The award was announced on 9 September 2020 as part of the ELI’s 2020 Annual Conference, which took place online this year. Alina Škiljić is an associate at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz where she focuses on the areas of corporate, competition and consumer law. She completed her law studies at the University of Zagreb in 2017. Her paper aims to provide an overview of the most pressing risks related to drawing inferences on health data.
The ELI launched the ELI European Young Lawyers Award in 2016, with the goal of enabling the young European legal community to propose practical suggestions for the improvement of European law, and as a way to give voice to the future European legal experts. Entrants must be enrolled in a law degree course at a European University or be within five years of graduation.
The 2020 Award is sponsored by the International Association of Independent Law Firms, ‘Interleges’.
The winner was chosen by a five-member jury comprised of the following experts:
- Sjef van Erp, Chair of the Jury, former ELI Vice-President, professor of civil law and European private law at Maastricht University
- Filipe Machado, Filipe Machado former President of the European Law Students Association (ELSA) International and Association Coordinator at InterelGroup
- John North, President of Interleges
- Walter Doralt, former Chair of the ELI Membership Committee, professor at the University of Graz
- Reinhard Zimmermann, Speaker of the ELI Senate, professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The winning entry can be read here.
