The Legal & Political Theory Forum was set up in September 2007 in order to provide an umbrella for seminars and colloquia on topics of common interest to scholars and graduate students working in various disciplinary areas, but particularly in the fields of politics and law. The Forum holds a series of seminars during term-time, at which papers are presented by academics who are based either at LSE or more commonly elsewhere.

The Forum has an excellent track record for holding international conferences. In addition to our regular seminars, our practice has been to hold a major event each Spring. Themes have included Alan Brudner’s constitutional theory (which resulted in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence), ‘The Rule of Law and Political Emergencies’, ‘Hobbes and the Law’ (which led to an edited volume of essays from Cambridge University Press), David Hume, Adam Smith, and ‘Hayek, Oakeshott and Schmitt on Law, Liberty and State’.

Scholars who have presented a paper at the Forum include: Brian Barry, Nehal Bhuta, Alan Brudner, Clare Chambers, Costas Douzinas, David Dyzenhaus, Katrin Flikschuh, Fonna Forman, Frank Furedi, Ross Harrison, Duncan Kelly, Nico Krisch, Martin Krygier, Jacob Levy, John McCormick, David Miller, Jan-Werner Müller, Liam Murphy, Sankar Muthu, Gerald Postema, Alice Ristroph, John Tomasi, Adrian Vermeule, Lars Vinx, Jeremy Waldron, Leif Wenar and Lea Ypi.

Our policy is to make Forum events as inclusive as possible. All Forum events are open to staff and students from all departments and all academic institutions. The Forum is run by Thomas Poole (LSE Law) and Chandran Kukathas (LSE Government).
 

Organizers

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Thomas Poole (Law)

Chandran Kukathas (Government)

 

Forum Affiliates

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Nehal Bhuta (Law, EUI)

Philip Cook (Forum co-founder, Politics, Edinburgh)

David Dyzenhaus (Law & Philosophy, Toronto)

Paul Kelly (LSE Government)

Martin Loughlin (LSE Law)

Gerry Simpson (Melbourne Law)

Laura Valentini (LSE Government)

Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law)

Lea Ypi (LSE Government)

 

 

Michaelmas Term

Please note: unless otherwise stated, all events run from 5pm-7pm in the Moot Court Room,
7th floor, New Academic Building, LSE.

Wednesday 5 October 2016

'Making Sense of Litigation under the Human Rights Act: Painting the Big Picture'

Conor Gearty (LSE)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

'Legal Authority and Globalisation'

Hans Lindahl (Tilburg)

Wednesday 9 November 2016

'Social Norms'

Christoph Möllers (Humboldt)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

Book launch – The Meaning of Partisanship (Oxford, 2016)

Lea Ypi and Jonathan White (LSE)


Hosts:
Chandran Kukathas (Government)
Thomas Poole (Law)

 

David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole (eds), Hobbes and the Law (Cambridge, 2012)

Lea Ypi, Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency (Oxford, 2012)

Kai Möller, The Global Model of Constitutional Rights (Oxford, 2012)

Mara Malagodi, Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion (Oxford, 2013)

Peter Ramsay, The Insecurity State (Oxford, 2012)

Laura Valentini, Justice in a Globalized World (Oxford, 2011)

Martin Loughlin, Foundations of Public Law (Oxford, 2010)

Leigh Jenco, Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (Cambridge, 2010)

Grégoire Webber, The Negotiable Constitution (Cambridge, 2009)

Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence (2009) Vol. 33, Issue 1 on Alan Brudner’s Constitutional Goods (OUP, 2007)