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Chairs and Center of Excellence

Our Chairs are supported by prestigious companies and institutions

A space where groundbreaking faculty research happens, attracting a wide range of experts to join the conversation on emerging and traditional areas of law.

Through our Chairs and Center of Excellence, IE Law School encourages research applied to the specific needs of the legal world. Additionally, IE has other centers financed and supported by companies with different sectors of activity that complement and enrich IE’s academic knowledge.

Chairs and Centers of Research

+50

Scholarships granted to students by the José María Cervelló Chair

40%

Professors of the full-time faculty are women

Center for European Studies/IE

At the Center of European Studies, a Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, our goal is to innovate and contribute in research, teaching and public debate in the field of European integration.

The CES/IE enjoys the backing of the European Commission (Decision 2009-3241/001-001).The Center organizes academic conferences and seminars coupled with open debate aimed at fostering discussions that are both diverse and informed. The Center serves as a platform for advanced research on European integration. The Center’s fellows are international experts in their areas of specialization. The Center regularly publishes multidisciplinary studies and working papers sponsored by the Jean Monnet-IE Chair.

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The European Module Jean Monnet "Towards a Common Private Law of Europe"

The European Commission has expressly endorsed this innovative approach by granting IE University this European Module within the prestigious Jean Monnet Program, under the direction of Professor Marco de Benito.

In the Module, the common private law of Europe is addressed transversally through four different LLB courses: European Legal History, EU Law, Contracts, and Property. This transversal stance is supplemented by publications and seminars, open to both LLB and LLM students as well as to other legal professionals. The purpose of the Module is thus ultimately to foster the development of a more profound, sophisticated, cosmopolitan understanding of the law, and incorporate the comparative standpoint naturally into their future legal practice.

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Pérez-Llorca/IE Chair for Commercial Law

The Pérez-Llorca /IE Chair for Commercial Law is a joint initiative created by IE Law School and the prestigious law firm, Pérez-Llorca.

This Chair is devoted to applied research and publishing in the area of commercial law and will focus on legal practice in an international context. The aim of the Chair is to create applied research of extremely high standards in the area of Commercial Law and to share this research with law firms, companies and law schools. All of this will be carried out through the joint activities of IE Law School and Pérez-Llorca. This Chair was created within the frame of the activities carried out by the IE Foundation.

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José María Cervelló Chair

Created in 2004, this Chair was founded to honor Don José María Cervelló, State Attorney, founder of the legal programs of IE, exceptional and "atypical" professor, and pioneer in the development of international law in Spain.

This Chair is mainly focused on providing scholarships to students without resources, with a brilliant academic history and who wish to study at IE Law School. The goals of the Chair are: to encourage debate and to spread legal knowledge, develop research projects, and promote dialogue on current legal topics between professionals in the sector.

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"José María Cervelló was a universal man in the most renaissance sense of the word. He was not only interested in the legal world, but also in philosophy, architecture, paintings and art in all its forms."

Diego Álcazar Silvela

President IE University

"To be a great lawyer you need to be a great person and do things the right way; because you must and because its profitable."

José María Cervelló

State Attourney and Father of our first LLM Programs

"The José María Cervelló Chair is a wonderful social project that changed the lives of 50 people."

Pilar Galeote

Director of the Chair José María Cervelló

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