History & Governance

About the IUC

An independent institution dedicated to the critical study of law, finance, and global capitalism.

International University College of Turin building

The International University College of Turin is a small yet global hub for critical legal and economic scholarship, welcoming students and scholars from across the world.

2006 Year Founded
89 Countries
481 Master Students

The International University College of Turin

The International University College of Turin (IUC) was established in 2006 for the critical study of law and finance, as the institutional foundations of global capitalism. It has since pursued this mission through an openly interdisciplinary and comparative agenda.

The IUC programs specifically look to engage students and young scholars from all over the world with special emphasis on the periphery, or “global south”, with leading figures in economics, law and the humanities.

The IUC sits at the centre of a network of critical study of globalization, with particular attention to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Notable visitors include US Federal Judge Guido Calabresi (Yale), Duncan Kennedy (Harvard), Günter Frankenberg & Gunther Teubner (Frankfurt), Talha Syed (UC Berkeley), Avi Singh (New Delhi), economists Joseph Halevi (Sydney), Jan Toporowski (SOAS), and the late Stefano Rodotà, IUC president for many years.

A Global Community in Turin

A compact institution with outsized international reach, uniting scholars and students from across continents.

2006 Year Founded
89 Countries
481 Master Students

The IUC Approach

Since its establishment, the IUC has lodged itself at the heart of an emerging international network of critical scholarship, nurturing a distinctive focus on the institutional dimensions of global capitalism.

Methodology

Beyond Positivism

The IUC approach entails a determination to look beyond positivistic approaches to understand the plural complexity of the legal, financial and economic issues of our times.

Vocation

Global &

It feeds a global and equally receptive to the North and the South of the world — a feature that makes the IUC stand out as a unique experiment in international legal education.

Training

Contextual Problem-Solving

IUC graduates are capable of framing and tackling legal problems, with a pronounced ability to situate them in the social and economic contexts in which they arise.

Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinary Methodology

Their distinctive methodological attentiveness is nurtured through an eclectic and interdisciplinary engagement that keeps abreast of the latest theoretical developments in the humanities and social sciences.

Perspective

Economic & Anthropological Dimensions

The IUC curriculum maintains a pronounced focus on the economic and anthropological dimensions of legal problems, in order to help students nurture and develop their critical abilities and interdisciplinary orientations.

Comparative

Non-Eurocentric Comparative Gaze

The keen sensitivity of IUC graduates to the multiple dimensions at play in global legal and economic processes is aided by a comparative gaze on institutions, affording centrality to non-Eurocentric perspectives that are often relegated to the margins of policy and research.

Our Locations

Teaching, research, and community life are anchored in the heart of Turin, with dedicated spaces for academic work and residential life.

Main Office

International University College of Turin

Via Cigna 37
10152 Torino (TO), Italia

Campus Leone Ginzburg (CLG), Via Francesco Cigna 37, 10152 Torino (TO), Italia.

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