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 and postgraduate), and the other group, which will focus on continuing education for lawyers and judges.

The photo of the post is taken at the Cour de Cassation in Paris. From left to right, we were delighted to be with Benoît Chamouard, from the École Nationale de la Magistrature, Paul James Cardwell, from Strathclyde University, Lloyd T. Wilson Jr. from the Univ. of Indiana, Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, from ELFA-Univ. of Edinburgh, President Bruno Pireyre, Cour de Cassation, Barbara Pozzo, from Univ. Dell’Insubria, Sylvaine Peruzzetto, from the Cour de Cassation, Mary Catherine Lucey, from Univ. College Dublin, Nicola Wisdahl, civil servant of the Scottish Government and Lukas Rass Masson, from the Univ. de Toulouse I Capitole.

In this photo, also taken at the Cour de Cassation, we can see from left to right, Lukas Rass Masson and Sjef van Erp, from ELI- Univ. of Maastricht, Lloyd T. Wilson Jr., Paul James Cardwell, Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Carmen Pérez González from Univ. Carlos III, Barbara Pozzo, Nicola Wisdahl, Josep Maria de Dios Marcer, from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Gema Tomás Martínez from the University of Deusto and Mary Catherine Lucey.

Here at the Société de Législation Comparée, from left to right, we can see Sjef van Erp, Lloyd T. Wilson Jr., Nicola Wisdahl, Paul James Cardwell, Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Gema Tomás Martínez, Sylvaine Peruzzetto, Josep Maria de Dios Marcer, Barbara Pozzo, Lukas Rass Masson and Carmen Pérez González.

We would like to thank both the Société de Législation Comparée and the Cour de Cassation for holding this meeting.

And we let you know that the next meeting is expected to take place in January 2019 in Toulouse, France!