ELSA London

The 2013 Quain Lectures (UCL) The Quain Lectures were founded as an annual event in 2012, with Professor Phillip Pettit of Princeton University being the inaugural speaker. This years lecturer, Joseph Raz, is one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary legal and political philosophy. He will deliver three one hour lectures on [...]

Regulatory Scientific Institutions and the Dilemmas of Hybrid Authority The main objective of this talk is to develop a better understanding of the structure of transnational regulatory scientific institutions (RSIs). We argue that the hybrid political-legal-epistemic nature of RSIs creates a continual tension between their hierarchical and policy-driven structure and the paradigms of objectivity, parallelism [...]

About the Speaker Eduardo Pérez Motta, International Competition Network Chair, President, Federal Competition Commission, Mexico. Eduardo Pérez Motta was appointed Chair of the ICN last year. In 2004 he became President Mexico’s Federal Commission on Competition (CFC). Before that, Pérez Motta was Mexico’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, in charge of preparing the Doha Ministerial Conference [...]

This lecture provides a special opportunity to hear from Judge Sir Kenneth Keith, a member of the International Court of Justice. There will also be time for questions at the end of the lecture. Judge Keith was elected to the ICJ, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, in 2006 after a distinguished career [...]

- from the employee’s freedom to blow the whistle to the lawyer’s duty to report suspicions about clients in secret ‘Whistle-blowing’ has become a part of the language of England since it was imported from the US in the 1970s (when someone on a Sunday paper asked if it meant ‘folk music in America?’). It [...]

… an international law perspective Ingrid Gubbay is currently head of Human Rights and Environmental Law in the claimant only law firm Hausfeld & Co LLP. Her role includes advising on various aspects of international and governing law issues on global cases and investigations being conducted in house, including in competition law. As a specialist claimant [...]

Do GATT Articles XV:4 and XV:9(a) Open the Door for Non-Violation Nullification or Impairment Complaints? Over the recent years, there has been much academic debate on the extent to which contested exchange rate practices, such as the maintenance of an undervalued real exchange rate, could be challenged successfully under WTO law, most notably as a [...]

Miroslav Lajčák is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, a position he has held since April 2012. Prior to this he held a series of senior diplomatic postings including managing director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service (Dec 2010-April 2012); High Representative/European Union special representative for [...]

The LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme is a regular series of research seminars aimed at bringing research and scholarship by academics, policy professionals and other South Eastern Europe experts to a wider audience. Dr Collantes Celador is Lecturer in International Security; Course Director for the MA in International Politics at University of City.  Tobias Flessenkemper is [...]

A King’s College Centre of European Law (CEL) event Lecture with Marc van der Woude, Judge, General Court of the European Union. Born 1960; law degree (University of Groningen, 1983); studies at the College of Europe (1983-84); Assistant Lecturer at the College of Europe (1984-86); Lecturer at Leiden University (1986-87); Rapporteur in the Directorate-General for [...]