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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: Neil Walker
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: Salmoli Choudhuri
In the first of a series of workshops addressing the question of national interest in the wake of the end of globalisation, Professor Peter Ramsay and Dr Richard Johnson will discuss whether or not electoral reform is in the national interest before a discussion with workshop participants.
Speaker: Richard Johnson
The Federal Reserve is the most distinctive federal entity in the United States government. It exercises some of Congress’s most important constitutional duties and prerogatives—namely, the duty to regulate the value of money and the power to spend and borrow against the good name of the United States—yet does so with effectively no oversight from Congress.
Speaker: Christina Parajon Skinner
The binary verdict system, that is, a decision-making arrangement comprising a single standard of proof and two possible verdicts, is often taken for granted by those operating in jurisdictions that feature this system. England and Wales are such a jurisdiction. There appears to be a widespread view that the reasons for endorsing the binary system are self-evident, such that there is no need for articulating them. The study of intermediate verdicts (the Scottish ‘not proven’, in primis), and of the debates surrounding them, is a healthy reminder that alternatives to the binary system do exist and that, therefore, a justification for such a system should be given, instead of being merely assumed. By addressing the question whether intermediate verdicts can be justified, with this workshop we aim to overcome the current dogmatism concerning the binary verdict system, that is, we aim to encourage an open discussion about the reasons in favour or against binary verdicts.
The aim of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Forum is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue on the criminal law and the criminal justice system.
Karen Knop was a professor at the Faculty of Law teaching in the areas of public international law, private international law, foreign relations law and citizenship law. She wrote on issues of diversity, interpretation and participation in public international law. Her scholarship was broadly concerned with the challenges of gender and cultural differences to core concepts in public international law, including sovereignty, self-determination, nationality and the relationship between international and domestic law.
The aim of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory 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 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.).
Is freedom of expression under threat in Britain’s universities or is that idea a moral panic? Peter Ramsay will examine the claims of both sides and ask why the question matters.
The Law, Technology and Society book group will discuss the book Invisible Women, authored by Caroline Criado Perez.
The aim of the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory 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 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.).
Sydney Kentridge, now aged 99, carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate. His story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only advocate to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. This lecture is a portrait of how advocacy can challenge the status quo and shape the future.
