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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 Council adopts Hub Guidelines
The European Law Institute is proud to announce that the Guidelines on ELI Hubs have been finalised and can be found here. The Guidelines provide a detailed account outlining the purpose of hubs, general principles, and...
ELI at the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law
The event will take place next week from 20 July until 26 July at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna. The Secretariat will be present to welcome many ELI members attending the event.
ELI Vice-President Christiane...
Seminar held by ELI Irish Hub and the Irish Society for European Law
Europe House, the European Commission premises in Dublin, was the venue for this event devoted to the recent European developments on private enforcement of competition law. Special attention was given to the implications of the...
Sjef van Erp invited to speak at Uniform Law Commission Meeting
Sjef van Erp, Chair of the ELI International Relations Committee and Executive Committee Member, has been invited to speak at the annual meeting of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. The event is being held in Seattle Washington...
Workshop on Collective redress to take place on 28 June in Sarajevo
The Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo and the Law Faculty of the University of Zagreb, both Institutional observers of the ELI, in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),...
Upcoming Irish Hub event on Private Enforcement of Competition Law
On 3 July, the Irish Society for European Law (ISEL) and the ELI Irish Hub will host a seminar at the European Union House in Dublin. The event will discuss recent legal developments on Private Enforcement of Competition Law....
ELI represented at ERA conference in Trier
The two-day conference organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier, Germany, focused on the challenges of cross-border acquisition and ownership of real property. The diverse range of topics included inter alia EU...
ELI fellows invited to join the European Commercial Law Observatory free of charge
Members of the European Law Institute are invited to join the European Commercial Law Observatory free of charge. This special offer will only apply to registrations completed by 18 July, and will cover the membership for the...
EFTA Court President speaks in Vienna
President of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Court, Professor Carl Baudenbacher, gave a speech at the University of Vienna Law Faculty on Monday 2 June 2014.
ELI work to be discussed at Congress in Italy
A congress held by the Consiglio Nazionale Forense (National Bar Council) and the Consiglio dell’Orgdine degli Avvocati di Napoli (Bar Council of Naples) will feature a discussion on “The Influence of the European Law Institute...
