European Law Institute Editor

The European Law Institute (ELI) is an independent non-profit organisation established 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. By its endeavours, the ELI seeks to contribute to the formation of a more vigorous European legal community, integrating the achievements of the various legal cultures, endorsing the value of comparative knowledge, and taking a genuinely pan-European perspective. As such its work covers all branches of the law: substantive and procedural; private and public. The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit) is an independent intergovernmental Organisation based in Rome with 63 member States world-wide. Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and co-ordinating private and in particular commercial law as between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments (international conventions and model laws, principles and rules, and guides) to achieve those objectives. In its almost 100-year history it has conducted approximately 90 studies, developing numerous instruments advancing uniform law in as diverse fields as civil procedure, contracts, cultural property or security interests and access to finance.