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Professor Tom Wilson has joined the European Jurist Project and attended the inaugural meeting of the Project’s steering committee in Paris. The Project is an initiative of the European Law Faculties Association and the European Law Institute. The goal of the European Jurist Project is to train future lawyers to understand and appreciate the diversities inherent in different legal systems, both in Europe and globally, and to be able to function effectively in them. The steering committee includes 14 members from legal academia, the judiciary, and government officials. Committee members are from France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, and Ukraine.

Professor Wilson was invited to join the committee because of his experience in directing study abroad programs, including IU McKinney’s Chinese Law Summer Program, and in teaching courses that include students of multiple nationalities, such as the course on the Anglo-American Legal System he teaches in the Transnational Law Program at the University of Geneva.

Following the meeting, steering committee member Sylvaine Peruzzetto hosted the group at the Cour de Cassation, France’s Supreme Court, where she is a member of the Court’s Commercial, Financial and Economic Chamber. The photo shows Professor Wilson and members of the steering committee in the main courtroom of the Cour de Cassation. From left to right are Benoît Chamouard, École Nationale de la Magistrature of France, Paul James Cardwell from Strathclyde University, Professor Wilson, Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm from ELFA and the University of Edinburgh, Bruno Pireyre, Chamber President and Director of Documentation, Studies and Report of the Cour de Cassation, Barbara Pozzo from the University Dell’Insubria, Judge Peruzzetto, Mary Catherine Lucey from University College Dublin, Nicola Wisdahl, representative of the Scottish Government in Brussels, and Lukas Rass Masso, from the Univ. de Toulouse I Capitole.