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
August 2–14, 2015
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 2015 participant survey responses and participants’ comments regarding the program.
Download the 2015 IP² Summer Institute Program
Download the 2015 IP² Summer Reading List
2015 INSTRUCTORS AND MENTORS
Stephen Haber (Director), Hoover and Stanford
Ran Abramitzky, Stanford
Severin Borenstein, UC Berkeley
Ron Goettler, University of Rochester
Wes Hartmann, Stanford
Scott Kieff, ITC
Ross Levine, UC Berkeley
Damon Matteo, CEO, Fulcrum Strategy
Noel Maurer, George Washington University
Victor Menaldo, University of Washington
Troy Paredes, University of Pennsylvania
Joanna Tsai, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Joshua Wright, FTC
