“Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Gummersbach, Germany 2018

This seminar will be held at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie in Gummersbach, Germany (near the city of Köln). The Friedrich Naumann Foundation für die Freiheit will host it.

Note that for the selected students, accommodations and attendance to the conferences are free. Selected students will only need to fund their transportation.

A specific offer for students from the US applying to the Gummersbach seminar is however available:

Thanks to to a specific grant from the Charles Koch Foundation, US students that will be selected will be offered an $800 travel stipend. To be eligible, those US students must be finishing their Bachelor’s degree or currently working on their Master’s Degree but not yet enrolled in a PHD program. Students need to have serious plans to pursue a PHD for the purpose of pursuing an academic career.

Faculty will include: Douglas Rasmussen (philosophy), Pierre Garello (economics of law), Steve Davies (history), Murat Mungan (law), Christian Nasulea (economics).

Application Deadline: May 15th, 2018

Speakers

Steve Davies

Head of Education, Professor of History

Institute of Economic Affairs

Dr. Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the IEA. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. A historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984.

Murat Mungan

Professor of Law and Economics

George Mason University

Associate Professor Murat C. Mungan is a prolific law and economics scholar, and is widely recognized as one of the top young law and economics theorists in the country. His primary substantive field of research is the economics of law enforcement and criminal law. His recent work also analyzes issues pertaining to a wide array of legal subjects, including, antitrust; intellectual property; and contracts. Mungan's research has been published in top law reviews and the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals focusing on law and economics, including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, and the American Law and Economics Review.

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).

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.

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.