The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Law was represented at the European Law Faculties Association’s (ELFA) General Assembly meeting and conference titled “Legal Education in Changing Europe” in Brno, Czech Republic by Vice-Dean and ELFA coordinator Asst. Prof. Dr. Ulaş Gündüzler. According to Vice Dean Asst. Prof. Dr. UlaşGündüzler, the conference touched upon accreditations of Law Faculties, the autonomy of judges and how Brexit will affect law education and academic life in Europe.
At the General Assembly a call was made to European Law Faculties for them to emphasize the superiority of judicial autonomy in legal education, to equip law programs with a sufficient number of qualified academicians, to encourage Law Faculty graduates to fight for democratic societies and freedom of speech, to pressurize concerned authorities to allocate more recourses ensuring legal studies of higher standards, to prepare syllabi according to accreditation systems or to meet the requirements of Bar Associations and judicial councils and to create joint programs with law faculties from other European countries or faculties of other disciplines. The next ELFA General Assembly meeting is scheduled to take place in Spain.
