Comparative law has been a cornerstone of legal studies at the LSE at least since Professor Otto Kahn-Freund joined the law school in the 1930s.Today’s LSE Law School is truly international, with full-time members of academic staff from every continent, with diverse academic and professional qualifications, who integrate interdisciplinary approaches in their research. The fact that teaching often takes place in classes comprised of students from close to two dozen different nationalities further contributes to a uniquely international setting for the study of comparative law at the LSE. The value of comparative law is to a large extent dependent upon its method and critical scholarship. To be practically useful as well as intellectually valuable comparative law has to compare more than just rules. Comparative law, especially in relation to public law, has to embrace law and society, different regulatory mechanisms, self-reflections, traditions and legal cultures, politics, history, economics and intellectual roots. This scope makes the study of comparative law particularly engaging as well as challenging.
Faculty
Mr Eduardo Baistrocchi
Dr Jacco Bomhoff
Professor Trevor Hartley
Dr Martin Husovec
Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
Dr Maame Mensa-Bonsu (LSE Fellow)
Professor Eva Micheler
Dr Kai Möller
Professor Jo Murkens
Dr Philipp Paech
Dr Igor Stramignoni
Research Students
WinluckWahiu
Recent publications
- Jacco Bomhoff 'Proportionality in Comparative Law' LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 03/2022 (forthcoming as an entry on ‘Proportionality’ in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (2nd edition), Jan Smits, Catherine Valcke, Jaakko Husa & Madalena Narciso, eds.)
- Jacco Bomhoff 'Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium' Social & Legal Studies. May 2022
- Jeremy Horder 'Online Free Speech and the Suppression of False Political Claims' (2021) 8(1) Journal of International and Comparative Law 15-52
- Jo Murkens 'Preservative or Transformative? Theorizing the U.K. Constitution Using Comparative Method'The American Journal of Comparative Law (2020) 68 (2) pp.412-440
- David Kershaw 'The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law'LSE Law Working Papers 15/2018
- Thomas Poole 'Independent Fiscal Institutions in Comparative Constitutional Perspective'LSE Law Working Papers 12/2018 (with Cal Viney)
- Eduardo Baistrocchi A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes (ed.) (London: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- Solene Rowan 'Resisting Termination: Some Comparative Observations' in A Dyson, J Goudkamp, F Wilmot-Smith (eds) Defences in Contract (Hart, Oxford 2017) 163.
- Jacco Bomhoff 'Beyond Proportionality: Thinking Comparatively About Constitutional Review and Punitiveness'forthcoming in Vicki Jackson and Mark Tushnet (eds.), Proportionality: New Frontiers, New Challenges, Cambridge University Press, 2016
- Michael Bridge 'Remedies and damages' In: DiMatteo, Larry A., Janssen, André , Magnus , Ulrich and Schulze, Reiner, (eds.) International Sales Law: Contract, Principles & Practice. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaf / Verlag C.H.BECK oHG / Hart Publishing (2016) pp. 529-586.
- Michael Bridge 'Consequences of avoidance of the contract under the CISG'. In: UNIDROIT, (corp. ed.) Eppur Si Muove: The Age of Uniform Law: Essays in Honour of Michael Joachim Bonell to Celebrate His 70th Birthday. UNIDROIT, Rome, Italy, (2016) pp. 1717-1733.
- Michael Bridge 'Risk of loss'. In: DiMatteo, Larry A., Janssen, André, Magnus, Ulrich and Schulze, Reiner, (eds.) International Sales Law: Contract, Principles & Practice. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaf / Verlag C.H.BECK oHG / Hart Publishing (2016) pp. 635-664.
- Michèle Finck 'The role of human dignity in gay rights adjudication and legislation: a comparative perspective'International Journal of Constitutional Law (2016) 14 (1). pp. 26-53.
- Michèle Finck and Ranchordás, Sofia 'Sharing and the City'Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2016)
- Kai Moller 'U.S. Constitutional Law, Proportionality, and the Global Model'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 06-2016
- Philipp Paech 'The Value of Financial Market Insolvency Safe Harbours'Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2016) 36 (4) pp.855-884
- Philipp Paech 'Securities, intermediation and the blockchain - an inevitable choice between liquidity and legal certainty?'Uniform Law Review (2016) 21 (4) pp.612-639
- Michael W. Dowdle and Michael Wilkinson 'On the Limits of Constitutional Liberalism: In Search of a Constitutional Reflexivity' NUS Law Working Paper No. 2015/009 (forthcoming in Michael W. Dowdle and Michael A. Wilkinson, eds., Constitutionalism Beyond Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- Jan Kleinheisterkamp 'Investment treaty law and the fear for sovereignty: transnational challenges and solutions'Modern Law Review (2015) 78 (5) pp.793-825
- Jan Komárek 2015 'Legal reasoning in EU law' In: Arnull, Anthony and Chalmers, Damian, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of EU Law (2015)
- Michèle Finck 'Towards an ever closer union between residents and citizens? on the possible extension of voting rights to foreign residents in Luxembourg'European Constitutional Law Review (2015) 11 (1). pp. 78-98.
- Michèle Finck and Betül Kas 'Surrogacy leave as a matter of EU law: CD and Z' Common Market Law Review (2015) 52 . pp. 281-298
- Solene Rowan 'Conditions – Art 5.3.1-5.3.5' in S Vogenauer (ed), Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Solene Rowan 'Moral Damages – Report on French Law' in V Palmer (ed), The Recovery of Non-Pecuniary Loss in European Contract Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015)