Dr Kenta Tsuda

Kenta Tsuda joined the Law School as a Fellow in September 2025. His research is in administrative law and environmental law, focusing on theories of law making and litigation. Kenta teaches in areas of public law and company law. He has also previously taught environmental law.

Before joining LSE, Kenta completed an AHRC-funded doctorate at University College London, addressing the place of theories of bureaucratic motivation in administrative law. Prior to doctoral work, Kenta was a public-interest environmental lawyer in Alaska and New England, a corporate lawyer in New York, a judicial law clerk in Texas, and, before that, an assistant editor at the New Left Review. He received a JD from Harvard Law School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from Brown University.

Research Interests

• public law
• administrative law
• environmental law
• public choice theory

Publications

Teaching

LL106 Public Law

LL203 Law of Business Associations (Company Law)

Engagement and Impact

Comment of Kenta Tsuda on Proposed Rescission of the Roadless Rule, United States Forest Service, Docket: FS-2025-0001-0001 (19 Sep. 2025)

Comment of Kenta Tsuda on NEPA Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2, Council on Environmental Quality, Docket: CEQ-2023-0003 (29 Sep. 2023)

‘Naive Questions on Degrowth’ 128 New Left Review 111 (2021)