• Convention of Mediterranean jurists 2015

    The Civil Law Initiative in partnership with the Saint Joseph University, organizes the 7th edition of the Lawyer Convention of the Mediterranean sea in Beirut the 22nd and 23rd October 2015. Every year, this event gathers practitioners and academics of the whole countries of the Mediterranean area with panels and workshops which permit to...
  • UNIDROIT

    At its 94th session, on Wednesday 6 May 2015, the UNIDROIT Governing Council considered and approved the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming. The Council unanimously praised the high quality of the work, and commended the Working Group (including The Foundation of Continental Law) for the outcome of its deliberations. The Council endorsed the...
  • Summer University

    PRESENTATION OF THE SUMMER UNIVERSITY OF CONTINENTAL LAW   The Summer University of Continental Law will open its doors on July 3 2017 for the 9th year in a row. It assembles every year in Paris, during the first three weeks of July, students from various areas and backgrounds: in 2016, they were 158...
  • IBER Meetings

    The IBER is hosted at Worl Bank Global Forum on Law Justice and Development on 2015 November 16th Global Forum on Law Justice and Development   IBER held its first meeting at the Institute of political studies in Paris; was presented on 7 July in Paris at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the...
  • International Board on Economic Regulations – IBER

    The International Board on Economic Regulations (IBER) has been initiated by the Foundation for civil law. It was inaugurated in Paris in July 2015 at a press conference at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and international development (MAEDI). It is composed of six eminent personalities of different nationalities, from all over the world,...
  • Index of Legal Certainty (ILC)

         The Foundation for continental law is responsible for the publication of the index of legal certainty (ILC), which evaluates the forms of security to all economic players. Research and development phase for 2016: After proposing a definition of legal certainty based on three essential elements: an accessible law (contained in a compendium published,...
  • European Union – EU

       Follow our news and legal monitoring The Foundation wants to enhance the visibility of the continental law, on the one hand close to the EU institutions (Commission, Parliament, Council, Court of Justice) and on the other hand close to all legal professionals involved in the discussion on the european rules and laws. I....
  • World Bank

               Since 2004, after the different publications of the Doing Business reports, the World Bank group cares about the relationships between common law and continental law. The World Bank holds that its assets into a competitive global marketplace are real. The Foundation has joined the Global Forum on Law Justice and Development and...
  • UNO – UNCITRAL

    UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law). UNCITRAL is formulating modern, fair, and harmonized rules on commercial transactions. These include: Conventions, model laws and rules which are acceptable worldwide Legal and legislative guides and recommendations of great practical value Updated information on case law and enactments of uniform commercial law Technical assistance in...