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SUMMARY:The Methane Challenge: Law\, Policy and Action in the UK Onshore Oil and Gas sector
DESCRIPTION:To attend in person\nREGISTER HERE \nTo attend online\nREGISTER HERE \nThe 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. \nMethane is recognised as the emergency brake for climate change and addressing it is the fastest way to slow warming in the near term. Responsible for around one-third of global warming and more than 80 times more powerful than CO₂ over a 20-year period\, “methane is also a precursor to ground-level ozone\, a harmful air pollutant that damages human and animal health\, crops\, and ecosystems.” \nEmissions of this super pollutant occur at every stage of onshore oil and gas operations\, from exploration and production through to site closure and long-term abandonment. \nAlthough reported emissions from onshore operations appear relatively small\, the current regulatory system in the UK relies heavily on industry self-reporting\, with limited inspections and monitoring. Venting and flaring continue as routine practice and leak detection is infrequent and without mandated repair times. Where independent monitoring of methane has been carried out internationally\, emissions are often significantly higher than reported figures. \nThis event will bring together voices from law\, policy and civil society to discuss the gaps in onshore oil and gas regulation and policy and how these are being brought to light\, including: \n\nHow current regulation stacks up against the emerging compliance requirements of the 2024 EU methane regulation. The EU has legislated for a high standard of methane emissions accountability. The UK\, a Global Methane Pledge Champion\, has not.\n\n\nThe potential for legal challenges to confront regulatory and policy failures – including the absence of onshore oil and gas from the government’s 2025 Methane Action Plan.\n\n\nHow community-led monitoring and freedom of information requests can expose discrepancies between reported emissions and what is happening on the ground.\n\nThe event will be chaired by Veerle Heyvaert and open with remarks from Sarah Finch\, campaigner with the Weald Action Group\, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. A light lunch will be provided after the event. \nThe event will also launch the Citizen’s Methane Investigation\, Weald Action Group’s citizen science initiative using community-led data and information gathering to expose methane pollution and strengthen methane accountability. \nMeet our participants \nAcland Bryant: Acland is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. He specialises in cases that involve issues of environmental and climate justice. Acland has experience in representing a broad range of clients\, including international environmental NGOs\, activists\, political figures\, protesters and children. He was Highly Commended for Young Pro Bono Barrister of the Year at the Bar Pro Bono Awards 2025 and was shortlisted at the 2026 Awards. \nSarah Finch: Sarah is a climate campaigner and volunteer with the Weald Action Group. She fronted the legal case\, on behalf of the Weald Action Group\, that resulted in the landmark 2024 Supreme Court win which has forced the government to rethink its approach to the environmental assessment of new oil and gas developments. Sarah has won several environmental awards including most recently the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe. \nEmily Mott: Emily is a photojournalist and since 2016\, has campaigned with the Weald Action Group to stop the expansion of the onshore fossil fuel industry in the UK and to reduce the harmful impacts from oil and gas exploration and production. In 2024\, she launched the UK Methane Campaign with Clean Air Task Force and is currently coordinating Weald Action Group’s Clean Air\, Clear Future methane campaign. \nJames Turitto: James joined Clean Air Task Force in October 2020 to work on global methane emissions reduction by partnering with environmental organizations\, civil society groups\, media\, industry\, and government officials. Based in Nashville\, Tennessee in the United States\, James works directly with governments to support regulatory policy in the oil and gas sector. While at Clean Air Task Force\, James has led major\, successful international advocacy campaigns and launched the Fossil Fuel Regulatory Programme\, a UN-sponsored program to support up to 20 countries on regulatory development. James has been quoted in news outlets around the world\, including Reuters\, Bloomberg\, Financial Times\, Boston Globe\, the BBC\, Die Zeit\, Der Spiegel\, La Repubblica\, Neue Zürcher Zeitung\, and Climate Home News. \nKim O’Dowd:  Kim is a Senior Campaigner at the Environmental Investigation Agency UK\, where she leads the methane and energy transition work at the EU\, UK and international levels. Her focus is on promoting regulations to cut methane emissions in the energy sector\, advocating for a dedicated fund to help Global South countries reduce methane and other super pollutants\, and building the financial framework needed to support a managed phase-out of fossil fuels\, with a particular focus on country platforms. \nMeet our chair \nProfessor Veerle Heyvaert – Associate Dean of LSE Law School\, Professor of Law \nThis event is hosted by the Weald Action Group in collaboration with the Global School of Sustainability and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, and it is part of London Climate Action Week. \nPlease note that this event operates on a first-come\, first-served basis. While registration is required\, a ticket does not guarantee entry\, so we encourage attendees to arrive early to secure a seat. \n\n\n	Related
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LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260622T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260622T180000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Can We Save the Tax on Capital?
DESCRIPTION:The tax on capital has fiscal and distributional virtues. However\, it is inefficient by nature and made more inefficient by the realization requirement\, individual and corporate mobility\, and the asymmetry of information that makes enforcement and collection difficult.  This talk will discuss cover reform proposals\, including wealth taxes\, progressive consumption taxes\, and the creation of sovereign wealth funds. \nSpeaker: Joseph Bankman is the Ralph M Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School.  He has written widely on topics of tax policy and is known for his work on tax shelters and tax filing simplification.   \n Chair: Andy Summers\, LSE Law School \n Places for the seminar will be allocated on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nThis Seminar is not open to the public.  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/seminar-can-we-save-the-tax-on-capital/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T020000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260611T153000
DTSTAMP:20260501T115813Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Legal Hub Open Lecture: Why I Changed My Mind
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to attend\, The Socio-Legal Hub Open Lecture: Why I Changed My Mind\, followed by a celebratory afternoon tea\, which will be held in the student common room after the lecture has concluded. \nIn 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. By way of a thank you to our wonderful speakers\, and to celebrate the end of the academic year\, we will close this event with an afternoon tea – we very much hope to see you there! \nPlease note that this event will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/socio-legal-hub-open-lecture-why-i-changed-my-mind/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260604T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T144253Z
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SUMMARY:Fair play\, please! Celebrating Stephen Weatherill's Sport & EU Honorary Membership
DESCRIPTION:To attend in person\, please email Dr Jan Zglinski at j.zglinski@lse.ac.uk.  \nSpaces will be allocated on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nThe event will also be available to attend remotely in webinar format. To register for online attendance\, please use the link below: \nRegister Here – Online Participation \nLSE 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. The event\, co-organised with the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union (Sport & EU\, www.sportandeu.com) will mark the award of the association’s honorary membership to Professor Weatherill in recognition of his pioneering scholarship in this field\, support of fellow academics\, and contribution to the development of the Sport&EU association. \nThe afternoon will feature two expert panels bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across Europe. The first panel will explore contemporary issues in sports law\, followed by a second panel examining sports governance. \nSpeakers: \n\nDr Antoine Duval (Asser Institute)\nProfessor Pablo Ibanez Colomo (LSE Law School)\nKatie Stoker (Manchester University)\nDarren Bailey (Charles Russell Speechlys LLP)\nProfessor Richard Parrish (Edge Hill University)\nProfessor Leigh Robinson (Roehampton University)\nJean-Louis Dupont (Dupont Hissel)\nMarianna Pavan (MMU)\n\nChair: \n\nDr Jan Zglinski (LSE Law School)\nDr Borja García García (Loughbourough University)\n\nThe honorary membership ceremony will be followed by a keynote address and Q&A delivered by Professor Weatherill himself\, and the event will conclude with a reception open to all attendees. \nThe event will be followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/fair-play-please-celebrating-stephen-weatherills-sport-eu-honorary-membership-2/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260603T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T091541Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - Legal and Political Theory Forum - "What makes an official or authority public?"
DESCRIPTION:Dear All\, \nPlease note that this event has been postponed to a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. \nWe will share further details once a new date has been confirmed. \nLaw Events \nThe 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. The Forum holds a series of seminars during term-time\, at which papers are presented by academics who are based either at LSE or more commonly elsewhere. \nOn Wednesday\, 3rd June 2026\, Prof Sandy Steel will present the following paper: What makes an official or authority public?. \nOur policy is to make Forum events as inclusive as possible. All Forum events are open to staff and students from all departments and all academic institutions. The Forum is run by Tarun Khaitan (LSE Law School). \nThis seminar is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/canceled-legal-and-political-theory-forum-what-makes-an-official-or-authority-public/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260527T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T141959Z
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SUMMARY:Legal and Political Theory Forum - "Methods for Comparative Constitutional Studies from and within the Global South"
DESCRIPTION: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. The Forum holds a series of seminars during term-time\, at which papers are presented by academics who are based either at LSE or more commonly elsewhere. \nOn Wednesday\, 27th May 2026\, Prof Dinesha Samararatne will present the following paper: Methods for Comparative Constitutional Studies from and within the Global South. \nOur policy is to make Forum events as inclusive as possible. All Forum events are open to staff and students from all departments and all academic institutions. The Forum is run by Tarun Khaitan (LSE Law School). \n This seminar is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/legal-and-political-theory-forum-methods-for-comparative-constitutional-studies-from-and-within-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260526T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T112229Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Socio-Legal Reading Group Session
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nAbu-Lughod\, L. (1990). The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women. American Ethnologist\, 17(1)\, 41–55\n\nThis session will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/spring-term-socio-legal-reading-group-session/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260520T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260520T233000
DTSTAMP:20260507T102447Z
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SUMMARY:Book discussion: Governance by Emulation\, The Oversight Board\, the Digital Services Act\, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability
DESCRIPTION:This book talk will take place in person\, with the option to attend remotely via webinar. If you would like to join online\, please register using the link below. \nRegister here: Online Participation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSocial media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emulating public law frameworks. 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. Analysis of content moderation practices and their implications uncovers a critical pattern in the evolution of governance for industries that will define the future\, from digital platforms to emerging technologies. Combining public and private law in innovative ways\, the book sheds light on bold governance experiments that will shape the digital world-for better or worse. This study offers crucial insights for understanding the next chapter of global governance in an increasingly interconnected and privatized world. \nSpeaker: Dr Moritz A. Schramm is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Coming from an EU law background\, Moritz works on private and regulatory governance\, digital corporations\, and infrastructures. His monograph‚ “Governance by Emulation: Platform Adjudication\, the Oversight Board\, and the Digital Services Act” comes out with Cambridge University Press in Summer 2026. Moritz received several international awards for his work and holds a PhD and JD-equivalent from Humboldt-University of Berlin. \n Chair: Dr Neli Frost \n Commentators: Dr Martin Husovec\, Niklas Eder (Co-Founder and Co-CEO of User Rights) and Professor Lorna Woods (University of Essex). \nThis event is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/book-discussion-governance-by-emulation-the-oversight-board-the-digital-services-act-and-the-struggle-for-platform-accountability/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260519T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260519T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T110545Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Legal Research Hub - Research Seminar: Professor Linda Mulcahy
DESCRIPTION:The Socio-Legal Research Hub will host a research Seminar delivered by Professor Linda Mulcahy of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies\, University of Oxford.  \n  \nProfessor Mulcahy will present a paper on Strategic Litigation and Systemic Change from the bottom up. This draws on her AHRC-funded project An Oral History of Radical Lawyering.  \n  \n\nSeats will be allocated on a first-come\, first-served basis.  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/socio-legal-research-hub-research-seminar-professor-linda-mulcahy/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T112221Z
CREATED:20251103T164129Z
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SUMMARY:Global Tax Seminar Series – Functional Fallacy\, a critique of the conduct-based approach to applying the ALP
DESCRIPTION: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. The seminars are run in person and online as Zoom meetings\, with 25—to 30-minute paper presentations followed by comments from a distinguished panel of discussants and then ample time for questions and discussion. \nOn Wednesday 13 May 2026\,  Richard Collier\, Oxford & Ian Dykes (TBC)\, PWC UK\,  will present on the following topic: Functional Fallacy\, a critique of the conduct-based approach to applying the ALP. \nSpeakers : Richard Collier\, Oxford & Ian Dykes (TBC)\, PWC UK \nDiscussants: \n\nEduardo Baistrocchi\, LSE\nMalcom Gammie\, KC\nReuven Avi Yonah\, Michigan University\nSol Picciotto\, Lancaster University\nAllison Christians\, McGill University\n\nTo join online\, please register using the hyperlink below. \nRegister Here – Online Participation  \nTo sign up for the mailing list\, please \nvisit: https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/secure/taxation-signup. \nFor further information\, please contact Eduardo Baistrocchi\, Associate Professor of Law\, at e.a.baistrocchi@lse.ac.uk. \nThis seminar is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/global-tax-seminar-series-functional-fallacy-a-critique-of-the-conduct-based-approach-to-applying-the-alp/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T154426Z
CREATED:20260410T150317Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change on Trial - Book Talk by César Rodríguez-Garavito
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE – IN PERSON \nREGISTER HERE – ONLINE VIA ZOOM  \n\nPlease join us for a panel discussion on Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito’s book Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action(Cambridge University Press\, 2025). \nDrawing on an original database of rights-based climate change lawsuits worldwide\, as well as interviews with leading actors and participant observation in the field\, the book explains the rise and global diffusion of rights-based climate litigation. It brings together insights from global governance\, international law\, climate policy\, human rights\, and legal mobilisation theory to offer a socio-legal account of the actors\, strategies\, and norms that have emerged at the intersection of human rights and climate governance. \nVenue: Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor CKK Building\, LSE \nTime: 2.00- 3.15pm \n\nSpeaker: César Rodríguez-Garavito\, Professor of Law; Chair\, Center for Human Rights & Global Justice; Director\, The Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Program; Director\, More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program\, at NYU School of Law\nChair: Dr Siva Thambisetty\, Associate Professor of Law\, LSE Law School\n\nPanellists: Joana Setzer\, Associate Professor\, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, Eoin Jackson\, PhD Candidate LSE Law School and Vesselina Newman\, Lead on Fundamental Rights\, ClientEarth\n\nSponsors: LSE Law School\, The Global School of Sustainability\, and the Grantham Research Institute\n\nPlease note\, although this event is ticketed\, seating will operate on a first-come\, first-serve basis.\n\n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/climate-change-on-trial-book-talk-by-cesar-rodriguez-garavito/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Public Lectures 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260402T140000
DTSTAMP:20260210T081241Z
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SUMMARY:PIL Hub: 'How International Law Dies. Variations on a Wittgensteinian Theme'
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 2nd April 2026\, Professor Fuad Zarbiyev will present a talk titled ‘How International Law Dies. Variations on a Wittgensteinian Theme.’  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/pil-hub-how-international-law-dies-variations-on-a-wittgensteinian-theme/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260330T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260330T140000
DTSTAMP:20260309T130137Z
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SUMMARY:Regulatory Interoperability for AI: where is Alcibiades’ dog tail?
DESCRIPTION:When Alcibiades cut off his dog’s tail\, he knew what he was doing. Athens would gossip about the cruelty and ignore the war. Politics\, he understood\, is often about distraction. Artificial intelligence regulation may have acquired its own dog tail. \nThe AI-regulation debate is too often consumed by grand gestures: calls for global AI treaties and declarations; sweeping principles and landmark conferences; and ever longer lists of values\, codes of practice and “global firsts”. Meanwhile\, AI systems move across borders with ease\, while regulation (and risk-based analyses) do not. Models are trained in one jurisdiction\, deployed in another\, and governed—fragmentedly—by many (or none). Specific-purpose systems sometimes face jurisdictional barriers and some others do not\, without any kind of structural logic. Courts\, regulators\, standards bodies and procurement rules all seem to tug at some uses. No one is in charge. Everyone claims concern. \nInto this disorder steps “regulatory interoperability”. The words reassure. The concept suggests harmony without sacrifice. But too often it functions like Alcibiades’ dog: something eye‑catching that diverts attention from harder questions. What\, precisely\, must interoperate? Laws? Institutions? Evidence? Decisions? Or merely aspirations? \nTechnical interoperability we are familiar with. Regulatory interoperability we are not. It is not harmonisation in disguise\, nor deregulation by another name. It may be a strategy for a world that will not agree on first bests\, but we are not sure how that looks. It requires design\, not slogans. Translation\, not consensus. Without that work\, policymakers will keep debating the tail—while the dog runs without direction. \nIn this seminar José-Miguel Bello y Villarino will share his observations about this process and where it seems to be heading. He will present how he sees regulatory interoperability to be distinct or similar to other related concepts and where it is another byword for misdirection or\, even worse\, hiding attemps to reinvent the wheel. He will engage with (and criticise) previous work\, to dispiritedly offer limited (if any) solutions. He will discuss how the term has been used in policy documents\, just to illustrate its operational limitations. And yet\, he hopes something insightful would come out of this research agenda and seminar. \nBio: José‑Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School and an Australian Research Council Early Career Industry Fellow (2025–27)\, affiliated with the ARC Automated Decision-Making and Society Centre of Excellence and the University of Sydney Centre for AI\, Trust and Governance. He is Director of Research Engagement at the Sydney Law School\, where he co‑teaches advanced Law and Technology\, together with an interdisciplinary course at the Faculty of Engineering. He is a member of Spain’s Diplomatic Corps (on leave)\, with prior experience at the European Union (Commission and Council). His ARC fellowship\, in partnership with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption\, develops governance frameworks for using AI and automation to combat systemic corruption in the public sector. He has held visiting appointments at the EUI School of Transnational Governance and Harvard Law School and is a graduate from Santiago de Compostela (Political Sciences and Law)\, College of Europe (Law)\, NYU School of Law\, the Spanish Diplomatic School and the University of Sydney. \nThis seminar will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/regulatory-interoperability-for-ai-where-is-alcibiades-dog-tail/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260324T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260324T183000
DTSTAMP:20260319T165129Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Legal Hub Open Lecture: Why I Changed My Mind (POSTPONED)
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately\, this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. \nLaw Events \nThe academy ideally seeks to sustain an intellectual space for debate\, discussion\, and critique\, where individuals are encouraged to continually question and refine their worldviews. At the same time\, academics are expected to rigorously defend their scholarly positions\, which can sometimes make it difficult to change one’s views\, as doing so may be perceived as a sign of intellectual weakness. In this panel\, three scholars at the LSE 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. \nSpeakers: Professor Susanne Baer is Centennial Professor at LSE Law School\, Professor of Public Law and Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin. \nProfessor Emily Jackson is Professor of Law at the LSE. \nProfessor Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law\, Gender and Social Policy at the LSE. \nChair: Dr Nafay Choudhury (LSE) \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/socio-legal-hub-open-lecture-why-i-changed-my-mind-postponed/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T140000
DTSTAMP:20260119T095041Z
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SUMMARY:Fever Dreams and Future-Making in the Ocean:  what role for the law of the sea?
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 19th March 2026\, Professor Surabhi Ranganathan will present a talk titled ‘Fever Dreams and Future-Making in the Ocean: what role for the law of the sea?’  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \n \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/fever-dreams-and-future-making-in-the-ocean-what-role-for-the-law-of-the-sea/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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ORGANIZER;CN="Law Events":MAILTO:law.events@lse.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260318T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260318T190000
DTSTAMP:20251120T154002Z
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SUMMARY:Golem Seminar Series - Post-Imperial Unions: Constitutional Alternatives to Empire and Nation-State
DESCRIPTION:What if the EU were not a historical anomaly\, but part of a broader – now largely forgotten – global pattern? \nThis project introduces ‘post-imperial unions’ as a conceptual frame to bring under one lens a range of political and constitutional phenomena until now studied in isolation. These include the EU\, the Commonwealth\, l’Union française\, the Soviet Union\, Rigsfællesskabet\, the West Indies Federation\, federal constitutional schemes for Africa’s and British Raj’s post-imperial futures and interwar schemes to federalize the Chinese empire. Devised between WWI and the 1960s\, these projects offered constitutional alternatives to nation-states in response to the transformation of the global order brought about by imperial decline. If the EU is an outlier\, it is not because it lacks historical peers\, but because it turned out to be one of the most lasting unions born of a once-global search for political associations beyond empire and nation-state. \nPost-Imperial Unions will undertake the first global comparative study of the constitutional projects of post-imperial unions. The aim is not simply to reconstruct overlooked constitutional projects but to transform the way we think about constitutions and the types of political associations they can facilitate and bring about. Through comparative archival work in London\, Cambridge\, Oxford\, Paris\, Florence\, Delhi and Kolkata\, and interdisciplinary collaborations\, the project will map the constitutional pattern\, explore the constitutional ideas\, and assess the constitutional implications of post-imperial unions. In doing so\, Post-Imperial Unions contests the nation-state centred model of constitutions and seeks to build the foundations for novel way of conceptualising\, studying and teaching constitutional law and theory. Beyond constitutional studies\, Post-Imperial Unions advances global political thought by shedding light on the overlooked constitutional dimension of post-imperial projects beyond the nation-state. \nSpeaker: Signe Larsen (Warwick) \nThis seminar will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/golem-seminar-series-post-imperial-unions-constitutional-alternatives-to-empire-and-nation-state/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T200000
DTSTAMP:20250905T131301Z
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SUMMARY:Criminal Justice Forum Seminar Series – Criminal Complicity and Coercive Control
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the Forum is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the criminal law and the criminal justice system. Its members and affiliates (mainly from LSE Law School\, but also from other LSE departments and institutions) conduct research on various aspects of criminal law and criminal justice from a variety of methodological standpoints (moral\, political and social theory\, criminology\, anthropology\, epistemology\, etc.). \nOn Tuesday\, 17 March 2026\, David Sklansky (Stanford) will present the following paper\, Criminal Complicity and Coercive Control.  \nEvents take place in the Moot Court Room (LSE Cheng Kin Ku\, 7th floor) at 6:00pm. A Zoom link will be circulated in advance of each seminar for those wishing to attend remotely. \nFor further information\, please contact f.picinali@lse.ac.uk \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/criminal-justice-forum-seminar-series-criminal-complicity-and-coercive-control/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T153000
DTSTAMP:20260211T115103Z
CREATED:20260210T112706Z
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SUMMARY:Enemization and Solidarity in Times of War: The Case of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
DESCRIPTION:Dr Totry-Jubran will present her article exploring how constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression are reshaped under conditions of emergency\, focusing on the treatment of Palestinian citizens of Israel after October 7\, 2023. \nThe article argues that in deeply divided societies\, solidarity operates as a constitutional boundary-making device: state calls for national unity are legally enforced through practices that construct an internal enemy and narrow the scope of protected speech. Drawing on constitutional theory\, emergency governance\, and security-oriented criminal law\, the article shows how expressions of grief\, humanitarian concern\, or solidarity with civilians in Gaza were reclassified as incitement or identification with terrorism. Through analysis of emergency directives\, protest restrictions\, and enforcement patterns\, it demonstrates how constitutional rights were selectively suspended in practice\, producing an ethnonationally stratified regime of free speech. The Israeli case reveals how constitutional law\, under crisis conditions\, becomes a tool for redefining political belonging and the limits of democratic citizenship. \nSpeaker: Dr Manal Totry-Jubran \nDr Manal Totry- Jubran is an associate professor at the Law faculty\, Bar Ilan University. She is currently a visiting professor at the Global Centre of Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL\, Law School. In 2024 and 2025 she was a visiting professor at the Luiss Law School\, Rome. In 2023 and 2025 she was a visiting professor at the Bicocca Law School\, Milano. She was a Post Doctorial Fellow at the Faculty of Law\, the Hebrew University. She received her LL.M. (Magna cum Laude) and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law\, University of Tel- Aviv. She was awarded the “Cegla Prize” for Exceptional Legal Articles in Hebrew; the “Gorni Prize”\, by the Israeli Association of Public Law young researchers for Excellent young researcher in public Law. She was selected by “Calcalist” newspaper and “Bank Hapoalim” as one of ten Young Promising Arab leaders in the Arab Society; she was awarded the Ma’of scholarship for outstanding Arab students\, The Council for Higher Education in Israel. \nChair: Dr Neli Frost (commentator: Prof Tarun Khaitan) \nThis seminar will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. This event is not open to the public. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/enemization-and-solidarity-in-times-of-war-the-case-of-the-palestinian-citizens-of-israel-2/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260305T174308Z
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SUMMARY:PIL Hub: ‘The Folk Concept of International Law'
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 12th March 2026\, Dr Daniel Peat will present a talk titled ‘The Folk Concept of International Law’.  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \nRecent work on experimental jurisprudence has explored whether the general public conceive law to be inherently linked to morality. In our study\, we build on this work to develop the ‘folk concept’ of international law. We report the results of an experimental survey carried out on 6\,000 respondents across six countries – Argentina\, China\, India\, the Netherlands\, South Africa\, and the United States. The goal of the study is not to survey what people think about  international law\, but rather to better understand what they think international law actually is. \nThis event is open to all and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. \nLSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of The London School of Economics and Political Science. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/pil-hub-experimental-jurisprudence-on-public-understandings-of-international-law/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T183000
DTSTAMP:20260223T120223Z
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SUMMARY:Law\, Technology and Society (LTS) Hub Public Event: “Anti-Suit Injunctions and Standard-Essential Patents”
DESCRIPTION:Prof Rademacher will present his recent research into the granting of anti-suit injunctions in the context of litigation over standard-essential patents in various jurisdictions. \nSpeaker: Professor Christoph Rademacher (Beatrice Webb Visiting Professor\, LSE and Waseda University\, Tokyo) \nProfessor Christoph Rademacher is Beatrice Webb Visiting Professor at LSE for March 2026. Christoph is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Law at Waseda University\, Tokyo. His research focuses on the protection of technical innovation by means of patents and other rights.  His publications include Patent Enforcement in the US\, Germany\, and Japan (Oxford University Press\, 2015) and the Research Handbook on Information Law and Governance (Edward Elgar\, 2022). He has held recent visiting appointments at the University of Copenhagen (2024) and at Columbia Law School\, New York (2025). \nChair: Dr Luke McDonagh (LSE) \nThis public event is part of the LTS hub event series. \nThis seminar will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/law-technology-and-society-lts-hub-public-event-anti-suit-injunctions-and-standard-essential-patents/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260305T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260305T140000
DTSTAMP:20251210T143734Z
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SUMMARY:PIL Hub: 'Trump Tariffs on Asia\, with a focus on China'
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 5th March 2026\, Professor Henry Gao will present a talk titled ‘Trump Tariffs on Asia\, with a focus on China.’  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \nHenry Gao is a Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Holding law degrees from three continents\, he began his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. Before relocating to Singapore in 2007\, he taught law at the University of Hong Kong\, where he served as Deputy Director of the East Asian International Economic Law and Policy Program and Academic Coordinator for the first Asia-Pacific Regional Trade Policy Course organised by the WTO. \n \nThis event is open to all and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. \nLSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of The London School of Economics and Political Science. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/pil-hub-trump-tariffs-on-asia-with-a-focus-on-china/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260304T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260202T115558Z
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SUMMARY:Legal and Political Theory Forum – Discrimination and Higher-Order Inclusion
DESCRIPTION: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. The Forum holds a series of seminars during term-time\, at which papers are presented by academics who are based either at LSE or more commonly elsewhere. \nOn Wednesday\, 4 March 2026\, Adam Hosein will present the following paper: Discrimination and Higher-Order Inclusion. \nOur policy is to make Forum events as inclusive as possible. All Forum events are open to staff and students from all departments and all academic institutions. The Forum is run by Thomas Poole (LSE Law School). \n This seminar is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/legal-and-political-theory-forum-discrimination-and-higher-order-inclusion/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260304T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260304T150000
DTSTAMP:20260211T163200Z
CREATED:20260211T163200Z
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SUMMARY:The Instability of Opportunism: A History of the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 4th March 2026\, Sjors Polm will present a talk titled ‘The Instability of Opportunism: A History of the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam’  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \nThe Russell Tribunal on Vietnam was animated by a belief that international law had something to offer the antiwar movement. This belief was shared among the tribunal’s participants; the reasons underlying it were not. Based on extensive archival research\, this paper presents the tribunal as a forum where different ideas about international law as a resource for activism were put into action and clashed. It is a story of these ideas\, but more than that it is a story of the forum: of how different ideas about international law and activism gained or lost traction when they were enacted in the tribunal. The paper argues that while the tribunal was created as an opportunistic device to oppose the Vietnam War\, it gradually came to revolve around improving the law. Opportunism proved unstable because it was difficult to separate law’s language and rituals from its values and objectives. \nSpeaker: Sjors Polm is a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute. His thesis\, ‘Doing Politics by Pretending to Do Law’\, is a history of informal performances of law. Before coming to the EUI\, Sjors studied law (LLB\, LLM)\, philosophy (Ba\, Ma)\, and social sciences (BSc) at the University of Amsterdam\, where he also worked as a junior researcher and lecturer. He was a visiting student at NYU Law and is a visiting student at LSE. \n  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/the-instability-of-opportunism-a-history-of-the-russell-tribunal-on-vietnam/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T193000
DTSTAMP:20260129T150153Z
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SUMMARY:Legal Biography Project: Legal biographers on their subjects: III: ACADEMICS
DESCRIPTION:Sir Neil MacCormick was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh for over 30 years until he retired in 2008. He was active in the Scottish National Party and a Member of the European Parliament 1999–2004. As a jurist\, he is known for his institutional theory\, his sense of law as a form of practical reasoning\, and his belief that jurisprudence should assist in the search for good government. His politics was informed by his father’s commitment to Scottish nationalism and his mother’s experience as a social worker. \nSpeaker: Maks Del Mar on Neil MacCormick  \nProfessor Maksymilian Del Mar is at Queen Mary\, University of London. His Neil MacCormick. A Life in Politics Philosophy and Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. \nChair: Victoria Barnes \nDr Victoria Barnes FRHistS is at Queen’s University Belfast and a member of the Advisory Board to the Legal Biography project. \nCommentaries by Niki Lacey and Martin Loughlin \nProfessors Niki Lacey and Martin Loughlin are at the LSE \nThis seminar is open to the public and will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/legal-biography-project-legal-biographers-on-their-subjects-iii-academics/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T183000
DTSTAMP:20260127T132620Z
CREATED:20260127T132042Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Legal Hub Seminar: ‘Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts\, Chinese Corporations\, and Contestations over Sovereignty’
DESCRIPTION:‘Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts\, Chinese Corporations\, and Contestations over Sovereignty’ \nSet against the backdrop of an extraordinary wave of litigation against Chinese corporations in Ethiopia\, Immunity on Trial probes the question of immunity in everyday encounters steeped in highly asymmetrical power relations. Political and legal immunity are justified by the principle that certain social aims outweigh the value of imposing liability. To be exempt from the rules\, however\, is a privilege granted to or demanded by the powerful\, one that is shaped by global inequalities. \nDrawing on observations from the courthouse\, interviews with litigants\, judges\, and court support staff\, and analyses of case files\, Miriam Driessen demonstrates how immunity is debated and delegitimized\, or affirmed\, by those who fight\, exact\, grant\, or weigh it. From the construction site to the police station\, from the registrar’s office into the courtroom\, she documents tussles over immunity\, unravelling the politics of dignity on which they are founded. \nSpeaker: Miriam Driessen is a political and legal anthropologist. She teaches in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. Drawing on long-term field research in both China and Ethiopia\, her research explores local manifestations of global transformations in the wake of China’s increasing global presence. She is the author of Tales of Hope\, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia. \n  \n \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/socio-legal-hub-immunity-on-trial-ethiopian-courts-chinese-corporations-and-contestations-over-sovereignty/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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ORGANIZER;CN="Law Events":MAILTO:law.events@lse.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T160000
DTSTAMP:20251010T093950Z
CREATED:20251010T093950Z
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SUMMARY:Economic Constitutions beyond the State: EU Free Movement Law and International Investment Law in Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:EU free movement law (EUFML) and international investment law (IIL) share ostensible features. Both regimes have been turned into comprehensive ‘economic constitutions’\, enabling economic actors to directly challenge generally applicable legislation. In so doing\, they have faced sharp contestation for unsettling several “20th century” conventional boundaries – between the market and the State\, between adjudicative and political institutions\, and between the inter-/supranational and the national spheres. \nDespite these striking similarities\, a comparative account of EUFML and IIL is lacking. This is all the more surprising\, in light of the unfolding consequences of the Achmea saga. In my research\, I draw on the comparative law methodological debate to argue for the comparability of EUFML and IIL. I thus submit that EUFML and IIL are functionally equivalent tools\, allowing for a renegotiation of political economies outside the political process. To this extent\, EUFML and IIL are fruitfully comparable\, despite their sharply diverging doctrinal self-portrayals. This descriptive finding\, however\, does not detract in turn from the different axiological and institutional horizons within which EUFML and IIL are normatively located. My research thus critically tests the extent to which the divaricated assumptions underlying each regime are reflected in their practical implementation. \nSpeaker: Paolo Mazzotti (Max Planck Heidelberg) is a PhD researcher at the Max Planck Heidelberg\, currently visiting the Cambridge Law Department. \nThe event will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis \n  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/economic-constitutions-beyond-the-state-eu-free-movement-law-and-international-investment-law-in-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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SUMMARY:Criminal Justice Forum Seminar Series – Arguments and Adversarialism: The Treatment of Complainers' Narratives in Scottish Rape Trials (Time Update\, 6.30 pm Start)
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the Forum is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the criminal law and the criminal justice system. Its members and affiliates (mainly from LSE Law School\, but also from other LSE departments and institutions) conduct research on various aspects of criminal law and criminal justice from a variety of methodological standpoints (moral\, political and social theory\, criminology\, anthropology\, epistemology\, etc.). \nOn Tuesday\, 17 February 2026\, Sharon Cowan (Edinburgh) will present the following paper\, Arguments and Adversarialism: The Treatment of Complainers’ Narratives in Scottish Rape Trials.  \nEvents take place in the Moot Court Room (LSE Cheng Kin Ku\, 7th floor) at 6:30pm. A Zoom link will be circulated in advance of each seminar for those wishing to attend remotely. \nFor further information\, please contact f.picinali@lse.ac.uk \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/criminal-justice-forum-seminar-series-arguments-and-adversarialism-the-treatment-of-complainers-narratives-in-scottish-rape-trials-time-update-6-30-pm-start-2/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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SUMMARY:PIL Hub: 'Through the Cracks: The Construction of Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Argentina (1976–1984)'
DESCRIPTION:The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary\, theoretical and historical issues of international law. \nOn 12th February 2026\, Professor Alejandro Chehtman will present a talk titled ‘Through the Cracks: The Construction of Accountability for Human Rights Violations in Argentina (1976–1984).’  This session will take place in Moot Court Room\, please see venue information below. \n\nThis event is open to all and will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. \nLSE holds a wide range of events\, covering many of the most controversial issues of the day\, and speakers at our events may express views that cause offence. The views expressed by speakers at LSE events do not reflect the position or views of The London School of Economics and Political Science. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/pil-hub-through-the-cracks-the-construction-of-accountability-for-human-rights-violations-in-argentina-1976-1984/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T170000
DTSTAMP:20251205T163105Z
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SUMMARY:EU Values and the Place of European Society: An External Focused Account
DESCRIPTION:In the particular world of contemporary EU law\, European society has the meaning of a place. Appreciating this requires considering the relationship between European society and another key concept\, that of EU values. This relationship is one of mutual balance but also tension: while the latter are abstract calls for offensive action on the part of EU institutions\, the former is identified as a concretely located space that must be preserved and defended. The paper begins with a close textual reading of Article 2 TEU\, focusing on the provision’s specific architecture. There\, European society appears as a singular reality – that of a concretely situated perimeter of social relations that the EU claims as its own – which pre-exists the EU’s institutionality and enables its foundational commitments to the realisation of a series of values. The second and most important part of the paper then contends that this particular arrangement should be understood as a function of the EU’s evolving external ambitions and self-positioning vis a vis the outside world. Thus\, contrary to the common tendency to see the EU’s external projections as resulting from its own internal identity and dynamics\, I will argue that here it is the internal that follows the external. On this basis\, it will be shown that the complementary relationship between European society (as place) and EU values (as action) that I identified in the architecture of Article 2 TEU is reflective of the delicate compromise between the rise of the EU’s neo-imperial ambitions at the regional and global levels (for which values serve as a vehicle) and the construction of an increasingly hard boundary between an inside and an outside to the EU order (which the concept of European society serves to draw\, justify and implement). \nSpeaker: Toni Marzal\, University of Glasgow \nChair: Professor Floris de Witte\, LSE \nThis seminar will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/eu-values-and-the-place-of-european-society-an-external-focused-account/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260210T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260127T110315Z
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SUMMARY:Socio-Legal Research Hub Reading Group - Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Socio-Legal Research Hub Reading Group  \nWinter Term 2026: Michel de Certeau\, The Practice of Everyday Life (University of California Press\, 1984). \n \nSession 1: Intro\, Chapters 1-3 (MCR\, 10th Feb  5-6pm). \nSession 2: Chapters 7-9 (CKK 1.17\, 5th Mar\, 12-1pm). Lunch provided. \nSession 3: Chapters 10-12 (CKK 8.02\, 17th Mar\, 5-6pm). \nE-book and physical copies available via LSE Library. \nAll are warmly welcome. Participants are welcome to attend any or all sessions that fit their schedule. \nThis event will operate on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nRefreshments will be provided at each session. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://lselaw.wpcomstaging.com/event/socio-legal-research-hub-reading-group-session-1/
LOCATION:Moot Court Room\, 7th Floor\, Cheng Kin Ku Building\, LSE\, London\, WC2A 3LJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Seminars 
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