The Institute for European Law was established by professor Koen Lenaerts in 1990 in order to support the teaching and research activities in European law of the Leuven Law Faculty. Since then, the Institute has been the academic home of various junior and senior researchers, who have published extensively on issues of the institutional and substantive law of the European Union. As several of its current and former members have been or are working for the institutions of the European Union, the Institute has always had a close working relationship with the European institutions. Whereas it is one of the Law School's youngest research institutes, the Institute has been the breeding-ground for a series of important Ph.D. theses and of some of the leading textbooks on general European Union Law (European Union Law, previously Constitutional Law of the European Union) and on judicial procedures (EU Procedural law, previously Procedural Law of the European Union). Together with the colleagues of the Law School's other research groups, the Institute's members take care of a series of courses on European Union law mainly oriented towards bachelor and master students in law, but open to students from other Leuven faculties as well. For many years, members of the Institute have coached students participating in international moot court competitions on European law.