In this talk, Professor Zhang will take us beyond the headlines to unravel the complexity of China’s regulatory governance. Drawing insights from her newly released book, “High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy,”
Speaker: Angela Zhang
Across two sessions, we will hear from experts on the cultural significance of rap music and the issues and implications of prosecuting rap, including: colonial legacies in the criminalisation of drill music; use of drill music in ‘joint enterprise’ trials and to construct gang narratives; the need to instruct expert witnesses; Criminal Behaviour Orders to restrict the creation of music; and the implications for freedom of expression.
Speakers: Adèle Oliver, Eithne Quinn, Russell Fraser, Danielle Manson & Owen Greenhall
LSE Law School is delighted to announce that it will fund one study visit at the Court of Justice of the European Union during the 2024/25 session. Successful applicants will work at the chambers of an Advocate General for three months and receive a stipend from LSE of €1,377 per month for costs of living as well a lump sum of £400 for travel costs. In this information event.
The global patterns of trade are changing as a consequence of the emerging geopolitical realities (and the associated frictions). In this new landscape, governments have become increasingly concerned with their economic security and have put in place measures to preserve their autonomy and resilience.
Over the past decades, EU law has been increasingly contested, fragmented and displaced as the main form of governance of the integration project. Legal integration is uneven: it has moved forward inexorably in certain fields, while in other domains it has stagnated.
Speaker: Floris De-Witte
The series takes as starting point that authority and order are not fixed properties of specific actors or institutions, but the result of ongoing material processes of ordering and world-making. As such, it traces unconventional forms and sites of global dis/ordering – from raw materials to projections of hope – as material, infrastructural, and discursive compositions that shape patterns of power.
This event will focus on the current situation concerning the Palestinians’ right to education, and will ask probing questions about the consequences for academic freedom in the UK and elsewhere.
Speaker: Ms Al-Botmeh
The Legal & Political Theory Forum was set up in September 2007 in order to provide an umbrella for seminars and colloquia on topics of common interest to scholars and graduate students working in various disciplinary areas, but particularly in the fields of politics and law.
Speaker: Martin David Kelly (Edinburgh, Simon Roberts Fellow LSE)
As part of the Underworlds series, this event engages with the wild / feral as a site of global dis/ordering. Rather than focusing only on how wildlife is formally recognised or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that the ‘wild’
Speakers: Irus Braverman and Floris De Witte
The LSE Law School is delighted to host the EU Lawyers Assembly, the network for UK-based scholars working on European Union law. The Assembly will discuss a variety of topics surrounding research, teaching and funding. Everyone is welcome to attend, including non-LSE staff and students.
As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on vessels as sites of global dis/ordering.
The event will reflect on the patterns and images of global dis/ordering that thinking through the multiple meanings, colonial histories, and afterlives of the ‘vessel’ reveals.
Speakers: Rinaldo Walcott and Itamar Mann
