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We are European, international, comparative, and experimental

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Academy of European Law

Advanced-level summer courses, research projects, and an extensive publications programme

Research project

JUST-IN - Justice-in-context:

social practices, local realities, and the everyday work of judicial independence in Europe

JUST-IN is an EU-funded project that aims to strengthen judicial independence across Europe by examining how it works in practice. Through participatory research and AI-assisted analysis, it will develop tools to improve monitoring, transparency, and cross-border judicial cooperation.

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Research focuses on the challenges facing European law, public international law, and private law, looking at cultural, political, and economic topics.

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Always evolving, never changing: Dimitris Panousos on the law of the sea

In this #MyEUIResearch story, Dimitris Panousos examines how lawyers describe change in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and what that language reveals about how the field imagines its future.

Learning law by performing it: innovative teaching at the EUI

This new #uniquelyEUI series on innovative teaching shows how experimentation at the EUI reaches beyond research and into the classroom. In the first episode, Sarah Nouwen and Antoine De Spiegeleir discuss what happens when students of international law stop reading about trials and start performing them.

The EUI Department of Law turns 50: five decades, a shared intellectual journey

On 17-18 September, the EUI Department of Law marked its 50th anniversary with a two-day conference at Villa Salviati, bringing together faculty, researchers, alumni, and staff to look back on five decades of legal scholarship and forward to what comes next.

When consumer law sustains structural injustice, with Carolina Paulesu

In this #MyEUIResearch video, Carolina Paulesu explains how the everyday, legal actions of European consumers help sustain global injustice, and why the law that governs them is not as neutral as it seems.

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