Welcome to 75th ILA Conference Sofia, Bulgaria 2012

Dear friends and colleagues,

Back in 2002, when we first had the idea of hosting the 75th ILA Conference in Bulgaria, very few people considered it possible. I have witnessed both the official presentation of our nomination in 2004 and its approval in 2005 under the patronage of Mr. Anton Stankov, former Minister for Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria and present member of the Executive Council of ILA-Bulgarian branch.

I would like to express our special gratitude to our colleagues from the Japanese branch, who withdrew their nomination to host the 75th ILA Conference in 2012 as a sign of respect to the ILA-Bulgarian branch who will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. We are all sympathetic to the pain of the Japanese people, caused by the devastating forces of nature and we very much hope to meet at a Japanese ILA Conference in future!

We wish best of luck to the organizers of ILA Conference 2014 in Washington DC, USA and ILA Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa!

We are looking forward to seeing you and we are convinced that the most prestigious forum of ILA will contribute to accomplishing our slogan – “Law for a Peaceful World”!

Professor Dr. Alexander Yankov

President of ILA-Bulgarian branch

President of the National Organizing Committee

of the 75th ILA Conference