FGV's School of Law in Rio de Janeiro (DIREITO RIO) is hosting today and tomorrow, June 14-15, the 20th Annual Meeting of the Comparative Law and Economics Forum (CLEF). The event, one of the most important forums on law and economics in the world is happening for the first time in Brazil and it is being organized by FGV's Center for Research in Law and Economics (CPDE). The last edition was held at Berkeley University, California. CLEF is a joint American-European-Asian forum that meets once a year in order to develop a better comparative understanding of the legal issues that arise in various countries through the application of the methodology of the Economic Analysis of Law. Its activities have a multidisciplinary and multinational nature. Additionally, CLEF facilitates reciprocal exchanges among scholars in the area, inviting them to present papers at the meeting. According to CPDE's coordinator, Antônio José Maristrello Porto, it is a great research seminar. The event will be a milestone for academia in Brazil, as it will promote the discussion of ideas and dialogue among professors from leading universities around the world, he explains. Besides DIREITO RIO's professors and FGV's Law School of São Paulo (DIREITO GV), professors from various universities in the world, such as UC Berkeley Law School, ETH Zürich, University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Columbia Law School, are attending the event.