Rule Of Law Foundation - Partner Organizations:

Polish Judges Association "Iustitia": Iustitia is the national judges association of Poland with over 1500 members in 30 chapters around Poland. Iustitia works to represent the interests of judges in Poland by being a representative voice for their professional development and judicial independence. Iustitia also takes a leading role in judicial training and professional development. Iustitia's web site can be found here.

ABA/CEELI is a legal reform project of the American Bar Association that has been providing technical assistance in legal reform throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States since 1990. CEELI's web site can be found here.

The Center for American Law at Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) was established as a joint project of ABA/CEELI, KUL and Chicago Kent College of Law. It offers a specialized certificate program in American law to advanced Polish law students taught by American lawyers and law professors. The center also hosted last summer and will be repeating this summer a successful summer program on human rights and European law in Lublin, and in cooperation with Chicago-Kent will be starting an L.L.M. program in International and Comparative Law. The web site for the Center of American law can be found here.

THE CENTER FOR ADVANCING LEGAL SKILLS

The Center for Advancing Legal Skills (CALS) was established by the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of Catholic University in Lublin in 2005 to advance the development of education in legal skills for law students and legal practisioners. Legal skills development has been a neglected aspect of legal education in Poland. Practice has shown that a good academic legal education must be balanced with a strong legal skills development program designed to give students and practicing legal professionals the tools they need to effectively represent clients in modern Polish society and to compete in European and world markets.