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LSE Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar Professor Dimitris Venieris is a visiting Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, LSE. He is also associate Professor of Social Policy at the University of Peloponnese. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries phone and [...]

LSE Department of Geography and Environment public lecture Professor Philip McCann, the special adviser to the European Commissioner for Regional Policy will discuss one of the great policy-making challenges of recent times.  About the speaker Philip McCann is special adviser to Johannes Hahn and professor of economics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Philip holds The [...]

Former BBC correspondent Angus Roxburgh talks about his new book on the Putin years and Russia’s relationship with the West. Drawing on exclusive interviews conducted for a new BBC documentary series, he describes Putin’s descent into authoritarianism, and also argues that the West threw away chances to bring Russia in from the cold, by failing [...]

British Government@LSE public lecture The current commissioner of the Met and former chief constable of Merseyside Police will speak about his hopes and aspirations in relation to the future of policing in the capital. Bernard Hogan-Howe is the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service. This event is free and open to all with no ticket [...]

CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS LECTURE SERIES 2011-12: About this lecture: At common law, medical practice is regulated by the criminal law in two main ways. First, by the law governing serious offences against the person or serious assault. Second, by the crime of maim or mayhem, which is a common law crime in some jurisdictions, and [...]

A Lunch Hour lecture  Since 1945, the language of human rights has acquired great potency and resonance. Human rights law plays an ever-greater role in national legal systems, and states are now expected to respect an ever-growing range of basic rights. However, a growing backlash can now be detected against the apparently ever-expanding scope of [...]

INAUGURAL LECTURE 2011-12 About this lecture: In recent decades, the discourse of human rights has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our public life, both within the law and beyond. Yet the nature of human rights, and the grounds on which we are entitled to assert their existence, remain matters of deep controversy. [...]

UCL’s Institute for Global Law / IUS Commune Lecture Series About the lecture The role of experts in the legal process has generally been examined from the standpoint of juridical capacity to distinguish reliable from unreliable knowledge. In an era of globalization it is more important to understand how courts evaluate the universal claims of [...]

Professor Adrian Vemeule (Harvard Law School) is one of most interesting and dynamic scholars of public law and constitutional theory now writing in the United States. His work combines deep and broad knowledge of legal and political theory, decision theory and organizational behavior, as well as careful attention to legal doctrine and the plethora of [...]

“Democracy after the War on Terror – To Promote or Not Promote Democracy: The Parochial World the West Inhabits” Dibyesh Anand, Associate Professor International Relations, University of Westminster The Centre for the Study of Political Community would like to invite you to the second event in a new seminar series on “Democracy after the War on Terror”. Dibyesh Anand will speak about the fallacies of [...]