The Legal Community Speaks: The ELI podcast recorded at the ELI Annual Conference in Vienna

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Episode 1 – The Legal Community Speaks: Gratitude, Responsibility, and Imagination with Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballel “We see democracies in question. We see abuse of power. We see the war prevailing over dialogue — and yet, our responsibility as jurists is dissatisfaction, never frustration. Because frustration risks inactivity.” That’s how Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballel, President of the European Law Institute (ELI), defines the challenge for Europe’s legal community today. In this opening episode of The Legal Community Speaks, presented by Dublin-based barristers Mark Tottenham and Peter Leonard, we meet the new President of the ELI — a visionary jurist whose energy, intellect, and optimism are reshaping how Europe thinks about law, democracy, and the future. Recorded at the ELI Annual C