{"id":34967,"date":"2016-05-07T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=34967"},"modified":"2016-05-06T21:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T19:43:37","slug":"matteo-lai-for-juridical-commission-without-a-set-of-rules-we-couldnt-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2016\/05\/07\/matteo-lai-for-juridical-commission-without-a-set-of-rules-we-couldnt-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Matteo Lai for Juridical Commission: “Without a set of rules we couldn’t do anything”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matteo Lai has been a journalist in the AEGEEan magazine since October 2015, but he is also active locally by serving his antenna, AEGEE-Cagliary, as its IT Responsible. His experience and passion for Law, though, motivated him to run as a member of the Juridical Commission for the upcoming term. Here\u00a0are\u00a0all the questions, that the AEGEEan and the Network had regarding his\u00a0candidature.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The AEGEEan: Can you tell us a few things about yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matteo:<\/strong> I have been an AEGEE member since April 2015, when I decided to spend a\u00a0vacation outside of Sardinia, because I wanted to try new experiences. Then I\u00a0saw a Facebook the advertisement about Summer Universities, so after getting information from\u00a0different websites, I went to the Faculty of Economy in Cagliari and joined AEGEE-Cagliari. Becoming an AEGEE member has been one of the choices, which have\u00a0revolutionised my life. I am a 27-year-old Sardinian guy, who obtained a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Cagliari back in October 2012. I love speaking foreign\u00a0languages because I think they represent a way to open your mind and to meet new people. I also like football very much. In Italy, like in many European\u00a0countries, it is the most followed sport and also a good conversation subject among young\u00a0people.\"pic3\" When I was 14 years old, I played in a local football team as a midfielder, and\u00a0after\u00a0two years the President of that team proposed me to sign a contract. Unfortunately for the\u00a0President, I chose to stay focused\u00a0exclusively on the school studies and left\u00a0the team.\u00a0During the following years I practiced many other sports, such as volleyball, basketball and\u00a0karate. At the age of 22, I discovered my passion for dance and, in particular, for Salsa. Then I met a Brazilian girl, Alessandra, who helped me to learn that dance.\u00a0I like to hang out with my friends during every weekend and have a lot of fun, as most of the\u00a0guys at\u00a0my age. Another hobby I cultivate is informatics, even if I am not an hacker, but not\u00a0for case I am the IT Responsible in my Antenna.<\/p>\n

What is your relevant experience to this position?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have any relevant AEGEE experience to the position as a member of the JC, but I\u00a0have studied Law since I was 19, I have done\u00a0a traineeship in a Law firm and,\u00a0currently, I am preparing for a\u00a0competition to become a judge, so you could say that I have quite an experience in\u00a0the field, especially considering that you need a very deep juridical knowledge to be successful\u00a0in that completion. The written rules quite often can not regulate every actual case, making it hard for the jurist to understand which rule is better to be applied in each specific case.\u00a0Previously, I have been a scrutineer in the European Parliament elections in 2014. Lastly, in\u00a0collaboration with the law firm where I made the traineeship, I have been the first legal\u00a0advisor in Cagliari to have managed to sign a divorce contract without the homologation of a\u00a0civil judge.<\/p>\n

Why did you choose to become a candidate for the Juridical Commission?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I chose to become a candidate for the Juridical Commission, because I love my association\u00a0and I would like to contribute by putting together my passions for Law and AEGEE. A friend of mine, who was a helper for the\u00a0last Summer University in Cagliari, suggested that I should present my candidature for the JC, because I have a doctorate in Law so I, probably, wouldn’t find any difficulties in solving some juridical problems. I think an eventual\u00a0experience as a member of the JC (maybe also a President) would\u00a0increase my knowledge of legal English and it would also allow me to do\u00a0the job I normally\u00a0do every day, but this time, for\u00a0thousands of people from a lot of different European countries. Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s amazing?<\/p>\n

In your opinion, what is the most crucial thing in the work of the Juridical Commission and why?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In my opinion, it is not very easy to transmit the importance of a\u00a0set of rules for a very big students association like AEGEE, mostly because within the association \"pic6\"you can\u00a0find not only Law students, but also young people from various academic backgrounds. Law is often considered as a very boring subject, but as you can imagine, an\u00a0association, other than people, also needs a set of rules. An example of rules is\u00a0represented by our Corpus Iuridicum Aegeense. These rules are not unrelated to us, because\u00a0they deal with our volunteering activity inside the association. Without a set of rules, we\u00a0could not do anything because the CIA tells us, in the articles 2 and 3, the purposes of the\u00a0same association.<\/p>\n

Have you actually read the whole CIA? If so, what does it mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have read the whole CIA and I think that it sets a good example of democracy, simply because it is voted upon by\u00a0the antennae representatives. The CIA has got the\u00a0same value as the rules of a town, a city, a region or a country. The\u00a0association cannot work without rules. Without rules, we would be in a state of nature and in that state, each person would have the freedom to do anything in the world, which would lead to a “war of all against all”.<\/p>\n

How would you make it more friendly to the members?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To make the CIA more friendly to the members I have thought about\u00a0a collaboration\u00a0between the JC, antennae, Working and Interest Groups (such as the\u00a0Language Interest Group), mostly for the translation of the CIA into other European languages. I think it would\u00a0be a great way to involve the entire network in the work of the JC. To begin with, we could\u00a0try with French, Spanish and\u00a0Italian.<\/p>\n

Is there something that you would like to improve in the current version (v.26.1)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, as always things can be improved. Once I will start my term, I will discuss it with my team and, of course, with inputs from the Network.
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Do you think that there\u2019s somehow room for collaboration between other European Bodies and the Juridical Commission?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the JC should not work by itself, but it can enjoy the knowledge and experience\u00a0of all European Bodies. I think, that one of our aims is to promote the collaboration with\u00a0every\u00a0European Body, which wants to make a contribution into our awesome association. We are open\u00a0to all collaborations which can support the growth of AEGEE.<\/p>\n

If you were elected tomorrow, what would be the first thing that you would do?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would start with the preliminary activities in order to bring my program to life.<\/p>\n

Questions from our readers:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In your program you\u2019re saying that you want to translate the CIA into 3 other languages, one of them being French, which is already used since 1992. According to which criteria you want to translate it into the other two, Spanish and Italian? What about the other languages?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We will begin the translation of the CIA into Italian, French and Spanish. If the plan goes well,\u00a0we can think about the \"pic1\"translation into other languages, such as German or Russian. To make the procedure clear, I came up with an example: if I have to translate the CIA into Spanish, the\u00a0JC sends a different number of articles to all the spanish antennae. To verify the authenticity,\u00a0after each antenna (or the Spanish Subcommissioners) has sent its translation to the JC, the commission will be sending the already translated parts to different antennae, in order to make the comparison. In every case, we are ready to receive any suggestions from the Network.<\/p>\n

In your opinion, what makes you the best candidate for this position?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up until now, I have spent eight years studying Law, so I think I can execute the tasks\u00a0of the JC, because I know\u00a0the Law in theory and in practice. In addition to that, I am also used to a\u00a0huge amount\u00a0of work.<\/p>\n

What is the thing that makes you the most excited as a candidate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Becoming a member of the JC would allow me to be in contact with many people from different European countries, whom I would not have a chance to meet otherwise.<\/p>\n

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You can read his full candidature here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Written by Theodora Giakoumelou, AEGEE-Athina<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matteo Lai has been a journalist in the AEGEEan magazine since October 2015, but he is also active locally by serving his antenna, AEGEE-Cagliary, as its IT Responsible. His experience and passion for Law, though, motivated him to run as a member of the Juridical Commission for the upcoming term. Here\u00a0are\u00a0all the questions, that the AEGEEan and the Network had… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":34968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[650,3],"tags":[322,410,1307,1808,1809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34967"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35071,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967\/revisions\/35071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}