15-16 December 2020 - The European standards on freedom of expression can be more effectively implemented by offering training in this field to different local actors such as judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police officers but also students who could then apply these standards in their current or future work. This contributes to the creation of a favourable environment to exercising freedom of expression and freedom of the media at domestic level. 

The Training of Trainers on HELP Methodology for the online courses: “Freedom of expression” and “Safety and protection of journalists” was organised on 15-16 December 2020 and promoted the courses that have been jointly developed by the Council of Europe Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) Programme and joint European Union and Council of Europe action “Freedom of Expression and Freedom of the Media in South-East Europe (JUFREX)”. The courses are based on interactive learning methods, are free of charge and easily accessible to anyone interested. They are excellent tools to supplement traditional educational material used in legal education and beyond.

The Training of Trainers aimed to equip participants, future HELP tutors with the technical skills needed to lead HELP tutored courses at local level through the HELP online platform in line with the HELP Training Methodology.

The training attended by the representatives of Law and Political Science faculties and lawyers from the region was organised under the JUFREX, in partnership with HELP Secretariat and the South East European Law School Network (SEELS), a network dedicated to increase international competitiveness and the performance of legal education, research and publishing in South-East Europe.

JUFREX and HELP in the Western Balkans are part of the “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, joint initiative of the European Union and the Council of Europe, which aims at assisting Beneficiaries in the Western Balkans region and Turkey to comply with the Council of Europe standards and European Union acquis in the framework of the enlargement process, where relevant.

The Faculty of Law Osijek at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek is organising the 5th lnternational Conference on EU and Comparative Law lssues and Challenges,taking place from 20 to 21 May 2021. This year's conference theme 'EU 2021 - The future of the EU in and after the pandemic' will explore future directions for law and economics in EU. The key objectives of the conference are to provide a forum for scholars in the areas of research and innovation policy analysis to exchange ideas, and to present findings across disciplinary boundaries.

We invite you to consider submitting an abstract for the Conference. The Organization Committee will decide which papers should be included in the Conference.

Please find all the necessary information on the Call for Papers.

SEE Law Journal is publishing a Call for Papers for the Special Edition of the journal due December 2020, an edition that is published within the frames of the  “Cross-border enforcement of judgments in South East Europe” sub-project which is implemented under the leadership of the GIZ Open Regional Fund for South East Europe-Legal reform. The Call is opened for academics, legal professionals, researchers and PhD law students from South East Europe. 

Please find more in the Call for Papers we are enclosing here. This Call for Papers is open till 10 of November 2020, and all submissions must be written in English Language until this date, to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We would like to inform all interested applicants who wanted to participate with their own contribution to the latest edition of the SEE LJ that the deadline for application for the latest issue has been postponed. The new deadline is 12 of October 2020. 

Please note that we have experienced some technical difficulties with our seelawjournal.org website recently,  and the submission of papers through the platform was not possible.

The site and the platform are both active now, so you may submit the papers via the platform and via email. We would urge you to send us the papers both on the platform and via email to the following address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., to be on the safe side.  Please find all the necessary information on the Call for Papers and Guidelines for Authors.