PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Hoover IP² Summer Institute on the Economics and Politics of Regulation is designed to educate students and young professionals on how to think systematically about regulatory systems and their consequences. Its goal is to equip attendees with analytic tools that are basic to good policymaking. The Summer Institute follows the model of executive education programs organized by business schools. It is an intensive, two‐week long program in which participants are taught by instructors who are experts in the particular subject matter being studied on that particular day. Enrollment is limited to twenty-two students in order to foster interaction with the instructors and intensive engagement with other participants.

PROGRAM DATES
July 31, 2016 - August 12, 2016

LOCATION
Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, California

PROGRAM FEE
Fees, food and lodging, and transportation will be free to accepted applicants

UNITS COVERED

  • Innovation and the Patent System
  • Antitrust, Risk, and Regulation
  • Innovation and Finance
  • Energy and Environment

WHO SHOULD APPLY?

  • Advanced law students
  • Recent law school graduates
  • Capitol Hill staff
  • Federal judicial clerks
  • Students and recent graduates of public policy programs
  • Young professionals working at the nexus of business and law

See the 2016 Summer Institute student survey and participants’ comments regarding the program.

Download the 2016 IP² Summer Institute Course Schedule
Download the 2016 IP² Summer Reading List

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“I learned an incredible amount”
Hoover IP² Welcomes Students to 2016 Summer Teaching Institute

2016 INSTRUCTORS AND MENTORS
Severin Borenstein, UC Berkeley
Latika Chaudhary, Naval Postgraduate School
Richard A. Epstein, Hoover Institution and NYU
Alexander Galetovic, University of the Andes
Ron Goettler, University of Rochester
Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution and Stanford University
Wes Hartmann, Stanford University
F. Scott Kieff , ITC
Ross Levine, UC Berkeley
Noel Maurer, George Washington University
Victor Menaldo, University of Washington
Adam Mossoff, George Mason University
Richard Sousa, Hoover Institution


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