Third issue of the European Journal of Legal Education

May 26th, 2022|Announcement|

"It is a genuine pleasure to introduce this third issue of the European Journal of Legal Education (EJLE). As I reflect on this past year since our second issue and wonder how we can make legal education work best, two things come to mind. Firstly, the pandemic will change the way we educate. The crisis has been painful for all, staff and students alike, but from it changes will emerge and these will help improve the way we teach and the way we learn. Secondly, the pandemic forced an uptake in technology which, too, will benefit [...]

2022 AGM and Conference

May 3rd, 2022|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference|

From 20 to 22 April 2022, in Warsaw ELFA finally resumed its Annual General Meeting and Conference in a face-to-face format, after two years of celebrating it online due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. You may check more detailed information of the AGM and Conference here. The members representatives attending the meeting, above other decisions, agreed to suspend the membership of the Russian universities that signed the statement of the Russian Union of Rectors supporting the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. Their membership will remain suspended until they comply again with [...]

2021 ELFA Award

May 2nd, 2022|Announcement, Award|

The results of the 2021 edition of the ELFA Award were announced during the ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference held in Warsaw from 20 to 22 April 2022. The announcement was made by Professor Laurence Gormley, Coordinator of the ELFA Award. First Prize was awarded to Dr. Leticia Díez Sánchez, for her thesis "Integration through Law and its Discontents: Unveiling the distributive impact of judge-made law in the EU". Dr. Díez Sánchez obtained her Ph.D. in European Union Law from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (Italy). The Proxime Accessit was awarded to Dr. [...]

ELFA 2022 AGM: Definitive Programme

April 16th, 2022|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference|

We are pleased to inform you of the definitive programme of the 2022 ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference, which will take place at the Tyszkiewich-Potocki Palace, in Warsaw, from the 20th  to the 22th of April 2022. This year's conference is entitled "What Future for Legal Education?". We are looking forward to meeting you all next week!

ELFA 2022 AGM in Warsaw

March 9th, 2022|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference|

After the forced interruption due to the COVID19 pandemic, we are pleased to inform you that ELFA resumes its on-site Annual General Meeting and Conference. The 2022 AGM will take place in Warsaw (Poland) from 20 to 22 April 2022, under the title "What Future for Legal Education?". This can be an excellent opportunity to meet again and reaffirm the values of ELFA as a community of institutions dedicated to the teaching and promotion of law. All ELFA members and friends are invited. You may find the preliminary Programme and soon we will publish more information [...]

ELFA’s Board of Directors condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

March 9th, 2022|Announcement|

We wish to inform you about the statement approved by the ELFA Board of Directors in its meeting of 8th March 2022: ELFA’s Board of Directors strongly condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine and calls for the cessation of all hostilities. Military activities against an independent state openly violate the Charter of the United Nations of 1945, and the Russian troops’ operations which have led to a humanitarian crisis are a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights of 1950. ELFA wishes to express sympathy with the people of Ukraine and supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity. [...]

Report of the 2021 Annual General Meeting

October 4th, 2021|Announcement, Annual General Meeting|

 The Annual General Meeting of the Association took place on 23 June 2021, at 15:00 hours CET. The event, which for the second year in a row has been held electronically due to the pandemic restrictions in force, combined the general assembly and elements of the traditional ELFA conference. After a brief presentation by President Marek Grzybowski, the keynote speech, “Courts as Guardians of Cardinal Constitutional Values (The Truth, Good, Justice and Beauty)”, was given by Dr. Małgorzata Gersdorf, Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw and former President of the Supreme [...]

2020 ELFA Awards

June 29th, 2021|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Award|

During the ELFA Annual General Meeting, on the 23rd June 2021, the results of the ELFA Thesis Award 2020 round were announced. After having read the theses and discussed them, the jury has decided to award the First Place to Dr. Pierre Auriel, for his thesis "L’équivalence des protections des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne". Dr. Auriel obtained his Doctorate from the Institut Michel Villey, Centre de droit européen, Université Paris-II Panthéon-Assas. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the framework of the Egalibex Project at the Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3. The jury decided [...]

2021 Annual General Meeting

May 26th, 2021|Announcement, Annual General Meeting|

As you know, the Annual General Meeting and Conference of our Association, which were scheduled to take place in Warsaw from 21 to 23 April 2021, had to be cancelled due to the ongoing state of emergency following the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to comply with the requirements of the law and provisions of ELFA’s Articles of Association, our Association must hold an annual general meeting, which may take place through electronic premises (Law of 22 April 2020, providing temporary facilities in the area of the Ministry of Justice and Security in connection with the outbreak [...]

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