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To put it simply, ‘You don’t do a deal without talking to the tax team’. And given how often deals involve US interests, a basic knowledge of the core US tax rules will be invaluable for any deal practitioners, wherever in the world they are located, and whatever their practice focus.  This session will look at the fundamental of US tax generally and Corporate Tax in particular, introducing the principal rules that come up in practice with examples from actual practice.

This lecture analyses the competing paradigms of universality and transnationality as domestic courts have adopted them. It argues that international human rights adjudication should reconceptualise extraterritoriality against the background of universality and transnationality to address global crises.

Data protection precepts are by themselves cold comfort to a data subject violated by the overuse, misuse or expropriation of his or her personal data or whose rights have been otherwise infringed. Warmth is provided by private law remedies and regulatory enforcement. What is the scope of each? How do they work? What are the practicalities? Attend and you will find out.

To put it simply, ‘You don’t do a deal without talking to the tax team’. And given how often deals involve US interests, a basic knowledge of the core US tax rules will be invaluable for any deal practitioners, wherever in the world they are located, and whatever their practice focus.

Amit M. Sachdeva of EY will present a series of Master Classes on 1, 8 and 15 March 2023 on this topic. This second session  session will carry this over to International Tax, looking at how the US tax rules affect cross-border transactions. 

The Law, Technology and Society book group will discuss the book ‘Runaway Technology', authored by Joshua A.T. Fairfield.

To put it simply, ‘You don’t do a deal without talking to the tax team’. And given how often deals involve US interests, a basic knowledge of the core US tax rules will be invaluable for any deal practitioners, wherever in the world they are located, and whatever their practice focus. 

This is the final series of US Tax Law Masterclass. This third session will bring it all together and focus on case studies and recent examples from practice.

In this event, Emily Jackson (who first met Sam when she booked her to appear on Law in Action many years ago) will interview Sam McAlister and ask her about the relevance of her legal training for her work as a producer at the BBC.

Focusing on the European perspective, this talk explores company directors' duties in the context of the debate about promoting environmental and social (ESG) interests. It argues that, in contrast to traditional, shareholder-oriented concepts of directors' duties, new stakeholder-oriented obligations have been established, inter alia, by new European legislation rooted in international standards. While far more detailed and prescriptive than traditional duties, however, the effect of these new obligations, in the absence of effective sanction regimes, may well turn out to widen, rather than narrow, the scope for discretionary, exploitative corporate decisions. The talk therefore ties in with the increasing critique of stakeholderist theories of corporate governance, particularly in the US legal literature, and highlights the differences between the US and European systems of corporate governance in this regard.

The recent failure of the crypto group FTX brought some of the differences between traditional financial market infrastructure ('FMI') and crypto exchanges/clearing houses into stark contrast.  This talk will discuss what we know about the causes of the collapse of FTX, how some of these would likely not have caused issues had the group been fully regulated as an FMI, and what this means for the future regulation of crypto exchanges.

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.

This series of seminars on the future of FMI, hosted by the LSE Law School, was established in 2020 in order to provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion of the most pressing issues relating to this systemic part of the global financial markets. Our theme for 2022/23’s programme is ‘Assessing New Developments’. With this theme in mind, we are organising a series of events to contextualise and develop contemporary debates around central counterparties, clearing, settlement and the role of new technologies in FMI. For our next event, we are delighted to be hosting John Kiff, speaking on the topic of Central Bank Digital Currencies.

Prior to her recent retirement, Karen Banks was one of the most senior officials in the European Commission, serving as Deputy Director-General of the Commission Legal Service. In this special seminar, she will share her experience of working at the Commission and tell students about the different career opportunities that are available in EU law.