EWLA's aim and goals are: •to improve the understanding of European legislation in relation to equal opportunities, with particular reference to women, and its effects; •to bring together women lawyers across the European Union, e.g. by the closest possible contacts with bars, law societies, associations of women lawyers, faculties and schools of legal education and research, both on a national and international level and with European or other public authorities; •to undertake studies, research and conferences of European women lawyers also with organizations and institutions inside and outside of Europe with view to achieving equality of rights and opportunities; •to strengthen links between EU women lawyers and to encourage meetings, cooperation and unterstanding between women lawyers.