Event – ELFA

Registration to the 2023 Annual General Meeting and Conference

February 18th, 2023|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference, Event|

We are glad to announce that the registration to the next ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference is already open. This year's meeting will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland from the 12th to the 14th of April 2023. To participate and register for the Conference please send the registration form by email to the address: elfa.agm(AT)gmail.com, not later than the 17th of March 2023. The event is organised by the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration of the University of Lausanne and the main Conference is entitled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Education”. We are [...]

Programme of the Annual General Meeting and Conference in Lausanne

February 17th, 2023|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference, Event|

We are delighted to announce the preliminary Programme of the next ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference that will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland from the 12th to the 14th of April 2023. This year’s meeting will be entitled “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Legal Education” and the event will be organised by the Faculty of Law, Criminal Justice and Public Administration of the University of Lausanne. The Conference and AGM venue will be the Dorigny Campus, Bâtiment Anthropole, in Room 1129. On Wednesday 12 April, there will be a welcoming reception for all members wishing to attend. [...]

ELFA Summer Courses 2022

June 22nd, 2022|Announcement, Event, Summer Courses|

This year ELFA resumes its Summer Courses! The ELFA board of directors has decided to open the call for applications to all ELFA members. ELFA promotes summer courses offered by the universities that are members of the Association, providing institutional recognition by the use of the ELFA label. The conditions that must be fulfilled in order to obtain the recognition of an ELFA Summer Course are established in the Regulation. The courses must be scheduled for taking place during 2022, after the end of the ordinary teaching period in the Law School where the summer course [...]

List of recommended Hotels for the next AGM in Warsaw

December 24th, 2019|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Event|

We have prepared a list of recommended hotels for the next Annual General Meeting and Conference that will take place in Warsaw from 22 to 24 April 2020. Please note that some of these hotels have deadlines for taking bookings, and particularly one of them will not accept further bookings later than 20 January 2020. Then, remember to book as soon as possible! Currently the Board is working on the programme and we inform you about it very soon. Further than this, the ELFA President and the Board wish you all that the new year 2020 [...]

Meetings of the ELFA Board and the European Jurist Network

December 4th, 2019|Board Meeting, Event|

On 28 and 29 of October 2019 an ordinary Meeting of the ELFA Board of Directors took place in Edinburgh. In this meeting, several issues were discussed such as the evolution of memberships in our association and the opening of the call for proposals of the 2020 ELFA Summer Courses. Moreover, the Board also engaged in the re-launching of the European Journal of Legal Education, as a key instrument for the discussion of topics related to legal education. Additionally, the members of the Board focused on preparing the programme and activities of the next ELFA Annual [...]

Great success of the 2019 ELFA AGM and Conference

April 26th, 2019|Annual General Meeting, Conference, Event|

The 2019 Conference and AGM Turin took place between the 10th and the 12th of April in Turin. The Conference started with an institutional welcome and then it was followed by a key note speech which was addressed by the President of the European University Institute. Afterwards, the 2018 Award winners were announced. The Plenary Session initiated with a session devoted to debating on a key topic, that is the role of Comparative Law at the Supreme Courts in Europe, an aspect that is increasingly being recognised from Supreme Court judges in various EU countries. The [...]

The Final Programme of the AGM and Conference is available!

March 25th, 2019|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference, Event|

The final programme of the 2019 ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference is now available! This year's Conference, which is held in Turin from the 10 to the 12 of April, is entitled "Integration and Diversity in European Legal Education." Please check out the program to see a number of very interesting panels and working sessions. We will like to let you know that the registration period is already closed, and unfortunately we cannot accept late registrations. We very much look forward to meeting you soon in Turin!

ELFA-ELI meeting on the European Jurist Project

October 11th, 2018|Event|

The first meeting of the ELFA-ELI European Jurist Project took place on Friday 21 September 2018, at the Société de Législation Comparée and at the Cour de Cassation, in Paris, France. The European Jurist initiative aims at generating a hub to develop mechanisms enabling further Europeanisation of the legal profession. During this initial meeting the participants shared their experience of internationalisation of legal education and their ideas and motivations in relation to the project. At the end of the meeting two working groups were created, one which will focus on education at university level (both graduate [...]

ELFA Summer Courses 2019: Open Call for Proposals

September 25th, 2018|Announcement, Event, Summer Courses|

As it was announced during the Barcelona Annual General Meeting, this year ELFA launches the first edition of its Summer Courses. The ELFA board of directors, in its last meeting held in Warsaw on 19 July 2018, has decided to open the call for applications to all ELFA members. The conditions that must be fulfilled in order to obtain the recognition of an ELFA Summer Course are established in the regulation which is accessible online here. The courses must be scheduled for taking place during 2019, after the end of the ordinary teaching period in the Law [...]

Next ELFA AGM + Conference in Torino, April 2019

September 21st, 2018|Announcement, Annual General Meeting, Conference, Event|

We are very pleased to announce that the next ELFA Annual General Meeting and Conference will take place in Torino (Italy), on the 10, 11 and 12 of April 2019. The title of the Conference will be Integration and diversity in European legal education. We hope that the programme of the event, in which the Board of directors is working, will be of interest to all of you. Soon you will receive more information, but for now save the date!