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):-
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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)




