Ratio
Ratio brings LSE Law School to life, with a magazine showcasing staff and student work and a podcast exploring contemporary legal debates.
Recent issues of the magazine have featured stories on climate change, technology and human rights, while the podcast has brought in experts to discuss topics from constitutional reform to global justice. Together they offer an engaging look at the ideas and challenges shaping law today.
Episode 23: Negotiating a Bargain: Law, Order and the Money Markets of Kabul
Dr Luke McDonagh in conversation with Dr Nafay Choudhury on the interaction between state and non-state authorities as they take shape in the money exchange markets of Kabul
Ep. 22 - Art Not Evidence: On the Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials
Dr Luke McDonagh and Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah discuss how rap lyrics are used in criminal trials and what this reveals about bias and evidentiary standards in the justice system.
Episode 21. Searching for Sanctuary: A Conversation around Immigration and Asylum Law and Advocacy
Dr Luke McDonagh sits down with LSE alum, barrister and novelist Tom Gaisford for an illuminating conversation on Tom's career, immigration and asylum law and how his years of working as a lawyer have come to inform the writing of his new book 'Sanctuary'.
Episode 20. AI and the Futures of the Law Profession
In what ways will AI impact the legal profession? How will this impact correspond to the need to change the way future lawyers are educated while at Law School? If one accepts that AI is transformative, how transformative is it? Professor David Kershaw, interviews author and CEO of FjordStream Advisors, Bjarne Tellmann.
Ratio Magazine
Ratio 2025/26
Bridging the classroom: the LSE Legal Advice Centre launch 2025; LSE Law School welcomes Professor Lea Ypi; Law Teacher of the Year Award; Impact in the Global South; “Its Own Kind of Idyll”: Executive LLM alum Mark Mossey appointed to the bench
Ratio 2024/25
A conversation with our President and Vice Chancellor, Professor Larry Kramer; We ask what do students think about the LLB reform? The Art Not Evidence campaign: a conversation with Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah; Freedom and the Law in Britain; Underworld Ecologies
Ratio 2023/24
Against Constitutionalism: a conversation with Martin Loughlin; Law and the Problems of our Economies: a PhD reading group; Managing the Law School, Matt Rowley
Ratio 2022/23
Interview with Professor David Kershaw, Dean of LSE Law School; Invasion of Ukraine; The ECHR Intervention Clinic; Social Media - But the Good Kind
Ratio 2021/22
COVID-19 and the legal landscape; Celebrating the work of Professor Nicola Lacey; Student wellbeing at LSE Law School; “Good” and “Bad” deal-making in developing countries
Ratio 2020/21
Work on inequality in the law school; Student podcast the Nth Cause; Anti-Vaccincation Activism in a Digital Age; Code of Conduct: On the Future of Legal Professions
Ratio 2019/20
2019 marks the centenary of the appointment of LSE’s first Law Professor, H C Gutteridge; How a student start-up is helping others with their university applications; Crime and Punishment: examining the ethics underlying long-term incarceration
Ratio 2018/19
Confronting Displacement: an interview with Associate Professor Chaloka Beyani; The Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship Scheme; Ideal Discourse, Prime Ministers and Civic Republicanism: LSE future of Pakistan; LSE in The Hague
Ratio 2017/18
Medics and the Law: an interview with Prof Emily Jackson OBE; Athena SWAN: a reflection in equality, diversity and inclusion; The Brexit Effect: how the referendum result impacts PhD research; The Penal Reform Society: our experience working with offenders
