The European Law Students' Association
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[edit] History
ELSA (The European Law Students' Association) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organisation run by and for law students.
ELSA was founded in 1981 by students from Austria, Hungary, Poland and West Germany and has grown to be the worlds largest independent law students association and it is represented in more than 200 law faculties in 35 countries across Europe with membership in excess of 30 000 students and young lawyers.
ELSA has a consultative status as a NGO at numerous organisations of the UN, such as: ECOSOC, UNCITRAL, UNESCO, and UNHCR.
[edit] Actvities
ELSA's activities fall into three main branches:
S&C - Seminars and Conferences
- seminars and conferences (both local and international)
- law schools
- study visits
AA - Academic Activities
- panel discussions
- Lawyer At Work programme
- competitions, in particular EMCC (ELSA Moot Court Competition) on WTO law
STEP - Students' Trainee Exchange Programme
- international traineeships for law students
[edit] Publications
ELSA publishes:
- The ELSA Guide to Legal Studies in Europe (ELSA GLSE).
- The ELSA Selected Papers on European Law (ELSA SPEL).
- The ELSA Law Web (ELW)
[edit] ELSA by Country
- ELSA Austria
- ELSA Belgium
- ELSA Bulgaria
- ELSA Croatia
- ELSA Czech Republic
- ELSA Denmark
- ELSA Estonia
- ELSA Finland
- ELSA France
- ELSA Germany
- ELSA Greece
- ELSA Hungary
- ELSA Iceland
- ELSA Ireland
- ELSA Italy
- ELSA Kazakhstan
- ELSA Latvia
- ELSA Lithuania
- ELSA Malta
- ELSA The Netherlands
- ELSA Norway
- ELSA Poland
- ELSA Portugal
- ELSA Republic of Macedonia
- ELSA Romania
- ELSA Russia
- ELSA Serbia and Montenegro
- ELSA Slovak Republic
- ELSA Slovenia
- ELSA Spain
- ELSA Sweden
- ELSA Switzerland
- ELSA Turkey
- ELSA Ukraine
- ELSA UK
[edit] ELSA by Local Group
- ELSA Birmingham
- ELSA Cambridge
- ELSA Durham
- ELSA London
- ELSA LSE
- ELSA Keele
- ELSA Wolverhampton
