On the morning of Monday, July 5, Casa de América hosted the presentation of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Medals of Honor promoted by the World Jurist Association (WJA) and the World Law Foundation (WLF) in recognition of those women who, during their careers, have promoted the rule of law and gender equality throughout the world. [...]
The World Jurist Association (WJA) and the World Law Foundation (WLF) will once again position Madrid as the capital of law with the celebration, during July 5 and 6, of an international meeting of jurists that will be attended by the world elite of law. These two days are included in the Madrid-Bogotá opening session [...]
WORLD LAW CONGRESS COLOMBIA 2021Program: Opening Session MadridJuly 5-6, 2021Casa América – Plaza Cibeles MAIN EVENT: WORLD LAW CONGRESS COLOMBIA 2021 Thu, Dec 2 2021, 8:00 - Fri, Dec 3 2021, 12:30 Colombian Standard Time Puerta de Oro Caribbean Convention Center, Track 40 # 79B – 06, Barranquilla, Atlantic, Colombia About this event RULE OF LAW: DEVELOPMENT [...]
>> The meeting was attended by the Minister of Justice of Spain, the Colombian Ambassador to Spain, the former president and current judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Eduardo Ferrer, and the 50 most important law firms with presence in Spain The Madrid Bar Association (ICAM) hosted a lunch with representatives of legal […]
Recent events in Mexico have raised concerns in the international legal community, in connection with important aspects of the Mexican constitutional and legal order. As a global association of jurists, the WJA’s ultimate mission is the promotion of the rule of the law and never of the force; in this line, the WJA on behalf […]
>> The main presidents of the Ibero-American jurisprudence academies have participated in the latest Opening Session The World Jurist Association (WJA) and the Permanent Conference of Ibero-American Jurisprudence Academies have organized the debate “The Distortion of the Economic & Social Constitution”, moderated by Ramiro Moreno Baldivieso, president of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of […]
“Human rights education is vital to promote participation in inclusion, cooperation and solidarity; it fosters understanding and prevents violence and, as such, it should be treated as an investment in the future that should not be optional”. This is how Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Chile, has defended […]
On the theme «Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law», the World Jurist Association (WJA) held the ninth opening session Luxembourg of the World Law Congress Colombia 2021. According to Xavier Bettel, chair of the event, Prime Minister and Minister of Media, Communications and Digitalisation of Luxembourg: «the main challenge we face is to gain […]
Together with the Permanent Conference of Ibero-American Legal Academies (CPAJI in Spanish), the World Jurist Association (WJA) organized this preliminary session of the World Law Congress Colombia 2021, which has taken up the importance of underpinning the Rule of Law to ensure human dignity: «It must be cared for and protected from constant threats and […]
Chaired by Luis Henry Molina Peña, President of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic, the World Jurist Association celebrated the Opening Session Dominican Republic of the World Law Congress «Higher Education: A dialogue in the Market», on January 19, 2021. The event focused on the need to promote the rule of law through the […]
