Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES)

EVENTS

The CLES is currently planning the following events:

  • Claims for Damages in Competition and IP Law. Legal Framework and Economic Principles for the Evaluation of Damages
    15 & 22 May and 3 & 10 June 2013
    CPD course: 4 x 2.5 hour lectures
  • Evidence in Competition Law Proceedings: A Comparative Perspective
    5 June 2013
    International conference
  • Theory and Practice of Regulatory Impact Assessments in Europe: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspective
    10 June 2013
    International conference
  • Innovation, Competition Law and IP Rights
    12 & 13 June, 18 & 19 June
    CPD course: 4 x 4.5 hour lectures

For more information, please go to the events pages.


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Contact Us

For general enquiries, please contact:

Anna Schüle
Administrator
+44 (0)20 7679 1407
a.schuele [at] ucl.ac.uk

For research project enquiries, please contact:

Dr Ioannis Lianos
+44 (0)20 7679 1028
i.lianos [at] ucl.ac.uk .

Papers

For more working papers, please visit the CLES Research Paper Series section on this website.

Research Initiatives

The Centre’s objective is to research original topics relating to collective action (State or other), with important practical implications, from a trans-disciplinary perspective. The Centre takes a Mode 2 perspective on knowledge production. Indeed, current changes in scientific practice challenge the traditional conception of knowledge production as being located primarily in Universities, and structured by scientific disciplines (the so called Mode 1 of knowledge production). 


Recent research has highlighted that scientific knowledge is increasingly the product of trans-disciplinary collaboration and takes place in a heterogeneous environment, where not only Universities, but also the public and the private sectors contribute to the research. Gibbons, Limoges, Nowotny, Schwartzman, Scott and Trow employed the term of Mode 2 knowledge to distinguish science produced in a “context of application”, according to a “dialogic process” that incorporates multiple societal interests and institutions, such as universities, research centres, corporations, consultancies, from Mode 1 of knowledge production (M. Gibbons, C. Limoges, H. Nowotny, S. Schwartzman, P. Scott, M. Trow, The New production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies (SAGE, 1994).)

For this reason, the organization of our activities is different than in traditional research centres.

Firstly, we choose our topics of our research in close collaboration with the world of practice (governments, International Organizations, law firms and economic consultancies, corporations, the civil society) and we integrate as much as possible the main actors from practice in our work.

Secondly, we have 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.

Thirdly, this flexible internal organization makes it possible to be reactive to proposals coming from the world of practice on issues that are of interest to them, so that our theoretical and empirical research is always relevant and practically useful. To date the Centre has initiated the following research initiatives:

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