High Level Expert Group Meeting on Family Law

15.10.2019

The second meeting out of four High Level Expert Group meetings planned in 2019 took place on 15 October at the ELI Secretariat in Vienna in a bid to explore possible future projects in the area of family law.

The expert group, consisting of Tim Amos QC (mediator and barrister in international family law and head of Chambers at Queen Elizabeth Building), Elena Bargelli (professor at the University of Pisa and Chair of ELI’s Family Law SIG), Margareta Brattström (Professor at Uppsala University and Corresponding Member of the University of Cambridge’s Family Law Centre), Anatol Dutta (professor of Private Law, private international law and comparative law at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Corresponding Member of the University of Cambridge’s Family Law Centre), Stephan Matyk d’Anjony (Head of International Affairs at the Austrian Chamber of Civil Notaries), Wendy Schrama (honorary judge; professor of family law and comparative law at Utrecht University; director of the Utrecht Centre for European Research into Family Law (UCERF) and Corresponding Member of the University of Cambridge’s Family Law Centre) worked through a list of pre-submitted topics for possible topics that the ELI could embark on in the field of family law. They were joined by ELI President Christiane Wendehorst and ELI Secretary General Vanessa Wilcox. 

The ELI would like to thank the experts for their extremely valuable input and looks forward to the commencement of projects in the field of family law in an attempt to balance its project portfolio. 

The meeting follows an earlier one on Administrative Law. Two additional High Level Expert Group meetings in the field of criminal law and company law are yet to take place this year.