Department of Law

Contributor(s): Professor David Kershaw (Director), Dr Margot Salomon, ELLM Students | The following video has been produced to promote the Executive Master of Laws Programme offered by the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Executive LLM programme is a part-time degree for working professionals.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): PGT Students | Watch students describe their experience of the PGT programmes at LSE. LSE Law offers 3 one year postgraduate programmes: LLM, MSc in Law & Accounting and MSc in Law, Anthropology & Society.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): LSE LLB Students | Watch students describe their experience of the LLB programme at LSE. The LLB is a three year undergraduate law degree.

Contributor(s): Professor Gregory Shaffer | Professor Shaffer will address the creation, operation and decline of transnational legal orders across areas of life that transcend the nation state.

Contributor(s): Professor Robert Howse | The debate over whether the United States should proceed with the Iran nuclear agreement has been one of the most intense foreign policy controversies in America in recent history, engaging on one side or the other much of the country's political, foreign policy and intellectual elites. It has overshadowed but also influenced other issues such as the best approach to the Syria conflict for example, and even the dangers of nuclear proliferation more generally. The debate brought to national prominence Senator Tom Cotton, an ideological neoconservative and prodigy of notorious Iraq-War -Straussians such as William Kristol. Rob Howse, whose recent book Leo Strauss Man of Peace questions the links between Straussian thought and neocon foreign policy thinking, and who serves on a task force led by former US Senators Lieberman and Kyle to develop bipartisan foreign policy principles, will examine the implications of the Iran debate for the future. Are Americans irreconcilably divided on fundamentals such as justification for unilateral use of force, the role of law and multilateral diplomacy in international affairs, and American "exceptionalism" – or might a new kind of doctrine might emerge after reflecting on the Iran debate, one capable of underpinning bipartisan dialogue and ultimately enabling America to speak credibly to the world with one voice?

Contributor(s): Robert Craig, Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Francesca Klug, Dr Mara Malagodi | What’s so great about the Magna Carta? In all the frenzy of celebration, LSE Law academics will sound a few warnings against hype. Robert Craig is teacher of Jurisprudence and Public Law at LSE. Conor Gearty is Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE. Francesca Klug is Professorial Research Fellow in LSE Law. Mara Malagodi is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in LSE Law.

Contributor(s): Douglas Kysar | Frustrated with the pace of ongoing climate change policy negotiations, commentators and activists have increasingly called for resort to the courts to establish baseline principles of responsibility for harms caused or exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change. Such calls have targeted domestic courts and the common law of property and torts as well as international tribunals and the customary international law of transboundary harm. In both the domestic and international cases, advocates seek to position climate change as a problem best addressed through principles of law and justice, rather than merely politics and power. They hope to begin a process whereby reducing the threat of climate change comes to be seen as a moral and legal responsibility of dominant actors, rather than merely a gesture of charity toward weak and distant neighbours. This LSE Law (@LSELaw) lecture will provide an overview of these efforts and an assessment of whether, and how far, they might succeed. Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, and risk regulation. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998, where he served on the student board of advisors. He has published articles on a wide array of environmental law and tort law topics, and is co-author of a leading casebook, The Torts Process, with James A. Henderson, Jr., Richard N. Pearson & John A. Siliciano. His recent book, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (YUP 2010), seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development. Dr Veerle Heyvaert (@vmlheyvaert) is Associate Professor (Reader) of Law at LSE.