About the
Forum
The EU Forum of the Legal Professions is an
initiative that aims to launch a structured dialogue among the
representations of legal professions in Europe, where common challenges
and concerns can be addressed and analysed, and a joint position can be
formulated. This is an inter-professional platform of exchange, a
collaborative and evolving project between the legal professions, where
the Academy of European Law plays the role of a facilitator. We aim to
organise an event every year, where the latest trends and most relevant
issues of common interest can be discussed by the members of the Forum.
The
conference will start with a keynote speech from Professor Mathias
Kilian from the University of Cologne, leader of the Soldan Institute,
who will provide statistics and examples to illustrate the decreasing
attractiveness of the legal professions. The next three sessions will
deal with the causes of the decreasing attractiveness. The conclusion of
the conference will be an open discussion about the measures the
stakeholders could take to turn around the negative tendency.
Since
the number of participants at the venue is limited, only the
stakeholder organisations can delegate participants to join the event in
person. Anyone interested in the topic can, however, join online and
enjoy fully the interactive hybrid conference.
There is no fee, however participants are asked to register.
Who should
attend?
Judges, prosecutors, court staff, private lawyers, EU officials.
Online format
Online participants can take the floor, address written
questions to the panel through a live chat in Zoom. Link will be
provided after registration.