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- Academic Activities (AA)
The aim of Academic Activities events is to familiarize students with both new legal issues and recurring topics, to impart knowledge and inspire law students to carry out their own exciting academic work. Through AA, ELSA thus makes a contribution to your legal education. Especially effective for recruiting first-year students, AA is the perfect platform to introduce “beginners’” to the phenomenon we call law and show them law school from a different perspective. ELSA has developed and carried out a considerable number of projects in the Academic Activities area.
- (c) Felix Knecht, ELSA Lucerne
Lectures
- (c) Felix Knecht, ELSA Lucerne
The aim of a lecture is to present a current legal topic to the student body; areas indirectly related to law can also be touched upon here. The local groups of ELSA Switzerland invite external speakers from as near as their own university or as far away as another country.
Some of the speakers we’ve welcomed have included:
Valentin Landmann, lawyer for the “Hell’s Angels” in Switzerland
Hanns W. Feigen, defense attorney for former "Deutsche Post" CEO Klaus Zumwinkel in the “Liechtenstein affair”
Ludwig A. Minelli, founder of the medically assisted suicide organization DIGNITAS
Panel discussions
Panel discussions are a good choice for controversial and hotly debated topics because several people with different opinions on a certain topic can be invited to speak. They discuss a – usually legal – issue from different points of view, and the students attending enjoy not only an exciting debate, but also see and learn how varying positions are expressed and justified.
Moot courts
Moot courts are simulated court proceedings in which law students plead opposing sides in a fictional case before a court. This competition allows students to test their qualifications and professional skills for the future. From criminal law moot courts to fairy tale moot courts – almost anything is possible.
Since 2002/2003, there has even been an ELSA moot court on the international level. The ELSA Moot Court Competiton (EMC2) is organized by ELSA International and focuses on WTO law. Following an initial written round in which teams from around the world take part, the best teams meet for several days of head-to-head competition in the Final Oral Round (the location changes every year) in order to try to plead their way to first place.
Lawyers@Work
This event introduces participants to the practical side of things in various legal work areas. In order to allow students to find out about the everyday work of a lawyer in a private law practice or in a government office, visits are organized to law offices, companies and other places. Especially during visits to law offices, students have the chance to see how lawyers work with different legal areas in one workday.
For example, we’ve been warmly welcomed at the law offices of:
Schellenberg Wittmer, Zurich
Homburger, Zurich
Zwicky, Windlin & Partner, Zug
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