
GLOBAL LAW AND
POLITICAL ECONOMY
SUMMER ACADEMY
14-17 July
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
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Professor, University of Manchester
Professor/Chair at University of Manchester Law School and Faculty Member at Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy. At Manchester, Director of Manchester Law and Technology Initiative and Lead at Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy. Industry buy out from digital token industry 2022-2025. Former Fulbright Scholar, with permanent positions in UK and US, and visiting research/teaching appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, International University College of Turin, Lille Catholic University, University of San Francisco, and University of Trento. Very thankful to be able to live life as a dad and a researcher.
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External Lecturer, Copenhagen Business School, and Independent Consultant
Maj Grasten is an external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and independent consultant with a PhD in Law and Governance. Her research sits at the intersection of Sociolegal Studies and Global Governance, with focus on law and political economy, and law and gender, and experts and knowledge production in trans- and international law. She co-directs the Law and Political Economy Collaborative Research Network at the Law and Society Association (LSA) and chairs the European International Studies Association’s (EISA) Global Law and Politics section. Her consulting experience includes work for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Higher Education and Science, and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been an associated researcher and guest lecturer at several international universities, including the University of Melbourne, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Law and Political Economy and the board of the LPE Collective, and she is a co-editor of the Law and Political Economy e-Journal. She has edited The Politics of Translation in International Relations (Palgrave) and recently published on the global care economy in Transnational Legal Theory, legal affordances in the platform economy in Environment and Planning A, and law and gender in Australian Feminist Law Journal.
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Coordinator of the Political Economy of Europe Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative and Doctoral Researcher, Center for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) at KU Leuven
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Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics, NYU Shanghai
Aleksandar Stojanovic is a law and economics scholar. His research that has been published in peer reviews publication across the two disciplines is focusing on outcomes of interaction between the legal system and informal institutional arrangements in international investment, trade and finance. Aleksandar teaches game theory, comparative and international economics, as well as comparative law and data policy and governance.
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Assistant Professor , University of Amsterdam
Rodrigo Vallejo is Assistant Professor at Amsterdam Law School and researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) and the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) network. He specialises in the interactions between economic law, socio-political theory, and regulatory policies at the national and transnational levels, with research agendas that are generally situated at the edges of the private-public distinction. Since October 2022, he is also a part-time postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Private Governance (CEPRI) of Copenhagen Law School, where he is developing a research project entitled ReValue: Thinking Infrastructurally About Business Activities and Economic Value for a Socio-Ecological Transformation funded by the European Union under a ‘Marie Sklodowska-Curie’ research grant. Before joining University of Amsterdam, Dr Vallejo was affiliate researcher to the the External Dimension of European Regulatory Private Law project (University of Helsinki, Finland) and the Global Administrative Law project (New York University, USA).
He holds a PhD in Law and a Masters (LL.M) in Comparative, European, and International Law at the European University Institute (Hans Kelsen Doctoral Fellowship), a Masters (LL.M) in Legal Theory at New York University (Fullbright Scholarship), and a Bachelor in Law and Social Sciences (LL.B) at University of Chile (Summa Cum Laude). He also has a ten-year experience as a litigant and legal advisor in public-private relations and business law and regulation in specialised offices within the government and the private sector. As part of this professional trajectory, Dr. Vallejo has been involved in the design and implementation of lawyering strategies in several regulated markets, such as telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, urban transport, mining, and pharmaceuticals.

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 - 09:30 am
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 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Museo Diocesano di Gerace,
Sala dell’Arazzo
Emerging Scholars Writing Workshop
4:00 - 6:30 pm
Tour of Gerace and ‘granita’
6:30 pm
16 JULY 2025
Case study,
Roundtable
and Workshop
Palazzo Carafa
Coffee
9:00 - 09:30 am
Case Study Challenge: Progressive Domestic Policy in the Face of Global Sanctions
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Ex Convento dei Minimi di San Francesco da Paola
Roundtable: Geo-Politics and the Money View
3:00 - 4:00 pm
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Coffee
Joint Session with the 2025 Roccella Summer School of IL
Summer Academy participants will attend the Workshop by Rebecca Smyth, held as part of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law’s programme.
4:30 - 6:30 pm
8:00 pm
Dinner at Restaurant ‘La Cascina’
17 JULY 2025
Keynote Discussions
Palazzo Carafa
Joint Sessions with the 2025 Roccella Summer School of IL
Summer Academy participants will attend the sessions scheduled as part of the 2025 Roccella Summer School of International Law’s programme.