Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES)
Description
The Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) is UCL Faculty of Law’s Centre dedicated to the study of competition law and policy and economic regulation. It promotes the study of regulatory action in all its forms (State, non-State, all forms of collective action), from a trans-disciplinary perspective, in particular drawing on law, economics, sociology, political science and complexity science.
Members firmly believe that law can address some of the pressing issues of today and can generate a more just and sustainable society. The Centre’s objective is to research original topics relating to collective action, with important practical implications, from a trans-disciplinary perspective. Researchers take a broader perspective than traditional "law and economics" centres, being inspired by the Law and Political Economy tradition, experimenting with new approaches, bringing together the best of social science research (orthodox and heterodox, theoretical and empirical) when exploring the intersection between the legal system and the economy, technology and more broadly society.
The Centre takes a Mode 2 perspective on knowledge production. For this reason, the organization of its activities is different than in traditional research centres.
Firstly, the Centre chooses the research topics in close collaboration with the world of practice (governments, International Organizations, law firms and economic consultancies, corporations, the civil society) and it integrates as much as possible the main actors from practice in the Centre’s work. Secondly, the Centre has a flexible internal organization for each of these “research initiatives”, with specific teams from the Centre and/or practice working together, independently from the other projects of the Centre, to accomplish their research outcomes.
Research areas and projects are:
- Regulating Competition in Digital Capitalism
- Competition Law and Financialisation
- Courts, Regulators, and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence
- Complexity Science, Complexity Economics, and Economic Regulation
- Computational Competition Law and Economics
- Fairness Considerations in Liberalised Retail Energy Markets
- Digital Currencies, Digital Finance and the Constitution of a New Financial Order
- Competition Law and Development
- Global Competition Law and Economics Series
- Impact Assessments in Europe
- Social Media Unit (SMU)
- Theory and History of Competition Law
- Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration
- Economic and Econometric Evidence in Competition Law: An Empirical Perspective
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2007
Contact details
Bentham House
Endsleigh Gardens
London
WC1H 0EG
United Kingdom
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2023-09-20 15:00:05