The European Law Institute, founded in 2011 as an independent non-profit organization, aims to improve the quality of European law, understood in the broadest sense. It seeks to initiate, conduct and facilitate research, make recommendations, and provide practical guidance in the field of European legal development. Building on the wealth of diverse legal traditions, its mission is the quest for better law-making in Europe and the enhancement of European legal integration. It seeks to contribute to the formation of a more vigorous European legal community. Its work covers substantive and procedural and private and public law.