The EU funded JUST project “JuWiLi II” (01/2025-01/2027) examines “Justice Without Litigation” within the EU – which means the execution of judicial tasks outside the judiciary (courts) by other professions than judges, namely by notaries, lawyers or administrative officials. The focus of the project – which is the successor of EU project “JuWiLi I” (12/2020-12/2022) – lies on the development of a modern European concept of “court” and of extra-judicial administration of justice, on the improvement of the EU system of acceptance, recognition and enforcement of documents and decisions in cross-border cases, the evaluation of the quality of the extra-judicial administration of justice in terms of rule-of-law and fair trial guarantees, and on the identification of best practices as a basis for policy recommendations for an innovative and beneficial future development of the EU justice system inside and outside courts.
Areas of law which are of particular interest are succession and divorce (proceedings), digitalization, execution of title, other issues of family law and registration. The legal systems of the following 22 EU Member States will be analyzed: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain. Academic lead: Prof. Dr. Brigitta Lurger, Prof. Dr. Gregor Christandl (University of Graz, Institute for Civil Law), Prof. Dr. Karl Stöger (University of Vienna); administrative lead: Österreichische Notariatskammer.
For more details see: JuWiLi II-Homepage