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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Structures of injustice, the law, and exploitative work

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Virginia Mantoulvaou (UCL)

The Legal & Political Theory Forum provides 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.

A theory of international taxation

Online event
Speaker: Dr Eduardo Baistrocchi (LSE Law School)

A Theory of International Taxation combines qualitative and quantitative analyses to shed light on the shaping of the international tax regime (ITR) over the last century.

Convene events are organised for members of the LSE community.

The Legal Science of the International

NAB 1.15 New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE

Campbell McLachlan asks what contemporary salience the idea of law as legal science might have as a way of understanding the way in which international law operates and its capacity to withstand the many disintegrative pressures that it currently faces.

Wartime for the planet (POSTPONED NEW DATE TBC)

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Duncan Kelly (Cambridge)

The Legal & Political Theory Forum provides 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.

Democracy at work: Contract, status and post-industrial justice

Shaw Library 5th floor, Old Building, Houghton Street, LSE

An event to mark the publication of Democracy at Work: Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justice by Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck, with contributions from Diamond Ashiagbor (Kent), Hugh Collins (LSE), Lydia Hayes (Liverpool), Richard Hyman (LSE), Hannah Reed (Unite), Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS), Mike Wilkinson (LSE), and David Woodruff (LSE).

Climate Litigation in Europe – where next?

MAR 2.08 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
Speakers: Professor Veerle Heyvaert, Professor Christina Voigt, Margherita Cornaglia, Kate Highham and Marc Willers KC

Climate Change Litigation is a growing global phenomenon. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has recognised that such litigation may influence the “outcome and ambition” of climate governance. To date,  close to 300 climate litigation cases have been filed in Europe, either before national or regional courts. European legislators are now in the process of finalising negotiations on sweeping new legislative reforms to implement the goals of the European Climate Law.

Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture

MAR 2.08 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
Speaker: Jane Ginsburg

Professor Ginsburg will deliver the Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture. The lecture series was established in name of Professor Bill Cornish. It features eminent scholars who contributed to the study of authorship, creativity, and innovation and their legal protections.

The UK Two-Step: scheming to supplant Chapter 11 with Chapter 15

MAR 2.08 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
Speaker: Professor Bruce A. Markell 

This lecture will explore how a United States company could first file a Scheme of Arrangement, and then seek to enforce it in the United States, a sort of UK Two-Step. This Two-Step would have the effect of granting UK relief to a US debtor and avoiding the cost and excess time Chapter 11 cases often require.

Taxation and economic rent

Thai Theatre Lower ground floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Ian Roxan (LSE)

This event is part of the LSE Taxation Seminars series, organised by Dr Eduardo Baistrocchi. These events are held on LSE campus, but a Zoom link will also be circulated in advance. For further information, please contact Eduardo Baistrocchi e.a.baistrocchi@lse.ac.uk

Conference Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law: Foundations, Methods, Themes June 1st and 2nd

MAR 2.05 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE

This conference will discuss the objectives, potential, and future of empirical legal research in the EU. It is organised by Dr Jan Zglinski in co-operation with Prof Urška Šadl and Prof Daniel Naurin. The conference will feature 30 leading legal and political science scholars working in the field of empirical legal studies. Everybody is invited to attend, including students and non-LSE researchers.