THE RULE OF LAW AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS  This Town Hall considers issues such as the adequacy of existing international law and comity in fighting pandemics, the scope and limits of governmental powers, weighing evolving science and scientific unknowns, and whether and how the rule of law helps to identify and contain a global pandemic. Premeir… Read More

Investigating and Prosecuting Official Corruption and Money Laundering A CEELI Online Certificate Course Course Overview This course was specifically designed for an audience of civil society activists and investigative journalists. The objective of the course is to provide the participants with a deep understanding, from a law enforcement perspective, of how corruption cases are assembled.… Read More

Belarus is Calling! This three-part series was launched in the autumn of 2020 to provide training and support to improve the skills of civic society activists in investigating and prosecuting torture. The Series provides human rights defenders in Belarus with the tools to call for personal liability for those involved in torture, inhuman, and degrading… Read More

CEELI Online Course Spotlight: EU Law and Human Rights We are currently accepting applications from legal practitioners interested in expanding their knowledge and capabilities on the use of EU law to protect human rights throughout Europe. Participants in the course will obtain an in-depth understanding of EU law and Human Rights, learning about topics including:… Read More

The CEELI Institute has long been a leader in providing intensive, interactive anti-corruption training. It was natural that one of our first comprehensive online courses would address Investigating and Prosecuting Official Corruption. CEELI has adapted what would have been a five day intensive, in-person workshop into a six week online format. This particular version of… Read More

APPLICATION OF EU INSTRUMENTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE – ENROLLING NOW CEELI training 2020 Upcoming Training dates and languages: February 4-5, 2021 (in English with simultaneous interpretation to Croatian and Czech) September 16-17, 2021 (in English with simultaneous interpretation to Bulgarian and Romanian) The two-day seminar, organized in cooperation of the CEELI Institute and the Association… Read More

Our recent engagement with contributors to both our webinar series and ‘CEELI talks’ podcast, as well as interventions from various European representative bodies for the judiciary have identified specific judicial training needs arising from the current pandemic crisis.  Promoting uses of technology that enhance the justice system and enable more efficient, timely, and accessible justice… Read More

The CEELI Institute joins with our friends and colleagues in Russia, the United States, and around the world, in remembering Vasiliy Anatolyevich Vlasihin, who passed away yesterday in Moscow. Vasiliy was the long time staff attorney at the ABA/CEELI offices in Moscow. He devoted much of his career to U.S.-Russian legal exchange and cooperation, and… Read More

  The CEELI Institute continues its ongoing program in support of Turkish human rights lawyers focused on cases related to the defense of freedom of expression, association, and privacy. Our most recent series of programs have focused on developing the legal knowledge and skills for preparing and submitting cases to the European Court for Human… Read More

We are delighted to announce the launch of CEELI Online – our dedicated eLearning platform and program management system. Our trainings offered on the platform were crafted using a “blended learning” methodology. This methodology anticipates a mixture of online and in-person educational events and allows for flexibility in the currently unpredictable environment. We are also… Read More