Professor Martin Loughlin

Martin Loughlin is Professor of Law, Emeritus Professor of Public Law. He was educated at LSE, the University of Warwick and Harvard Law School and held chairs at the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester before returning to LSE in 2000. He was a member of the Editorial Committee of The Modern Law Review from 1987 to 2010, serving as General Editor between 2002-07, and now sits on its Advisory Board. Martin was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011 and in 2015 was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Edinburgh. He has held research fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2007-8), Princeton University (20012-13), Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2016-17), Edinburgh Law School (2019) and Yale Law School (2023) and been a Visiting Professor at several law schools including Osgoode Hall, Paris II, Pennsylvania, Renmin University (Beijing), and Toronto.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Complete list of publications (pdf)

Martin is currently working on a project about the rule of law and is writing a short book on Political Jurisprudence for the Elgar Advanced Introductions series.

LL106 Public Law

LL4AQ Constitutional Theory

External Activities

Martin sits on the Editorial Boards of:

The Modern Law Review; Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues;Jus Politicum:Revue de droit politique;Giornale di Storia costituzionale/Journal of Constitutional History; Teoría y Realidad Constitucional; and theVienna Journal on International Constitutional Law.

He is also co-editor of the OUP book series,Oxford Constitutional Theory.

Public Engagement

• ‘Constitutionalism: For and Against’ Balkinization, 6 July 2023
• 'Constitutionalism - an opium for the lawyers' RevDem 15/03/23
• 'Comparative Constitutional Law’s Blind Spot' Balkinization 04/03/22
• 'Can there be a theory of ‘the executive branch"'" Administrative Law in the Common Law World 28/10/21