Events

LLM Seminars are displayed in the LLM General Course [LSE Staff and Students only].

 

Wednesday 18 January 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'Contra Politanism: Against the Moral Teleology of Political Form'

Speaker: Jacob Levy (McGill)

 

Thursday 19 January 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY

'The point and limits of constitutional pluralism: Institutionalizing official disobedience and conscientious objection'

Speaker: Professor Mattias Kumm (NYU)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Wednesday 25 January 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism'

Speaker: Marrti Koskenniemi (director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights )

Chair: Prof Susan Marks

 

Friday 27 January 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: NAB1.04 (New Academic Building)

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT

'The Fate of Human Rights in the 21st Century'

A dialogue between David Cole (Georgetown University Law Center & Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki & LSE Visiting Professor)

Chair: Professor Susan Marks (LSE Law Department)

 

Tuesday 7 February 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: New Theatre, East Building

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?'

Speaker: Prof Roderick MacDonald (McGill University)

Chair: Prof Neil Duxbury

 

Wednesday 8 February 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On tolerance'

Speaker: Frank Furedi (Kent)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Tuesday 14 February 2012   |    6.30pm    |    Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Justice Marcia Neave: Case Study of a Feminist Judge

Speaker: Prof Rosemary Hunter (Kent Law School)

 

Wednesday 22 February 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On the banality of evil'

Speakers: Coline Covington (British Psychoanalytic Society); Gerry Simpson (Melbourne)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Wednesday 22 February 2012    6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

LSE/HARVARD PUBLIC LECTURE ON ISLAMIC FINANCE

'Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance'

Speakers: Mukhtar Hussain (CEO HSBC Malaysia); Professor Volker Nienhaus (University of Reading)

 

Tuesday 28 February 2012    |    6.30pm   |    Venue: Old Theatre

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Lady Justice Arden in conversation with Mr. Justice Cranston

 

Thursday March 1 2012    |    6.30pm   |    Venue: New Theatre, East Building

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Why Germany is the real heir to the old English constitution'

Speaker:  Prof Pasquale Pasquino (NYU)

Chair: Prof Martin Loughlin

 

Wednesday 7 March 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On legal pluralism'

Speaker: Klaus Günther (Frankfurt)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Thursday 8 March 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: MCR

EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY

'Three “Bills of Rights” for the European Union'

Speaker: Dr Robert Schuetze (Durham)

 

Tuesday 20 March 2012   |   6.30-8pm   |   Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

LSE HUMAN RIGHTS: THE POLITICAL QUARTERLY ANNUAL LECTURE

'Citizens' Privileges or Human Rights? The Great Bill of Rights Swindle'

Speaker: Shami Chakrabarti
Respondent: Francesca Klug

 

Tuesday 29 May 2012

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

Conference on Adam Smith

Speakers include Fonna Forman-Barzilai (San Diego); Foniti Vaki (Corfu), Lisa Herzog (Munich), Craig Smith (St Andrews) and Chandran Kukathas (LSE).

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Tuesday 29 May 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

Seminar and Book Launch: 'Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency' (OUP).

Speaker: Lea Ypi (LSE)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

 

Monday 25 & Tuesday 26 June 2012 | Venue: tbc

FOURTH ANNUAL ISHTIP WORKSHOP

'Intellectual Property as Cultural Technology'

The fourth annual workshop of ISHTIP, the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, will be held on 25-26 June 2012 at the Department of Law, London School of Economics London. Further details regarding the call for papers and registration are available here.
 


Recent Audio and Video


 

 

13 January 2011

A European Contract Law: a Cuckoo in the Nest?

Speaker: Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick; Honorary QC, FBA)

A European Commission consultation paper suggests a single, "European" law of contract for businesses and consumers across Europe, which might supplant English law. Why?

Chair: Professor Linda Mulcahy, LSE Department of Law.

 


9 December 2010

As part of the Legal Biographies Project lecture programme Mr Justice Cranston interviewed Ken Clarke, QC, MP, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor about his legal and political career.

 


 

Podcast: LSE Summer School 2010

29 July 2010

'Contemporary Developments in International Law and the Role of the International Court of Justice'
[18 MB; approx 73 minutes]

Speaker: Sir Christopher Greenwood
Chair: Andrew Murray

Sir Christopher Greenwood is a member of the International Court of Justice. Andrew Murray is Reader in Law at the Department of Law at LSE.

 

 

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