Chirita, Mihaela Golban, & Gabriela Savga

 Group 4

 The Comparative Analysis of the 5th Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights 

  Raileanu Iulia, Fedeleș Alexandra, Dumbrăveanu Nicoleta, Carson Grider, Richard Pless

 Group 5 

 Article 11 v. the First Amendment: Texas v. Johnson and Navalnyy and Yashin v. Russia

Abigail Samel, Alan Pissarenko, Victoria Morgoci, Alina Rusu, Anda Osipov

 

 Group 6

 Comparative Analysis: Oliari and Others v. Italy (2015) and Obergefell v. Hodges

ECHR Article 12 Right to Marry;

US Constitution 5^th Amendment Due Process, 14^th Amendment Equal Protection

Kristion Jackson (USF), Jalise Martinez-Lopez (USF), Arina Volcovschi (ULIM), Daniela Țurcan (ULIM), Cătălin Palihovici (ULIM)

  Group 7

ECHR Article 3 Prohibition of Torture; US Constitution, 8th Amendment Ban on Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Laura Shaw and Abigail Sanders; Fiana Zaharia, Vlad Matcas, and Mihai Lavrov

  

Group 8

 Religious Freedom in the Courts: A Comparative Analysis of Constitutional Protections in the Lukumi Babalu Aye and Cha’are Shalom ve Tsedek Cases

ECHR Article 9: Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion; US Constitution 1st Amendment Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause

Cases of Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah AND Cha’are Shalom ve Tsedek v. France

Nicole Andersen, Alyvia Hallock, Paula Balta, Anastasia Evtodiev, Daria Zamfir

Group 9

 

 A Comparative Study of ECHR’s Article 9 Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion and the U.S. Constitution 1st Amendment Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause: Yalçın v. Turkey (2022) and O’Lone v. The Estate of Shabazz (1987)

 Caitlyn Ealy, Colin Molnar, Ion Ursu, Ana Cupcea

    

Group 10

 The Right Against Self-Incrimination

Michael Bouhebent, Andrew Allan, Alina Chiriac, Toporet Alexandra, Valeria Condurari

 

 Group 11

 ECHR Article 6, Right to Fair Trial; U.S. Constitution

Comparing and Contrasting Individuals’ Rights in Liberty on Trial

Alexa MATOS, Ivan MORALES, Camelia MAZARENCO, Daniel GARBUZ

 

Mid-Point Check In -- USF Moldovan Comparative Legal Research Project

Most of the work on the comparative legal research project takes place outside of our classroom  -- in the groups (via WhatsApp, messenger, emails)

But we did meet up for a mid-point check-in to discuss each of the 11 group topics and to answer questions when all faculty mentors and students were present.

 

First Joint Meeting -- USF - Moldovan Comparative Legal Research Cooperation -- Moldova State University (USM) and the Free University of Moldova (ULIM)

This week we had our first joint meeting with students from Moldova State University (Anglophone Department within the Law Faculty) as well as with International Relations Students from ULIM.

THANKS so much to collaborators Prof Larisa Patlis at ULIM and Prof Lia Butucel from Moldova State. 

We also appreciate the mentorship of Judge Serghei Turcan of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova (and professor of Human Rights at ULIM) as well as Professor Aliona Cara Rusnac, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment at the Republic of Moldova (and coordinator of the Anglophone Department within the Law Faculty).