CLPE

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 successful application secured a comprehensive infrastructure grant to accompany the funding received from the Canada Research Chairs Program of the Federal Government (http://www.chairs.gc.ca), to support the Canada Research Chair in the Transnational and Comparative Law of Corporate Governance.

The CLPE Network brings together research associates and fellows from Universities around the World. 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 know-how through its collaborators, the CLPE is a meeting point for researchers, policy analysts and practitioners. The CLPE organizes annual international scholarly conferences. The first conference was held in Toronto in October 2005 under the theme: “The Corporate Governance Matrix: Unfolding the New Agenda”. The second conference was held in Toronto on 9-10 November 2006 and explored the topic “Governing Contracts: Public and Private Perspectives”. The third CLPE Conference will take place in Toronto in March 2008 under the theme “The Embedded Firm”. The proceedings of the CLPE conferences are published in book form.

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 work done in law, business, political science, history, and sociology. The Series was founded by Peer Zumbansen and is co-edited together with Prof. John Cioffi of the University of California at Riverside and Lindsay Krauss of Osgoode Hall Law School, who serves as the paper production editor. The Series is available here and is being distributed worldwide through the Social Science Research Network at http://ssrn.com.

To contact the CLPE, and to submit papers to the Research Paper Series, please write to