“Omnes populi, qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utuntur: Nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius constituit, id ipsius proprium est vocaturque ius civile, quasi ius proprium civitatis; quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.”
Who we are
Gaius Institute is an international academic institution for the study and research about private law in its theoretical and normative evolution, along all areas that this discipline encompasses.
It develops its main interest in the modern and contemporary institutions, at the same time it promotes the investigation of their genealogy in all the interested subjects.1
To this end, as investigation centre, the Institute selects, promotes and organises events and appointments for the analysis and debate concerning the most relevant topics offered in the world-wide panorama.
An Answer to a Global Issue
The diversity and complexity of private law systems, on a global scenario, is assumed as the starting ground of the investigations, for the observation of both the models of iinstitutional integration, be they international, supranational or of other nature.
The main domain of interests results therefore the effects in the individual and collective regulatory spheres, the concrete features of concepts and situations within the various national legislations providing a high level of normative complexity and the jurisprudential evolution giving specific forms to them.
Our Prism
The Institute aspires to focus on he modern ordering of private law institutions, on their roots in contemporary systems and on the processes of recognition and interpretation through which their rationale is provided, having as much regard for their formants rooted in legal history and in other fields of legal science.
In observance of pluralism of ideas and of methodological options of each of its Fellows, Gaius Institute aspires therefore to a highly qualified and extensive understanding of private law science in general and to its advancement in legal order.