Women from all over the world are invited to take time away from their busy schedules and to discuss how to best empower women who dedicate their professional life to all things legal. Each year, the conference ends with a gala event that honors 1) gamechangers, pioneers, and young achievers, 2) women in academia, as well as 3) the most impactful women for their lifetime achievements.
This year, our very own Emma Lantschner was shortlisted as one of the most impactful women in academia for championing minority rights and equality law, a work that she conducts also outside the proverbial academic ivory tower as a member of the Council of Europe´s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The award this year went to Rasha Takieldin, an Egyptian professor of international private law that has been shattering legal barriers in her country for the past 25 years, and to Satang Nabaneh, a Gambian-American professor whose work focuses on women´s reproductive rights. It did not however feel like a loss: after all, on Friday evening the Academy of Sciences was the place where women celebrated their dedication towards one another and their accomplishments.
Our faculty gladly joins these celebrations – congratulations!