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2016/17 Contents 2 FACULTY INSIGHTS 3 Creating Sustainable Change: my review ALUMNI 74 3 of the 2015/16 Law Society Criminal Justice, Gender, and the 44 Inside the LSE Lawyers’ Alumni Group 3 British Museum: an interview with LLB, LLM and MSc Prizes 74 Professor Nicola Lacey 47 Donations A Minute in the Mind of LSE in the Hague 78 10 Dr Meredith Rossner 48 Criminal Justice, Gender, and the Sarah Lee: from NZ to UK Nine months in the International 12 50 Court of Justice LSE Ratio is published by LSE Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7688 British Museum: an interview with Distinguished Doctors of Email: [email protected] PHD PROFILES 51 Executive Editor: Bradley Barlow 14 LSE Law General Editor: Jo Murkens Contributing Editors: Devika Hovell, Paul MacMahon, Chris Thomas Staff Updates PhD Completions Art and design: Jonathan Ing, LSE Design Unit Professor Nicola Lacey 51 Photography: Guy Jordan and Nigel Stead, LSE School Photographer 20 Illustrations: Jonathan Ing, LSE Design Unit Paul MacMahon, Assistant Professor of Law New Books Understanding the Power Dynamics LSE holds the dual status of an exempt charity under Section 2 of the Charities 22 52 of Climate Change Act 1993 (as a constituent part of the University of London), and a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Act 1985 (Registration no. 70527). Copyright in editorial matter and in the magazine as a whole belongs to The Google Saga LSE ©2016. 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Limitless Pro Bono: Lawyers Not Yet Over the Rainbow: Barriers to 34 without Borders at LSE 64 LGBT+ Equality in the Legal Profession Emerging from the Ruckus: the Confronting Gender Inequality 36 Washington Ireland Program 66 The Continued Growth of The Trial of the Juntas: rewriting the 38 Pro Bono Matters 68 history of international criminal law LSE-Featherstone Sexual Orientation Legal Biography Project 40 and Gender Identity Moot: the UK’s first 70 ever LGBT mooting competition Forthcoming Events LSE Jessup Success 72 42 for Second Year Running 4 5 Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Intriguing – we will watch that space! Since 2013, you What did the Report conclude? and scholarship, isn’t it? When I studied for my degree at UCL in the have held the title of School Professor of Law, Gender late 1970s, you could graduate without any knowledge of another Social Policy at LSE. Niki held a Chair in Criminal Law NL: The Report ranges across four areas – law, the economy, the and Social Policy at LSE. What’s the advantage of being political sphere and the media – and dealt with four themes cutting system other than Roman law, and those who, like me, chose to study and Criminal Theory in LSE Law from 1998 to 2010. attached to three different departments? across those sectors: rights and the worth of rights; power and its international law or – a period curiosity – socialist legal systems, were After a three-year hiatus at Oxford, she returned to NL: As a School Professor (and, I’m sorry to say, the only woman distribution; gendered violence; and work-life balance. So, as you regarded as exhibiting a taste for the exotic! Today, I am struck by how in that role), my brief is to encourage interdisciplinary initiatives at can imagine, its conclusions are wide-ranging. Readers who are many of our department research seminars tackle multi- or cross- LSE in 2013. Last year, she received the rare honour LSE. So it is really illuminating to be a part of two departments as interested in the detail might like to have a look at the Commission’s jurisdictional issues, and I know that the same is true of our curriculum. of being appointed a Trustee of the British Museum. In well as my “home” discipline of law, and particularly so because website at lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute/research/commission/home.aspx. the Social Policy Department (which hosts the Mannheim Centre But one headline conclusion – and one of our most controversial Does growing economic inequality tend to exacerbate conversation with Paul MacMahon, she speaks about for Criminology) and the Gender Institute are themselves multi- findings – was that, in a number of spheres, the evidence suggests gender inequality? the many facets of her work. disciplinary units. I have also learned a lot about how differently that change is unlikely to occur without a real commitment to targets, NL: The answer is hugely context dependent. In some areas, it is a departments work at LSE. The Gender Institute, albeit multi- and even to quotas (though we acknowledge both the legal and the very strong “yes”; for example, the evidence we gathered for our We have a great deal to discuss, but let’s start with a disciplinary, is closely integrated, in part doubtless because of its political obstacles to the latter). Conversely, we found that in several Commission Report showed that women and children have been recent development. How does a feminist legal theorist relatively small size, but also because of a strong sense of shared – particularly legal – areas, existing provisions at both national and disproportionately losers from austerity policy in this country. And with a special interest in criminal justice become a intellectual/political purpose. Law and Social Policy are comparable international level are not necessarily being effectively exploited. Key it stands to reason that where the status quo is one of inequality to Trustee of the British Museum? in size but operate in quite different ways, with Social Policy divided examples include the public sector equality the economic disadvantage of women, Nicola Lacey: The short answer is, “Sheer good luck”! A slightly into specialist groupings for a significant number of purposes, and duty and other positive action provisions and in which women continue to bear a longer response is that each of the national “Learned Societies” Law thus far preserving a unitary structure. So I have been able to in the Equality Act 2010 and international “In a world of constant flows of disproportionate share of the sort of caring makes a nomination, and I was put forward by the British Academy. observe the advantages and disadvantages of these different forms conventions such as the Convention on the people, capital, ideas, images, goods, labour for which support is being rapidly I suspect that the fact that a woman lawyer trustee – also a feminist of organisation – both in terms of internal cohesiveness and in terms Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination withdrawn by government policies, a period lawyer as it happens – had recently stepped down made the Trustees of capacity to reach out to other units in the School. One slight against Women. it makes little sense to confine one’s of retrenchment in public spending is almost think that I might fill a gap. downside has been the consequent size of my email inbox! attention exclusively to certain to affect women particularly badly. You’re also involved in LSE’s new particular areas” Moreover, public spending cuts are having a How might the British Museum hope to benefit from You were the co-director of LSE’s Gender Commission, cross-disciplinary International devastating effect in other policy areas, with someone with your background? which published its Report last year. How did the Inequalities Institute. Why take an a key importance for women and children, Commission fit with your previous scholarly work? NL: Well, hopefully the Museum won’t be in need of my criminal international perspective on inequality? notably the provision of accommodation and support for victims of justice skills…! But seriously, at my informal interview with the NL: I have worked on both feminist theory and gender issues, NL: There are several reasons for looking at inequality both domestic violence. Director and the Chair of Trustees, I was asked to consider how the particularly in criminal law, throughout my career. I have also tried to internationally and comparatively. First, if we confine our attention to But in other ways, the answer is a qualified “no”. This is because a Museum can most effectively develop its research programmes and alternate, in my research programme, between “purely” academic our own country, we can easily miss issues of real significance: status lot of the huge economic restructuring in rich democracies of the last raise research funding.