Dear AEA-EAL Members,
Dear Friends,

We invite you to experience the role of mentor for young lawyers within the joint initiative of AEA-EAL and EYBA (European Young Bars Association).

The Mentoring Program proposes to strengthen communication between generations of senior lawyers and young lawyers, guide young lawyers from different countries in their career path and personal development, and contribute to the implementation of the best standards in the exercise of the profession of a lawyer.

The Mentoring Program is contemplated to be resilient and flexible in adjusting to the availability and needs of the participants. It is envisaged as a process to give both sides positive experiences and benefits, expand professional network, opportunity to improve personal skills and get better self-awareness about possessed expertise.

While senior and young lawyers will be free to set their own goals and activities, organizers recommend that monthly meetings/conversations between mentor and mentee are organized and discuss topics of interest. The general meetings of all mentors and mentees will be held at the launch and the end of the Mentoring Program.

The tentative period for organizing the Program is between February – September 2023.

If you are interested, please send the information indicated in the registration form.

We encourage many of you to become a mentor and share your knowledge and experience with others!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, for fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels.

On – line conference- event for European Lawyers Day and the Day of Human Rights

• Date and time:

13th of December 2022, 3 pm- 7 pm CEST on zoom platform, with simultaneous Polish- English interpretation

• Join us:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86375190130?pwd=RTNZa0xPMitJRmNvMnQ1N1hXZG5qdz09

ID: 863 7519 0130
PIN: 466431

Participation is free of charge and will be open without registration.

Registration is necessary for those participants who want to collect training points (5 training points/5 training hours

Organizers and partners:

– Regional Bar of Attorneys in Law in Opole
– European Association of Lawyers – Association Européenne des Avocats (AEA-EAL)
– Institute for African Women in Law
– European Bars Federation / Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE)
– Women in Law Austria

Honorary patronage: The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)

• Agenda:

Opening remarks:

Ms Katarzyna Bisowska – President of Regional Bar of Attorneys in Law in Opole
Mr James MacGuill – President of the CCBE
Ms Maria Ślązak -President of the AEA- EAL
Ms Izabela Konopacka – Vicepresident of FBE and Vice- President of Regional Bar of Attorneys in Law in Wrocław

• Speakers:

Prof. Marci Shore – Associate Professor of History Science University of Yale, specialising in European cultural & intellectual history
Ms Osai Ojigho – the Director of Amnesty International’s national office in Nigeria
Dr Alix Frank-Thomasser – founder of The Women in Law Initiative, vice-President of Euréseau and Chair of the CSR Committee of CCBE
Prof. J. Jarpa Dawuni – Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C., barrister-at-Law before the Ghana Superior Courts, Executive Director of the Institute for African Women in Law
Ms Nida Usman Chaudhary – the founder of Women in Law Initiative Pakistan
Dr Onyoja Momoh – a lecturer in Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen
Ms Magdalena Witkowska – President of Regional Bar of Attorneys in Law in Gdańsk and Vice-Chair of Human Rights Committee of CCBE

and other noble guests.

• Moderator:
  Joanna Wisła-Płonka, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Regional Bar of Attorneys in Law in Opole

The author of the paintings on posters is Polish painter Elzbieta Szolomiak, born in 1940. She used to travel worldwide, observing women living in many different countries and painting their pictures in very different situations. And as she said, giving permission to use her paintings for the poster of the conference- war is death, it is totally opposite to women’s nature of giving and protecting life.

More details are coming soon.
Join us on Zoom, on the 13th of December 2022, 3 pm- 7 pm

On 8-10 November 2022 AEA-EAL President Maria Ślązak participated in the 3rd meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Protection of Lawyers (CJ-AV) – a consultative working party of the Council of Europe composed of 15 representatives of Member States, representatives of several international bodies such as Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers.

Observer members of the Committee are, among others, representatives of international lawyers’ organisations, including the European Association of Lawyers (AEA-EAL). Our Association has actively participated in discussions and works on future legal instruments protecting lawyers’ rights since 2017.

Participants concentrated on reviewing the initial proposal of the text of the legal instrument aimed at strengthening the protection of the legal profession and the right to practice without prejudice or restriction, including monitoring and implementation procedures.

Works will be continued now by the Secretariat and Rapporteur. Experts and observers will meet again next year.

The University of Bern’s Institute of European and International Economic Law,

the World Trade Institute,

the European Association of Lawyers (AEA-EAL)

invite you to a workshop on the following topic:

50^th Anniversary of the Free Trade Agreement – state of play of the trade relationship between Switzerland and the EU

 13 October 2022, University of Bern Hallerstrasse 6 (ground floor) Auditorium Silva Casa 3012 Bern, Switzerland

We have invited high-level experts representing both the public and private sectors, to discuss salient issues concerning the trade relationship between Switzerland and the EU; please find the agenda attached.

Participation in this event is on invitation only. We would be delighted if you could attend.

For administrative reasons, we kindly request your registration to Sandra Joseph (sandra.joseph@iew.unibe.ch) or Nicole Stofer (Nicole.Stofer@prager-dreifuss.com) by 6 October 2022.

Program for download (subject to further changes)

Warm regards,

Professor Michael Hahn & Professor Philipp Zurkinden

Fees: CHF 200.- (CHF 150.- for members of the AEA; speakers, public sector employees and academics are exempted), to be paid on the account of Prager Dreifuss AG, Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG, CH-8070 Zurich, SWIFT: CRESCHZZ80A, Clearing: 4835; IBAN: CH98 0483 5044 0201 0100 0

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Friends,

The Gdańsk Bar of Attorneys-at-Law, in partnership with the AEA-EAL, organises a special event to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Bar of Attorneys-at-law, It is scheduled for 13-15 October

Gdańsk itself is a beautiful coastal city. It is described by major guides and travel websites as the „Pearl of Central Europe” and the „most underrated tourist destination in Europe”. With its medieval Old Town, historic background, including being the biggest Hansa port in the Baltic, well-developed infrastructure and friendly inhabitants, it is a must-see place.

You can find below a short description of planned events:

/1/ two-day conference on Thursday and Friday (October 13-14) „Business. Algorithm. Law. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity” with participation, inter alia, Rafał Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor, C. M. Chan, President of the Hong Kong Law Society and Carmen Raal, Chair of the e-Estonia Briefing Centre. We are pleased to inform you that Iain Mitchell QC, Chair of the AEA-EAL IT Committee is chairing the panel on Digitalisation of Justice.

The conference venue is Radisson Hotel & Suites Gdansk, Chmielna 10-25, 80-748 Poland.

/2/ Gala in the Gdańsk Music Academy to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Bar of Attorneys-at-law on Saturday (October 15).

The program is following:

• Thursday, October 13

09:15 – 16:00 – 1st day of the Conference

19.00 – 22.00 – buffet dinner (hours TBC)

• Friday, October 14

09:15 – 17:15 – 2nd day of the Conference

• Saturday, October 15

09:30 – 13:00 – city seeing for foreign guests

18:00 – Gala, reception and the party on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Bar of Attorneys-at-law

The conference website with the agenda and registration form can be found under the below link:

https://www.bal-conference.com

We invite all of you to participate in the conference and the Bar’s Anniversary celebrations.

See you in Gdańsk!