ELSA London

Between 8 – 12 June 2013, the ASHA Centre (an international NGO based in Gloucestershire) will host a seminar on Education for Sustainable Development, funded by the European Union’s Youth in Action Training and Co-operation Plan (TCP). Selected participants will have the opportunity to take part in field trips across the Forest of Dean and to engage [...]

May 2013 marks five years since seven former leaders of the Bahá’í community in Iran were tried and sentenced to 20 years in prison for their religious beliefs. Their trial and sentencing is a concerning case of religious persecution, and is emblematic of wide scale abuses of due process in the Iranian justice system that [...]

This is a free event organised by the Houses of Parliament Outreach Service Parliament formally opens for its 2013-2014 session with the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament on 8 May. The speech will set out the Government’s proposals for new laws to be examined by Parliament in the new session. Come to a [...]

LSEE-Research on South East Europe research seminar The LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme is a regular series of research seminars aimed at bringing research and scholarship by academics, policy professionals and other South Eastern Europe experts to a wider audience. Jasna Dragovic-Soso is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths University. James Ker-Lindsay is a [...]

International Refugee Law seminar series Human trafficking raises potentially onerous protection obligations for States. Ryszard Piotrowicz explores the relevance of the Refugees Convention to those at risk of being trafficked, and considers possible entitlement to complementary protection. The content of such protection is then considered, in light of the decision in Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia (2010) [...]

This seminar is intended for anyone involved in a student / youth group which deals with civil liberties, human rights and youth issues or in a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) which deals with these same themes. The seminar is also intended for researchers and youth / student leaders. TITLE: “Enhance the Role of CSOs in [...]

The evolution of the legal status of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy has generated responses from a relatively small number of legal scholars. Overall, legal research on security and defence takes the approach that EU law constitutes a viable tool for integration but focuses upon the demarcation of its inherent limits rather than [...]

Have you just started Public or Constitutional Law? Are you a bit confused? Would you be interested in attending educational talks at Parliament?   ELSA has arranged a series of  talks at Parliament.  These should be considered an “introduction” so if you are advanced student, then they may not really offer you much. During the 90 mins [...]

A summer school organised by the European Law Students’ Association in Romania. Our friends, ELSA Bucharest are hosting their annual Law is Better than War summer school, Wednesday 18 – Sunday 29 July 2012. This will be the 9th year running and, as always, ELSA Bucharest will be very happy to see some UK students at this [...]

Seminar, book launch and reception Blair’s Just War: Iraq and the Illusion of Morality(Palgrave), Dr Peter Lee,  Lecturer in the Air Power Studies Division of the Defence Studies Department. Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair’s illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraq invasion because the [...]