The degree program was held in English and granted jointly with the Università Scienze Gastronomiche, established in Pollenzo by Slow Food.

Teachers and students gather in Turin to examine the phenomenon of globalization with a particular attention to the conception of achievable long-period policies to govern its effects.

To do so, research at the IUC explores the great variety of financial and institutional settings across the world in their analogies and differences to obtain a more realistic and scientific grasp on current global transformations.

The Report calls for a broader understanding of markets and the structural impact of legal institutions on their unfolding needs, and issues a challenge to the biases produced by mainstream theory, while proposing solutions for the harms caused by the financial and economic crisis.

The faculty at IUC is a mix of younger academics on a full-time basis and of associate faculty including Guido Calabresi (former Dean of the Yale Law School), Duncan Kennedy (Harvard Law School), Joseph Halevi, (Emeritus of Sidney University), Jan Toporowsky (SOAS), Günter Frankenberg (Frankfurt).

The tenth anniversary of IUC was celebrated in January 2017 with a distinguished lecture given by ecologist and system theorist Fritjof Capra.