More than 36 law firms across Europe will soon welcome Ukrainian law students to their offices for three-month internships as part of an initiative spearheaded by academics and lawyers who specialise in arbitration.

The initiative was founded and is being led by Patricia Louise Shaughnessy, a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden deeply involved in the international arbitration community, and Alicja Zielińska-Eisen, of counsel at ­the Polish law firm Queritius.