Research
 

The LSE Law Department received the highest ranking in the country in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008. 75 per cent of our research was rated either world-class or of international renown. We are the top research university in law, whether that assessment is based either on the grade point average or the proportion of publications winning the accolade of 4*.  Click here for the full RAE results for Law.

Research interests of members of the Department include the following (click on any of these areas for further information):-

     

Recent Staff Publications

March 2010

Neil Duxbury
'Lord Radcliffe Out of Time' (2010) 69 Cambridge Law Journal 41-71.

Dev Gangjee
(Gangjee, D.; Burrell, R.) 'Because You're Worth It: L'Oreal and the Prohibition on Free Riding'  Modern Law Review 73 (2) 2010  pp. 282-295

Eva Micheler
'Disguised returns of capital - an arm's length approach' Cambridge Law Journal 69 (1) 2010, pp151-185

Andrew Murray
'Volume Litigation: More Harmful than Helpful?' Computers and Law 2009, 20(6), 43-45

Thomas Poole
'Judicial Review at the Margins: Law, Power, and Prerogative' (2010) 60 University of Toronto Law Journal

Sivaramjani Thambisetty
'Patent litigation in the United Kingdom: solutions in search of a problem?' E.I.P.R. 2010, 32(5), 238-246

February 2010

Hugh Collins
'Harmonisation by Example: European Laws against Unfair Commercial Practices' Modern Law Review, 2010 (1) 89-118

Carsten Gerner-Beuerle
'Underwriters, Auditors, and Other Usual Suspects: Elements of Third Party Enforcement in US and European Securities Law' European Company and Financial Law Review 2009, 6(4), 476-515.

Andrew Lang
'Inter-regime Encounters' in Joseph, Kinley and Waincymer (eds), WTO and Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2009)

Peter Ramsay
‘The Insecurity State’ in M Hildebrandt, A Makinwa, A Oehmichen (eds) Controlling Security in a Culture of Fear (The Hague : Boom Publishers) (2010)

Andrew Scott
'Something rotten in the state of English libel law? A rejoinder to the clamour for reform of defamation' (2010) Communications Law 14(6), 173-183 (with Alastair Mullis)

Sivaramjani Thambisetty
'SMEs and patent litigation: policy-based evidence m aking?' European Intellectual Property Review  2010, 32(4), 143-145

Sarah Worthington
'Insolvency deprivation, public policy and priority flip clauses.' International Corporate Rescue 2010, 7(1), 28-39

January 2010

Hugh Collins
'Lord Hoffmann and the Common Law of Contract' European Review of Contract Law, 2009 5 (4) 474-484

Claire Kilpatrick
'Laval's regulatory conundrum: collective standard-setting and the Court's new approach to posted workers' European Law Review 2009, 34(6), 844-865

Niamh Moloney
How to Protect Investors. Lessons from the EC and the UK (Cambridge University Press) 2010

Kai Moller
'Two Conceptions of Positive Liberty: Towards an Autonomy-Based Theory of Constitutional Rights' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2009) 29 (4) 757-786

Jo Murkens
'Countering Anti-constitutional Argument: The Reasons for the European Court of Justice’s Decision in Kadi and Al Barakaat' (2009) 11 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 15-52

Helen Reece
'Parental Responsibility as Therapy' (2009) Family Law 1167

Andrew Scott
'Flash flood or slow burn? Celebrities, photographers and the Protection from Harassment Act' (2009) 14(4) Media & Arts Law Review 397-424

Grégoire Webber
The Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

December 2009

Julian Fulbrook
'Shah v Wasim Ul-Haq' Journal of Personal Injury Law 2009, 4, 189-195

Stephen Humphreys
Human Rights and Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (Foreword by Mary Robinson)

Jan Kleinheisterkamp
'The Impact of Internationally Mandatory Laws on the Enforceability of Arbitration Agreements' (2009) 3 World Arbitration and Mediation Review 91-120

Jo Murkens
'Identity Trumps Integration: The Lisbon Treaty in the German Federal Constitutional Court' (2009) 4 Der Staat 517-534.

November 2009

Jan Kleinheisterkamp
'Anerkennung und Vollstreckung ausländischer Schiedssprüche'; 'Ausstrahlung des europäischen Privatrechts in lateinamerikanische Rechtsordnungen'; 'UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts' in: J. Basedow / K. Hopt / R. Zimmermann (eds) Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts (Mohr Siebeck 2009)

Nicola Lacey
'Historicising Criminalisation: Conceptual and Empirical Issues' Modern Law Review 72 (6) pp.936-960

Andrew Lang [with Professor Joanne Scott]
'The Hidden World of WTO Governance' European Journal of International Law 2009 20(3):575-614

Alain Pottage
'Protocell patents. Property between modularity and emergence' in M. Bedau & E. Parke, The Ethics of Protocells. Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2009) 165-182.

'Fiction science and proprietary effect' in J-P Gaudilliere & D Kevles (eds), Living Properties (Max Planck History of Science Preprint, 2009) 225-239.

Charlie Webb
'Treating like cases alike: principle and classification in private law' in A Robertson and HW Tang (eds), The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2009)

'Property, unjust enrichment and defective transfers' in R. Chambers, C. Mitchell and J. Penner (eds), Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (Oxford University Press, 2009)

'Justifying Damages' in J. Neyers, R. Bronaugh and S. Pitel (eds), Exploring Contract Law (Hart Publishing, 2009)

Grégoire Webber
'What is an Original Constitution?' (2009) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series, WPS 19-2009, November 2009

October 2009

Veerle Heyvaert
'Levelling Down, Levelling Up, and Governing Across: Three Responses to Hybridization in International Law' European Journal of International Law 2009 20(3):647-674

Jan Kleinheisterkamp
'Eingriffsnormen und Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit: Ein praktischer Versuch' (2009) 73 Rabels Zeitschrift für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht 818-841

Andrew Murray
'Symbiotic Regulation' Vol.26 (2) The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law 207 (October 2009)

Fauzia Shariff
'Power relations and legal pluralism: an examination of strategies of struggles amongst the Santal adivasi of India and Bangladesh' Journal of Legal Pluralism 57 (2008) pp.1-43

Sarah Worthington
Equity and Property: Fact, Fantasy and Morals, Bruce McPherson Lectures, University of Queensland (2009, Queensland University Press)

September 2009

Michael Bridge
'The Proprietary Aspects of Assignment and Choice of Law' Law Quarterly Review 2009, 125 (Oct) , 671-698.

Christine Chinkin
'Panel Discussion: Has International Law Civilized Conflicts since 1907?' (Chinkin, C.; Tomuschat, C.; Ronzitti, N.) Veroffentlichungen - Walther Schucking Instituts fur Internationales Recht an der Universitat Kiel  Vol. 173 (2009) pp. 509-520

Vanessa Finch
'The Dynamics of Insolvency Law: Three Models of Reform'  Law and Financial Markets Review, Volume 3, Number 5, September 2009 , pp. 438-448

Emily Jackson
Medical Law : Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) 2nd edition

Simon Roberts
‘Listing Concentrates the Mind’: the English Civil Court as an Arena for Structured Negotiation' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (2009), pp. 1-23

July 2009

Neil Duxbury
'Lord Wright and Innovative Traditionalism' (2009) 59 University of Toronto Law Journal 265-340.

Jo Murkens
'The Quest for Constitutionalism in Public Law Discourse,' (2009) 29 (3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1-29.

Mike Redmayne
'Theorizing the Criminal Trial' (2009) 12 New Criminal Law Review 287-313

Sarah Worthington
'Pitfalls with property claims: Lehman Bros again', Butterworth's Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, (2009) 24 (6) pp.321-324

June 2009

Neil Duxbury
‘Lord Wright and Innovative Traditionalism’ (2009) 59 University of Toronto Law Journal 265-340;

‘Golden Rule Reasoning, Moral Judgment, and Law’ (2009) 84 Notre Dame Law Review 1529-1605.

Julian Fulbrook
'Peters v East Midlands SHA' Journal of Personal Injury Law 2009, 2, 89-94

David Kershaw
Company Law in Context: Text and Materials, Oxford University Press, 2009

Claire Kilpatrick
'The ECJ and Labour Law: A 2008 Retrospective' Industrial Law Journal, (2009) 38:2, 180-208

Charlie Webb
'What is unjust enrichment?' (2009) 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2009, 29(2), 215-243

May 2009

Vanessa Finch
Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles
, Cambridge University Press, 2009 [2nd edition]

Andrew Lang
'Taking Uncertainty Seriously: Adaptive Governance and International Trade: A Rejoinder to Monica Garcia-Salmones' (with Rosie Cooney) (2009) European Journal of International Law 20 (1) 187-192

Martin Loughlin
'In Defence of Staatslehre' Der Staat (Berlin : Duncker und Humblot) 48 (1) pp. 1-28 (2009)

Emmanuel Melissaris
Ubiquitous Law : Legal Theory and the Space for Legal Pluralism
(Ashgate,  2009)

Margot Salomon
'Poverty, Privilege and International Law: The Millennium Development Goals and the Guise of Humanitarianism', German Yearbook of International Law 51 (2009).

Igor Stramignoni
'Le regard de la comparaison : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida' in Pierre Legrand (ed) Comparer les droits, résolument (Paris : PUF) 2009

April 2009

Veerle Heyvaert
'Globalizing regulation: reaching beyond the borders of chemical safety'  Journal of Law and Society 2009, 36(1), 110-128.

Thomas Poole
'Constitutional Exceptionalism and the Common Law' (2009) 7 International Journal of Constitutional Law 247;

‘The Devil's Account: Men, Morals, and Constitutional Goods' (2009) 22 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 113;

'The Impact of the Human Rights Act on the House of Lords' (2009) Public Law (with Sangeeta Shah) Apr, 347-371;

‘The Reformation of English Administrative Law' (2008) 67 Cambridge Law Journal 142

Mike Redmayne
'English Warnings' (in Symposium: The Future of Self-incrimination: Fifth Amendment, Confessions, & Guilty Pleas) 2008 Cardozo Law Review 30 (3) 1047-1088

Mike Redmayne
'The Ethics of Character Evidence' (2008) 61 Current Legal Problems 371-99

Simon Roberts
'From kinship to magic circle: the London commercial law firm in the twentieth century' (with Marc Galanter) International Journal of the Legal Profession, Volume 15, Issue 3 November 2008 , pp 143-178

March 2009

Julia Black
'Rebuilding the credibility of markets and regulators' Law & Financial Markets Review 2009, 3(1), 1-2.

Michael Bridge
The Sale of Goods (2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2009)

Hugh Collins and Virginia Mantouvalou
'Private Life and Dismissal' Industrial Law Journal, 2009, 38(1), 133-138.

Nicola Lacey
‘Philosophy, Political Morality and History: Explaining the Enduring Resonance of the Hart-Fuller Debate' New York University Law Review.

Bob Simpson
'The Employment Act 2008's amendments to the national minimum wage legislation' Industrial Law Journal (2009) 38(1), 57-64

February 2009

Paul Davies
Gower and Davies' Principles of Modern Company Law 8th ed (Thomson Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2009) [NEW EDITION].

Emily Jackson
(L. McGoey and Emily Jackson) ‘Seroxat and the suppression of clinical trial data: regulatory failure and the uses of legal ambiguity' Journal of Medical Ethics 2009;35:107-112.

Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC)
(co-edited with Stefan Vogenauer, Oxford: OUP 2009)

 


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Law and Financial Markets Project

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