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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  • ‘Art from Guantánamo, by Abu Zubaydah’

    Atrium Gallery Ground Floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Public Lectures 

    Twenty-four years without charge, without trial, without communication - but not without a voice. What role can art and artivism play in the pursuit of justice?

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Reading wars: the story (so far) of Western literacy and the future of free speech

    Old Lecture Theatre Ground floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, United Kingdom
    Public Lectures 

    Who gets access to books? And, to what extent does the act of reading shape our humanity? In conversation with Larry Kramer, Don Herzog will discuss his new publication from LSE Press, Reading Wars, which examines the heated, even murderous, political struggles over who gets to read and what they get to read.
     
    Speakers: Professor Don Herzog, Professor Larry Kramer & Professor Nicola Lacey

  • 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.

  • How the right laws can save the planet

    TBC
    Public Lectures 

    The planet and its inhabitants face critical threats – including climate change, collapse of biodiversity, reverses in progress on global poverty and persistent inequality. How can international and national laws address these threats? What insights do we have about the conditions that lead to their enactment and implementation?

  • PG End Of Exams Boat Party

    Temple Pier Victoria Embankment, London, United Kingdom

    📅 18 June 2026, 18:00 - 22:00 This is a free event, first come - first served.  Tickets available here. Please note that submitting this form is not a confirmation of attendance to this event. We will confirm your place in due course. That’s a wrap! 🎉 Celebrate the end of your exams and the

    Social events are for members of the LSE community.