Jacco Bomhoff
Jacco’s main research interest is the study of legal technique (doctrines, reasoning tools, methods, and so on), from a range of perspectives that could broadly be called ‘cultural’. Much of this work is comparative in approach, and it builds on insights from, for example, anthropology or literary studies. He has explored these themes, in particular, for the context of German public law and legal education, and of the post-war German constitutional experience more generally. Recent examples include an ethnographic study of the way German law students learn to work with the principle and the doctrine of ‘proportionality’; and a literary analysis of the textual format, writing style, and problem-solving technique of the so-called ‘Gutachten’.
Neli Frost
Neli Frost is an Assistant Professor researching and teaching at the intersection of law, technology, and political theory. Prior to joining the LSE in September 2025, Neli was the Massada Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford, an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford (2023-2025) and an affiliate of the Information Law Institute at New York University School of Law (2022-2025). Before that she was a Hauser Global Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University School of Law (2022-2023), and completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2022. Neli’s work has been published in leading journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, European Journal of International Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, NYU Journal of International Law & Politics, and the Cambridge International Law Journal.
Tarun Khaitan
Tarun works on constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law, jurisprudence, and discrimination law and theory. In recent year, he has written about political parties, guarantor institutions, plutocracy, and religion. He is currently working on a project on ‘fraternity’ as a constitutional ideal.
Martin Loughlin
Over the course of his career Martin has written extensively on local government, public law, public law theory, and the rule of law. His current research interests include Constitutional theory, the British constitution, the Rule of law, Public law method, and the History of British public law thought.
Richard Martin
Richard is the author of Policing Human Rights (OUP: 2021), which explores how officers encounter and experience human rights law in their everyday work. Empirically, he is in the middle of a mixed-methods study of how legislative reforms to pre-charge bail have affected the exercise and understanding of this power over a six-year period. Doctrinally, he is writing about recent public order powers and protest-related case law.
Kai Moller
Kai’s work in human and constitutional rights law and theory attempts to specify the moral, legal, constitutional, and institutional implications of a commitment to human dignity, freedom, and equality. He is the author of The Global Model of Constitutional Rights (OUP 2012, paperback 2015) and numerous articles about rights, proportionality, the culture of justification, and the role of human dignity in rights adjudication. He is currently working on a new project on the idea of freedom in human and constitutional rights law.
Jo Murkens
Jo teaching and research lies in the fields of public law and comparative constitutional law. He published on the topics of the written constitution, democracy, withdrawal from the EU, constitutionalism, the UK Supreme Court, judicial review, parliamentary reform in the 19th century, and Scottish independence. He is the author of From Empire to Union: Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871 (OUP 2013), and co-author of Public Law: Text, Cases and Materials (5th edition, OUP 2023), one of the leading textbooks in public law.
Tom Poole
Tom works at the intersection between law and politics. He is writing a book on Enlightenment debates on the federative (foreign relations power) from Harrington to Hamilton. He has written a book on law and empire and plans to explore that subject further. He also writes on executive power. Tom convenes the Legal & Political Theory Forum , is General Editor of the Modern Law Review, and co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law.
Sarah Trotter
Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the Law School. Her research is mostly about how the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and about the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves.
Mike Wilkinson
Mike works in the areas of constitutional theory, European integration, and legal, political, and social theory. His monograph with OUP on Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (2021) was selected as one of the ‘key books of the year on the future of Europe’ by the Review of Democracy. He recently co-edited a collection with CUP on a new approach to the study of constitutional law, The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution (2023), which was the feature of a podcast discussion on the IACL-AIDC blog.
Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi (FBA, FAE) is Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a permanent fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the author of Indignity: A Life Reimagined and Free: Coming of Age at the end of History, both published by Penguin Press as well as Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), and The Architectonic of Reason, published by Oxford University Press. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and won numerous prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the Slightly Foxed First Biography Award, the Ridenhour Prize for truth-telling, the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits the journal Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for the Financial Times and the Guardian.