Jamal Hajiyev won the 2025 ELI Young Lawyers Award for his paper on ‘From Illusion to Obligation: A legal Blueprint to Eliminate Greenwashing in the EU’. An extract of the paper is available here  2025_Jamal_Hajiyev__Summary.pdf.

 Jamal Hajiyev is a Master’s student in International and European Law at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and a Junior Legal Officer at Mercator by Citco. He also serves as an Academic Editor for the ELSA Law Review. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Jurisprudence from Baku State University, Azerbaijan. His main research interests lie in international human rights and environmental law, with recent work focusing on ecocide enforcement and legal innovation in climate accountability.

ELI wishes to extend its gratitude to Interleges, which has sponsored the Award for the seventh time.

The ELI Young Lawyers Award was officially launched at the 2016 ELI Annual Conference and General Assembly. The goal of this award is to provide the young European legal community with a mechanism to propose practical suggestions for the improvement of European law. The award is supported by ELI and other participating institutions. To submit a contribution for the 2026 award, please click here. Young Lawyers Award