Along with the Comparative Research in Law and Political Economy Network, CCGES is pleased to co-present Dr. David Soskice and his talk “Explaining Patterns of Corporate Governance” at Osgoode Hall Law School on March 8, 2007.

Dr. Soskice is Research Professor in the Political Science Dept at Duke University, School Centennial Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics, and Research Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB).

As Director of the WZB, he developed a research programme on Varieties of Capitalism. This research is collected in the volume co-edited with Peter A Hall (Harvard), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (Oxford Univ Press, 2001). His current research is on the co-evolution of capitalist systems and their political and legal representation over the last two centuries (two initial papers from this with Torben Iversen (Harvard) have been published in the American Political Science Review, 2001 and 2006). He also works on the political economy of macroeconomics (papers with Iversen, Quarterly Journal of Economics 2000 and Annual Review of Political Science 2006), and has just published Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions Policies (OUP, 2006) with Wendy Carlin (UCL).

Dr. Soskice is on the advisory board of the CLPE Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network at Osgoode Hall Law School. This semester he is Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard.

Time: 5:00-7:00 pm
Location: Room 410, Osgoode Hall Law School