“The European Law Faculties Association has been an excellent forum for law professors, mostly deans or “dekans" not only from Europe but from all around the world, to discuss problems facing law faculties, ranging from admissions policies to various teaching methods, curriculum, cooperation projects or joint research. Now, 25 years after the foundation of ELFA, and in the extraordinary circumstances we are currently living, we can recall what was stated in the 2015 Istanbul Conference Resolution, that law faculties in Europe and elsewhere find themselves at the crossroads of directions for their future development to respond [...]

“Since the first time I participated in Graz in 2005, I have attended all of the ELFA General Conferences to date. ELFA was then a relatively young organization, but its function was already proving to be relevant in the process of implementation of the European Higher Education Area. Nevertheless, after the culmination of this process, ELFA has also continued to offer great advantages to its members, providing a privileged forum for reflection, debate and exchange of knowledge, information, experiences and contacts, personal and institutional, on a European scale that responds perfectly to the phenomena of increasing [...]

“Many congratulations on the first 25 years of excellent work for the Law Faculties of Europe. ELFA promotes a widening of perspectives and increased cooperation; it encourages Law Faculties to work together to address common issues and stimulates academics to develop new initiatives and networks. With the success of the annual ELFA Thesis Award, ELFA also stimulates and rewards excellent research. Ad multis annos!” Laurence Gormley University of Groningen ELFA President, 2015-2016

“In the first 25 years of its existence ELFA brought about a new quality in legal studies across Europe. Celebrating its anniversary we look forward to further achievements of ELFA in the coming years.” Janez Kranjc University of Ljubljana ELFA President, 2009-2010

“In 25 years, ELFA has managed to bring around the same table of discussion heads of faculties of law across Europe in an unprecedented exchange of ideas and analysis of the structural changes that have affected the law curriculum throughout Europe. Fostering solutions that can be implemented by individual leaders in their home faculty and national university institutions has certainly been one of the main achievement of ELFA. I hope that such work will continue to the benefit of us all.” Pascal Pichonnaz University of Fribourg ELFA President, 2008-2009

ELFA is pleased to announce the relaunch of the European Journal of Legal Education. As from today, the former Journal of the European Law Faculties Association turns into a brand new online, international and peer-reviewed journal, publishing high-quality and original research. Moreover, it is a free, unrestricted online journal with access open to all, which will enable the results of academic research to be disseminated rapidly and widely. The European Journal of Legal Education will publish articles on any aspect of legal education and research which may be of interest to legal academics teaching in law [...]

“Dear ELFA members, We were about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ELFA in Warsaw these days. Unfortunately, we cannot come together in these special times. But we can still look back from where we are to 25 years of European dialogue and we can see how relevant our work is. The current situation – as dramatic as it is – has once more highlighted the necessity to coordinate projects, knowledge and education on a European Level. At our law faculties all over Europe, we educate people who – by applying and by creating law – set [...]

“Happy Birthday to our ELFA association, which has been a perfect witness of common changes in our universities, Legal Departments and Schools of Law, being also an extremely fair way for friendship and complicities between colleagues of all around the world. Good luck for the next difficult times!!” Blanca Vilà Costa Autonomous University of Barcelona ELFA President, 2006-2007

“Happy Birthday ELFA ! The celebration of the 25th anniversary of the European Law Faculties Association reminds me of the year 2004 when I had the pleasure to welcome its conference at the Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg. The association was quite young at the time but already very active, and we had lively discussions in the “Pangloss” lecture hall, which was full. This name “Pangloss” was chosen for that hall because it is used by the Institute for Translation and Interpreting Studies, whose translation services were very useful to us. But above all it made [...]