PhD students from CAE-CERGAM are conspicuous by the excellence of their research and their insertion into the international community of researchers in economics. In the coming months, several of them will participate in initiativeshighlighting the quality of their work.

Bentata Pierre, who recently defended his thesis and who obtained the highest honors, is invited by New York University and the Bradley Fellowship for a postdoctoral research visit at the NYU Department of Economics. This fall, he is invited to the Workshop of the International Network on Industrial Safety in Toulouse.

Audrey BUF presented a paper last April at the World Meeting of the Public Choice Society in Miami, Florida.

DOUMAX virginie will present a paper at the conference ICREI 21-23 June 2012,in Aix en Provence.

This spring, Youcef MAOUCHI was invited to the First International Symposium of the Istanbul Network For Liberty in Fez, Morocco. Youcef is also recipient of the Humane Studies Fellowship 2011-2012 from the Institute for Humane Studies.

For its part, Mathieu Bédard is the recipient of a scholarship from Duke University to participate in the 2012 Duke Summer Institute on the History of Economic Thought in June. He was awarded the Humane Studies Fellowship 2012-2013 from the Institute for Humane Studies.

The purpose of the 2012 Prague Conference on Political Economy is to gather papers that will focus on the challenges that multidiciplinarity brings to social sciences and policy-making in the beginning of the 21st century. Both theoretical and empirical papers are expected not only to address the current state of the discipline but also to envisage new perspectives for its development. The conference will welcome papers discussing issues at the intersection of economics, law, political science, history, philosophy, and other humanities.

More specifically, some of the research questions the participants might address are:
 Law-and-economics in the 21th century
 Austrian Economics and mainstream solutions to economic crises
 Libertarian paternalism and “NUDGE” and public policy
 Do social scientists need more interdisciplinarity or not?
 Heterodox approaches vs. the mainstream in social sciences
 European integration at the crossroads,
 Challenges to economic freedom measurement – China and the Nordic Model

Participants to the PCPE 2012 will have the opportunity to attend the symposium celebrating the seminal work and the 80th birthday of GUIDO CALABRESI, professor at Yale and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The topic of the symposium will be “Law and Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi”. During this symposium, lectures will be given by JULES COLEMAN, Yale University; ENRICO COLOMBATTO, Università di Torino; MARC GEISTFELD, New York University; JAMES HACKNEY JR., Northeastern University; LAURA KALMAN, University of California at Santa Barbara; ALAIN MARCIANO, Université de Montpellier 1; STEVE MEDEMA, University of Colorado; GIOVANNI B. RAMELLO, Università del Piemonte Orientale; KIP VISCUSI, Vanderbilt University; and BRADLEY WENDEL, Cornell University.

LOCATION: The Conference will take place in the quaint and newly reconstructed building of the CEVRO Institute (school of legal and social studies) in the heart of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit abstracts of your papers to josef.sima@vsci.cz. The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. Decisions will be made by July 15, 2012.

Conference Website: http://www.cevroinstitut.cz/en/Section/pcpe/

Three doctors graduated of the CAE-CERGAM will participate Monday, April 2nd in the workshop on the revolutionary upheavals in the Arab world at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Aix-Marseille, in their Marseille-Canebière offices. They will intervene on issues close to their dissertation topics.

It is Nouh El Harmouzi, now Associate Professor at the University of Kenitra in Morocco, Hicham El Moussaoui, now Associate Professor at the Faculty of Poly-disciplinary Blessed Mellal University Sultan Moulay Slimane in Morocco, and Emmanuel Martin, now an analyst specialized in development for the NGO Atlas Economic Research Foundation.

We take this opportunity to recognize excellence and diversity of of the careers of CAE-CERGAM doctors since graduation.