ELSA - The European Law Students' Association
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ELSA (The European Law Students' Association) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organisation run by and for students.
Law students from Austria, Hungary, Poland and West Germany founded ELSA in 1981. ELSA is today the worlds largest independent law students association and it is represented in more than 200 law faculties in 39 countries across Europe with membership in excess of 25 000 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. 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 - Acadamic 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
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)
External link:
The homepage (http://www.elsa.org) of ELSA International.
List of ELSA websites (http://www.elsa-deutschland.org/network/en).