Public lectures already held at LSE Law in 2019/20 include:
4 September, 2019
Executive LLM Talks: How did Islamic finance principles prosper under English law?
The Department of Law, in partnership with the Executive LLM Alumni Association, is pleased to welcome Lord Sheikh, Rupert Reed QC and Dr Marizah Minhat to the LSE to give talks on how Islamic finance principles prosper under English Law.
23 September 2019
'An idea of Law School': the place of a transformative legal education in India
Speakers: Murali Neelakantan, Professor Prabha Kotiswaran, Professor Dev Gangjee, Professor Ken Shadlen
Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty
2 October 2019
Symposium to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Francisco Orrego Vicuña
Download a copy of the preliminary programme here
8 October 2019
Ending Wars and Making Peace: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 re-examined
Speaker: Professor Margaret MacMillan
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson
14 October 2019
Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev
Speakers: Professor Oren Yiftachel; Professor Sandy Kedar; Dena Qaddumi; Dr Romola Sanyal
Chair: Dr Joseph Spooner
15 October 2019
Veiled Threats: prevent, populism and patriarchy
Speakers: Dr Naaz Rashid (University of Sussex), author of Veiled Threats (Policy Press, 2016); Fatima Ahdash (LSE Law)
Chair: Dr Suki Ali (LSE Sociology)
16 October 2019
Legal and Political Theory Forum
‘Constitutionalising the Political Party’
Speaker: Tarun Khaitan (Melbourne & Oxford)
23 October 2019
Book launch:
Bankruptcy: the Case for Relief in an Economy of Debt
Speakers: Professor Niamh Moloney, Professor Iain Ramsay, Dr Joseph Spooner
24 October, 2019
2019 London Review of International Law Annual Lecture: Professor Danny Dorling
'From Apology to Equality: making reparations for the harm done and the damage to come.'
25 October 2019
Global Tax Symposium
The GTS aims to offer young researchers and more experienced scholars a forum where to discuss five papers every year in different cities on all continents. Each paper is discussed by an interdisciplinary and intercontinental panel whose members are leading tax academics, administrators, policymakers, and practitioners.
30 October 2019
The View from the Bench: in conversation with Supreme Court Justice, Lady Black of Derwent
4 November 2019
The Influence of Cultural Differences in International Mediation
Speakers: Dr Elina Mereminskaya; Robert S. Pé and Eve Pienaar
Chair: Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
5 November 2019
Foreclosed: Mortgage Servicing and the Hidden Architecture of Homeownership in America
Speaker: Professor Chris Odinet
Chair: Dr Joesph Spooner, LSE
6 November 2019
Data and Democracy: in conversation with the Information Comissioners
Speakers: Elizabeth Denham and Dr Jay Fedorak with Dr Orla Lynskey & Professor Andrew Murray, LSE
6 November 2019
Women, Reproductive Rights and the Law: A conversation between judges and academics
Speakers: Deidre Fottrell QC; Dame Lucy Theis QC; Professor Emily Jackson
8 November 2019
Legal and Political Theory Forum: Special Event
‘Hermann Heller on Sovereignty’
Speakers: David Dyzenhaus (Toronto), Jens Meierhenrich (LSE IR), Carmen Pavel (KCL), Lucia Rubinelli (Cambridge), Lars Vinx (Cambridge) and Mike Wilkinson (LSE Law)
9 November 2019
Conference:
State Accountability under Private, Public and International Law
The accountability of states for unlawful actions they commit or wrongful losses they inflict presents theoretical and practical challenges. This conference will examine the contested concept of state accountability from three distinct perspectives: private law, public law, and international law.
13 November 2019
Code and Conduct: The Future of Legal Professions
Advances in IT have had a significant impact on lawyering and law. How can we harness the transformative power of digitalisation without sacrificing law’s humanity?
Speakers: Christina Blacklaws; Professor Veerle Heyvaert (LSE); Dr Orla Lynskey (LSE); Dr Eva Micheler (LSE); Lord Reed; Professor Richard Susskind, OB
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Sifting the Evidence: a lawyer's perspective on the challenges and joys of writing historical biographies
Speaker: Dame Sara Cockerill
27 November 2019
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Reconciling Common Schooling and Faith-Based Exemptions
Speaker: Philip Cook (Edinburgh)
4 December 2019
Election Debate on Tax Policy
Panel event - part of the LSE Law Taxation Seminar Series
30 January 2020
‘Reasonableness’: Limits in Extraterritorial Regulation
A lecture with Visiting Professor Hannah Buxbaum who will examine U.S. foreign relations law and the diminishing relevance of international law within the U.S. legal order. Chair: Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp
6 February 2020
LSE Law Roundtable on Extraterritoriality
A discussion with Visiting Professor Hannah Buxbaum, Department of Law Faculty, PhD students and invited guests.
11 February 2020
Special LSE Taxation Seminar
Still Unequal: Gender, Tax and Welfare in Australia
LSE Visting Professor Miranda Stewart with special guests Tasneem Kadiri and Fran Bennett
17 February 2020
LSE Taxation Seminar
Equilibria, Layering and Near Misses: How can we understand BEPS policy changes in international and domestic tax law?
Speaker: LSE Visting Professor Miranda Stewart
Chair: Dr Ian Roxan
22 February 2020
LSE Pro Bono Division: Legal Aid Conference
5 March 2020
A Multilateral Investment Court: A rise for international adjudication or an exercise in futility?
Join three experts as they discuss the EU's proposed creation of a Multilateral Investment Court
Chair: Dr Theresa Squatrito
Listen to the podcast here
6 March 2020
2020 LCIA-LSE Annual Arbitration Debate
'Procedure and Evidence: Common v Civil Law'
Opponents: Wendy Miles QC & Prof Dr Stefan Kröll
Moderator: Paula Hodges QC
6 March 2020
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Sir Edward Fry: law, science and religion
Speaker: Professor Catharine MacMillan (King’s College, London)
9 March 2020
LSE Taxation Seminar: Taxation of the Digital Economy: Towards a new world tax order?
Join the Department of Law for a taxation seminar on the digital economy. This Seminar will discuss these proposals in the context of the BEPS Project and the wider international tax system to ask: Are we moving towards a new world tax order, and how are we doing so?
10 March 2020
LSE Presents: The People vs Social Science
Join the Department of Law, the Department of Economics, the School of Public Policy and STICERD for an informative, lively and interactive examination of the role of the social sciences in our communities.
11 March 2020
Are There Global Obligations to Assist in the Realization of Socio-Economic Rights?
Join us for a lecture with Dr Elena Pribytkova on global obligations to assist as human rights obligations
Chair: Dr Margot E Salomon
23 June 2020
Lay Participation in Criminal Proceedings - Seminar 1
Speakers: Jodie Blackstock, Professor Penny Cooper, Phil Bowen, Rabah Kherbane
The first seminar in a series bringing together academics, practitioners, policymakers, and other interested individuals to discuss the role and experiences of lay participants in criminal proceedings, and encourage critical analysis of the concept of participation.
30 June 2020
Lay Participation in Criminal Proceedings - Seminar 2
Speakers: Abimbola Johnson, Dr Samantha Fairclough, Catherine Hinwood, Joanne Morrison, John Taggart
The second seminar in a series bringing together academics, practitioners, policymakers, and other interested individuals to discuss the role and experiences of lay participants in criminal proceedings, and encourage critical analysis of the concept of participation.
POSTPONED TO ACADEMIC YEAR 20/21
13 March 2020
The Rape Audit: How society is failing victims of sexual violence
Marking International Women's Day 2020 with a timely discussion on the human, social and forensic challenges of rape in society
Chair: Baroness Shami Chakrabarti
16 March 2020
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Lord Walter Phillimore: Churchman and Lawyer
Speaker: Dr Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)
8 June 2020
COVID-19 and LNG Markets and Contracts
Speakers: Professor Jonathan Stern, Professor Paul Griffin, Professor Kim Talus