Professor Thomas Poole

Thomas Poole joined LSE in 2006, and has been Professor of Law since 2015. His research interests include UK constitutional and administrative law, legal and political theory, foreign relations law, constitutional history, law and empire, and the history of political thought. He is author of Reason of State: Law, Prerogative and Empire (Cambridge, 2015) and co-editor of volumes on Hobbes and the Law (Cambridge, 2012), Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2015) and The Double-Facing Constitution: Legal Externalities and the Reshaping of Constitutional Order (Cambridge, 2019).

Tom is General Editor of the Modern Law Review and General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law (with David Dyzenhaus).. He also sits on the editorial boards of Public Law Review, Human Rights Law Review and the NILS UK Law Review. Tom has held visiting positions the University of New South Wales (2003-4 & 2005-6), the European University Institute (2007), Melbourne University (2008), the University of Toronto (2008), Princeton University (2008), Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (2013-14), Auckland University (2016) and the University of Western Australia (2017).

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk