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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  • Substantive principles of public law: what happened after 1987?

    MAR 1.04 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE, London
    Public Lectures 

    The lecture examines how public law has evolved since Lester and Jowell’s 1987 article challenged the view that it concerns only procedure, not substance. It explores developments in principles such as legitimate expectations, human rights, equality, policy conformity, and the shift toward proportionality and reasonableness in judicial review.
     
    Speaker: Lord Justice Rabinder Singh Chair: Professor Jo Murkens

  • Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism – book talk by Thea Riofrancos, followed by a discussion by Christine Schwöbel-Patel

    Thai Theatre Lower ground floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, United Kingdom
    Public Lectures 

    Will green capitalism save us from the climate crisis? ‘Clean' technologies and renewable energy are certainly growing sites of capitalist investment, with government policies playing a key role in making these sectors profitable. But the supply chains that produce the technologies pose vexing dilemmas for the energy transition.
     
    Speakers: Thea Riofrancos and Christine Schwöbel-Patel

  • Mass media, justice and me: a victim’s perspective

    Sheikh Zayed Theatre Lower ground, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE, United Kingdom
    Public Lectures 

    Step into the lives of those whose pursuit of justice collided with the power of the press. This thought-provoking event brings together victims, legal experts, media voices and policymakers to explore how mass media can illuminate and distort the path to justice.
     
    Speakers: Jo Hamilton, Martin Hibbert, Neil Hudgell, Nicola Lacey, Janet Street-PorterChair: Coretta Phillips

  • Socio-Legal Hub Open Lecture: Why I Changed My Mind (POSTPONED)

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

    The academy ideally seeks to sustain an intellectual space for debate, discussion, and critique, where individuals are encouraged to continually question and refine their worldviews.
     
    Speakers: Professor Susanne Baer, Professor Emily Jackson, Professor Nicola Lacey Chair: Dr Nafay Choudhury

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

    MAR 2.08 Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, LSE
    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? 

  • Human Rights, Sustainable Development and the Law – Biennial Global Online Symposium

    Online event
    Public Lectures 

    The Sustainable Governance Theme at the Global School of Sustainability is co-sponsoring the Human Rights, Sustainable Development & the Law Biennial Global Online Symposium. Bringing together leading academics, legal practitioners and policymakers, the event will explore the role of law and governance in advancing human rights and sustainable development through interdisciplinary dialogue and international collaboration.