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The sixth annual Summer Institute Program is designed for international faculty, with courses to help you integrate law and economics into teaching and research.
Study the Field of Law and Economics at its Birthplace
The University of Chicago is the birthplace of law and economics, and it continues to be the most influential source of scholarship and innovation in the field. At the University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate economists Gary Becker, Ronald Coase, George Stigler, and Milton Friedman worked together with brilliant legal minds like Richard Posner to change the foundation of legal thought in the United States, transforming entire fields of law over the past 50 years.
The Summer Institute in Law and Economics, now in its sixth year, has created a network of well over 300 scholars from around the world who are committed to improving law and policy in their own countries, and who are collaborating to bring economic analysis to the forefront of legal scholarship. The Summer Institute provides legal scholars with the tools and training to bring law and economics into their own classroom and research.
Whether you have already participated in the Summer Institute or are exploring this exciting opportunity for the first time, we invite you to Chicago to learn advanced skills in law and economics.
Curriculum
The program for the 2017 Summer Institute will have four subject units and several special lectures. Each unit will include five two-hour lectures, all in English. Required reading materials in English will be distributed about 30 days in advance of the Summer Institute.
2017 Subject Units
New Frontiers in the Economic Analysis of Private Law — Omri Ben-Shahar
Economic Analysis of International Law — Adam Chilton
Economic Analysis of the Internet — Randal Picker
Public Choice and the Law: Economic Analysis of Lawmaking — Saul Levmore
Scholars Colloquium
In addition to lectures from University of Chicago faculty, the participants present their own scholarly work to each other and to the UChicago faculty in an academic conference setting. This experience allows the scholars to get valuable feedback and direction on their own work, and to contribute to the other participants’ work.
