Welcome
The European Law Institute, founded in June 2011 as an entirely independent organisation, aims to improve the quality of European law, understood in the broadest sense. It seeks to initiate, conduct and facilitate research, to make recommendations, and to provide practical guidance in the field of European legal development.
The Institute has high ambitions, reflected in its Manifesto and in its Articles of Association. It will study and stimulate European legal development in a global context. That should be taken to include, but by no means be limited to, the development of European law by the European Union and the Council of Europe.
Former Member of the European Parliament Diana Wallis was elected as the new President of the European Law Institute on 6 September 2013. She succeeds Sir Francis Jacobs as the head of the Institute. Her statement of acceptance can be found here.
ELI News
ELI Special Interest Groups: Call for interest for ELI members
The ELI Council accepted, on 13 February 2015, the Executive Committee Proposal on the establishment, structure, functioning and role of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). These are subject-specific ELI Hubs intended to play a...
Austrian Hub Event - Conference on Secured Transactions in the Work of UNCITRAL
In collaboration with UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) and the Österreichische Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (the only independent research association in Austria devoted to banking)...
Austrian Hub Event - 19 February 2015
As part of its newly established forum NOTARION xp, the Austrian Chamber of Notaries, supported by the Austrian Hub of the ELI, is holding a talk and discussion on “Europäische Ehe- und Partnerschaftsverträge” (European Marriage...
ELI Council met last Friday in Vienna
The ELI Council convened in Vienna for a plenary meeting on 13 February 2015.
Members of the Council and Senate of the ELI met in the Senatssaal at the University of Vienna to discuss the work of the Institute and to cast...
ELI Polish Hub was launched in Warsaw on 16 February
The ELI is delighted to announce the emergence of a Polish Hub, which was formally established in February. To mark this endeavor, an evening of presentations and discussions, at which several eminent Polish lawyers as well as...
ELI presentation at the European Parliament’s JURI Committee meeting
ELI President Diana Wallis, Vice-President Christiane Wendehorst, and member of the Executive Committee Sjef van Erp participated at a meeting of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on 19...
Vacancies at the ELI Secretariat in Vienna
A full-time and a part-time Office manager position are vacant at the Secretariat of the European Law Institute (ELI) starting in January 2015.
The ELI Secretariat is looking for two committed additions to its young and dynamic...
ELI Statement on Collective Redress and Competition Damages Claims approved by the Council
In its decision of 12 December 2014, the ELI Council approved the Statement on Collective Redress and Competition Damages Claims.
ELI-UNIDROIT meeting in Rome on civil procedure
On 27 and 28 November, members of the ELI-UNIDROIT joint project „From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure“ will gather in Rome. The project (ELI Instrument) aims at adapting the American Law Institute...
Diana Wallis speaks at European Parliament Conference
President Diana Wallis was a speaker at a conference entitled "The EU's Business? Ensuring remedy for corporate human rights abuses" held at the European Parliament on 12 November 2014.
