LSE Law Working Papers were first published in 2007. The series focuses on interdisciplinary legal scholarship in all subject areas from members of LSE Law School, doctoral students and visiting scholars. The Working Paper Series does not adopt a particular style, and papers may be submitted in any recognised style consistently applied. The papers are published electronically and are available online or through email distribution.
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2022 Spring Issue
WPS 1/2022 Patrick Devlin’s The Enforcement of Morals Revisited: Absolutism and Ambivalence by Nicola Lacey
WPS 2/2022 The Tradition of the Material Constitution in Western Marxism by Marco Goldoni and Michael Wilkinson
WPS 3/2022 Proportionality in Comparative Law by Jacco Bomhoff
WPS 4/2022 Lüth and the ‘Objective System of Values’: From ‘Limited Government’ towards an Autonomy-based Conception of Constitutional Rights by Kai Möller
WPS 5/2022 Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe: Rejoinder by Michael Wilkinson
WPS 6/2022 Making Legal Knowledge Work: Practising Proportionality in the German Repetitorium by Jacco Bomhoff
WPS 7/2022 Prosecuting Rap – What does the case law tell us? by Abenaa Owusu-Bempah
WPS 8/2022 What kind of thing is a Central Counterparty? The Role of Clearing Houses as a Source of Policy Controversy by Rebecca Lewis and David Murphy
WPS 13/2021 The Proportionality of Lockdowns by Kai Möller
WPS 14/2021 The Unwitting Contribution of Vaccine Regulation to Vaccine Scepticism by Francesca Uberti
WPS 15/2021 The Protest Provisions of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Court Bill: A “Modest Reset of the Scales”? by Richard Martin
WPS 16/2021 Mapping the Theoretical Turn in British Public Law Scholarship by Samuel Tschorne and Martin Loughlin
WPS 17/2021 The Idea of Europe in Football by Floris de Witte and Jan Zglinski
WPS 18/2021 Human Goods and Human Rights Law: Two Modes of Derivation from Natural Law by Grégoire Webber
WPS 19/2021 Delaware's Fiduciary Imagination: Going-Privates and Lord Eldon's Reprise by David Kershaw
WPS 06/2021 TRIPS Intellectual Property Waiver Proposal: Creating the Right Incentive in Patent Law and Politics to end the COVID-19 Pandemic by Siva Thambisetty, Aisling McMahon, Luke McDonagh, Hyo Yoon Kang, and Graham Dutfield
WPS 07/2021 Copyright and Authorship on Stage by Luke McDonagh
WPS 08/2021 Potential Competition in EU Law by Niamh Dunne
WPS 09/2021 The Role of Regulation in EU Competition Law Assessment by Niamh Dunne
WPS 10/2021 The Market for Stewardship and the Role of the Government by Dionysia Katelouzou and Eva Micheler
WPS 11/2021 The No-look-through Principle: Investor Rights, Distributed Ledger Technology, and the Market by Eva Micheler
WPS 12/2021 Getting Proportionality in Perspective: Philosophy, History and Institutions by Nicola Lacey
01/2021 Beyond Reasonableness: The Dignitarian Structure of Human and Constitutional Rights by Kai Möller
02/2021 Constitutionalising Regulatory Governance Systems by Julia Black
03/2021 The European Economic Constitution in Crisis: A Conservative Transformation by Hjalte Lokdam and Michael A. Wilkinson
04/2021 Brexit, Covid-19, and Possible Frameworks for Future UK/EU Financial Governance Cooperation by Elizabeth Howell
05/2021 On Trust: The UN Security Council as Fiduciary by Devika Hovell
13/2020 Time and Timelessness in Constitutional Thought by Thomas Poole
14/2020 Legislated Rights and Contemporary Constitutional Government by Richard Ekins and Grégoire Webber
15/2020 The Sovereign’s Presumption of Authority (also known as the Presumption of Innocence) by Peter Ramsay
16/2020 Opposition by Grégoire Webber
17/2020 A view from inside the kitchen of the Kampala Convention: the modernisation of the international legal regime for the protection of internally displaced persons by Chaloka Beyani
18/2020 The Idea of the Federative by Thomas Poole
19/2020 Liza’s Bucket: Intellectual Property and the Metamodern Impulse by Siva Thambisetty
20/2020 The International Tax Regime and Global Power Shifts by Eduardo Baistrocchi
07/2020 Take on Me: OTC Derivatives Client Clearing in the European Union by Joanne P. Braithwaite and David Murphy
08/2020 The Constrained Convention: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and the Making of Chile’s New Constitution by Raffael N. Fasel
09/2020 Revolutionary Amnesia and the Delegated Nature of Prerogative Power by David Kershaw
10/2020 Can the Constitution of a Fruit Fly Be Written? by Grégoire Webber
11/2020 Legislated Rights in the Real World by Grégoire Webber and Paul Yowell
12/2020 Procedure-Content Interaction in Attitudes to Law and in the Value of the Rule of Law: An Empirical and Philosophical Collaboration by Noam Gur and Jonathan Jackson
01/2020 Images of Law by Igor Stramignoni
02/2020 Is Vat Also a Corporate Tax? Untangling Tax Burdens and Benefits for Companies by Ian Roxa
03/2020 Unpopular Sovereignty? by Michael Wilkinson and Alexander Somek
04/2020 Historical Trends of Human Rights Gone Criminal by Mattia Pinto,
05/2020 Legislated Rights in the Anglo-American Tradition by Richard Ekins and Grégoire Webber
06/2020 Our Lessons Have Returned: Insights into Post-crisis Financial Regulation from Mandatory OTC Derivatives Clearing Policy by David Murphy
14/2019 From Coercion to Cooperation: Settlement within EU Competition Law by NIamh Dunne
15/2019 Dispensing with Indispensability by Niamh Dunne
16/2019 Crime and Punishment in the US: Political systems and Technology Regime Change by Nicola Lacey and David Soskice
17/2019 Cloud Crypto Land by Edmund Schuster
18/2019 Justice at Work by Hugh Collins
19/2019 In Search of the Constitution by Martin Loughlin
20/2019 Sowing a 'Culture of Conviction': What Shall Domestic Criminal Justice Systems Reap from Coercive Human Rights? by Mattia Pinto
21/2019 Introduction: The 'What' and 'Why' of Constitutional Dialogue by Geoffrey Sigalet, Grégoire Webber, and Rosalind Dixon
8/2019 Childhood Radicalisation and Parental Extremism: How Should Family Law Respond? Insights from A Local Authority v X, Y and Z by Fatima Ahdash
9/2019 Beyond the Post-Sovereign State? The Past, Present and Future of Constitutional Pluralism by Mike Wilkinson
10/2019 Legal Malingering: A Vortex of Uncertainty by Jill Peay
11/2019 Constitutionalism and Mobility: Expulsion and Escape Among Partial Constitutional Orders by Jacco Bomhoff
12/2019 The Euro Area in Crisis, 2008-18 by Christos Hadjiemmanuil
13/2019 A ‘Culture of Justification’? Police Interpretation and Application of the Human Rights Act 1998 by Richard Martin
1/2019 Smart Contracts and the Consumer by Tatiana Cutts
2/2019 The Fleeting, Unhappy Affair of Amazon HQ2 and New York City by Priya S. Gupta
3/2019 Proceduralism and Automation: Challenges to the Values of Administrative Law by Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings
4/2019 The Purposive Transformation of Company Law by David Kershaw and Edmund Schuster
5/2019 Blurring the Distinction Between Empirical and Normative Legitimacy? A Commentary on 'Police Legitimacy and Citizen Cooperation in China' by Jonathan Jackson and Ben Bradford
6/2019 Addressing Tax Avoidance: Cross Country Experience and an Indian Case Study by Parthasarathi Shome
7/2019 Proportionality and Limitations to Freedom of Speech by Grégoire Webber
16/2018 Past, present, and justice in the exercise of judicial responsibility by Grégoire Webber
17/2018 Introduction: Securing human rights through legislation by Grégoire Webber and Paul Yowell
18/2018 Authoritarian liberalism as authoritarian constitutionalism by Michael A Wilkinson
19/2018 Justifying the culture of justification by Kai Möller
20/2018 Odious debt, adverse creditors, and the democratic ideal by Margot E Salomon and Robert Howse
21/2018 Ministers’ business appointments and criminal misconduct by Jeremy Horder
22/2018 Fundamental law by Martin Loughlin
09/2018 Beyond History and Boundaries: Rethinking the Past in the Present of International Economic Law by Rafael Lima Sakr
10/2018 Criminal Law and Republican Liberty: Philip Pettit’s Account by Jeremy Horder
11/2018 Contours and Conflicts in Tax Design: Principles and International Practice by Parthasarathi Shome
12/2018 Independent Fiscal Institutions in Comparative Constitutional Perspective by Cal Viney and Thomas Poole
13/2018 On Trust: The UN as Fiduciary (A Reply to Rosa Freedman) by Devika Hovell
14/2018 Regulatory Technology: Replacing Law with Computer Code by Eva Micheler and Anna Whaley
15/2018 The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law by David Kershaw
01/2018 Norms, normativity and the legitimacy of justice institutions: International perspectives by Jonathan Jackson
02/2018 The British Constitution: Thoughts on the cause of the present discontents by Martin Loughlin
03/2018 Improving access to patented medicines: Are human rights getting in the way? by Siva Thambisetty
04/2018 Dummy asset tracing by Tatiana Cutts
05/2018 Authoritarian liberalism: The conjuncture behind the crisis by Michael Wilkinson
06/2018 Back to The Bremen (1972): Forum selection and worldmaking by Jacco Bomhoff
07/2018 Law and political economy by Michael Wilkinson and Hjalte Lokdam
08/2018 The authority of universal jurisdiction by Devika Hovell
17/2017 Public law and the autonomy of the political: A material critique by Michael Wilkinson
18/2017 The political constitution revisited by Martin Loughlin
19/2017 Immanence and irreconcilability: On the character of public law as political jurisprudence by Jacco Bomhoff
20/2017 Women, crime and character in twentieth century law and literature: in search of the modern Moll Flanders by Nicola Lacey
21/2017 The strange death of prerogative in England by Thomas Poole
22/2017 Locke on the federative by Thomas Poole
23/2017 Prying open the black box of causality: A causal mediation analysis test of procedural justice policing by Krisztián Pósch
06/2017 Perspectives on liberalisation by Niamh Dunne
07/2017 Stewardship and collateral by Joanna Benjamin
08/2017 Democracy as the legitimating condition in the UK constitution by Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
09/2017 The non-frustration rule and the mandatory bid rule: Cornerstones of European takeover law? by Mathias Habersack
10/2017 On solidarity by Emmanuel Melissaris
11/2017 Dworkin's theory of rights in the age of proportionality by Kai Möller
12/2017 Springwell-watch: New Insights into the nature of contractual estoppel by Jo Braithwaite
13/2017 Repo and derivatives portfolios between insolvency law and regulation by Philipp Paech
14/2017 Ritual male circumcision and parental authority by Kai Möller
15/2017 Digital regulation: Designing a supranational legal framework for the platform economy by Michèle Finck
16/2017 The governance of blockchain financial networks by Philipp Paech
01/2017 Regulating "platform power" by Orla Lynskey
02/2017 Non-Citizens as subjects of the criminal law by Emmanuel Melissaris
03/2017 Price regulation in the social market economy by Niamh Dunne
04/2017 The Internet and the global reach of EU law by Christopher Kuner
05/2017 Brexit, the EU and Its investment banker: Rethinking "equivalence" for the EU capital market by Niamh Moloney
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LSE Law Working Papers were first published in 2007 (originally titled Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series). The series focuses on interdisciplinary legal scholarship in all subject areas. All members of the LSE Law School, LSE doctoral students, visiting professors and other visitors are invited to submit papers. Exceptionally, the Editors will publish keynote speeches or other major presentations which fit within the Series’ remit and which were delivered at the LSE by academics speaking at the invitation of LSE Law School or one of its affiliated research centres. However, our general policy is only to publish papers by researchers based in the law school. The Working Paper Series does not adopt a particular style, and papers may be submitted in any recognised style consistently applied. The papers are published electronically and are available online or through email distribution. See also our licence agreement.
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