Date: 7-8 September 2017
Application Deadline: 28 July 2017
Location: Berlin, Germany
Transgender Europe (TGEU) is inviting applications from lawyers wishing to attend its fourth legal practitioners’ seminar.
Practitioners from across Europe will come together to share their experience of litigating cases before national and international courts, identify and analyze existing gaps in the legal protection of trans people and discuss how these gaps can be closed through strategic litigation. The seminar will also provide an opportunity to share information regarding relevant legal and non-legal developments in the area of trans rights. This year’s seminar will focus on discrimination of trans people in access to goods and services and employment, including intersectional perspectives involving more than one discrimination ground. Other relevant issues will be determined based on the interests and need of applicants.
The seminar is relevant to practicing lawyers specialized in discrimination-law working at the national level across Europe, interested or experienced in supporting trans claimants, as well as to lawyers with experience of litigating on trans issues more broadly before national and/or regional courts. Applications from participants in previous TGEU legal practitioners’ seminars are welcome, too.
Places at the seminar are limited and potential participants are asked to complete an online application form setting out their experience and motivation for attending.
TGEU will cover accommodation and travelling costs associated with attending the seminar. Information regarding the venue and programme will be provided at a later date. Successful applicants will be asked to arrange their travel to Berlin so that they arrive on 6 September and depart not earlier than 9 September.
Contact Richard at richard@tgeu.org with any questions.