ELFA (European Law Faculties Association)

The ELFA Board of Directors and the Secretariat warmly wish all Association members and friends a joyful holiday season and a peaceful, happy and prosperous New Year! 

ELFA Joins the European Law Institute as an Institutional ObserverWe are delighted to announce that the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) has officially joined the European Law Institute (ELI) as an Institutional Observer as of August 2024. This marks a new chapter in our ongoing commitment to fostering excellence in legal education across Europe and beyond. As an Institutional Observer, [...]https://lnkd.in/drJH5S8m

This is of high interest to all researchers in European law with a doctoral thesis defended and approved between 1 November 2023 and 31 October 2024: the 2024 edition of the ELFA Award has just been launched. The deadline to apply for the competition is 30 November 2024. Don't miss it! All information on the ELFA website: https://lnkd.in/ganiNbb

Good news!   The Call for Papers deadline for the EJLE special issue on Legal Education, jointly promoted by ELFA and Law Schools Global League, has been extended to 30 September 2024.   Looking forward to receiving your contributions!

Happy to share with you the forthcoming CCBE amicus curiae contest 2025 edition, organized by the CCBE. This is good news for law students (undergraduate, postgraduate, master) whose degree is a prerequisite to enter the legal profession, and trainee lawyers, in countries the Bars and Law Societies of which are members of the CCBE. The CCBE Amicus Curiae contest consists of a fictitious amicus curiae brief submitted by law students/trainee lawyers to be selected each year on a competitive basis. Among other goals, the contest aims to emphasize the essential role of lawyers in the construction and defence of the rule of law and to provide practical experience to law students and trainee lawyers aspiring to become lawyers.   The winner of the contest will also be invited to an award ceremony and to participate in one of the CCBE Plenary Sessions, which next year will take place in Bordeaux, France.   The languages of the contest are English and French. The registration process will start on 1st September 2024.   All the information about the contest and how to participate, as well as a video of the Award Ceremony of the 1st and 2nd edition of the contest, are available on the CCBE’s website: https://lnkd.in/e249VwNB

Calling all ELFA and Law Schools Global League legal scholars and researchers on legal education! This is to remind you of the call for papers for the ELFA – LSGL Special Issue of the Journal of Legal Education on Global Legal Education.  This issue will provide a platform for publications for ELFA and LSGL members’ Faculty, to examine a broad range of issues in connection with global legal education. We welcome submissions within the following sub-themes: (1) approaches to global legal education, (2) legal education and global challenges, (3) ethos, values and skills in global legal education, (4) global legal education, AI and legal tech, (5) legal education networks and global legal education, and (6) equality and global legal education. You are invited to submit your manuscript before the deadline of 1 September 2024. Acceptance of selected publications will be confirmed by 15 December 2024, and publication is expected by February 2025. For any inquiries about contribution topics, please contact the Guest Editors at elfa.lsgl@gmail.com   Please refer to the EJLE Guide for Authors to prepare your manuscript https://lnkd.in/dNb_W5Ab . As you can see in the guidelines, the papers should typically be up to 10.000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, so any paper between 6.000 and 10.000 words will be of interest to the publication. We would be delighted to count on your contributions!

International Scientific Conference “Law Between Protection and Abuse”The Faculty of Law of the University of East Sarajevo is pleased to invite you to attend the XIII Scientific conference on the occasion of the Day of the Faculty of Law, on the comprehensive theme “Law Between Protection and Abuse, “ which will be held on 26. October 2024 [...]https://lnkd.in/dTMS5yXc

2024 Edinburgh Conference and Annual General MeetingOn 17-19 April 2024 Edinburgh Law School hosted the Annual Conference and AGM of the European Law Faculties Association. ELFA has over one hundred and fifty members in forty-nine countries. Fulfilling its mission of advancing the quality of legal education in Europe, ELFA is open to Law Schools from other [...]https://lnkd.in/gguTFWNf

EJLE: Special issue on Global Legal Education – Call for PapersAs previously announced during the ELFA Annual Conference held in Edinburgh on 17- 19 April 2024, the European Law Faculties Association and the Law Schools Global League are collaborating on an exciting new enterprise, together with the European Journal of Legal Education. This is a joint research project in the [...]https://lnkd.in/dCpk6JXB

Meet the winners of the 2023 ELFA Award! Their names were announced at the 2024 ELFA Edinburgh Conference. The first prize was awarded jointly to Mariza Avgeri, for her thesis "A transgender studies approach to gender identity and expression-based asylum claims based on a critical doctrinal and discourse analysis of CJEU and ECtHR jurisprudence" (Maynooth University) and to Moritz Schramm for his thesis "Emulated Guardians: The Power, Politics, and Performativity of the DSA and the Oversight Board" (Humboldt-University of Berlin). A Proxime Accessit was awarded to Aurélie Villanueva, for her thesis "Culture in European Union Law: Between Market and Society" (European University Institute). Congratulations to the winners! The successful future of European law research is assured.