Public International Law
Public international law is a central component of teaching and research at the LSE. We teach popular undergraduate options in general public international law and the international protection of human rights, together with a wide range of LLM options. While that range varies slightly from year to year, LLM offerings always include an advanced public international law course (currently ‘Rethinking International Law’) and a series of specialised courses, which in recent years have encompassed international economic law, international human rights law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international law and the use of force, international refugee and migration law, international dispute resolution, world poverty and human rights, the human rights of women, international and European environmental law, investment treaty law, and the international law of self-determination.
Alongside these taught programmes, we are privileged to supervise the research of a large number of doctoral students working on topics that implicate public international law in a huge variety of ways. The focus of some recent and current projects has been on particular international legal norms and principles, such as sovereign immunity or self-defence. In the case of other projects, enquiry has revolved instead around international legal processes and institutions – law-making in the WTO, for instance, or the role of the UN in transitional and post-conflict justice. Yet other projects have moved to the arena of metadisciplinary concerns, with students tracing the significance of international law in public justificatory discourse or investigating the interrelation of Third World approaches to international law and the Marxist critique of imperialism.
Faculty members are all engaged in their own ongoing research and writing, and are also active participants in scholarly networks, holders of mandates to undertake work for the UN and other organisations, and members of international commissions of enquiry, national advisory committees, and the editorial boards of academic journals. Interests and approaches are again highly diverse, but what we all share is an ambition to link the study of international law to the practical contexts of collective life, and especially to the realities of poverty, violence, oppression and inequality and the struggles being waged to end them. Our aim, as teachers, supervisors and researchers, is to foster and develop forms of critical analysis that will advance understanding of the place of law in global affairs.
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Faculty Click on name for biography and research interests: Dr Jonathan
Bonnitcha
Prof Martti
Koskenniemi
Dr Mara Malagodi
Dr Margot Salomon
Postgraduate Students List of current postgraduate research topics:- Email: a.e.chadwick@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'Financial Speculation, International Law and the Production of Global Poverty' Supervisors: Professor Susan Marks and Dr Andrew Lang
Email: R.J.Knox@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'A Critical Account of the Concept of Imperialism in Marxist and Third World Approaches to International Law' Supervisors: Professor Susan Marks and Dr Florian Hoffmann Email: t.k.krever@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: [to be confirmed] Supervisors: Professor Susan Marks and Dr Stephen Humphreys Research Interests: : international law; international human rights; international criminal law; law and development Recent Publications and Conference Papers 'Quantifying Law: Legal Indicator Projects and the Reproduction of Neo-liberal Common Sense' (2013) Third World Quarterly 34 (2) [forthcoming]. 'The Legal Turn in Late Development Theory: the ‘Rule of Law’ and the World Bank’s Development Model' (2011) Harvard International Law Journal 52 (1): 287-319. ‘"Mopping-Up": UNHCR, Neutrality and Non-Refoulement since the Cold War' (2011) Chinese Journal of International Law 10 (3): 587-608. 'Calling Power to Reason?' (2010) New Left Review
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Email: N.Lamp@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'International Trade Lawmaking in the WTO' Supervisors: Dr Andrew Lang and Alain Pottage Personal Website: http://lse.academia.edu/NicolasLamp Research Interests: International lawmaking processes, international trade law, in particular concerning the trade in agricultural products, the relationship between power, law and morality Recent Publications and Conference Papers 'Democracy in the WTO: The Limits of the Legitimacy Debate, in: Hertwig, Jana et al. (eds.): Global Risks – Constructing World Order through Law, Politics and Economics, Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang, 143-172. The Government of Government – International Trade Lawmaking in the WTO, Paper presented at the 51st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, 17-20 February. Book Review of The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law by Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld and Isabelle Van Damme (eds.), Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, in: International and Comparative Law Quarterly 59 (2), 2010, 529-532. Email: C.R.Majinge@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: ‘The Role of the United Nations and African Union in Building the Rule of Law in Countries Emerging from Conflicts: The Case of Southern Sudan’. Supervisors: Dr Chaloka Beyani and Professor Christine Chinkin Research Interests: International law; International human rights; international humanitarian law; refugee law and constitutional law. Recent Publications and Conference Papers The Doctrine of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in International Law and its Practice in Developing Countries: The Case of Mining Sector in Tanzania, African Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 16, 2008, 235-268. The International Criminal Court and the Question of Alternative Justice System in Africa: A Case of be Careful of what you wish for? Verfassung und Recht in übersee/ International Journal of Law and Politics in Africa, Asia & Latin America, Vol. 42, 2, 2009, 151-173. Housing, Right to, International Protection, Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, 2010. The Concept of Global Governance in Public International Law: Addressing Democratic Deficit and Enhancing Accountability in Decision Making Process of the African Union, Journal of African & International Law, Vol. 3, 1, 2010, 1-30. The Future of peacekeeping in Africa and the Normative role of the African Union, Goettingen Journal of International Law, vol. 2, issue 2, 2010, 463-500. Southern Sudan and the Struggle for Self Determination in Contemporary Africa: Examining its Basis under International Law, German Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 53, 2010, 541-578. Can Multinational Corporations Help Secure Human Rights and the Rule of Law? The Case of Sudan, Verfassung und Recht in übersee/ International Journal of Law and Politics in Africa, Asia & Latin America, Vol. 44, 1, 2011, 7-32. Regional Arrangements and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: The Role of the African Union Peace and Security Council, Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 48, 2010, 97-149. Email: n.m.perrone@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'An international investment regime for a global economy' Supervisors: Dr Andrew Lang and Ken Shadlen Research Interests: International economic law; Development studies; International investment, trade and business; Multinational corporations and regulation. Recent Publications and Conference Papers 'Scrutinizing States’ Power in a Liberalized Economy: A Comparative Analysis of the International Investment Regime and the International Trade System (June 30, 2010). Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), Second Biennial Global Conference, University of Barcelona, July 8-10, 2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1633007 The Agro-business sector: An alternative for international insertion?, (in Spanish and Portuguese) Co-authors Lucas Arce and Gustavo Rojas, in Puentes/Pontes, ICTSD. Available at http://ictsd.org/i/news/puentes/62092/
Email: a.saab@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'Climate change, hunger, and the law' Supervisors: Professor Susan Marks and Dr Stephen Humphreys
Email: O.M.Stern@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'Women In African Armed Groups: Are the Provisions of International Humanitarian law Adequate to Deal with the Current Reality?' Supervisors: Professor Christine Chinkin and Dr Chaloka Beyani Research Interests: International humanitarian law; non-international armed conflict; African civil war; human rights law; gender in conflict. Email: s.way@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: [tbc] Supervisors: Dr Margot Salomon and Professor Susan Marks Research Interests: International human rights law, with a special focus on economic, social and cultural rights and issues of poverty, inequality and development. Current research is focused on conflicts between international human rights law and international economic law (trade and investment law) from a political theory perspective. Interests also include critical legal theory, theories of justice and social theory in relation to law and economics, in the context of human rights practice. Recent Publications and Conference Papers 2011 'The Fight for the Right to Food: Challenges and Prospects' with J.Ziegler, C.Golay, C. Mahon, London: Palgrave Macmillan. [FORTHCOMING] 2006 ‘The right to food and access to justice: Understanding the right to food as a ‘negative’ right’ in M. Borghi, L. Postiglione Blommestein (eds), The Right to Food and Access to Justice, Fribourg, Editions universitaires. 2005 ‘The Role of UN Human Rights Bodies in Promoting and Protecting the Right To Food’ in Food and Human Rights in Development W.B Eide and U. Kracht (eds) Belgium: Intersentia Press, 2005. 2005 “The right to food and clean water” with J. Ziegler and C. Golay in Essentials of Human Rights Smith, R.K.M.and van den Anker, C.(eds) London:Hodder Arnold Press. 2004 « Le droit à l’alimentation », with C. Golay in Géopolitique de la faim. Faim et responsabilités, Action Contre la Faim, Paris, PUF, 2004, pp. 227-243 Email: yoshidak@lse.ac.uk Thesis Title: 'The official history? The domestic prosecution of international gender crimes.' Supervisors: Professor Linda Mulcahy and Professor Christine Chinkin Research Interests: international courts and tribunals; gender and human rights; critical legal theory. |
