European Law Institute (ELI)Member of the Council
Feb. 2012ViennaThe European Law Institute, founded in 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.
Among ELI’s core tasks are: •to evaluate and stimulate the development of EU law, legal policy, and practice, and in particular make proposals for the further development of the acquis and for the enhancement of EU law implementation by the Member States;
•to identify and analyse legal developments in areas within the competence of Member States which are relevant at the EU level;
•to study EU approaches regarding international law and enhance the role EU law could play globally, for instance in drafting international instruments or model rules; •to conduct and facilitate pan-European research, in particular to draft, evaluate or improve principles and rules which are common to the European legal systems; and
•to provide a forum, for discussion and cooperation, of jurists irrespective of their vocation or occupation, inter alia academics, judges, lawyers and other legal professionals, who take an active interest in European legal development and together represent a broad range of legal traditions.