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 present at the 7th Fundamental Rights Platform meeting last week in Vienna
The Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP), of which the ELI is a member, is a network of civil society organisations that play an active role in the work of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
The 7th annual meeting of...
Internship available at the ELI!
A paid internship is available at the Secretariat in Vienna from June-September 2014.
Thorbjørn Jagland Lecture in Vienna organised by the ELI Austrian Hub
Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, who is visiting Vienna in May for the 124th Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, will speak to ELI Fellows and local students at a...
26th FIDE Congress in Copenhagen
The biannual FIDE Congress will take place from 28 to 31 May in Copenhagen, Denmark. Plese see the attached invitation from President Ulla Neergaard for more information.
ELI represented at the Annual European Regional Law Deans' Forum
ELI Council and Membership Committee member Imelda Maher will deliver a short speech about the ELI at the 3rd Annual European Regional Law Deans’ Forum to be held in Dublin, Ireland on 10-11 April 2014.
Launch of the Slovenian Hub, 14 April 2014, Ljubljana
The Slovenian Hub will be launched in cooperation with the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Centre for Dispute Resolution (ECDR) on Monday, 14 April 2014 in Ljubljana.
ELI Austrian Hub co-organises a lecture on EC Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Foundation
The ELI Austrian Hub, together with the University of Vienna Law Faculty‘s Department of European, International and Comparative Law is pleased to invite you to a lecture entitled „Do we need a European Foundation?“, which will...
International Contracts and Arbitration: New Developments
The Catholic University of Louvain, in cooperation with the University of Liège, will organise a one-day conference on international contracts and arbitration.
Diana Wallis speaks at Trans Europe Experts Forum in Paris
ELI President Diana Wallis was a speaker at a Trans Europe Experts forum held in the "sale de la Commission des lois" of the French National Assembly on Friday 14 March. The forum focused on the main challenges that the...
2014 Projects Conference and General Assembly
The annual Projects Conference and General Assembly will be held this year in Zagreb, Croatia, from 25-26 September.
