“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 [...]

“Congratulations to ELFA on its 25th anniversary. In these troubled times, organisations like ELFA, where people from many jurisdictions co-operate together, are more important than ever. I wish ELFA all the best for its next 25 years!” Fiona Cownie University of Hull ELFA President, 2005-2006

"Happy birthday to you ELFA but I prefer to say - or sing - because we will be in Warsaw, Sto lat! Sto lat! Niech żyje, żyje nam! - 100 years, 100 years, May they live!" Dominique Breillat Université de Poitiers ELFA President, 1998-1999 p.d. “The signification of my quote is that in Poland the traditional song for birthday is: "Sto lat" (see https://youtu.be/mGdytuGZhj4 )”

“In 1995 when we founded ELFA, there was a widespread understanding and partly even euphoric acceptance of the European idea all over the continent. Throughout the countries, across the border learning from each other and cooperating in building up new structures of common engagement overturned step by step the old deep routed nation bound routines. Now twenty-five years later, we are confronted with some kind of monstrous decay in this respect. The year started with the gloomy Brexit menetekel; stimulated by anti-European slogans, one of the most important countries left the European Union after a long [...]

"In these unsettling times legal education not only needs to provide full technical mastery of the legal techniques but also to develop stable and balanced human personalities, capable of making judgements that will stand the test of time".Frans VanistendaelKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenFirst President of ELFA, 1995-1997