In this talk, Professor Zhang will take us beyond the headlines to unravel the complexity of China’s regulatory governance. Drawing insights from her newly released book, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy,”
Speaker: Angela Zhang
Across two sessions, we will hear from experts on the cultural significance of rap music and the issues and implications of prosecuting rap, including: colonial legacies in the criminalisation of drill music; use of drill music in ‘joint enterprise’ trials and to construct gang narratives; the need to instruct expert witnesses; Criminal Behaviour Orders to restrict the creation of music; and the implications for freedom of expression.
Speakers: Adèle Oliver, Eithne Quinn, Russell Fraser, Danielle Manson & Owen Greenhall
LSE Law School is delighted to announce that it will fund one study visit at the Court of Justice of the European Union during the 2024/25 session. Successful applicants will work at the chambers of an Advocate General for three months and receive a stipend from LSE of €1,377 per month for costs of living as well a lump sum of £400 for travel costs. In this information event.
Five years after Brexit, Britain’s political institutions are held in contempt by its people. The Union with Scotland and Northern Ireland is in doubt. Much of the UK’s stagnant economy is foreign-owned. Its imperial past is disgraced. Immigration is at unprecedented levels. Identity conflicts proliferate. Is a national politics possible in such circumstances?
The Bill Cornish Memorial lecture series has been established as an annual event by LSE academics Dr Martin Husovec and Dr Luke McDonagh to honour the late Professor Bill Cornish who passed away in 2022.
Speaker: Professor Caroline Ncube
The aim of this LSE Law ‘Financial Market Infrastructure Project’ event is to develop new perspectives on post-2008 regulatory reforms by sharing inter-disciplinary, market and regulatory insights. The sessions will consider the effectiveness, evolution and outcomes of the rules implemented after the crisis, take stock of lessons from recent stresses in the markets, and ask where global financial regulation should go from here.
The global patterns of trade are changing as a consequence of the emerging geopolitical realities (and the associated frictions). In this new landscape, governments have become increasingly concerned with their economic security and have put in place measures to preserve their autonomy and resilience.
Over the past decades, EU law has been increasingly contested, fragmented and displaced as the main form of governance of the integration project. Legal integration is uneven: it has moved forward inexorably in certain fields, while in other domains it has stagnated.
Speaker: Floris De-Witte
The series takes as starting point that authority and order are not fixed properties of specific actors or institutions, but the result of ongoing material processes of ordering and world-making. As such, it traces unconventional forms and sites of global dis/ordering – from raw materials to projections of hope – as material, infrastructural, and discursive compositions that shape patterns of power.
This event will focus on the current situation concerning the Palestinians’ right to education, and will ask probing questions about the consequences for academic freedom in the UK and elsewhere.
Speaker: Ms Al-Botmeh
The British Irish Chapter of the International Society of Constitutional Law, which will be hosting a conference on Techniques of Constitutional Regulation, scheduled for 20-21 May 2024 at the LSE.
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.
Speaker: Martin David Kelly (Edinburgh, Simon Roberts Fellow LSE)
