Academic conference 'Law, economy and technology for preventing the causes of crime'. Report **2 On 7 December 2018, an international academic conference 'Law, economy and technology for preventing the causes of crime' was organized by the Institute of Justice. The event was held under the auspices of Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, who offi cially opened the conference. The conference was devoted to both the problems encountered during the implementation of the research project and its hitherto results.The event was attended by professors from the most important research centres in the world, including Paul M. Healey from the Harvard Business School, Roland Stephen from the Stanford Research Institute, Michael Siegel from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mike Rosenberg and Mireia Las Heras from IESE Business School. The participants included persons holding the most important functions in their organizations, representatives of international institutions, highlevel managers of state-owned companies as well as representatives of government administration and law enforcement agencies.The main topic of the event was modern technologies as well as legal and organizational solutions used by administrations of highly developed countries and the largest corporations in the context of preventing the causes of crime.The discussion covered four thematic areas, that is, fi nance, energy, insurance, and human resources management in the organization. Issues such as strategic management, crime analysis, application of new technologies in operation management, global availability of solutions to crime-related problems, creation of strategic scenarios for the future, and innovative strategies for economic development as well as implementation of the developed solutions into the Polish legal system were discussed. * Bartłomiej Oręziak, Master of Law, doctoral student at the Chair of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyń ski University in Warsaw, holder of scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for achievements for academic year 2017/2018, Poland, ORCID