CLPE Mission

The CLPE Network is a platform for interdisciplinary synergies amongst scholars in Law, Economics, Sociology, Political Science and History interested in governance and regulation.

Globalization(s) and today’s modern technology’s thrust to a growing scope of scholarly and scientific data necessitates the crucial role of social scientists in navigating and shaping the transnational knowledge society. The borders between academic disciplines continue to be blurred and with the growing importance of collaborative research across disciplinary and territorial boundaries, the CLPE Network invites scholars to participate in critical, theoretically informed research on the changing frontiers of governance studies in a globalized world. Whether concerned with the differences between the common law or the civil law, the differences between the varieties of capitalism or the claims to democratic governance in groups and organizations around the world, it is clear that single scholarly perspective is not sufficient in illuminating the growing complexities.

The CLPE Network constitutes a fully-fledged research portal supported by a state-of-the-art document management system, a Research Paper Series and a state-of-the-art real-time multidimensional video-conferencing system. This infrastructure is available to CLPE Research Associates, Project Directors and Fellows to enhance interdisciplinary research, whether in residence in Toronto or at their home institution.