Public Lectures 

Clean air is an essential element of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and a precondition for the enjoyment of rights including life and health. Yet most people still do not enjoy clean air.
 
Speakers: Astrid Puentes Riaño, Gregor Singer,
Debbie Obafemi, Chris Griffiths, Jemima Hartshorn, Dryden Goodwin, Suzanne Bartington Chair: Joana Setzer (LSE)

This talk draws from Jessica Greenberg's recent ethnographic monograph: Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law and the European Court of Human Rights. Greenberg will discuss the practices, ideologies and normative frameworks that define the rule of law, and whether and how these can weather a moment of profound crisis in Europe and beyond.
 
Speaker: Professor Jessica Greenberg Chair: Professor Jacco Bomhoff

The lecture examines how public law has evolved since Lester and Jowell’s 1987 article challenged the view that it concerns only procedure, not substance. It explores developments in principles such as legitimate expectations, human rights, equality, policy conformity, and the shift toward proportionality and reasonableness in judicial review.
 
Speaker: Lord Justice Rabinder Singh Chair: Professor Jo Murkens

The legal profession is being fundamentally reshaped by advances in artificial intelligence and automation. Lawyers, in-house counsels, regulators, and legal technologists are experimenting with new models, tools, and business structures, creating both opportunities and challenges for those entering the profession.

Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? ‘Clean' technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition.
 
Speakers: Thea Riofrancos and Christine Schwöbel-Patel

Jill Fisch is the Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law. Professor Fisch is an internationally known scholar whose work focuses on the intersection of business and law, including the role of regulation and litigation in addressing limitations in the disciplinary power of the capital markets.
 
Speaker: Professor Jill Fisch

In the third workshop addressing the question of national interest in the wake of the end of globalisation, Professor Peter Ramsay (LSE Law) and Dr Philip Cunliffe (UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction) will interview Angus Hanton, author of Vassal State: How America Runs Britain. 

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Sir Ross Cranston’s wonderful book on Judging.

Step into the lives of those whose pursuit of justice collided with the power of the press. This thought-provoking event brings together victims, legal experts, media voices and policymakers to explore how mass media can illuminate and distort the path to justice.
 
Speakers: Jo Hamilton, Martin Hibbert, Neil Hudgell, Nicola Lacey, Janet Street-PorterChair: Coretta Phillips

International arbitration, one of the most profound successes of international law in the twentieth century, provides that essential infrastructure.  The paper traces the history of the perpetual peace project, explains how international arbitration advances that goal and proposes how scholars and practitioners of international arbitration can contribute to that project in the twenty-first century.
 
Speaker: Professor Peter Bo Rutledge

Join us for the launch of the LSE/ClientEarth Report that stems from the Sustainability Law & Policy Clinic project, on which a team of twelve students from across five LSE departments have worked throughout this academic year.

Please join us for an event where Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito will speak about his book Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action (Cambridge University Press, 2025).