Call for Papers for the 2025 ELI Young Lawyers Award

30.04.2025

For the ninth year, the European Law Institute seeks to give voice to young lawyers through its Young Lawyers Award competition.

The ELI Young Lawyers Award was established in 2016 with the goal of giving the young European legal community a means of making valuable suggestions for the development of European law, while fulfilling ELI’s core mission of improving the quality of law in Europe.

Interested young lawyers are invited to submit their papers by 30 April 2025.

Candidates stand the chance to win six prizes:

  • Extract of paper published in the ELI Newsletter and on ELI’s website
  • Best efforts to get the paper published in UNIDROIT’s Uniform Law Review, an Oxford University Press Journal
  • Presentation of the paper at the ELI Annual Conference
  • EUR 1,000 cash, in addition to travel expenses of up to EUR 500 covered
  • 5-year ELI membership
  • Up to 3 months paid internship at a law firm affiliated with Interleges

For entry requirements, please consult our YLA page.