In 2019 WINIR sponsored the Second Conference of the Forum for Institutional Thought held at the Pedagogical University of Kraków in Poland. Speakers discussed the economic, legal and philosophical challenges and threats associated with the design and implementation of institutional solutions aimed at achieving better life standards in the 21st century.
In 2018 WINIR sponsored the Fourth Witten Conference on Institutional Change organised by the Witten Institute for Institutional Change (WIWa) at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. Papers from any relevant discipline conceptualizing and dealing with institutional pathologies were welcome.
In 2019 WINIR sponsored an international conference on law and development jointly organised by the São Paolo Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) and the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paolo (USP) in Brazil. Legal, economic, and political aspects of the topic were addressed.
In 2016 WINIR sponsored the First Annual Symposium on Neo-Institutional Law & Economics held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. Submissions from law, political science, sociology, and economics scholars on any topic regarding the neo-institutional economic analysis of law were welcome.