Comparative Law
Comparative law has been a cornerstone of legal studies at the LSE at least since Professor Otto Kahn-Freund joined the Law Department in the 1930’s.
Today’s LSE law department is truly international, with full-time members of academic staff from every continent, with diverse academic and professional qualifications, who integrate interdisciplinary approaches in their research. The fact that teaching often takes place in classes comprised of students from close to two dozen different nationalities further contributes to a uniquely international setting for the study of comparative law at the LSE.
The value of comparative law is to a large extent dependent upon its method and critical scholarship. To be practically useful as well as intellectually valuable comparative law has to compare more than just rules. Comparative law, especially in relation to public law, has to embrace law and society, different regulatory mechanisms, self-reflections, traditions and legal cultures, politics, history, economics and intellectual roots. The LSE course on Comparative constitutional law incorporates these ideas through modules on topics as diverse as ‘constitutional legal culture and legal borrowing’, ‘philosophical foundations’, and ‘regime change’, and by including diverse disciplinary perspectives. This scope makes the study of comparative law particularly engaging as well as challenging.
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