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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Central Bank Digital Currencies

Online event

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.

Convene events are organised for members of the LSE community.

Global discord

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Sir Paul Tucker (Harvard)

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.

Royal law

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Robert Craig (Bristol)

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.

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.

Uncertainties of Tax, Rent and Risk

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

Well-being in the world

Moot Court Room 7th Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Grégoire Webber (Queens)

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.

Searching for What (All) Common Law Jurisdictions Have in Common

PAR 1.02 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London

What would a truly global picture of the common law look like? Once we move beyond just the most familiar jurisdictions, and adopt a comparative approach that tries to take in all common law jurisdictions found around the world, what sorts of features will emerge as genuinely shared and significant, and which are more likely to fall away? 

Wartime for the planet

NAB 5.17 New Academic Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE, London
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.

The regulation of Financial Market Infrastructure in the fintech era

The Box 5th Floor of Pethick Lawrence House

We are delighted to be discussing the future of FMI regulation in light of recent developments in crypto-asset infrastructure with keynote speaker, CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson, and a distinguished panel: Maggie Sklar and Dr David Murphy, chaired by Professor Jo Braithwaite.

Working inside the EU legal system: A view from the European Commission

Student Common Room, 5th floor, New Academic Building New Academic Building

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. 

Convene events are organised for members of the LSE community.