ELSA Athens

ELSA (European Law Students’ Association) is an international, independent, non-profit and non-political association for law students, trainees and young lawyers. The European Law Students’ Association of Athens (ELSA Athens) is the local group of ELSA in Athens and is active at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

The aim of ELSA Athens is to give students of the Athens Law School, as well as young lawyers, the chance to take part in academic activities, seminars and conferences, as well as in the traineeship programme abroad through STEP (Students’ Trainee Exchange Programme).

With this in mind, it has organised a variety of activities (conferences, one-day events, study visits, legal research groups, etc.) aimed at familiarising young people with a demanding legal environment and developing their international outlook and professional skills, giving them the opportunity to encounter different mentalities and legal systems through critical dialogue and academic cooperation, always respecting ELSA’s vision of a just world in which human rights and cultural diversity are respected!

ELSA Athens was founded in 2002 as a legal entity in the form of an association. Today it has around 200 regular members. It is the members who shape its work, on the one hand through their participation and creativity and on the other through the annual fee they pay, which is the association’s main source of income.

You can find the Statute of ELSA Athens here.