GLOBAL LAW AND

POLITICAL ECONOMY

SUMMER ACADEMY

14-17 July 2025

Roccella Jonica, Italy

In the summer of 2025, the town of Roccella Jonica, nestled on the eastern coast of Calabria, Italy, will host the Global Law and Political Economy Summer Academy (14-17 July), an interactive, non-hierarchical, and focused mentorship and skill-building experience for students and faculty interested in critically engaging‌ with the diverse considerations of political economy–law while fostering democratic dialogue with local cultures.

This year’s programme will include ‌roundtable discussions, writing workshops‌ and a ‌cultural excursion to Gerace (15 July)‌; a case study session ‌and a master class (16 July); and will conclude with a career mentorship session‌ and participation in the keynote lectures of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law (17 July) running parallel to the Summer Academy.

The Summer Academy is a collaboration between the INET YSI FLE Working Group, the Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C), the Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE) at the University of Manchester, and the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE).‌

ACADEMIC LEADS

PROGRAMME

14 JULY 2025

Arrivals and
Welcome dinner

15 JULY 2025

Roundtable,

Writing Workshop

and Visit to Gerace

Ex Convento dei Minimi di San Francesco da Paola

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee

Welcome & Roundtable

How to understand capitalism? How to understand global law and political economy in dialogue? Recommended texts and most important challenges?

9:30 – 12:30

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30

Gerace

Participants to gather outside Hotel Mediterraneo for car transfer to Gerace

15:00

Welcome coffee at ‘Bar Cattedrale’, Gerace

16:00 – 16:30

Museo Diocesano di Gerace,
Sala dell’Arazzo

Emerging Scholars’ Writing Workshop

16:30 – 18:30

Tour of Gerace, aperitivo & ‘granita’

18:30 – 21:30

16 JULY 2025

Case study,

Roundtable

and Workshop

Ex Convento dei Minimi di San Francesco da Paola

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee

Case Study Challenge: Progressive Domestic Policy
in the Face of Global Sanctions

10:00 - 12:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:30

Ex Convento dei Minimi di San Francesco da Paola

Roundtable: Geo-Politics and the Money View

15:30 - 16:30

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee

Joint Session with the 2025 Roccella Summer School

Participants will attend the workshop by Dr Rebecca Smyth, held as part of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law’s programme.

17:00 - 19:00

19:30 – 21:30

Dinner at Restaurant ‘La Cascina’

17 JULY 2025

Keynote Discussions

Palazzo Carafa

Joint Sessions with the 2025 Roccella Summer School

Summer Academy participants will attend the sessions scheduled as part of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law’s programme.

9:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

Ex Convento dei Minimi di San Francesco da Paola

Mentorship Career Session with LPE participants

15:30 - 16:30

Palazzo Carafa

Joint Sessions with the 2025 Roccella Summer School

Summer Academy participants will attend the sessions scheduled as part of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law’s programme.

16:30 - 19:30