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 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.
Episode 19. The Ocean, Patents and Pandemics: Where science, law, and economics meet
We explore the role of patent law in our interconnected world. Professor Susan Marks and Dr Siva Thambisetty discuss Siva's work ranging from taking part in treaty negotiations for The BBNJ Agreement to her efforts during the COVID-19 Pandemic to help secure greater access to vaccines which would otherwise be hindered through patent law.
Episode 18. Law as Culture: Proportionality and Other Artefacts of Legal Knowledge
How does the law shape our culture? Is education a neutral endeavour? Or, can an analysis of how one learns the law uncover the world-making nature of legal education? Professor Susan Marks interviews Dr Jacco Bomhoff who provides an insightful analysis of the German legal system. The episode also explores Jacco's work on the conflict of laws.
Ratio Magazine
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
