Legal Day across the diplomatic network
Launched in 2023 for the first time across the diplomatic network, Legal Day is to take place every year in October. For the occasion, embassies and Instituts Français are invited to hold events to help people learn more about law and its values. The second Legal Day will take place across the diplomatic network in October 2024 on all the continents.
What is Legal Day?
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has made law a top priority. Law is central to our social relations. Today more than ever, it safeguards stable rules-based international order. Through law, France promotes the values it upholds, first and foremost the rule of law and human rights.
Inspired by the Nuit du Droit (law night), organized each year in France by the Constitutional Council, and which celebrates each year in France the anniversary of our Constitution, embassies, permanent representations, consulates and Instituts Français hold legal events to open the doors of law and its principles to the general public.
What happened on 2023 Legal Day?
The first Legal Day took place across the diplomatic network in October 2023. Some 50 legal events were held including:
- “La juticia restaurativa para crímenes de masa, Diá logos de experiencias entre Francia y Colombia” conference and debate in Bogota, Colombia.
- Opening ceremony of the Fence Project, entitled “C’est la Vie? Raising Awareness against Capital Punishment through Art” on the World Day Against the Death Penalty and the Constitutional Crossroads: France and America podcast in Washington, D.C.;
- “L’intelligence artificielle et le droit : enjeux et perspectives” round table in Tokyo in Japan;
- Screening of the film “La fille au bracelet” by Stéphane Demoustier and debate for students at the Lycée Français de Madrid and a school with a BACHIBAC programme with Spain’s Public Prosecutor in attendance in Madrid, Spain;
- Round table on corporate social responsibility and its due diligence in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Program - Victims and international Criminal Justice : Repair, Prevent and Remember - (PDF, 297.9 kb)
Update: 26 Sep. 2024