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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The Underworlds Series: Debt as Site of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on debt as site of global dis/ordering.
Rather than concentrating only on how (sovereign) debt is formally recognised or regulated in international law, this event aims to foreground the material patterns of global dis/ordering that debt generates.
 
Speakers: Vasuki Nesiah and Kojo Koramr

The Underworlds Series: The Commons as Sites of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, this event engages with the ‘commons’ as sites of global dis/ordering.
Rather than focusing strictly on how the commons are formally (mis)recognised or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the diverging modes of dis/ordering that practices of commoning can produce.
 
Speakers: Elsa Noterman and Isabel Feichtner

Book group: The purpose of the company (Session 1)

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom

Visiting Professor in Practice Simon Witney will lead a series of three discussions on two books that deal with this question of corporate purpose in very different ways.
 
Speaker: Simon Witney

Book group: The purpose of the company (Session 2)

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom

Visiting Professor in Practice Simon Witney will lead a series of three discussions on two books that deal with this question of corporate purpose in very different ways.
 
Speaker: Simon Witney

The Underworlds Series: Frontier(s) as Sites of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, the event focuses on frontiers as sites of global dis/ordering. It foregrounds how frontier spaces are legally, materially, and discursively produced and what kinds of activity this production enables and forecloses.
 
Speakers: Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Cait Storr

Behavioral Ethics, Corporations & Trust

MAR 2.06 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE, United Kingdom

The talk will discuss behavioral ethics, compliance and trust, both with regard to individuals and to corporations. It will combine insights from two books. The first is the Law of Good People (CUP 2018) and the second one Can we Trust the Public (CUP 2024)
 
Speaker: Yuval Feldman

Book group: The purpose of the company (Session 3)

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, London, United Kingdom

Visiting Professor in Practice Simon Witney will lead a series of three discussions on two books that deal with this question of corporate purpose in very different ways.
 
Speaker: Simon Witney

The Underworlds Series: Waste as Site of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, the event focuses on waste as a site of global dis/ordering.
Rather than concentrating only on how waste is defined or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that thinking through waste can reveal and generate.
 
Speakers: Heather Davis and Michael Hennessy Picard

The Underworlds Series: Hope as Site of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on hope as a site of global dis/ordering.
Moving beyond modernist modes of seeing and ordering the world – ways of governing often entangled with sentimental tropes of liberal hope.
 
Speakers: Claire Colebrook and David Chandler

The Underworlds Series: The Wild / Feral as Site of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, this event engages with the wild / feral as a site of global dis/ordering. Rather than focusing only on how wildlife is formally recognised or regulated in (international) law, the event foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that the ‘wild’
 
Speakers: Irus Braverman and Floris De Witte

The Underworlds Series: The Vessel as Site of Global Dis/Ordering

Online event

As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on vessels as sites of global dis/ordering.
The event will reflect on the patterns and images of global dis/ordering that thinking through the multiple meanings, colonial histories, and afterlives of the ‘vessel’ reveals.
 
Speakers: Rinaldo Walcott and Itamar Mann