Academic Activities (AA) is one of the Key Areas in ELSA which aims to help law students and young lawyers to improve their legal skills. The first Academic Activity was established in 1989 as the ELSA Law Review offering students the possibility to get internationally published. Throughout the years, many new opportunities have been added, however, the key focus of Academic Activities remained: an interactive approach to learning.
An Academic Activities project is a project where participants acquire legal skills by means of practical and (inter)active learning through academic competitions, legal research groups, law reviews, or any other activity that aims to improve their legal and soft skills.
For further information, please feel free to take a look into the AA section on the Officers' Portal and especially the Academic Activities Handbook.
Academic Activities as an area covers a wide range of projects, which you can find summarised below in several categories: