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Opportunities for Law Students through ELSA

ELSA has been increasing international understanding and co-operation between law students and young lawyers since its foundation. By developing cultural understanding and management skills of the students and by providing a select core of leadership potential to business, ELSA is a positive force for global development and understanding between young people with diverse national and cultural backgrounds.  

ELSA is commited to:

• Create opportunities for exposure and interaction between young people of different cultures and nations;
• Complement the students‘ theoretical education with practical business experience;
• Provide opportunities for law students and young lawyers to develop their management and teamwork skills in safe environment;
• Make companies and students more conscious and responsive to the economic, social and environmental development in their communities. 

ELSA members are open-minded, internationally oriented/targeted and multilingual and acquire a broader cultural understanding than other law students. They gain direct experiences with foreign legal systems and business practices through the wide range of activities and international cooperation of ELSA. 


" ELSA gave me an opportunity to test my limits as a person and a professional in a safe but challenging and international environment. Through my time and experiences in ELSA I learned to respect people from other countries, people from my country as well as myself" 

- Antti Husa, Secretary General of ELSA International 08/09