Throughout the twentieth century LSE led the way in the development of public law scholarship in Britain. The pioneering work was undertaken during the interwar era by H.J. Laski, W.I. Jennings and W.A. Robson; many of the ground-breaking texts covering the range of constitutional and administrative law and promoting a distinctively 'modern' or 'functionalist' approach to the subject were written by these leading scholars. This distinctive approach was built upon and extended after 1945 by such scholars as S.A. de Smith, J.A.G. Griffith, J.D.B. Mitchell and Carol Harlow. In short, most of the leading scholarly texts in British public law have been written by LSE scholars. This tradition of innovation is today carried on by a strong team of scholars working on questions of both theory and practice in constitutional and administrative law (Martin Loughlin, Jo Murkens, Thomas Poole, Grégoire Webber, Mike Wilkinson), regulation (Robert Baldwin, Julia Black, Andrew Scott), and human rights law (Conor Gearty, Kai Möller).
Faculty
Professor Robert Baldwin (Emeritus)
Professor Julia Black
Professor Conor Gearty
Professor Carol Harlow KC
Dr Devika Hovell
Professor Martin Loughlin
Dr Richard Martin
Dr Maame Mensa-Bonsu (LSE Fellow)
Dr Kai Möller
Professor Jo Murkens
Professor Thomas Poole
Dr Andrew Scott
Dr Grégoire Webber
Professor Michael Wilkinson
Research Students
Shree Agnihotri
Deniz Gedik
Nakul Nayak
Pedro Pereira de Morais Pacheco
Shukri Shahizam
Winluck Wahiu
Recent publications
- Michael Wilkinson The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Martin Loughlin Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022)
- Martin Loughlin and Samuel Tschorne 'Mapping the Theoretical Turn in British Public Law Scholarship' LSE Legal Studies Working Paper Series 16/2021
- Thomas Poole 'Prerogative' in Richard Bellamy and Jeff King (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- Thomas Poole 'Time for Federalist Speculation' (2021) European Journal of International Law 32 (3) pp.1009–1016
- Thomas Poole 'The Script of Alliance: Locke on the Federative' (2021) History of Political Thought 42 (4) pp.683-704
- Martin Loughlin, 'In Search of the Constitution' in Oran Doyle, Aileen McHarg, Jo Murkens eds, Constitutions Under Pressure: The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021), ch. 14, 313-335
- Martin Loughlin, ‘The Political Jurisprudence of Harold J. Laski’ (2021) 50 Quaderni fiorentini 251-281
- Martin Loughlin, ‘Constitutional Interpretation: What can Europeans learn from US Debates?’ in Fruzsina Orosz and Zoltán Szente (eds), Populist Challenges to Constitutional Interpretation in Europe and Beyond (London: Routledge, 2021), ch 16, pp. 274-90
- Martin Loughlin, 'Thinking about the Rule of Law', in Martin, Loughlin and Jens Meierhenrich (eds.), Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (CUP, 2021), pp. 3-22 (with Jens Meierhenrich)
- Martin Loughlin, 'Michael Oakeshott’s Republican Theory of the Rule of Law', in Martin, Loughlin and Jens Meierhenrich (eds.), Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (CUP, 2021), pp. 171-185
- Martin Loughlin and Jens Meierhenrich (eds.), Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Raffael N. Fasel, ‘The Constrained Convention: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the Making of Chile’s New Constitution’ (2020) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 8/2020, 1-28
- Jo Murkens 'A Written Constitution: a case not made'Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 41 (4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 965-986
- Michael Wilkinson Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Jo Murkens The Brexit Challenge for Ireland and the United Kingdom: Constitutions Under Pressure (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (co-edited with Oran Doyle and Aileen McHarg)
- Martin Loughlin 'Santi Romano e la teoria istituzionalista del diritto' in Marco Mazzamuto (ed.), Santi Romano: L’ordinamento giuridico (1917-2017): La fortuna della teoria romaniana dell’ordinamento dalla sua pubblicazione ai tempi nostri nelle varie aree disciplinari (Naples: Editorale Scientifica, 2020), 287-306.
- Martin Loughlin 'Fundamental Law' in Miguel Nogueira de Brito and Luis Pereira Coutinho (eds), The Political Dimension of Constitutional Law (Berlin: Springer, 2020), Chapter 2
- Martin Loughlin 'A Note on Craig on Miller;Cherry' [2020] Public Law 278-81
- Michael Wilkinson 'Unpopular Sovereignty?'Modern Law Review (2020) (with Alexander Somek) [online first]
- Martin Loughlin 'What would John Griffith have made of Jonathan Sumption's Reith Lectures?'Political Quarterly (2019) Vol.90, 786-93
- Martin Loughlin 'The Case of Prorogation: The UK Constitutional Council’s ruling on appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court'Policy Exchange, October 2019
- Martin Loughlin 'The Contemporary Crisis of Constitutional Democracy' (2019) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
- Martin Loughlin 'The State: conditio sine qua non' (2018) 16(4) International J. of Constitutional Law 2018, 16(4), 1156-1163
- Thomas Poole ‘The Executive in Public Law’ in Jeffrey Jowell and Colm O’Cinneide (eds), The Changing Constitution (9th edition, OUP, 2019)
- Martin Loughlin 'The Shibboleth of Sovereignty'M.L.R. 2018, 81(6), 989-1016 (with Stephen Tierney)
- Martin Loughlin ‘The Historical Method in Public Law’ in M Dubber and C Tomlins eds Oxford Handbook of Legal History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), ch.51, 983-999.
- Martin Loughlin ‘Why read Carl Schmitt?’ in C Bezemek, M Potacs and A Somek eds Vienna Lectures in Legal Philosophy, vol.1 (Oxford: Hart, 2018), ch 3, 49-64.
- Rafael Lima Sakr 'Beyond History and Boundaries: Rethinking the Past in the Present of International Economic Law'LSE Law Working Papers 09/2018
- 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
- Michael Wilkinson 'The Material Constitution'Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series 20-2016 (2016) (with Marco Goldoni); published in Modern Law Review (2018) 81 (4) pp.567-597
- Jo Murkens 'Judicious Review: The Constitutional Practice of the UK Supreme Court' (2018) Cambridge Law Journal 77 (2) pp.349-374
- Michael Wilksinon & Michael Dowdle, eds., Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Hart Publishing, 2018)
- Jo Murkens 'The UK ’s Reluctant Relationship with the EU: Integration, Equivocation, or Disintegration?' In R. Schuetze and S. Tierney, United Kingdom and the Federal Idea (Hart 2018)
- Michael Wilkinson 'Authoritarian liberalism: The conjuncture behind the crisis'LSE Law Working Paper Series 05/2018
- Martin Loughlin ‘Political Jurisprudence’ ch.2, pp 15-29 in M. Wilkinson and M. Dowdle eds. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Oxford: Hart, 2018)
- Martin Loughlin ‘Excavating Foundations’ ch.16, pp.255-75 in M. Wilkinson and M. Dowdle eds. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Oxford: Hart, 2018)
- Martin Loughlin 'The British Constitution: Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents'LSE Law Working Paper Series 01/2018
- Michael Wilkinson, Michael W. Dowdle, eds. Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Hart, 2018)
- Jacco Bomhoff 'Immanence and irreconcilability: On the character of public law as political jurisprudence'LSE Law Working Paper Series 19/2017
- Martin Loughlin 'The political constitution revisited' LSE Law Working Paper 18/2017
- Martin Loughlin Political Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 2017)
- Jo Murkens 'Democracy as the legitimating condition in the UK Constitution' (2018) 38 (1) Legal Studies pp.1-17
- Michael Blackwell 'Starting out on a judicial career: gender diversity and the appointment of Recorders, Circuit Judges and Deputy High Court Judges 1996—2016' Journal of Law and Society (2017) 44( 4) pp.586-619.
- Paul McMahon 'Soft Adjudication'Administrative Law Review (2017) 69 pp.529-584
- Neil Duxbury 'Judicial Disapproval as a Constitutional Technique' (2017) 15 International Journal of Constitutional Law 649-670
- Michael Wilkinson 'Constitutional Pluralism: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?'European Law Journal (2017) (ARENA Working Paper 7/2017)
- Thomas Poole 'Devotion to Legalism: On the Brexit Case'Modern Law Review (2017) 80 (4) pp.696–710
- Martin Loughlin 'Evolution and Gestalt of the State in the United Kingdom' in The Max Planck Handbooks in European Public Law, Volume I: The Administrative State Edited by Sabino Cassese, Armin von Bogdandy, Peter Huber. OUP 2017, ch.13
- Martin Loughlin 'On constituent power' ch.7 In Constitutionalism beyond Liberalism (CUP, 2017) Editors: Michael W. Dowdle, Michael A. Wilkinson
- Martin Loughlin Ed. intro. To Carl Schmitt, ‘Hugo Preuss: His Concept of the State and his Position in German State Theory’ (2017) History of Political Thought 345-370
- Martin Loughlin 'The Erosion of Sovereignty'Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (2017)
- Neil Duxbury 'Custom as law in English law'Cambridge Law Journal (2017)
- 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
- Devika Hovell The Power of Process: The Value of Due Process in Security Council Sanctions Decision-Making (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- '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.
- Devika Hovell 'Glasnost in the Security Council: The Value of Transparency' Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series 15-2016 (2016)
- Neil Duxbury ‘Acquisitive Prescription and Fundamental Rights’ (2016) 66 University of Toronto Law Journal 472-512
- Neil Duxbury 'The outer limits of English judicial review' (2017) Public Law pp.235-248
- Insa Koch 'Bread-and-butter politics: Democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate' American Ethnologist (April 2016)
- Martin Loughlin 'Political Jurisprudence', Jus Politicum: Revue de Droit Politique (July 2016) No.16 Foundations of Public Law
- Martin Loughlin 'Sumption’s Assumptions' N Barber, R Ekins & P Yowell (eds), Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law (Oxford: Hart, 2016), 27-43
- Martin Loughlin 'Public Law' in Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science, Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes (eds.) (2016) (with Samuel Tschorne)
- Kai Moller 'U.S. Constitutional Law, Proportionality, and the Global Model'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 06-2016
- Jo Murkens Public Law – Text, Cases and Materials, 3nd ed (Oxford University Press, 2016) (with A. Le Sueur and M. Sunkin)
- Michael Wilkinson 'The Reconstitution of Postwar Europe: Lineages of Authoritarian Liberalism'LSE Law Society and Economy Working Paper Series, 05-2016
- Michael Wilkinson 'Introduction', in ‘Foundations of Public Law’, a special issue of Jus Politicum: Revue de Droit Politique (July 2016; Wilkinson and Dowdle eds.) (with Michael W. Dowdle)
- Andrew Scott Reform of Defamation Law in Northern Ireland (Department of Finance, 2016)
- Andrew Scott '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 'The Constitution and Foreign Affairs' (2016) Current Legal Problems 69 (1) pp.143-174
- Thomas Poole 'Rights and Opinion: Or, The Progress of Sentiments' (2016) 10 Law & Ethics of Human Rightspp.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
- Jan Komárek 'Constitutional revolutions and the constituent power: a reply to Mark Tushnet' International Journal of Constitutional Law (2015) 13 (4). pp. 1054-1058.
- Jan Komárek 'Europe’s democratic imaginary: government by the people, for the people and of the people?' Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2015) 22 (6). pp. 784-788.
- Jan Komárek 'Legal reasoning in EU law'. In: Arnull, Anthony and Chalmers, Damian, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of EU Law (OUP 2015)
- Martin Loughlin 'Habeas corpus, imperial rendition, and the rule of law' Current Legal Problems (2015) 68 (1). pp. 27-84.
- Martin Loughlin 'The Rule of Law: A Theme in Five Variations' (2015) 10 Frontiers of Law in China 437-448
- Martin Loughlin 'Nomos' in Dyzenhaus and Poole (eds.) Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Martin Loughlin 'The Constitutional Imagination' (2015) 78 Modern law Review 1-25
- Martin Loughlin 'Burke on law, revolution and constitution / Burke su diritto, rivoluzione e costituzione'Journal of Constitutional History / Giornale di Storia Costituzionale N. 29 (1). pp. 49-60
- Martin Loughlin 'The Coalition and the Constitution' in A Selden and M Finn (eds) The Coalition Effect(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), ch. 2 pp 59-86 (with Cal Viney)