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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 that we will shortly launch CEELI Online – our dedicated eLearning platform and program management system. The CEELI Institute team is working hard to implement and begin the rollout of this next exciting phase for our professional legal training offerings. Our trainings will be planned using a “blended learning” methodology.… Read More

Dear friends, The Prague Spring is in full bloom, and normally this would be the busiest season of the year here at the CEELI Institute. I can report that we are all well here, and are mostly working remotely for the time being. For us, as for all of you, this has been a challenging… Read More

The CEELI Institute was proud to have been selected as a Panel Organizer for the most recent session of the United Nations Global Judiciary Integrity Network, held in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020. The Global Judicial Integrity Network was created by the UN in 2018 to assist judiciaries across the globe in strengthening judicial integrity… Read More

Remembering a Rule of Law Hero The CEELI Institute is deeply saddened by the loss of our International Advisory Board Member, Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte – a Rule of Law Hero who was instrumental to the founding of the Institute, and who was an inspiration for generations of lawyers committed to advancing the Rule of Law.… Read More

In 2007, the CEELI Institute helped launch the Conference of Chief Justices of Central & Eastern Europe, which brings together the senior judges from the region’s highest courts to share and develop strategies and best practices to promote judicial integrity and accountability, to improve court management, and to combat corruption in the courts. The CEELI… Read More

1968 Prague 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of a brief period of liberalism, economic and social reform and democratization of Czechoslovakia, known as the Prague Spring.  In January 1968, a moderate, Alexander Dubček replaced his hard-line communist predecessor to become the Secretary of the Community Party in Czechoslovakia. His leadership marked the beginning of a… Read More