The Academy for European Private Law aims to support and to promote actively research on the different legal systems in Europe as well on those legal systems in the world that have been influenced by european legal systems. The process of elaborating private law by the legislative, executive and judicial bodies of the European Union is also at the heart of this research.
The method chosen by the Academy includes a historical, sociological and constitutionnal approach as well as an approach based on the law of civil proceedings. Thus trying to extract the very core of different national legal systems and trying to figure out what these systems share, the Academy focuses on a systematic comparative approach based on a very precise methodology. The Academy also focuses on a issue, often underestimated, of language as part of legal traditions and stresses the need for a semantic research in the field of legal terminology. The Academy is actively engaged in promoting the development of private law in several countries, in a way that takes into account the necessary interaction between national law and the current or future attempts of european harmonization of private law. The Academy strongly believes in the intrinsic value and the fundamental equality of each legal system, culture and language trhoughout the European Union as well as beyond its borders. The Academy is founded on the idea of "diversity within unity" as the most important asset to the developpment of european law and to exchanges with countries beyond the borders of the European Union. |