East Africa Law Society

East Africa Law Society
AbbreviationEALS
Formation1995
TypeProfessional association
PurposeRule of Law and Justice for all in an Integrated East African Region
HeadquartersEALS House, Plot No. 310/19, PPF AGM Area, PPF Road off Njiro Road, Arusha, Tanzania
Location
Region served
East Africa
MembershipOver 42,000 members
Official language
English
President
Ramadhan Abubakar Mukira
Vice President
Masoud Salim
Secretary General
John Seka
Chief Executive Officer
David Sigano
Main organ
Annual General Meeting
AffiliationsInternational Bar Association
Staff15
Websitewww.ealawsociety.org

The East Africa Law Society (EALS) is the regional Bar Association of East Africa. It was formed in 1995 and incorporated in Tanzania. The EALS has over 42,000 individual members, and also has seven national Bar associations as members: Law Society of Kenya,[1] Tanganyika Law Society,[2] Uganda Law Society,[3] Zanzibar Law Society, Rwanda Bar Association,[4] Burundi Bar Association,[5] South Sudan Bar Association and Ethiopian Federal Advocates Association . The Ethiopian Federal Advocates Association is the latest Bar Association to join the Society .

The East Africa Law Society works to promote good governance and the rule of law in the East African region and enjoys formal Observer Status with the East African Community[6] and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. EALS is also a member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect[7] under which leaders of every country solemnly promise to protect their people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.

EALS' top decision-making organ is their annual general meeting [3] at which legal professionals come together to review the previous year's developments and to chart a way forward for the year ahead.

References

  1. ^ "Welcome to LSK". lsk.or.ke. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Tanganyika Law Society - Law Association". tls.or.tz.
  3. ^ "Home | Uganda Law Society". www.uls.or.ug. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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  6. ^ "EAC Institutions".
  7. ^ "ICRtoP participates in Eastern Africa Civil Society Forum (EACSOF), RtoP included in final communiqué". Archived from the original on 11 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.