Winners of the ELSA IFP Essay Competition in IP Law were announced

The three winners of the IFP Essay Competition administered by the European Law Students’ Association, which was running throughout summer and autumn months of 2009 were announced lately.

An IFP Essay Competition is organized yearly by the International Board of ELSA and is dedicated to the topic of the International Focus Programme (IFP). The present IFP Essay Competition was the last one in the course of the three years (2007-2010) of the current topic of the IFP which is Intellectual Property Law. The topic of the competition was selected by the Corporate Partner of ELSA, also Partner of the competition itself – CMS who also provided the first prize for the winner of the competition. The prize consisted of a fully covered 3-4 week traineeship with one of the CMS IP Teams in Europe. Although the topic was quite narrow, namely “Copyright/Broadcasting: Cable transmission rights in the EU and European Countries”, seventeen members of ELSA from 13 countries were submitted and the three top essays were selected by the experts in the field of IP law from CMS.

Another Partners of the competition – Thomson Reuters, Sweet & Maxwell and Westlaw International – provided all three winners with books in IP law as prizes. The winning essay was written by Sofio Maisuradze, member of a fresh National Group – ELSA Georgia –. She thanked ELSA International and emphasized that the competition as well as the prizes were really very important for her. Zlatan Topic from ELSA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Tomasz Rogala from ELSA Poland were identified as first and second runner-ups accordingly.

ELSA congratulates the winners as well as all the participants of the IFP Essay Competition and encourages all members to participate in the upcoming essay competition on Human Rights in cooperation with the Council of Europe!

Press contact in the International Board of ELSA:
Frida Orring, +32 (0)26462626; vpmarketing@elsa.org