Center for Law and Economics (CoLE)
The Center for Law and Economics is a structural unit established jointly by the School of Law at Alte University and the Faculty of Law at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. It was founded on May 1, 2018, with the goal of stimulating and monitoring legislative, scientific, and practical processes in the fields of law and economic policy. The center aims to effectively address problems and challenges, engage in lobbying, inform the public, and disseminate research findings to relevant stakeholders.
The primary focus of the Center for Law and Economics is to create a substantive discourse based on interdisciplinary research in law and economic policy. It seeks to facilitate the development of feedback among interested parties through a discussion and teaching-oriented format. This activity is conducted with adherence to principles of competence, transparency, high academic and scientific standards, and professional ethics.
The mission of the Center is to establish an interdisciplinary environment focused on current issues in law and economic policy. This environment will foster idea generation from diverse disciplinary perspectives. It will actively involve members of the scientific community, practicing lawyers and economists, as well as young researchers and students.
The Center operates primarily in two major areas. The first area is research-oriented and focuses on scientific components, with particular attention given to interconnected, adjacent, and closely related research topics. The primary focus in this regard is on the legal paradigm crucial to economic relations within the country: economic law. Law, especially economic law, is a cognitive phenomenon that cannot be considered in isolation from other social domains and systems. Therefore, the core research direction of the center is the scientific study of the close connection between these two social domains, which will ultimately contribute to achieving synergy effects in the country.
The second major area of the Center involves creating a discussion forum. The idea behind the discussion forum is to stimulate intensive dialogue among representatives of the scientific community, the judiciary, lawyers, individuals interested in economic-legal issues, and students on current and problematic issues in law and economic policy.
The format of discussions organized by the Center is diverse and includes academic forums, scientific-practical conferences, round tables, and public lectures conducted by Georgian and foreign professors. Annual forums are held, and proceedings based on the presentations are published for the years 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2023.