Legal Theory | The European Academy of Legal Theory in Transition

The European Academy of Legal Theory / Académie européenne de théorie du droit (EALT) is a network and platform of academic institutions, resaerchers, and legal practitioners collaborating in the promulgation and advancement of research and teaching in legal theory and their interrelations with legal practisce. It forms a main platform for the exchange of legal theory education and legal practice in Europe (for a mission statement see section "Building Bridges").

EALT was founded in 1989 by the European Association for the Teaching of Legal Theory - AEETD (Association européenne pour l’enseignement de la théorie du droit) together with the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles and the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel. In 2009 the cooperation between AEETD and the two partner universities in Brussels ended.

AEETD has launched an initiative to renew its Academy together with several partner universities throughout Europe and to pool long-standing activities of AEETD like

the summer schools (see section "Summer Courses"),
the European Award for Legal Theory (see section "Award"),
the EALT publication series (see section "Publications"),
and its academic network in legal theory (see sections like "CEE Forum")

together with the EALT consortium's new project to develop and offer a

Joint Postgraduate Master Course (LL.M.) in Legal Theory (see section "AMELIE")

EALT as consortium roof organisation, next to AEETD, involves the following partner universities contributing to the new master project and/or to the Academy's other activities:

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium
Jagiellonian University Cracow in Poland
University of Vienna in Austria
Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main in Germany
University of Lucerne in Switzerland
University of Stockholm in Sweden
Free University of Berlin in Germany
University of Palermo in Italy
University of Oxford in the UK