ELSA London

A Junior Chamber International (Osaka branch) event What have Al Gore, Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy, Kofi Annan and half of the Japanese parliament got in common? They were all members of JCI – the Junior Chamber International. In the UK the JCI is also known as  the Junior Chamber of Commerce or the British [...]

Organised by King’s College Grad students The seventh annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference (IGLRC) will be held on the 8-9 April 2013 at King’s College London, home of one of the top 25 law schools worldwide and located in the heart of London’s legal district. This two-day conference has a reputation for being a [...]

Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) UK Conference The conference, currently in its 7th year, is aimed at students, academics, professionals, activists and members of the public. ‘Land grabbing’ is the large scale (and often transnational) acquisition of land for agriculture, mining and other development. Land grabbing raises a range of environmental, legal, social, economic and [...]

The Brazilian government has created a Truth Commission that started its two-year mandate in May of 2012. Charged with investigating human rights abuses committed by state agents in the period 1945-1988, the Truth Commission has generated considerable controversy. This conference proposes to examine the first year of the Truth Commission’s work by placing it in [...]

The Symposium aims to provide research students working in the broad area of environmental law and governance the opportunity to present their work in a supportive, subject-specific environment. Anyone with an interest in the area is very welcome to attend, academics and students alike.  The organisers are particularly keen for the event to allow students to [...]

Description This one day conference, hosted by ABColombia and the Human Rights Consortium, brings together a number of experts including scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from a range of disciplines and key public bodies, and indigenous and community leaders from Latin America. The UK will launch its initial strategy on implementation of the UN Guiding Principles [...]

Our friends in Berlin are organising a Model United Nations (MUN) simulation in August 2012. This is their inaugural event and the English Law Students’ Association (ELSA) is very happy to support their efforts. Below is an invitation from the secretariat addressed to any student or graduate who is interested in the UN and would [...]

If you’re available today, there’s an environmental conference happening at UCL (starts 10.30, runs all day). UCL Roberts 106, all day conference The implementation of regulatory policy is central to protecting our environment and our natural resources. Whether businesses comply with environmental regulations depends heavily on the design and enforcement of such regulations. The European [...]

On Saturday 25 February 2012, LawCareers.Net is sponsoring the CityLawLIVE conference, when 200 students will have the chance to meet partners from a fantastic group of London-based international law firms to learn what lies in store for those who take this career path. TheCityLawLIVE conference is open to both law and non-law students, so make [...]

Public Liability of Private Corporations DATE: Thursday 4th – Saturday 6th August 2011 VENUE: Utrecht University The International Law Students’ Association (ILSA) summer conference will be held August 4-6 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in conjunction with the five partner schools of the Transnational Law Program — Washington University in St. Louis (USA), Utrecht University (Netherlands), [...]