Anna Tzanaki is a Marie Curie Fellow at Lund University, Faculty of Law (Sweden), and Senior Research Fellow at UCL Centre of Law, Economics & Society (UK). She has been awarded a Horizon 2020 research grant by the European Commission for her current research while she had previously taught as a Senior Lecturer in European Business and Competition Law in Lund. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics (Oxford) and Competition Policy International (Boston). Anna studied law at University College London (PhD), University of Chicago (LLM), University of Athens (LLB) and Humboldt University Berlin (Erasmus). She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on competition law and policy, corporate law and governance, law & economics, EU and comparative law. She has a forthcoming monograph in the works “Partial Ownership of Competitors in Europe: Economics, Law and Policy” (Cambridge University Press). She has been engaged as an external academic expert by the Hellenic Competition Commission and has also contributed to a European Commission (DG COMP) external scientific report.
The Interbeing of Law and Economics: Building Bridges, Not Walls – Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Dialectic Pedagogy
Abstract:
Higher legal education in the 21st century when resources abound should aim to build bridges rather than retrench to narrow disciplinary silos. Infusing the study of law with insights and methods from economics not only pushes back against barren specialization but also reveals their deep dialectic relationship. Most importantly, this interdisciplinary exchange fosters a model of “connected pedagogy” that cultivates the intellect as much as it forges the character of critical and enlightened students and authentic individuals in class and society. As such, the “interbeing” of law and economics operates at two levels – the scientific and the communal – by means of boundary pushing, narrative shifting, partnership building. It is in this atmosphere of innovation and co-creation, from the ancient times to the present, that human and social transformation develops.