Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues are proud to announce the twenty-third edition of an award that promotes excellence in the knowledge and practice of business law.
The following prizes will be awarded:
- First prize: €6,000 and a scholarship of 100 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues. - Second and third prizes: scholarships of 100 per cent and 75 per cent tuition, respectively, to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues. - Finalists: nine scholarships of 50 per cent tuition to study the Master of Access to the Legal Profession at Centro de Estudios Garrigues.
All prize-winners will also receive a certificate of participation.
To apply for registration, please send a copy of your national identity card or passport, a copy of your current academic transcript, and your curriculum vitae to carmina.de.pablo@centrogarrigues.com.
The application deadline is 25 March 2024.
The jury of the Young Lawyers Award — composed of José Maria Alonso Puig (president), Eduardo Maria Valpuesta Gastaminza, Pablo Olábarri Gortázar, José Ramón Martínez Jiménez (who apologised for his absence), and Alberto de Martín Muñoz (who served as secretary) — met on 23 May 2022, at 10 a.m., at Centro de Estudios Garrigues, Avenida Fernando Alonso 8.
Having considered the written presentations and subsequent oral defences of the case brought before it, the jury passed the following
RESOLUTIONS
FIRST: To unanimously award the twenty-second edition of the Young Lawyers Award, held by Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues, to the following participants:
- first prize to Begoña Olaizola Zárraga; - second prize to Francisco Javier Galindo Giménez; and - third prize to Claudia Rosales Rivas.
SECOND: To award a diploma accrediting the following participants as finalists of the twenty-second edition of the Young Lawyers Award:
- Jesús Andreu Pérez-Cuadrado; - Paula del Barrio Torres; - Juan Delgado Giner; - Víctor González Vitón; - Edurne Beatriz Lamoneda Gavito; - Miguel Larragay Coscolluela; - Jilin Ye Lin; - Christian López Torres; and - Alejandro Uriz Lucientes.
THIRD: To thank all participants and congratulate them on their work.
On 6 June, Garrigues and Centro de Estudios Garrigues hosted the Young Lawyers Award 2022 prize-giving ceremony, an event chaired by the Director General for the Spanish Public Justice Service, María dels Àngels Vidal.
Begoña Olaizola Zárraga, from the University of Salamanca, was the winner of this year’s first prize. Francisco Javier Galindo Giménez and Claudia Rosales Rivas were awarded the second and third prizes.
In 2022, the panel of judges included prominent legal experts like José María Alonso Puig, Alberto de Martín Muñoz, Eduardo María Valpuesta Gastaminza, Pablo Olábarri Gortázar, and José Ramón Martínez Jiménez.
The Young Lawyers Award has become a reference and one of the most important annual events for law students who want to put their skills into practice. The aim of this award is to promote excellence in the knowledge and practice of business law. Participants must complete a written presentation and subsequent oral defence before a jury made up of legal experts from the institutional, academic, and business sectors.
View the case studies from the written phase of the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions.
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