Leicester, United Kingdom
1st – 3rd March 2012

LSA Leicester and ELSA UK are excited to invite you to our first international event! This conference will look at the aspects of the right to access essential medicines in contrast with the intellectual property rights that companies hold. There will be a combination of roundtables and a final plenary.

Speakers for the plenary:
Professor Gianluca Contaldi, Univeristy of Macerata, Italy
Professor Vincenzo Salvatore, European Medicines Agency
Dr Nathan Ford, MSF Medical Director of Access to Medicines Campaign

Registration deadline: 1/2/2012

For more information please visit ELSA Leicesters’ website.

St Petersburg, Russia
22nd – 25th March 2012

ELSA Saint Petersburg is very pleased to invite you to the 12th International Students Legal Conference iSLaCo “Rethinking Law in Digital Era: Digital Reality and Legal Regulation”, that will take place on 22-25 March 2012 in St. Petersburg.
iSlaCo’2012 will be organized in a brand new format in order to make participants’ work at the conference more effective and interesting. Traditional reports will be replaced with 9 discussion boards. Each of the boards is open for participants with background in different spheres (branches) of law. iSLaCo offers two discussion boards for English-speakers.
They are:
(1) Legal protection of electronic data in European, American and Russian law and (2) Digital state service: pro et contra.
We also have a discussion board for German-speaking participants. The topic is Bewertung der juristischbedeutsamen Aktionen in Internet.
Registration deadline: 20/1/2012

For more information please visit elsa.org

Dear members,
the deadline for the Teams to register for the 10^th edition of EMC2 is extended. The late registration deadline is December 21st, 2011.
For more information about the competition please visit www.elsamootcourt.org.

ELSA invites you to share your opinions!

The right to health care has been generally accepted as a fundamental human right, though merely a social right and therefore not legally enforceable in court. Nonetheless, some legal systems recognise the justiciability of the right to health. This has created opportunities to individual patients claiming healthcare access. As a link between state and citizens, it rising up the question: how will healthcare claims affect healthcare systems?

To present vision of the law students in Europe, ELSA International launched the 4^th IFP Essay Competition: “Right to Healthcare”. The IFP Essay Competition is organised annually by ELSA International in line with the International Focus Programme (IFP) and its 7^th topic focusing on Health Law. The best essays will be published on the website of the European Social Charter by the Council of Europe and on the website of the IFP Essay Competition.

The prizes of the competition will be provided by partners of ELSA:
Winner: Legal English course at the London School of English
Runner up: Summer School on Health Law and Ethics in the Erasmus Observatory on Health Law
2nd runner up: Free participation in the IFP Mid-Evaluation Conference in Trieste, Italy, April 16th – 22nd 2012
The three best submissions will all receive publications and merchandise from the Council of Europe. All participants will receive a certificate of participation.

The deadline for articles to be submitted to essaycompetition(at)elsa.org is the 27^th of February 2012
Learn more about the competition as well as to find the rules and conditions of participation please check the website: http://www.elsa-essay-competition.org