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: the IUC approach.

•  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.

•  It feeds a global and cosmopolitan vocation, 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.

•  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.

•  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.

•  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.

•  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 all too often relegated to the margins of policy and research.