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Mike Wilkinson, Professor of Law at LSE, studied at University College London, the College of Europe, Bruges, and completed a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. Prior to taking up his post at LSE in 2007, Mike was lecturer at Manchester University, EU-US Fulbright Research Fellow at Columbia and NYU and was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 2000. He has also taught at Cornell University as adjunct professor of law and been a visiting professor at Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), National University of Singapore (NUS) and Keio University Tokyo.
Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk
Research
Research Interests
- European Integration
- Constitutional Theory
- Legal, Political and Social Theory
Publications
Teaching
Engagement and impact
Public Engagement
The End of History and the Last European MPIfG Lecture(podcast) 24/4/24
European Identity Isn’t an Antidote to Nationalism Jacobin 9/9/23
'The New Right Wants Activist Judges to Rule, Not the People' Jacobin 5/3/23
The European Union was built on a rejection of democracy Jacobin 17/8/22
February 24th, or what binds Europeans together? UCL Europe Blog17/03/22
Power to the People? A Missed Opportunity Balkinization 09/03/22
The Rise and Fall of World Constitutionalism Verfassungsblog 07/10/21
Roundtable: Monetary Policy in the EU: Beneath the Spurious Legality of the ECB’s Monetary Policy Just Money (with Marco Dani, Edoardo Chiti, Joana Mendes, Agustín José Menéndez, Harm Schepel)
Fight, flight or fudge? First reflections on the PSPP judgement of the German Constitutional Court VerfBlog,2020/5/06
At the End of the Law: A Moment of Truth for the Eurozone and the EU VerfBlog,2020/5/15 (with Marco Dani; Joana Mendes; Agustín José Menendez; Harm Schepel; Edoardo Chiti
The Failure of the Left to Grasp Brexit LSE Brexit Blog 2019/12/16,
A Constitutionally Momentous Judgment That Changes Practically Nothing?: The UK Supreme Court’s Decision on the Prorogation of Parliament VerfBlog 2019/9/25
Labour Cannot be a Party of Remain if it is Serious about Radical Change,LSE Brexit Blog 2019/09/05,
A Crisis Made in Italy VerfBlog 2018/6/07
Prelude to a Lexit Manifesto: Decoding the New German Ideology LSE Brexit Blog 2018/12/04
Austerity, Grexit, and the Battle for the Euro LSE Law Policy Briefing Paper10/2015
Videos
- The Past, Present and Future of European Democracy (June 2024, with Professor Vivien Schmidt)
- Discussion at the Liverpool Salon on 'Dreams of Order' (January 2023)
- Diritti Comparati Vlog on Authoritarian Liberalism (November 2022)
- Lecture on Authoritarian Liberalismto the Brazilian Research Group on the Justice System and the State of Exception(May 2022)
- International conference "Angry Times. Populism and Democracy Discontent"
- Lineages of Authoritarian Liberalism
- Conference "EU Constitutional Imagination: Between Ideology And Utopia"