The CLPE Network brings together research associates, fellows, scholars and graduate students
from Universities worldwide. The CLPE's mandate is to enhance the interdisciplinary examination
of the intersections between law and political economy by providing a forum and research portal
for scholars working in Law, Business, History, Sociology and Political Science with an interest
in governance and regulation. Drawing on a wealth of experience and knowledge of its collaborators,
the CLPE is a meeting point for researchers, policy analysts and practitioners.
Conferences
The CLPE organizes annual international scholarly conferences. The themes thus far
have broadly focused on governance and regulation. Specifically, the 2009 conference
tracked Hannah Arendt's influential contribution to the tenets of Labour, Work and
Action through the 1958 monograph, "The Human Condition". The invited scholars included
Daniel Drache, Audrey Macklin, Guy Mundlak, Jennifer Nedelsky, Guy Standing and Katherine
Stone. The conference organizers are pulling together an edited volume to be published with
the University of Chicago Press. For further details about previous conferences,
please visit "Events".
SSRN Research Paper Series
The CLPE publishes the first-ever, interdisciplinary Research Paper Series in Law and Political
Economy. The CLPE Research Paper Series (CLPE RPS) constitutes a prime source for comparative
and interdisciplinary scholarship in law, business, political science, history, and sociology.
The RPS was created by Professor Peer Zumbansen and is co-edited together with Professor John
Cioffi of the University of California at Riverside. Nassim Nasser, of Osgoode Hall Law School,
serves as the paper production editor. The Series is available here and is being distributed
worldwide through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
CLPE Research Seminar Series
CLPE research seminar series plays an integral role in facilitating our mandate by attracting leading
scholars to present their relevant research in the areas of Law, Business, History, Sociology
and Political Science with an interest in governance and regulation. Presenters are encouraged to
generate an article for publication with the CLPE RPS. This years leading scholars included
Joanna Erdman
and Virginia Mantouvalou.
The CLPE Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Network (CLPE) was created in 2004 and
is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Innovation Trust and Osgoode Hall
Law School. The CLPE compliments and enhances the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and
Comparative Law of Corporate Governance.
To contact the CLPE, and to submit papers to the Research Paper Series, please write to
clpe@osgoode.yorku.ca.
