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29 Med. & L. i (2010)
Prog Ammon Carmi: A Man of Valor

handle is hein.journals/mlv29 and id is 331 raw text is: Med Law (2010) 29:i-ii Medicine and Law OPROBOOK 2010 Special Dedication Prof. Amnon Carmi: A Man of Valor On August 10t' 2010, at 19:00, I declared the formal celebration of the 30th anniversary of the International Journal Medicine & Law (hereinafter: the Journal), in the inspiring lecture hall at the Faculty of Law in the University of Zagreb in Croatia. It was a very ceremonial event, held especially for this occasion as part of the World Congress on Medical Law of the World Association for Medical Law. During the celebrations, Prof. Amnon Carmi - the Founder of the Journal - announced his retirement from the Journal and appointed me as the new Editor-in- Chief. Shortly before announcing his resignation, for thirty minutes, one after the other, Prof. Roy Beran, Prof. Roberto Mester, Prof. Miriam Cotler, Prof Christa van Wyk, Prof Ken Berger, Prof. Michal Lupton, and Dr. Samuel Wolfman stood before one hundred well known international scholars in the field of medical law, sharing with each other their long collaboration with the Journal as well as with Prof Carmi. The speakers honored and thanked Prof. Carmi for a longstanding, very successful legacy in leading the Journal and wished me good luck in preserving this legacy. I view Prof Canni as a prophet whose decisiveness enabled him to become so. He decided upon the subject matter of his prophecy by including the society at which he aimed his efforts. He established an international society called medical law (hereinafter: the Society), thus appointing each of the Society's members as gods of his prophecy, empowered to draft their own holy book, namely, the International Journal Medicine & Law. On August 18th 2010 1 celebrated my 30' birthday - eight days after the Journal had celebrated its 30th anniversary. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to state the following: In a place where order, discipline and self- awareness are absent, success becomes only a matter of luck. However, luck is good enough in so far as a person gets the chance to be adopted by a man with order, discipline and self-awareness. Such a lucky person will know only success, thus making failure a matter of luck, or even bad luck. I am honored to be part of the international society of medical law. I am honored to be 1

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