The Summer Academy will take place at the University of Manchester School of Law on the 11th-12th July 2019. The Summer Academy brings together graduate students and young professionals with prominent academics and practitioners for two days of conversations, lectures and roundtables. Participants will have the opportunity to develop fundamental insight and skills in governance at the intersection of finance, law and political economy, as well as develop their community and professional networks. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will receive certificates. The Summer Academy is generously hosted by the YSI FLE, APPEAL and the LMI.

The Finance, Law, and Economics Working Group is one of the most active WGs under INET Young Scholar Initiative. In addition to events around the globe, the FLE hosts monthly webinar sessions with leading scholars and regularly engages with more than 400 active members from undergraduate to post-doctoral level.

The Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law (APPEAL) is a collective of academics, policy-makers and practitioners that seek to promote progressive scholarship and policy tools at the intersection of political economy and law. APPEAL holds annual events and collaborates with a number of other networks (e.g., Roosevelt Institute, PERI) to promote a wide range of activities (e.g., conference panels at the American Association of Law Schools, Class Crits, and Law and Society).

The Law and Money Initiative (LMI) is a consortium originally established between Cornell Law School, the University of Manchester School of Law, and the University of Sheffield Law School. The LMI is focused on promoting sophisticated, progressive understanding of the interaction between law and money in global governance, with a specific interest in student outreach.

A particular set of ideas about law, money, and society dominated the last half century of global governance - in a nutshell, that the world was far too complex for coordinated democratic decision-making and should best be left to ‘the market’. This carried far reaching theoretical assumptions and policy implications: for instance, money is apolitical, democratic values are procedural not substantive, law is largely instrumentalist, and society reflects an infinitely complex range of consumer interests. These ideas permeated expert thinking across the political spectrum in what we might call the post-Cold War ‘mainstream’, which effectively kept fundamental issues of monetary and fiscal policy absent in public discussion. The global crisis and its aftermath in the last decade have disrupted the mainstream and led to new thinking and insights into the dynamics of law, money, and society: how they function, how they relate to one another, the possibilities of future policy options, and even how we might reimagine our understanding of core democratic values. This July 2019, the FLE, in collaboration with the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law and the Law and Money Initiative, aims to bring together graduate students, young professionals, senior academics, and policy makers to collaboratively 1) develop a deeper understanding of the intersection of law and money to rethink the democratic possibilities of future policy making, and 2) nurture a diverse community of friends, colleagues, and mentors for future learning and support in their professional trajectories.

Funding: We aim to provide selected participants—current members of the Finance, Law, and Economics Working Group and those who would like to become active members of our working group in the near future— three nights’ fully funded accommodation and catered lunches and dinners throughout the two-day workshop.

Selection: The selection will be based on the merits of the application. We especially encourage applications by advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs whose studies, careers, and research interests are related to the fields of law, economics and finance, and who would like to become active members of our working group. Please be aware that you will have to cover any additional expenses yourself.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15th of May 2019

APPEAL @ https://www.politicaleconomylaw.org/
LMI @ https://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/research/themes/law-money-technology/law-and-money-initiative/