{"id":1088,"date":"2019-02-25T14:49:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/?page_id=1088"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:00:53","slug":"about-elsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/en\/about-elsa\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT ELSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELSA (The European Law Students\u2019 Association) is an international, independent, non-political, and non-profit organization. It was created for young law students to meet at events that allow them to personally develop, to self-realize and to gain new experiences in the field of law. ELSA consists of law students and young lawyers from all over Europe who are interested in academic and personal growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELSA offers law students an exceptional opportunity and the space to acquire new skills and improve existing ones. It is a unique group created for interaction between students, educators, and practitioners in the field of law and in related fields of law \u2013 all over Europe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELSA was founded in 1981 by students from Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Austria. The number of its members is growing and today, with 400 faculties in 41 countries, ELSA, brings together about 60,000 students and young lawyers across Europe. It is the largest independent association of law students in the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELSA currently has members in Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, T\u00fcrkiye, Ukraine and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Czech Republic, ELSA operates at the law faculties in Brno, Olomouc, Pilsen, and Prague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ELSA also works with other student organizations in North America, ALSA in Japan, ALSA in Australia, ALSA in South Africa, and AEJCI in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our vision:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cA just world in which there is respect for human dignity and cultural diversity\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our purpose<\/strong>: \u201cContributing to legal education, improving mutual understanding and promoting the social responsibility of law students and young lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ELSA in 60 seconds\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6YoJXAM5aVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELSA (The European Law Students\u2019 Association) is an international, independent, non-political, and non-profit organization. It was created for young law students to meet at events that allow them to personally develop, to self-realize and to gain new experiences in the field of law. ELSA consists of law students and young lawyers from all over Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsa.cz\/olomouc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}