LSE Law School has a diverse and vibrant events programme. Convene and Social events provide our students opportunities for learning, enrichment and community building beyond the lecture theatre, our Research events focus on exchange of cutting-edge ideas, and we warmly welcome everyone with an interest in law to our Public Events.
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  • The Methane Challenge: Law, Policy and Action in the UK Onshore Oil and Gas sector

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    The Weald Action Group - campaigners behind the landmark Supreme Court 2024 Finch judgment helped establish that fossil fuel projects must account for their full climate impacts at the planning stage, strengthening legal requirements and environmental scrutiny. Building on that success, the group is continuing work on emissions accountability, questioning how UK policy and regulation currently addresses methane from the operational stage at onshore sites.

  • Seminar: Can We Save the Tax on Capital?

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    This talk will discuss cover reform proposals, including wealth taxes, progressive consumption taxes, and the creation of sovereign wealth funds.
     
    Speaker: Joseph Bankman

  • Socio-Legal Hub Open Lecture: Why I Changed My Mind

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    In this panel, three scholars will reflect on their academic trajectories and share personal experiences of how socio-legal research led them to rethink or revise their views on a particular issue.

  • Fair play, please! Celebrating Stephen Weatherill’s Sport & EU Honorary Membership

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    LSE Law School is pleased to host a special academic event celebrating the outstanding contribution of Professor Stephen Weatherill to the study of European Union sports law and policy.
     
    Speakers: Dr Antoine Duval, Pablo Ibanez Colomo, Katie Stoker, Darren Bailey, Richard Parrish, Leigh Robinson, Jean-Louis Dupont & Marianna Pavan

  • CANCELED – Legal and Political Theory Forum – “What makes an official or authority public?”

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    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: Prof Sandy Steel

  • Legal and Political Theory Forum – “Methods for Comparative Constitutional Studies from and within the Global South”

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    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: Prof Dinesha Samararatne

  • Spring Term Socio-Legal Reading Group Session

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    The Socio-Legal Reading Group will be back for one session only in Spring Term! In this session, we will be discussing the following article, authored by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod.
     
    Speaker: Lila Abu-Lughod

  • Book discussion: Governance by Emulation, The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    Drawing on exclusive interviews and in-depth analysis of Meta's Oversight Board and the EU's Digital Services Act, this book explores how these approaches blend European and American perspectives, bridging distinct legal traditions to address the challenges of platform governance.
     
    Speaker: Dr Moritz A. Schramm

  • Global Tax Seminar Series – Functional Fallacy, a critique of the conduct-based approach to applying the ALP

    Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Seminars 

    The mission of the Global Tax Seminar Series (GTSS) is to provide a regular and convivial forum for the presentation and discussion of new academic tax law, policy, and theory research by colleagues from all continents.
     
    Speakers: Richard Collier & Ian Dykes (TBC)