LSE has an impressive tradition of specialism in the fields of international and regional human rights law as well as human and constitutional rights law of the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions. Our strength derives from our commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship which employs philosophical, comparative, and critical approaches while remaining rooted in law as our primary discipline. The professors’ specialist expertise in various aspects of human rights is reflected in their publications as well as in the courses offered and relates, for example, to international law and the movement of persons and populations (Prof. Beyani), women’s rights (Prof. Chinkin), terrorism and human rights (Prof. Gearty), climate change and human rights (Dr. Humphreys), the theory of constitutional rights and comparative constitutional rights law (Prof. Möller), and socio-economic rights (Prof. Salomon).
The law school has a close association with LSE's Centre for the Study of Human Rights, a trans-disciplinary centre of excellence for international academic research, teaching and scholarship on human rights. The Centre has a number of law school members among its core team and is home to cutting-edge initiatives that engage with human rights law, including the Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy and the Human Rights Futures Project.
LSE Law School members have engaged in many intellectual pursuits related to human rights, including giving distinguished university and NGO lectures, training domestic and international judges, and arguing cases before all levels of court within the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Many law school members have been involved in the promotion of human rights in official capacities, including as UN Special Rapporteur on Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Prof. Beyani) and as members of the Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Panel (Prof. Chinkin), the FCO’s Advisory Group on Human Rights (Prof. Marks), and the Commission on Multi-Faith Britain (Prof. Klug).
Faculty
Dr Chaloka Beyani
Professor Christine Chinkin
Professor Conor Gearty
Dr Devika Hovell
Professor Stephen Humphreys
Dr Martin Husovec
Dr Orla Lynskey
Professor Susan Marks
Dr Richard Martin
Dr Kai Möller
Professor Thomas Poole
Dr Margot Salomon
Dr Andrew Scott
Professor Gerry Simpson
Dr Sarah Trotter
Dr Grégoire Webber
Professorial Research Fellow
Professor Francesca Klug
Research Students
Thomas Bagshaw
Pascual Cortés
Michelle Hughes
Carly A. Krakow
Shingira Masanzu
Viknes Muthiah
Leonardo Rivera Mendoza
Recent publications
- Yusra Suedi 'Litigating Climate Change before the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Sacchi v Argentina et al.: Breaking New Ground?' Nordic Journal of Human Rights (online first)
- Sarah Trotter 'Hope’s Relations: A Theory of the "Right to Hope" in European Human Rights Law' Human Rights Law Review Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2022, ngac007
- Richard Martin Policing Human Rights: Law, Narratives and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Margot Salomon 'The radical ideation of peasants, the "pseudo-radicalism" of international human rights law, and the revolutionary lawyer'London Review of International Law, 2021
- Stephen Humphreys 'The human rights covenants in the light of anthropogenic climate change,’ in D Moeckli, and H Keller (eds) The Human Rights Covenants at 50: Their Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Susan Marks A False Tree of Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2019)
- Michael Blackwell 'Indeterminacy, Disagreement and the Human Rights Act: An Empirical Study of Litigation in the UK House of Lords and Supreme Court 1997–2017' (2020) Modern Law Review 285-320
- Conor Gearty 'Human Rights Law' in R Masterman and R Schutze (eds), Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019) ch 11, pp.291-311
- Conor Gearty 'Afterword' in P Kapotas and V Tzevelekos (eds), Building Consensus on European Consensus. Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019) ch 19, pp.448-466
- Conor Gearty 'States of denial. What the search for a UK Bill of Rights tells us about human rights protection today' E.H.R.L.R. 2018, 5, 415-421
- Kai Möller 'Stability and Change under the Global Model of Constitutional Rights: A Reply to Vanessa MacDonnell' 12 (2018) Law & Ethics of Human Rights 103-110
- Siva Thambisetty 'Improving access to patented medicines: Are human rights getting in the way?'LSE Law Working Paper Series 03/2018
- Conor Gearty 'Terrorist threats, antiterrorism, and the case against the Human Rights Act' in F Cowell (ed), Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), ch 7 121-135.
- Dalia Palombo, 'L'affaire Mubende-Neumann devant le Comité des droits de l’homme' (with Edouard Fromageau), in Laurence Dubin (ed.), L’entreprise multinationale et le droit international, (2017, Pedone) pp. 363-379
- Andrew Scott 'The Access to Information Dimension of Positive Free Speech', in Kenyon and Scott (eds) Positive Free Speech: Rationales, Methods and Implications (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017)
- Devika Hovell The Power of Process: The Value of Due Process in Security Council Sanctions Decision-Making (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Devika Hovell 'Due Process in the United Nations' American Journal of International Law (2016) 110 (1) pp.1-48. For a symposium on this article, including contributions by Alexandra Huneeus, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Rosa Freedman and Joy Gordon, click here.
- Neil Duxbury , Neil 'Judicial disapproval as a constitutional technique' International Journal of Constitutional Law (2017) (in press)
- Conor Gearty 'The Human Rights Act should not be repealed'LSE Law Policy Briefings 16/2016
- Conor Gearty 'Neo-Democracy: ‘Useful Idiot’ of Neo-Liberalism?'British Journal of Criminology (2016)
- Conor Gearty On Fantasy Island. Britain Strasbourg and Human Rights (OUP, 2016)
- 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.
- Kai Moller 'U.S. Constitutional Law, Proportionality, and the Global Model'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 06-2016
- Andrew Murray 'A Principled Approach to Net Neutrality'SCRIPT-ed, (2016) Vol.13.(2) pp.118-143 (with Lucie Audibert)
- Gerry Simpson 'Human Rights with a Vengeance: One Hundred Years of Retributive Humanitarianism', 33 Australian Yearbook of International Law(2016) 1-14
- 'An Unwholesome Layer Cake: intermediary liability in English defamation and data protection law' in Mangan and Gilles (eds), The Legal Challenges of Social Media (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) [FORTHCOMING]
- Andrew Scott Newsgathering: Law, Regulation and the Public Interest (Oxford University Press, 2016) (with Gavin Millar QC)
- Thomas Poole 'The Law of Emergency and Reason of State' in Evan Criddle (ed.), Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
- Thomas Poole 'Rights and Opinion: Or, The Progress of Sentiments' (2016) 10 Law & Ethics of Human Rights pp.453-478
- Thomas Poole 'A Very Successful Action? Keyu and Historical Wrongs at Common Law' (with Sangeeta Shah) UK Supreme Court Yearbook (2016) 7 Part 1
- Neil Duxbury Lord Kilmuir: A Vignette (Hart Publishing: 2015)
- Conor Gearty 'The State of Freedom in Europe'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series 17/2015
- Dalia Palombo, 'Chandler v. Cape: An Alternative to Piercing the Corporate Veil Beyond Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell' (2015) 4(1) British Journal of American Legal Studies, pp. 453-471
- Orla Lynskey The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- Orla Lynskey 'Control over personal data in a digital age: Google Spain v AEPD and Maria Costeja Gonzalez' Modern Law Review (2015) 78 3 pp.522-534
- Margot Salomon ‘How to Keep Promises: Making Sense of the Duty Among Multiple States to Fulfil Socio-Economic Rights in the World’SHARES Research Paper 53 (2014) [forthcoming in: André Nollkaemper and Dov Jacobs (eds.), Distribution of Responsibilities in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Margot Salomon 'Of Austerity, Human Rights and International Institutions'21 European Law Journal 4 (2015)
- Astrid Sanders 'The impact of the 'Ruggie Framework' and the 'United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights' on transnational human rights litigation, in The Business and Human Rights Landscape: Moving Forward, Looking Back. Edited by Jena Martin and Karen E Bravo (CUP 2015)
- Conor Gearty The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2014) ed. (with Professor Costas Douzinas)
- Conor Gearty 'In praise of awkwardness: Kadi in the CJEU'E.C.L. Review 2014, 10 (1), 15-27
- Orla Lynskey 'Deconstructing data protection: the "added-value" of a right to data protection in the EU legal order' International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2014) 63 (3) pp.569-597
- Susan Marks 'Backlash: the undeclared war against human rights'European Human Rights Law Review 2014, 4, pp.319-327
- Dalia Palombo, 'The Law of Nations in the United States Constitution after the cases Sosa v. Alvarez and Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.' (2014) 6(1) Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, pp. 397-413