LSE Law School is an integral part of LSE's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.
@LSELaw
is delighted to announce the appointment of Prof
@tarunkhaitan
as the next LSE Professor of Public Law. The Chair has an exceptional public law lineage including Profs Glanville Williams, Stanley de Smith, John Griffiths, Carol Harlow & its current holder Martin Loughlin.
The Indian Supreme Court ruled TODAY that gay sex between consenting adults is not a crime. The Supreme Court decision cites an article by LSE Law PhD
@SroyonMukherjee
.
@LSEnews
Congratulations everyone involved in this landmark victory for LGBT rights.
We are thrilled that Tarun Khaitan—currently Prof of Public Law & Legal Theory
@OxfordLawFac
& Head of Research
@BonaveroIHR
& widely recognised as one of the world’s leading scholars in comparative constitutional law, legal theory & discrimination law—has accepted the Chair.
📢 Applications to the Law School’s PhD programme for 2024/25 entry are open! Come join a thriving research community in the heart of legal London, with generous funding available to successful applicants. Closing date 1 Dec 2023:
#lselaw
#law
#PhD
🔴 Professor Martin Loughlin has published a new book Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press, 2022).
#law
#lselaw
#newbook
Read a review essay discussing Against Constitutionalism in the current issue of the Harvard Law Review and more.👇
We are proud to congratulate
@conorgearty
on his appointment as Honorary Queen’s Counsel today. This marks his role in the development of the law in the fields of civil liberties, human rights and terrorism, among his many other achievements.
👏📢 Professor Nicola Lacey was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Oslo, in recognition of her work in the fields of criminal law, legal theory, feminist legal studies and criminology.
#lselaw
#lse
#law
#awards
#criminallaw
#Criminology
We are delighted to announce that
#LSELaw
is ranked again as one of the top 10 universities to study
#Law
according to
@worlduniranking
. Many thanks to all our staff & students who made this happen. More info:
#QSWUR
#partofLSE
Our Congratulations to
@Margot_Salomon
whose new book, 'The Misery of International Law' won the prestigious European Society of International Law 2019 Book Prize.
Jeremy Horder welcoming Baroness Brenda Hale, Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Nicola Lacey at tonight's event 100 Years of Votes for Women! Full lecture theatre!
#LSELawCentenary
#LSESuffrage18
This term, we welcomed Dr Martin Husovec
@hutko
to the Department of Law as Assistant Professor.
What better way to get to know him than through a good grilling!🔎
Read his Welcome Interview here:
#LSELaw
#PartofLSE
🔥 Announcing Underworlds – The Podcast 🔥
Ecstatic to share our first episode on the underworlds of Oceans as Sites of Global Dis/Ordering. A dialogue with the fabulous
@renisamawani
&
@SurabhiRanganat
.
Listen @
Join us in London👇
Congratulations to Martin Loughlin who has won the Crick Prize for Best Piece 2019, given at the
@TheOrwellPrize
virtual awards last night. You can read more about it here and read his article.
🎉🎉🎉 Its time! 🎉 🎉🎉
🤩*HUGELY excited to announce this year's
#LawSchoolChallenge
WINNERS*
Raising over *£4,250* it's the London School of Economics!
@LSELaw
🏆 Just Awesome! well done!! 🏆
🎖️🎊🎖️🎊
#YouDoProBono
🎖️🎊 🎖️🎊
congratulations to third-year PhD student,
@Fatima_Ahdash
whose article 'The interaction between family law and counter-terrorism: a critical examination of the radicalisation cases in the family courts' has just been published in Child and Family Law Quarterly
📙On Crime, Society, and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (
@OUPAcademic
)
We're delighted to announce the release of a collection of essays on the work of LSE Law Professor Nicola Lacey, edited by
@Law_Leeds
Professor Iyiola Solanke 💐💐
🖥️➡️
‼️🗞️LSE Law students recently submitted a third-party intervention before the European Court of Human Rights.
#LSELaw
#Students
#law
#PartofLSE
Read on:
🥳🥳🥳 We are delighted to announce that
#LSE
Law School has been ranked as
#7
in QS World University Subject Rankings 2022. We are best School in Law and Legal studies in London, and ranked third out of UK Institutions.
View the QS law rankings here:
Congratulations to
#lselaw
Prof. Gerry Simpson, elected Fellow of
@theBritishAcademy
in recognition of his contribution to research in international law
Join us 2 October for a symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña, a leading figure of public international law in the Spanish speaking world.
@Chile_in_the_UK
@HCLAHeidelberg
A new book by Dr Veerle Heyvaert (
@vmlheyvaert
) has just been published, entitled 'Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance' (CUP, 2018) ... read more here
Join us and LSE Law alumna Baroness Jean Corston on 9 October to re-visit her groundbreaking 2007 report on vulnerable women in prison, and discuss its subsequent developments. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. All welcome to join.
#LSEwomeninprison
Dr Insa Koch's new book 'Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain' (OUP, 2018) has just been published ... read more here
📢 LSE Law School is delighted to announce that Professor Susan Marks, our distinguished Professor of International Law, has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.
Many Congratulations !!! 👏👏👏
#lselaw
#law
#lse
#britishacademy
@BritishAcademy_
Ratio 2021/22 is here! In this issue:
- COVID-19 and the legal landscape
- Supporting student wellbeing at LSE Law School
- “Good” and “bad” deal-making in developing countries
- and lots more!
Download your copy here:
#lselaw
#partoflse
Dr Orla Lynskey (
@lynskeyo
) from
#LSELaw
explained the risks & opportunities of data processing in the realm of human rights during yesterday's oral evidence session of the
@HumanRightsCtte
. Watch the extract here: …
@LSEnews
Thanks to everyone who joined us in celebrating Dr Insa Koch's new book "Personalizing the State" & especially to Prof Nicola Lacey, Prof
@djameslse
& Prof
@TimNewburn
who shared their interdisciplinary perspectives. Find the book here:
#lselaw
#austerity
Dr Orla Lynskey explores the GDPR on
@BBCRadio4
: "In my opinion, the main change brought about by the GDPR will be taken when it comes to enforcement, rather the changes to the substantive rules themselves."
You can listen to the discussion here
@lynskeyo
An amazing book launch hosted at
@LSELaw
for my good friend
@DrLukeMcDonagh
celebrating his second monograph "Performing Copyright:Law, Theatre and Authorship". Awesome, contributions by the special guests
@ProfUma5
and Peter Searles "performing copyright". What a treat!
The LSE Department of Law would like to congratulate
@LSELaw
's Professor Julia Black CBE FBA on her appointment as the
@BritishAcademy_
's 31st President - the second female President in the Academy’s 118-year history!
We are very sorry to hear of the passing of Professor Bill Cornish, who played a major role in the formation of IP law as an academic discipline at LSE and in the UK.
We have put together a few words on behalf of LSE Law School -
Dr Chaloka Beyani,
@LSELaw
Associate Professor, appointed to the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights⬇️
Today
@mbachelet
announced the appointment of the 3
#FFMLibya
members:
Mohamed Auajjar (Morocco), Tracy Robinson (Jamaica) & Chaloka Beyani (Zambia/UK)
Find more info on the
#Libya
FFM:
& don't miss their 1st oral update at
#HRC45
(2 Oct 2020)
Today was my first day teaching at
@LSELaw
❤ I'm super excited to be a part of the family, though it feels surreal to go full circle. Yep, I'm actually a teacher now 🤔
🗞️📌Two new
#papers
have been published in our
#Policy
Briefing Papers series, by Dr Siva Thambisetty and Dr Giulia Gentile. A collection of short, policy-relevant papers on issues of contemporary public interest.
@SivaThambisetty
👏
@gentile_giulia
👏
We are delighted to announce the second issue of the LSE Law Working Paper Series for 2018.Some fascinating areas of law covered; from
#history
and boundaries in international economic law, to reviewing
#regulatory
#technology
in the mainstream literature
🎯 Dr Siva Thambisetty helps craft deal on marine genetic resources👏
@SivaThambisetty
#lselaw
#law
#lse
#deal
A Paris Moment for the Oceans: Dr Siva Thambisetty Acts as Advisor to the G77 and China Group of Developing Countries
Read on:
📢 Job Opportunity: LSE Legal Clinic Director
The Legal Clinic Director will lead on the establishment of this ground-breaking pro bono legal Clinic offering training opportunities to students and free legal advice to members of the public.
#lselaw
..
This weekend
@LSELaw
staff and students will be attending our annual
@CumberlandLodge
weekend - we're looking forward to discussing current research, the Department and careers, and the weather forecast is looking promising too! 🌞❄️
#LSELawCL2020
#partofLSE
A big thank you to our
#LSETax
panellists
@Summers_AD
@TorstenBell
@hselftax
@robertnpalmer
and others, and for all who joined us, in person and online, for the Election Debate on Tax policy, tonight. We covered a lot of ground and your questions were really welcome.
LSE Law is very pleased to announce that it has been ranked joint seventh in the prestigious Times Higher World University Rankings, confirming its position as a world-leading department for teaching and research.
LSE Law is delighted to sign The Study Abroad Program agreement with
@PennLaw
“We are delighted to be entering into partnership with the world-renowned Penn Law. We anticipate a long and fruitful relationship, furthering excellence in both research and study abroad.”
"Through these
@PennLaw
students
@LSELaw
will influence the legal profession, government, and academia in the U.S. This agreement is forged at a time when these transnational partnerships are more important now than ever before.” said
@RangitadeSilva
.
Congratulations to our LSELaw students graduating today! 👨🎓👩🎓 You made it! 💐Don’t forget to capture your day with family and friends at the Alumni Photo Booth on Sheffield Street! 💥💥💥
#classof2018
#partofLSE
.
@RobertCraig3
from
#LSELaw
was cited at para 39 of today's
@UKSupremeCourt
ruling in the case of R (on the application of Privacy International) (Appellant) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others (Respondents).
⚖️Find the full judgment here:
The election of Donald Trump, like the vote for Brexit in the UK, has had wide-ranging ramifications for the US and the world. Join
@DavidColeACLU
and
@philippesands
on 1 November at LSE to explore the impact recent events have had on preserving democratic norms.
🎥Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice (Polity, 2022) by Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck
@wstreeckblog
#lselaw
#law
#lse
#NewBook
You can watch a recording of the event here:
🎉We are delighted to launch the
@LSELaw
podcast library! The library brings together almost 100 recordings from our archives & creates a platform for our latest panel discussions, interviews & public lectures – available for all!
👂Start listening now!
Save the date: 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Mutually Assured Destruction. On 21 February we'll revisit nuclearism & its implications for international law, for planetary survival and for cold wars, old and new. Join us in this free, public
#LSELaw
lecture to find out more.
We're pleased to announce our event for LSE (
@LSEnews
) students and staff next week as part of the Black History Month programme with
@lsesu
and
@lseembrace
Black In Law: a conversation
Thursday 22 October 2020 5:30-7:00pm
#blackhistorymonth
#partoflse
Did you miss
@LSELaw
Insa Koch on
@BBCRadio4
Thinking Allowed discussing her
#enthnography
study of post-war council housing & its impact on social identity & citizenship?
Catch up on the podcast:
The LSE Department of Law is excited to announce that we are now able to extend the Alumni Reunion weekend to alumni from ALL years of graduation! 🥳
Availability is limited, book your place
See you there! 🥂
In the second of our Welcome Interviews this term, we spoke to
@DrLukeMcDonagh
, who joins
@LSELaw
as an Assistant Professor of Law ⚖️
Read the article here:
Dr Mike Wilkinson's (
@LSELaw
) latest book 📕 has been described as:
"the first deeply constitutionally and historically grounded monograph-length argument identifying the features of the EU that make it undemocratic"
.
@MichalMatlak
and
@olivergarner7
, our two editors, have prepared a list of 6 best books published in 2021 on the Future of Europe and the Rule of Law.
Take a look at their selection!
TONIGHT we celebrate 100 years since the formal beginnings of us, as a Department.
JOIN US in the Lower Ground of the New Academic Building from 6.30 pm to explore our past, present and ongoing contribution to legal scholarship.
#LSELawCentenary
A beautiful frosty morning here at
@CumberlandLodge
! ❄️ Can’t wait for the first session - Research Cafe - where our students speed interview staff on their current research
#LselawCL2020
#partofLSE
READ: Panashe Jinga, LSE Law LLB student, on the
@Freshfields
Stephen Lawrence Scholarship Scheme: a development programme aimed at addressing the disproportionate under-representation of black men from less privileged backgrounds in commercial law firms.
#BlackHistoryMonth
In our upcoming
@LSELaw
public event, Lord Justice Rabinder Singh discusses his new book ‘The Unity of Law’, reflecting on the defining themes of his career as advocate and judge:
🗓️ Tues 18 January 2022
🕢6.30pm GMT
Register here➡️➡️➡️
#LSERabinderSingh
We're celebrating a century since the formal beginnings of a Department of Law at
@LSEnews
. Read the first of our
#LSELawCentenary
blogposts at the LSE History blog:
Our warmest congratulations to Dr
@Summers_AD
from
#LSELaw
for winning the
@lsesu
Award for Mentoring and Personal Development! 🎉
Find all the winners here: .
I am delighted to share that, for the next few years, I will be joining
@LSELaw
as a PhD in Law candidate, under the co-supervision of the brilliant professors Veerle Heyvaert
@vmlheyvaert
and Richard Martin
@__RichardMartin
!