A comprehensive programme of annual conferences
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he challenge for ERA over the years has been to maintain diversity and breadth in its conference programme despite the ever-increasing number of areas in which EU law applies and despite the growing ‘Europeanisation’ of domestic law. Updating, deepening and enlarging the programme to match the growing training needs and expectations of legal practitioners have been a key element of our strategy.
Annual Conference on Anti-Money Laundering in the EU 2019
CONFERENCES AND LEGAL POLICY DEBATES
These highly technical events, aimed at specialists who wish to keep up-to-date in a specific field, can gather each year a high number of legal practitioners from all over Europe. This was the case in 2019 with the annual conferences on asylum law, consumer law, copyright law, criminal justice, family law, food law, media law, public procurement, financial supervision, pharmaceutical law, social security law, State aid law and VAT law which all gathered more than 50 delegates and experts each. The most attended events of the series in 2019 were the annual conference on labour law with 102 participants from 22 countries, the annual conference on anti-money laundering in the EU with 109 practitioners from 21 countries, and the annual conference on data protection law with 128 legal practitioners from 29 countries. For all of these events, ERA regularly welcomes judges from the Court of Justice of the EU or the European Court of Human Rights, as well as high-ranking EU officials, as speakers.
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Summer Course on Cross-Border Civil Litigation
Evidence of these programme developments can be seen in the range of annual conferences, where the main aim is to cover the most recent developments in a specific area of EU law. This successful formula covered in 2019, inter alia, border management, company law and corporate governance, countering terrorism, environmental law, immigration law, insurance law, patent law, trade and investment law, trade mark and design, and – for the first time – white collar crime.
