8/30/2008

Universities with law and economics programs

Almost every major American law school offers courses in law and economics and has faculty working in the field; until 2005, many of these programs received funding from the John M. Olin Foundation, which was an early supporter of the field.
Two of the leading Law Schools focusing on Law and Economics are the University of Chicago Law School, whose distinguished faculty includes Judge Richard A. Posner, Ronald Coase and Gary Becker, and the George Mason University School of Law, whose faculty includes Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, and perennial Nobel finalist, Gordon Tullock. In the spring of 2006, Vanderbilt University Law School announced the creation of a new program to award a Ph.D. in Law & Economics.
The University of Toronto Faculty of Law offers a combined J.D. / M.A. Economics, as well as a J.D. / Ph.D. Economics.
In Europe, a consortium of universities from ten different countries is running the European Master Program in Law and Economics which is the leading European program in the field since 1990. A newer European Doctorate program in Law and Economics is operated by three leading European centers in Law and Economics.
The Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy hosts an International Ph.D. Program in Institutions, Economics and Law. Members of the teaching staff come from various academic institutes in Europe and the United States. A separate Doctoral Program in Law and Economics is currently run by the School of Economics at the University of Siena. Also in Italy, the International University College of Turin [2], with students and faculty from worldwide, runs a biennial Master of Sciences in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance which challenges mainstream views on the subject.
Switzerland's University of St.Gallen has a Law and Economics Program on both the undergraduate (Bachelor of Arts in Law and Economics) and graduate levels (Master of Arts in Law and Economics). The graduate program was initiated in October 2005 at the first international scientific conference on Law and Economics by the President of the University, Ernst Mohr and the St.Gallen Professor and leading business lawyer Peter Nobel. The Law and Economics Program is supported by an International Academic Council lead by leading experts in the field of law and economics, such as Richard A. Posner, Ronald J. Gilson, Victor Goldberg or Geoffrey P. Miller.
Operating outside this particular framework, the Utrecht University offers students the possibility to major in law and economics as part of their undergraduate studies, or to specialize in law and economics in a one-year post-graduate programme.
University of Economics, Prague, namely Department of Institutional Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Public Administration, offers Law and Economics as a possible specialization for graduate students, while complete graduate program is being prepared.
The University of Cambridge also has a specific course called 'Land Economy', who combines law, economy and the environment into one discipline.[3] Nottingham University Business School and City University Law School, London both have undergraduate courses in Law and Economics. In India, the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) offers two courses in Law and Economics to its undergraduate students. [4] In the National University of Singapore, a highly selective Double Honours Programme in Law and Economics was launched in 2005, whereby students complete two Bachelors' degrees in five years.

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