Events

This annual all-day conference at the International House at the University of Chicago will explore various policy areas that are the region’s most pressing concerns, including migration, trade and growth, and poverty and inequality. Ernesto Zedillo, former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, will join as the keynote speaker. The moderator for this event will be James Robinson, Faculty Director of The Pearson Institute.

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University of Michigan Professor Michael McGovern will discuss how a nation can avoid civil war, the importance of national culture, and what “resilience” really means. This will be in the context of his forthcoming book, “A Socialist for Peace?”. James Robinson, Faculty Director of The Pearson Institute, will join McGovern in this discussion.

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On October 24, 2016, James Robinson and University of Chicago Law School professor Tom Ginsburg collaborated on The Pearson Institute’s first conference, which brought together scholars working on a wide set of cases to consider how law and courts function within rebel movements, and how they fit into the combinations of coercion, cooptation, and legitimation that make rebel rule effective. This event was held at the UChicago Law School and was open to the UChicago community.