ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces some basic information about the European University Institute, its institutional setting and its research identity. The Law Department is composed of 12 professors, holding chairs on European Union law - constitutional, administrative and external relations - comparative constitutional law, international law, transnational law, human rights, labour and social law, private and economic law, competition law, information technology and legal theory. In Europe, legal education is deeply tied into national legal culture, national legal traditions and national language. Transferring knowledge, legal education in a transnational environment, is much more about learning techniques which can be applied largely independent from the concrete subject matter. The deeper level of transnational legal education lies in the combination of the need for abstraction, the pressure for concretization and the methodology to combine both perspectives. What is often overlooked is that transnational legal education goes hand in hand with the rise of transnational law.
