From June 11 – 13, 2026, Harvard Law School’s IGLP will collaborate with Sciences Po Law School to convene the Global Scholars Intensive in Paris, France.
Applications due: Monday, February 16, 2026
Click here to apply!
About the Intensive
The Global Scholars Intensive (GSI) is a focused three-day residential experience designed to enable junior faculty and post-doctoral scholars to engage in sustained, interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer collaboration under the close mentorship of research faculty drawn from the world’s top universities. The GSI is open by application to junior scholars working to understand and map the levers of political, economic, and legal authority in the world today. We particularly welcome applications from scholars from the Global South and those working on policy challenges of particular concern to communities in the Global South.
Building on the IGLP’s decade of successful workshops and Sciences Po’s dedication to high-level interdisciplinary research, the Global Scholars Intensive will engage a growing community of scholars developing new thinking about the world’s most pressing policy challenges. While in residence, participants will workshop their ongoing research, review current scholarship developments, reconsider canonical texts, and network with colleagues from across the world.
The Format
The 2026 Intensive offers a unique interdisciplinary curriculum and includes thematic minicourses, plenary lectures, and writing workshops over a three-day period. Writing workshops offer participants the opportunity to receive detailed, valuable feedback on their research from their peers and senior colleagues in small group settings.
Past curricular themes have included…
Authoritarianism, Populism, and Constitutional Authority
“Decolonization” and “post-colonialism” in a Multipolar World
Formality and Informality in the Law of Property
Gender, Identify and Poverty
Global Corporate Power and Social Justice
The Global Powers of Knowledge in Science and Law
Harnessing the Global Powers of Private Law
International Economic Law in Global Political Economy
Law in Economic Development North and South
Mapping the World: Law in the Global Geography
Racial Hierarchies and the Future of Work
…and more!
The Faculty
Our carefully curated global faculty hail from the world’s leading institutions with years of experience in teaching and educating the next generation of scholars. The 2026 GSI faculty will be announced shortly.
The Application – Due February 16, 2026 – Click here to apply!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How many participants attend?
A: The Instensive is by accepted application only. We anticipate convening between 35 – 45 global scholars.
Q: Where do your faculty come from?
A: All over the world! Our mentoring faculty hail from top universities such as SciencesPo, Harvard, NYU, Universidad de los Andes, LSE, SOAS, University of London, Melbourne Law School, Stellenbosch University, UCT, Tilburg, and many more!
Q: Is there a cost to attend? What is covered?
A: There is no registration fee. The GSI is committed to keeping out-of-pocket costs for participants as low as possible. Admitted out-of-town participants will receive lodging throughout the Intensive along with a travel scholarship. Most meals for all participants will be covered by the Intensive with some being the responsibility of the individual.
Q: If accepted, will GSI organizers support my visa application?
A: Yes. We will assist with providing the necessary documentation for accepted participant’s visa applications. Participants are responsible for knowing lead times and applying for and securing the necessary visa on their own.
Q: Will I be presenting a paper at the Intensive?
A: No – this is one of the unique elements of the Intensive. While each admitted participant must submit an 8000-word piece, draft, or work in progress of academic writing in advance of the Intensive for the Writing Workshop element of the program, you will not present your own work. More information on the IGLP Approach to Writing Workshops, and to understand how this all works, can be found here: https://iglp.law.harvard.edu/presenting-feedback/
The Collaboration
The collaboration will encourage scholarship exploring such pressing issues as the structural reproduction of poverty and inequality; the policy challenges and benefits of new technologies; links between local and global security; environmental sustainability and the impact of environmental change on communities across the global South, women’s empowerment, SDG’s; as well as the management of cultural difference, exclusion, and intolerance in a world of ever-increasing movement and communication.
The Sciences Po Law School aims at educating high-caliber law professionals, capable of engaging in a constantly changing professional world, supported by the school’s vibrant academic community.
Our ambition: to recruit students from all horizons holding degrees of higher education.
Our challenge: to teach them law, through an interactive pedagogical method that develops their critical mind and creativity. It will give them the opportunity not only to join the Bar, but also to contribute to the business world, economic regulation agencies or the Judiciary.
Some of them will choose to follow their curriculum within a PhD program that relies on an international academic network of excellence. It promotes research in the fields of economic law, globalization, public action, or theories of law and justice.
We hope that you will share our enthusiasm in fostering this original project and developing research in law that is open to the world.