Netzwerk Ost-West Berlin - Yerevan 2014 Netzwerk Ost-West Juristische Fakultät der Humboldt Universität Unter den Linden 9 10099 Berlin Projektleiter: Prof. Dr. Martin Heger, Prof. Dr. Bernd Heinrich Dear Reader, the Network East-West is a well But there is more to the Network East- established exchange programme by the West than the academics: We all got to know Faculty of Law of Humboldt University. a new country, its people and culture, by For 18 years students have been given the spending time with our exchange partners, opportunity to participate in international talking, laughing and going out with them. seminars with partner universities in We learned a lot about Armenian history eastern Europe. In 2014 it was the first by the varied programme provided to us time though for a group from Humboldt in Yerevan, and also about our very own to travel to Armenia‘s Russian-Slavonic politics and judicial system by our visits to University in Yerevan. It was also the minsteries and legal institutions in Berlin. first time for one of the seminars to be For all of us participating in the Network held in English, dealing with the topic of East-West has been an unforgettable „Combating Corruption in Armenian and experience. We want to express our German Criminal Law“. gratitude to the DAAD for its generous During the two weeks we spent together sponsorship - thank you for enabling us with the Armenian participants in to make this experience on an academic Yerevan and Berlin we heard ten different and personal level! presentations, each one focussing on a This journal puts together a diary of the certain aspect of the topic and each one two weeks in Yerevan and Berlin (p. 6- given by one Armenian and one German 24) and the abstracts of our papers and student, who talked about the situation presentations (p. 26-36). We hope that it in their country. We had many long and will be an insightful documentation of fruitful discussions and learned a lot about the seminar for everyone interested in the problems of fighting corruption and learning more about it and a memory for how the two different criminal codes deal everyone who participated in it. with it. It was a great chance to look at law Have fun reading! in a different, more intensive and creative way than we do in our regular studies. Selena Nastvogel & Veronika Widmann NOW 2014 Participants Berlin Yerevan Michael Jahn Tutors John Hayrapetyan Hendrik Pekárek Aram Vardevanyan Julia Ehmann Anna Baghdasaryan Matthias Holland Organisers Tsialla Makaryan Josefine Siegmund Samson Martirosyan Tanja Altunjan Narek Abgaryan Timur Ina Aram Aramyan Stefan Klauser Grigor Grigoryan Agneta Melikyan Nina Grigoryan Selena Nastvogel Anush Hakobyan Kristina Schimpf Sona Mantashyan Jo Siebel Haik Movsisyan Till Sudkamp Sargis Terzikyan Jonathan Thüringer Tatevik Zakaryan Veronika Widmann NOW 2014 Daily Reports Yerevan Arrival in Armenia ................................................................................... 6 5.8. .............................................................................................................. 7 6.8. .............................................................................................................. 8 7.8. .............................................................................................................. 10 8.8. .............................................................................................................. 11 9.8. .............................................................................................................. 12 10.8. ............................................................................................................ 13 Berlin 11.8. ............................................................................................................ 15 12.8. ............................................................................................................ 16 13.8. ............................................................................................................ 17 14.8. ............................................................................................................ 19 15.8. ............................................................................................................ 21 16.8. ............................................................................................................ 22 17.8. ............................................................................................................ 23 18.8. ............................................................................................................ 24 NOW 2014 Arrival in Armenia he seminar started on the third of International Cooperation at Russian- Sightseeing of August. We met at the main Armenian (Slavonic) University, Suzanna in Yerevan: The station at noon to get from Shamakhyan. After the nice welcome we opera house on Berlin to Prague by train. After got to know our partners and had a short the left, a newly theT arrival in Prague we had some free tour across the university. constructed time at the airport. In general we spend In evening we had a tour through the church in the the first day on the journey to Yerevan. city and got the chance to see Yerevan middle. And on We finally arrived in Yerevan very early by night. This walking tour provided us we go to the in the morning and were picked up by an a very beautiful side of Yerevan by night. university... Armenian organiser who brought us to We passed e.g. the opera house and the the hostel. Cascade, which is an impressive staircase Most of us went directly to bed in order and boulevard with works of art all over to get some sleep before the first day in the different terraces. Yerevan. After some hours of sleep we To sum it up we got during our first day walked into the city and found a nice café in Yerevan after a full day of journey a at the Opera square for breakfast. We had great possibility to see some popular some chance to get a first impression of and also magnificent spots of the city. Yerevan and not only saw the Opera but Moreover we were very friendly welcomed also a very old church and an impressive so that the first day in Yerevan has built new one which is being built right next the ideal basis for the two-week seminar to it. In the afternoon we were welcomed between the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) at the university and the program for University in Yerevan and the Humboldt- the following week was presented by University in Berlin. one Armenian seminar tutor, John Hayrapetyan, and the Head of Department Kristina Schimpf ...where we are welcomed by Suzanna Sha- makhyan, John Hayrapetyan and our Armeni- an partners NOW 2014 Tuesday, August 5th fter another short night’s told us, contains a short treatise on the sleep and meager breakfast at distinction between the internal and the the hostel we were picked up external aspect of sovereignity. by Samson, our neuköllnishly We enjoyed the end of the day over a dressedA and abundantly patient guide from exquisit meal in the vaulted cellars of the Slavonic University’s international the Caucasus Tavern together with the office. His mere presence was enough Armenian students before we went back to enduringly cheer up a group of heavy to the hostel to catch some sleep. eyed Germans which is probably why he, by tacit agreement, was designated our Stefan Klauser journey’s ‘mascot’. Having arrived with mostly empty stomachs at the university the four hours until lunch first seemed like eternity, but from the moment we started preparing the presentations our appetite was superseded as we were getting into the state of flow. For most of us, the hours of preparation were driven by lively conversations about the topics each of us prepared over the past weeks and months. Bit by bit, the presentations took shape. This first phase of comparative work left us with the feeling of already having learned a great deal about the challenges imposed to and decisions made by Armenian and German criminal law in the particular field of corruption as well as the prospect of a rewarding seminar week. Lunch, finally! It is almost a truism that travels to faraway countries not only broadens the cultural, but also the culinary horizons. It proved to be particularly true for the combination of pizza and ketchup which henceforth became inseparable for some and remained a mystery for others. Our cultural afternoon program led us to the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, named after the inventor of the Armenian alphabet (362-440 AD). It is also refered to as Matenadaran which roughly means library. Besides preserving, restoring and reproducing manuscripts in Armenian and other languages including Hebrew, Greek and Latin the Matenadaran also serves as a museum. We were taken Hard work in on a furious chase through the history the morning, a of Armenian manuscripts, the art of visit to the Mes- book illumination and some of the most rop Mashtots precious exhibits. One of them is a 14th Institute of century example of the Datastanagirk Ancient code of law. Interestingly this early piece Manuscripts of writing, as the Armenian students NOW 2014 Wednesday, August 6th View of Yerevan from the historical Erebuni fortress he first destination of the third subtle distinctions between German and day was the historical Erebuni Armenian traffic habits: where Germans Fortress, the geographical and tend to use the indicator or the brake, etymological cradle of todays the Armenians prefer the horn. Having