25-29th of July, 2016
Sounion, Athens
Global Law and Governance Summer School is a pioneering initiative of the European Public Law Organization (EPLO) that was developed in collaboration with the Global Network of Greek Lawyers working abroad (GNGL) and is hosted at the coastal installations of EPLO at Sounion, Greece.
Global Law and Governance Summer School offers an intensive full week summer program (25-29 July) with courses and study sessions, all of them taught in the English language from a leading faculty from prestigious Universities around the world, with a completely interdisciplinary approach to law and policy. This is not a traditional summer school. It operates as a research-led teaching Academy, providing professors the opportunity to share their most recent research with a select group of students, through lectures, seminars and mini-colloquia. Students have access to a variety of seminars providing cutting-edge analysis on hot topics in global law and governance. Participants will be awarded the Certificate of Attendance, provided that they fully attend and actively participate in classes, as well as complete all assignments. ECTS Diploma Supplements are available upon request.
Who is eligible for the GLG Summer School?
The GLG Summer School is primarily addressed to graduate students, but also to excellent undergraduate students from all fields of social sciences such as law, politics, economics, sociology, history, philosophy and international relations, as well as to trainee lawyers, lawyers and officials of international organizations and domestic administrations who might have no background in interdisciplinarity and seek ways to continue their education. The participants will attend classes in the various fields conducted by eminent professors from prestigious Universities from all over the world. All the courses will be seminar-like classes and colloquia, and the active class-participation will be encouraged.
Early Bird Application: up to April 29th, 2016 - Application Deadline: June 24, 2016
2016 Professors
Angelos Dimopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, "EU Investment policy: Shaping Global Policies and Priorities"
David Grewal, Yale Law School, "The Invention of the Economy"
?Mary Ioannidou, Queen Mary University of London, topic TBA
Ioannis Lianos, University College London, Georgios Dimitropoulos, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg & Philipp Hacker, Humboldt University of Berlin "Comparative Public Policy and the Law"
Deni Mantzari, Reading School of Law, "Behavioral Economics in the Regulation of the Financial Sector"
Natasa Mavronicola, Queen's University Belfast, "Human Dignity and Human Rights: Past, Present, and Future"
Director of the GLG Summer School Ioannis Lianos, University College London
Deputy Director Georgios Dimitropoulos, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law
Wednesday, July 27, 2016: One-Day Conference on "Digital Currencies, Digital Finance and the Constitution of a New Financial Order: Challenges for the Legal System"
Organized by the EPLO, IMEDIPA and the Center for Law, Economics and Society (University College London) in Athens on Wednesday July 27th, 2016.
Less than a decade after the Financial Crisis, we are once more witnessing the fast emergence of a new financial order driven by three different, yet interconnected, dynamics: first, the rapid application of technology, big data, and behavioural algorithms to banking, lending, and investing, in particular with the emergence of digital currency and digital finance; second, a disintermediation fuelled by the rise of peer-to-peer lending platforms, crowd investment, and crypto-currencies which challenge the traditional banking model and may, over time, lead to a transformation of the way both retail and corporate customers bank; third, a tendency of de-bureaucratisation under which new platforms and technologies challenge established organisational patterns regulating money supply and finance. This may eventually lead to decentralisation, when different (independent) institutions share authority in the financial sphere or centralised control through a different form, for instance code instead of a centralised institution, such as a Central Bank. These developments raise important questions as to who benefits from them and what is the place left, if at all, for democratic politics in this brave New Financial Order. The conference aims to open up and engage the economic, political, and legal dimensions of the three dynamics of dehumanization, disintermediation, and (de)centralization. Fintech experts, law and finance experts, sociologists of markets, central bank experts will engage in an in depth inter-disciplinary discussion over these exciting topics.
The Conference program is available here.
- Engage with Top Level Research in the English Language-
- Gain Career Advice and Network with Leaders in their Field-
- Study at a Serene Location on the Greek Riviera
For more information you may visit www.glgss.eu or contact at admissions@glgss.eu.
