The International University College of Turin (IUC) promotes the interdisciplinary and comparative study of law, economics and finance, in response to the lack of a transnational set of normative principles capable of controlling economic processes. The IUC engages students and young scholars from all over the world with special emphasis on the periphery or ‘global south’ with leading figures in law, economics and the humanities, fostering a research-based agenda on the Commons and seeking innovative collaboration by a diverse community of scholars and practitioners.
The Master of Laws in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance (LLM CLEF) is a joint interdisciplinary program between the Departments of Law of the Universities of Turin and Eastern Piedmont, the International University College of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto established in response to the current lack of discussion and studies on a transnational set of normative principles capable of controlling economic processes. The program specifically looks to engage students and young scholars from all over the world with special emphasis on the periphery, or ‘global south’, with leading figures in economics, law and the humanities. A number of renown intellectuals and scholars from around the world serve on the faculty including: Guido Calabresi (Yale Law School), Ugo Mattei (Universities of Torino & California-Hastings), Josef Halevi (Sydney), Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School), Günter Frankenberg and Gunther Teubner (Frankfurt), Jan Toporowski (SOAS London), Talha Syed (California-Berkely), Avi Singh (New Delhi) and Thomas Ferguson (NY Institute for New Economic Thinking). Three UN Special Rapporteurs regularly teach at the IUC – Olivier De Schutter (Leuven), Hilal Elver (UC Santa Barbara), and Richard Falk (Princeton).
The LLM CLEF aspires to develop broader, context-driven approaches in order to equip its students with both a sophisticated understanding of the contemporary debates within the legal and economic profession, and familiarize them with the tools for critical analysis. The curriculum offers a truly interdisciplinary, comparative and critical approach. Particular emphasis is paid on practical considerations, rather than merely familiarizing students with the black letter law. Accordingly, each course explores law in action, investigating the myriad of non-legal factors which influence the course of financial interactions, and the field of law and finance more generally, while the Workshops and Clinical components are designed to prepare student for the rigorous demands of public or private practice as well as to synthesize their theoretical understanding with actual experience. The program broadly examines the intersections of politics, law and economics from diverse geography, ideology and disciplinary perspectives to address the growing challenges facing the global hegemony of liberalism.
In Piazza Paleocapa 2, next to Turin main train station, Porta Nuova, the IUC is provided with lecture and seminar halls, meeting rooms, offices for permanent and visiting fellows, and an interdisciplinary library.