The Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE)
The Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE) supports cross-disciplinary analysis into the dynamics of how resource coordination, distribution and production are generated and managed in and across societies.
In 2018, The University of Manchester launched the Law and Money Initiative (LMI) in cooperation with Cornell Law School and The University of Sheffield Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law. Over the following years, the LMI co-organised a number of academic events in the US, UK and Europe.
In 2024, with a generous gift from Martha McCluskey and support from The University of Manchester Law School, the LMI was reimagined in its current expression as the Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE). The Initiative works closely across the University and within global research-oriented networks to explore expertise at the intersections of economy, law, and politics.
The Initiative is premised on the insight that contemporary expertise continues to traffic in abstractions and assumptions that limit clarity and innovation in widespread choice, peace, and well-being.
- Professor John Haskell, Academic Lead
- Professor Vincenzo Bavosa, Member (Co-Editor, Law and Financial Markets Review)
- Dr. Emma Scali, Member (Organiser, Roccella Summer School of International Law)
- Dr. Justina Uriburu, Member (Director, Manchester International Law Centre)
The Initiative collaborates with academic networks to support skill development and new thinking:
- Summer Academy on Global Law and Political Economy, 14-17 July 2025, Roccella, Italy
- Economic Foundations Workshop, 9-11 July 2025, Manchester (TBA).
- Summer School, Labor and Welfare in Post-COVID-19, 2022 (Rome).
- Law Money & Tech Summer Academy: Toward Democratic Futures, 2021 (Online)
- Law Money & Tech Summer Academy, ‘Transforming Political Economy’, 2020 (Manchester)
- Law and Money Summer Academy, ‘From Past to Future’, 2019 (Manchester)
- European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
- Initiative for New Economic Thinking, Young Scholars Initiative (INET YSI)
- Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C)
- Manchester International Law Centre (MILC)
- Manchester Law and Technology Initiative (MLaTI)
- Political Economy Centre (University of Manchester)
- Law and Political Economy In Europe