title: Estonian Legal Space in Global Legal Space
reg no: SF0182740s06
project type: targeted financing
subject: 5.2. Juridical Sciences
status: accepted
institution: University of Tartu
head of project: Raul Narits
duration: 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2011
description: The research project sets objective to analyze comprehensively Estonian legal space, taking as a basis Estonian national legal order and its development, but considering its interconnection with global legal order through all branches of law, for the first time in the Estonian legal research. The research is analyzing all instruments of global legal integration:
1) unilateral integration – this aspect requires analysis of realities and development of national legal order;
2) multilateral treaties – as there are no legislators above states this aspect calls for analysis of instruments employed to produce legal norms that would allow co-operation of national legal orders;
3) voluntary unilateral parallel legislation – the analysis will entail capabilities of different sources of law, e.g., co-operation in Scandinavian legal space, experience of UNCITRAL, etc.;
4) uniform set of legal norms based on selfregulation of transnational economy and objective law (lex mercatoria);
5) international model laws, e.g., The Princiles of European Contract Law (PECL) and UNIDROIT Principles of Commercial Contracts (UPICC);
6) judge-made law – these issues need analysis primarily because Continental-European legal culture did not recognize for long time judge-mad law as a source of law;
7) jurisprudence as comparatively independent potential developing Estonian legal space.

project group
no name institution position  
1.Jaan GinterTartu University, Faculty of LawDocent 
2.Margus KingiseppTartu University, Faculty of Lawassociate professor on civil law 
3.Triin KivisildTartu University, Faculty of LawResearch Fellow of Civil Law 
4.Irene KullTartu University, Faculty of LawDozent of the civil law of the University of Tartu advisor of the Supreme Court of Estonia(0,5) 
5.Janno LaheTartu University, Faculty of Lawlecturer of civil law 
6.Heiki LindpereTartu University, Faculty of LawDirector 
7.Marju LutsTartu University, Faculty of LawProfessor of Legal History 
8.Kalle MeruskTartu University, Faculty of LawHead of the Chair of the Constitutional and Administrative Law, Professor in ordinary of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law 
9.Merle MudaTartu University, Faculty of LawDocent Holder of the Chair of Labour and Social Security Law 
10.Lauri MälksooTartu University, Faculty of LawHolder of the Chair of International Law, Assistant Professor 
11.Raul NaritsTartu University, Faculty of Lawprofessor of comparative jurisprudence 
12.Vallo OlleTartu University, Faculty of Lawdocent of administrative law 
13.Heiki PisukeTartu University, Faculty of LawProfesor of Intellectual property Law; head of private Law Department 
14.Mario RosentauTartu University, Faculty of LawChief Editor of electronic newspaper (until the end of 2005) Associate lawyer Lecturer (0.75) 
15.Kalev SaareTartu University, Faculty of LawLecturer of Civil Law 
16.Joachim SandenTartu University, Faculty of LawHead of the Chair of the European Law, Professor in ordinary of European Law 
17.Meris SillaotsTartu University, Faculty of LawLecturer of Criminal Procedure 
18.Jaan SootakTartu University, Faculty of LawUniversity of Tartu, Professor of Criminal Law 
19.Gaabriel TavitsTartu University, Faculty of LawDocent of Law 
20.Paul VarulTartu University, Faculty of LawProfessor of Civil Law, Head of the Institute of Private Law 
21.Hannes VeinlaTartu University, Faculty of LawDocent of Environmental Law