Summer Seminar in Aix-en-Provence, France 2025

Additional speakers and final program will be announced by late May.

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IES-Europe has been organizing “Europe & Liberty” seminars since 1989. In 2025, two seminars will be organised in Aix-en-Provence, one in English and one in French. Each seminar will bring together around 25 students. While the two groups will follow different lectures, they will have the opportunity to interact during the breaks and exchange ideas. If you wish to apply to the seminar in French, switch to the French page of this website.

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a general introduction to classical liberal thought as developed by Locke, Smith, Turgot, Say, Mises, Hayek and many others.

The seminar follows the Socratic tradition: the lectures last no more than 45 minutes and are followed by time for discussion between the speaker and the participants. The debates then continue informally around meals and during free time.

The seminar is free of charge, the organizers cover the cost of tuition, accommodation and meals. But if some students are in a position to contribute they are invited to do so through the "contribute" tab.

Students wishing to participate must apply. To do this, simply click on the “Registration” tab and complete the different sections.

Bradley K. Hobbs

Economist

Clemson University

Randy Barnett

Professor of Constitutional Law

Georgetown University

Tom G. Palmer

Nouh El Harmouzi

Think Tanker and Professor of Economics

Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra and The Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies

Nouh El Harmouzi Director of the first Classical Liberal Think Tank created in the Arab World: “The Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies” Which has organized dozens of colloquiums, Seminars, Summer Schools, Workshops in Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, etc., and published more than 100 Videos on Youtube (www.arab-csr.org). He is a Professor of Economics at the Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco.

Radu Nechita

Associate Professor of Economics

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Radu Nechita is an associate professor who teaches Microeconomics, Globalization and Development, European Economic Integration at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Department of European Studies). His general topics of interest gravitate around the institutional factors of development, with emphasis on regulations, monetary and fiscal policies.

Nikolai Wenzel

Professor of Economics

Universidad de las Hespérides and American Institute for Economic Research

Nikolai G. Wenzel is Professor of Economics at the online startup Universidad de las Hespérides and on the Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research.

Jean-Philippe Feldman

Lawyer and Professor

Sciences Po Paris

Jean-Philippe Feldman is a former associate professor of law, lecturer at Sciences Po and lawyer at the Paris Court. His latest book is "Exception française. Histoire d'une société bloquée de l'Ancien Régime à Emmanuel Macron" (The French exception - The History of an Inflexible Society from Ancient Regime to Emmanuel Macron) published by Editions Odile Jacob.

Nathalie Janson

Professor of Economics and Finance

NEOMA Business School

Nathalie Janson is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Finance Department at NEOMA Business School. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I-La Sorbonne in collaboration with the ESSEC PhD programme. She teaches courses in Economics, Money and Banking and Fintech Regulation in the initial training programmes in English Track. Her research focuses on monetary policy issues, banking regulation and crypto-currencies.

François Facchini

Professor of Economics

University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

François Facchini is Professor of Economics at the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris. His two main areas of research are public finance and the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development. These themes are treated within the framework of neo-institutionalist doctrine and two of its currents: the Austrian school and public choice theory. His publications include L'école autrichienne de A à Z (Austrian Economics from A to Z) and more recently Les dépenses publiques en France (Public spending in France).

Erwan Queinnec

Professor of Management

University Paris 13, France

Douglas B. Rasmussen

Professor of Philosophy

St. John's University New York

Douglas B. Rasmussen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in NYC and Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Menard Family Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Among the books he has co-authored (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) are: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991); Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2006); and The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics (2016).

Pierre Garello

Professor of Economics

Universite Aix-Marseille

President of IES-Europe and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines and Journal des Libertés, Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d’Economie et Gestion of Aix Marseille University in France. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, a scholarly review dealing with economic, legal, philosophical and political issues, in the tradition of the French Classical Liberal School.

Christian Năsulea

Professor of Economics

University of Bucharest

Christian Năsulea teaches Economics at the Department of International Relations and Universal History at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. His areas of research interest include public policy and stimuli for economic development, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics and decision processes.

Gregory Rehmke

Economist

Economic Thinking

Emmanuel Martin

Economist

Aix Marseille University

E. Martin teaches Economics and Public policies at Aix-Marseille University.

Participants following the Europe & Liberty seminar in english will have sessions with:

Douglas Rasmussen
Nathalie Janson
Bradley Hobbs
Pierre Garello
Tom Palmer
Randy Barnett
Gregory Rehmke
Nikolai Wenzel
Nouh El Harmouzi
Christian Nasulea
Emmanuel Martin

Free time will be spent with students from the french speaking Europe & Liberty seminar.

The detailed program will be sent to the participating students.

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