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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  • Due Diligence on Trial: What can corporate sustainability due diligence regulation deliver for people, the climate and nature?

    MAR 1.09 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE, London, United Kingdom
    Public Lectures 

    Corporate sustainability due diligence has emerged as one of the most significant and contested regulatory innovations of the past decade. The EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), alongside national laws in France, Germany and beyond, legally required companies to identify, prevent and mitigate harmful human rights and environmental impacts across their operations and supply chain? 

  • 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

  • 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?