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UNION INTERNATIONALE DES AVOCATS - INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LAWYERS

Acronym: UIA

General Information

Identification Code: 529934713694-87
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Entity Form: French Association – Law 1901
Registration Category: Trade unions and professional associations
Registration Date: 5/26/2014
Last Update: 12/7/2023
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: UIA, as a global and multi‐cultural organization, facilitates professional development and international exchange of information and ideas, promotes the rule of law, defends the independence and freedom of lawyers worldwide, and emphasizes friendship, collegiality and networking among members. OBJECTIVES: UIA’s objectives, free from all political and religious considerations, are: * To provide benefits for members including cross‐border information and idea exchange, legal training, and development of productive personal and professional relationships. * To advance on a global basis the fundamental principles of the legal profession, including the peaceful resolution of disputes. * To promote the rule of law. * To defend lawyers' independence and freedom to practice their profession.
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
  • Banking and financial services
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Competition
  • Digital economy and society
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • Food safety
  • Fraud prevention
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Research and innovation
  • Sport
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Transport
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • european
  • global
  • sub-national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: The main policies targeted by UIA are those related to human rights; Rule of Law; gender equality; environmental law; access to justice; victims’ rights; criminal justice; civil justice and cross-border litigation; judicial cooperation between EU countries; digitalization of justice systems; E-evidence; business & human rights; immigration and asylum; family law; European labour market; EU antitrust regulations; accession to the ECHR negotiations; data protection; artificial intelligence; taxation issues; IPR and copyright protection.
Communication Activities: * Organisation of events in which EU considerations were addressed: - September 23-24, 2021 – Seminar – Valencia, Spain - Efectos y consecuencias de la pandemia de la Covid-19 en las empresas y medidas que frente a ello ofrece el Derecho de las Insolvencias - October 28-30, 2021 - UIA Annual Congress- Madrid, Spain [Among other sessions: Online Hate Speech; Brexit: Old Friends, New Beginnings?; International Transfers of Personal Data: Complex Legal Maneuvers] - December 7, 2021 – Webinar - Tackling Financial Crimes Together – Focus on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing - March 17- 18, 2022 – Seminar – Barcelona, Spain - The Fashion Industry 2020-2030: Legal Trends and New Challenges - April 7, 2022 – Webinar - Étude comparative sur les procédures d’alerte - Premières analyses sur la transposition de la directive européenne sur la protection des lanceurs d’alerte - May 27 - 28, 2022 – Verona, Italy - IP Law Tools for Protecting Food Products - Looking for the Perfect Pairing: Wine as a Case Study - June 09 - 10, 2022 – Warsaw, Poland - 13th UIA Annual Business Law Forum - June 23 - 24, 2022 – Vienna, Austria - Making the Supply Chain Work – Drafting Effective International Contracts - July 06 - 09, 2022 – Madrid, Spain – Business and Human Rights for Legal Practitioners - 2nd edition - September 30 to October 01, 2022 - Brussels, Belgium - Law Versus Digital Technologies: A Necessary Alliance? - October 26 - 30, 2022 – Dakar, Senegal – 66th UIA Annual Congress [Among other sessions: The European Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: What’s New for European Mining Companies with Establishments in Africa?] - January 18, 2023 – Webinar - Sanctions on Russia: Status, Impact and Effects A complete list of events organised by UIA and their programmes are available at https://www.uianet.org/en/events Publications (specific articles): List of UIA’s publications: https://www.uianet.org/en/publications Juriste International : https://www.uianet.org/en/juriste-international Others : UIA-IROL Statements: https://www.uianet.org/en/actions
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: 9 rue du Quatre-Septembre
Post Code: 75002
City: Paris
Country: FRANCE
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EU Office

Address: 9 rue du Quatre-Septembre
Post Code: 75002
City: Paris
Country: FRANCE
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: The UIA's main sources of revenues are membership fees paid by its members as well as income earned from its seminars and annual congresses. In addition, UIA established an institutional partnership agreement with the information and legal solutions publisher, LexisNexis. Specific actions undertaken by UIA-IROL (Institute for the Rule of Law) have been funded by the Magna Carta Foundation (a foundation established under Swiss law). Financial support and/or sponsorship by public and/or private actors may be provided in connection with UIA events (seminars, Webinars and congresses). For further information, please see the event programmes at https://www.uianet.org/en/events

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 2
Members F T E: 0.5
Info Members: Since UIA is an association with a global reach and is involved in a wide variety of activities, it is very difficult to quantify the time directly or indirectly attributable to specific activities covered by the Register. These estimates presented above are mainly based on the time spent by the staff involved in the coordination of UIA events addressing the activities described under heading 9. They implement the decisions of UIA Commissions organising each one of the events. Such commissions are composed of numerous legal professionals from different countries, and each commission has a President, a Vice President and a Secretary, all of whom could be directly involved in every event. Typically, speakers of such events number from 3-6.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.uianet.org/en/directory
Organisation Members: - AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers) https://www.aija.org/ - World Coalition against the Death Penalty http://www.worldcoalition.org - ECPM ( Together against the Death Penalty) http://www.ecpm.org/ - Institut des Droits de l’Homme des Avocats Européens (IDHAE) https://www.idhae.org/ - International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC) http://www.ilacnet.org/ - OING Service https://www.coe.int/fr/web/ingo - Law Societies' Compact & Forum for SDG 16 https://www.compactandforum.org/ - Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/ Other initiatives in which UIA is involved: - International Fair Trial Day and Ebru Timtik Award Steering Group - Day of the Endangered Lawyer (informal group)