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Interview with Jeremy Horder, the new Head of LSE Law LSE Law ranked first among UK law schools Damian Chalmers on An Open Europe Contents 2 3 FACULTY INSIGHTS 3 LLM Graduate Laila Hamzi Selected for Coveted ICJ Traineeship Lunch with the Editor 37 3 Interview with Jeremy Horder, LSE Wins Jessup Cup 2015 Head of Department, LSE Law 38 Number 1, Again! Taylor Wessing 8 LSE Law’s REF results 40 Commercial Challenge An Open Europe: interview LLB and LLM Prizes 10 with Damian Chalmers 42 One minute in the mind of... 16 Veerle Heyvaert PHD PROFILES 44 Lewina Coote: On Secret Justice 18 Finance Officer... and the 44 Department’s “Butterfly” Constituent power and social Obituary: 46 justice in postcolonial India: 20 Mike Redmayne my intellectual journey so far Appointments, Tackling Your Topic 24 Awards and Staff Changes 50 and Yourself New books The Lake Home

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Hugh Collins, Martin Loughlin and Emily Jackson – who have among other things led LSE Law twice to RAE/REF success. Are you ready for the job? Jeremy Horder: One of the things you them, for instance, whereas those on learn about scholarly life is that whatever benefit are hardly likely to do that. you do you always have to negotiate with “One of the things you learn I am also doing, for the first time on people far smarter than yourself. If you my own, a new edition of Ashworth about scholarly life is that have any pretentions to being better or 4 and Horder’s Principles of Criminal 5 better informed or superior then you whatever you do you always Law, adding a historical chapter as well are doomed to failure. I’ve become as redoing the existing chapters. This have to negotiate with people accustomed to this over a period of time. needs to be done by the end of the So that in itself won’t be a problem. But far smarter than yourself.” summer – so I had better get my in a broader sense it is fantastic to be skates on! working with such great scholars. The quality of the place is such that it almost Your scholarship is somewhat unusual deterred me from a applying for the in that it combines research into be guilty of murder whether or not position of a Law Professor here! contemporary English criminal law – you intended the death. That rule I including law reform, about which more attributed to a mistake, basically, made We’ll talk in more detail later about your in a moment – with a real interest in the by Lord Coke in his Institutes, where new role. But before that, I’d like to history of the subject. he confused two different cases and concentrate on your background came up with the rule. As a result of and interests, starting with your JH: Yes, that’s right. In fact, I’ve just this error, not only were hundreds of research. What are you working on completed something on corruption people executed in this country on the at the moment? and misconduct in the public office in back of the rule, but of course the rule the late eighteenth century. Most of was also exported to the United States JH: I’ve just given a Current Legal it is purely historical, but it includes where they continue to execute people Problems lecture at University College a final section which compares and under it. London on the subject of benefit contrasts attitudes towards state assets, offending – basically about how the so to speak, that were common in Speaking of your time as a Law state treats people on benefits who the eighteenth century compared to Commissioner, you were there for are trying to make their way through the attitudes on display in the recent five years, I believe. I’m interested in lots of different claims. The problem Parliamentary expenses scandal. hearing about your experience in that is that there are a lot of offences now, Essentially the difference is that role. What major projects did you work applying to all walks of life, concerned modern politicians are very aware about on while you were at the Commission? with the failure to provide the proper what they are meant to say in public. So And what did you achieve while you information. A very large bulk of English when they behave in an inappropriate were there? criminal law is comprised of these kinds way, there is then a kind of hypocrisy JH: What you achieve is very often of offences. The theory that I tested – a difference between their words a matter of chance at the Law out – it’s commonsense in a way – is and their behaviour – whereas in Commission. Sometimes your projects that the less well-educated you are, or the eighteenth century there wasn’t only come through long after you if you’ve got problems with disability or really that gap because people were leave. There’s the example of the other problems, it is going to be harder less concerned about pretending to Commissioners who recommended for you to fill in these forms and to be one thing and being another; they in 1975 that blasphemy should be get the information right. This will be essentially just did and said what abolished as a crime, a proposal that particularly true in the area of benefit they thought. didn’t come through for about 30 offences, where Government has been years. While I was there, the main Do you find generally that your cracking down very hard on what they task we had was to work on the law of historical work impacts on or influences take to be benefit abuse. So the lecture homicide, murder in particular, and your study of the criminal law today? was really about whether we need a defences to murder, which is an area different type of regulatory approach JH: It can do, certainly. When I was at I had previously written about. Here depending on what the target audience the Law Commission we did a historical we were partially successful, in the is, if you like. Taxpayers, for example: study of what was called the “felony sense that there was some revision of perhaps we can expect a bit more of murder rule”, whereby if you kill the defences, some of it based on Law them in terms of what they can put into someone in the course of any crime of Commission recommendations. But this. They can employ advisers to help any seriousness you would automatically probably the most successful project arose as a result of political changes of Do you think it is important for law I was going to ask you more directly You were Chair of the Oxford Law have gone fully down this road. They They also know that universities game circumstance, and that was our work academics to take part in public debate about your experience at other Faculty for some time. What are you have a professional Dean whose job it the system, they put their best foot on bribery. The whole thing was pretty on the law, and to attempt to influence in institutions besides LSE, notably Oxford able to draw on those experiences as is to work with the Centre to run the forward and so on, which can make speedily done. We first got a reference one way or another the future direction and King’s College London. What are Head of LSE Law? Law School in a profitable and modern the tables misleading. So in one sense to do the project in 2006, a year after I of the law? the distinctive qualities of the three way. He spends a lot of his time flying I shrug my shoulders and don’t take 6 JH: The first rule of governing is 7 had started. We reported in 2008 and law schools? around the world seeing potential them as an indicator of how well we are JH: It is. The importance of scholars “consult, consult, consult”. It is a truism the legislation was on the statute book recruits and donors. doing at any one time. contributing to public debate is JH: This may sound like a diplomatic I know. But I tend to get easily enthused by 2010, which was, most unusually, a enormous. It is not just a matter of answer, but actually they all have by some ideas, so this is something I One of the things I don’t like about However, in my experience league self-contained Act (the Bribery tables are taken very seriously by talking to the press when they are trying their differing strengths. You have to have to remind myself about constantly. that model is that I don’t think that it is Act 2010). central governing institutions within to find their way through an issue, but remember, for a start, that Oxford Law And at LSE there are many people with desirable for a Dean to have the power universities. So doing well may improve You had written, before your time with also to civil servants and others who may is huge. I think there are about 130 wide experience of what works and what over hire and fire, and in particular the Dean should not have a particular your bargaining power as a department the Commission, about the politics have nowhere else to turn for detailed or 140 members of staff. It’s a global doesn’t work. of law reform. Did your experience information and guidance than scholars enterprise in many respects that has say in promotion. Why not? Because within the university or school as a as a Law Commissioner inform your – particularly the empirical studies which changed massively over the last thirty It is also important to remember it poisons the atmosphere, essentially. whole. A lot hangs on it internally, understanding of that process? government is unable to do effectively. years. And the presence of the colleges that each person’s problem is very If you are beholden to the Head of even if we don’t worry about it too But also the theoretical work should makes it a very devolved structure, one important to them, even though within Department, that makes for an awkward much externally. JH: Very much so. I did change my not be ignored. A lot of that is going to in which there is not that much central the great scheme of things it may not relationship. And it gives people a real attitude quite significantly. The Law What about the student experience be relevant, it can provide a framework direction. The model is an unusual one be. People are entitled, I think, not fear of being different, or an outsider. at LSE Law? On the whole it’s pretty Commission is essentially a consultative in which civil servants and others can but it does work in its own way. And always to have you say that in the great You should be free to be who you positive. But how can we make it body. It’s not like a scholarly body in project or put forward proposals. there is no point in denying that it is an scheme of things your problem is not are, even if that means that you don’t even better? that way. You can have your own opinion excellent institution that does very good all that significant, given all the other particularly get on with the Head of as a scholar and stick to it for forty years, Scholars can sometimes get upset when JH: One of the things I’ve been hugely work on a big scale. things I have to do. Even if that’s true, Department. So, in that sense, the even if everyone else disagrees with it, what seems to them to be encouraged impressed by here is how much more people deserve to be treated better. model that is run here, with a Head of and you can still be regarded very highly gets nowhere in the end. But you King’s Law School is not as big as time we can make for students by It’s hard always to do this of course, Department with certain powers but not as a scholar. At the Law Commission we just have to accept that the world of Oxford, but a little bigger than LSE having a very good staff/student ratio. and people make mountains out of others, and where there are collective have to consult widely and ensure that law reform is just not the same as the Law. It shares with Oxford structurally Although LSE students don’t necessarily molehills in all walks of life, not just the decisions about promotion, strikes our minds remain open. One of the scholarly world. There is always room an interesting feature in that because realise this themselves, their experience scholarly world, but it’s a tremendously perhaps a better balance. things that made most impact on me was in scholarship for work that is of no both have science departments the here is qualitatively much better than at important principle to remember if the process of consulting with lay people practical value. And I’ve always been a priorities of the universities are rather What do you think about tables and other institutions as a result. However, you’re running any kind of institution. who had formed pressure groups or really strong supporter of that idea, of different from LSE’s. One of LSE’s great league rankings? We often do well in having said that, it is clear that we do advantages is that it can be much more these. I mentioned the really excellent other kinds of organisations to reform ideas for ideas’ sake. But a lot of what How has the role of Head of need to work on feedback, particularly close-knit, since all its departments are REF result earlier. We’re apparently the law – this process impressed on me we do as lawyers actually is relevant Department changed given the big for first and second year students. But in a broad sense humanities and social now 4th best in the country if you how important it is for law reform to and important. growth that has occurred over the last when doing so we must understand that sciences. King’s aspires to be and is a believe the Complete University Guide. engage with the ordinary public, who 10-20 years? Do British law schools now feedback doesn’t necessarily mean just You’ve been at LSE Law for two years very modern law school a bit on the 3rd if you take The Telegraph and setting and marking more essays. We don’t have legal training but may have need a different management structure, now. What’s it been like? lines of a science department, by which 5th if you trust The Guardian. And need also some innovative solutions as strong and important views about along the lines perhaps of an American I mean that it is very concerned with according to the QS World Universities and we need to experiment more with the law as anyone else. Although legal JH: Fantastic. It is a very, very good law school Dean? fundraising and keeping up with the rankings, we’re the 7th best law school knowledge adds a layer of technicality working environment. It really is. different types of feedback. internationalisation of its student body. JH: This is perhaps the most important in the world. Do you care about any of and interconnectedness to reform, I’ve even started thinking a bit more I also think that the remedy to some question facing British law schools these? And to what extent should they when you strip that away the underlying economically when I look at problems, I think the lessons for LSE have more extent lies in students’ own hands. I today. At the end of my term as Chair affect us and what we do? opinions could be held by anyone in the whether or not that’s a good thing or to do with the relationship with the have been surprised by how little my of the Oxford Law Faculty, I wrote nearest pub, very often. From the ‘70s to a bad thing I’m not sure! In a sense, it central school authorities. At KCL there JH: Well, I care a bit. I don’t care much tutees come and knock on my door or the ‘90s, law reform was very much seen takes me back to when I was at Oxford. is a tremendously good central team, a long paper for the Faculty Board about what they say to the outside world email me. I think the onus is on them as the domain of experts. But I think It is not as elitist or complacent as the especially in terms of external relations arguing that the old model was no because I think that every intelligent to work the system that is already in there is a risk that if you maintain that Oxford I joined in the 1980s, that’s for and fundraising. They enthuse everyone longer tenable, and that they needed person understands that there’s only place a little harder. approach, even in controversial areas, sure. But in some ways it still values the – the scholars included – about the a professional Dean who could be the a small percentage difference, often Thank you very much, Jeremy. that you may lose legitimacy because you small scale, the personal touch and importance of their work. There is no outward face of the Faculty, dealing miniscule and statistically insignificant, And good luck! haven’t consulted widely enough. I think contact between staff and students. A sense of an ‘us and them’ culture about with the central university, their between top law schools. So whether that’s better understood now, not only lot is made of that here. And it is their activities, and they are a pleasure outward links, their fundraising and so you come 3rd or 5th in a particular by the Law Commission but also something that when I moved away to work with. I feel that LSE has a long forth. The paper was voted down, but table doesn’t make much difference, by Government. from Oxford I did miss. way to catch up on this front. later parts of it were adopted. King’s and any intelligent person knows that. Number 1, Again! “LSE Law has excelled once again in the UK’s Professor David Kershaw 8 nationwide assessment of 9 research quality, impact The academic year 2014-15 provided much cause for celebration at An unusual feature of the REF and the former RAE process is that there and environment which is LSE Law. In December 2014 the Government announced the results is a significant degree of discretion for undertaken every six/seven Universities and faculties as to how many of its six to seven-yearly assessment of research quality in UK law faculty members they wish to submit. years. The published results schools. For the second time in a row, LSE Law was ranked in first A faculty could, for example, elect to have half or less of its faculty members show that LSE Law is the place among UK law Schools. This places LSE Law as the leading submitted for assessment. In the past UK’s number one law school this has enabled institutions to claim that UK legal research institution for the past 15 years. And in 2014 we their submissions have been rated highly for legal research.” In the overall ranking when adjusted for the percentage of an came first by some distance! This is a remarkable achievement for when only a proportion of their staff have institution’s faculty that was submitted to REF 2014 (institutions been submitted. At LSE Law our view has which thanks go to every academic in the Department for generating long been that the process only makes may select how many staff they wish to submit) LSE is by some sense if all or the vast majority of faculty world class research and to our wonderful administrative team that members are submitted. Only in this way distance the number one UK Law School for research quality. can we compare the research quality of have supported this research. different Law Schools. Importantly, in REF Overall League Table 2014 for the first time the data that was Submission The Government’s assessment process is released included both the grading results Rank Cat A fte Rate GPA 4* 3* 2* 1* U now known as the Research Excellence of the submitted publications but also the 1 London School of Economics 62.9 100% 3.39 53% 35% 11% 1% 0% Framework (“REF”). Until 2007 it was percentage of academic faculty from each 2 University of Cambridge 75.8 100% 3.31 44% 44% 11% 1% 0% known as the Research Assessment Law School who were submitted in the 3 University College London 47.0 94% 3.12 47% 32% 13% 2% 6% Exercise (“RAE”). The process involves process. We are very proud to be able to 4 University of Oxford 108.9 95% 3.06 38% 42% 14% 1% 5% an assessment of three aspects of research say that in REF 2014 LSE Law had a 5 University of Bristol 39.0 91% 2.95 37% 40% 13% 1% 9% quality: first, the quality of the books 100 per cent submission rate. 6 Birkbeck College 27.2 94% 2.78 23% 46% 24% 1% 6% and articles produced by academic 6 University of Nottingham 45.5 88% 2.78 32% 39% 16% 1% 12% staff; second, the quality of the impact The results speak for themselves and we include a small table of the overall results 8 University of Kent 43.6 87% 2.74 31% 37% 17% 1% 13% that research has in the real world, for below. When adjusted for submission example in influencing government policy 9 University of Ulster 18.8 82% 2.72 37% 35% 10% 0% 18% rates, on publication outputs LSE Law was and legal reform; and third, the quality of 10 University of Reading 26.2 94% 2.67 14% 51% 28% 0% 6% ranked number one, ahead of Cambridge, the research environment including, for 11 Lancaster University 29.8 85% 2.61 24% 45% 14% 3% 15% UCL and Oxford in second, third and example, the public events and academic 12 University of Warwick 31.0 78% 2.50 29% 37% 10% 1% 23% fourth place. On research impact we were seminars and conferences offered by law 13 Queen's University Belfast 31.0 78% 2.46 29% 33% 15% 1% 23% also ranked number one and on research faculties. This creates a huge assessment 14 Brunel University London 31.0 97% 2.45 6% 44% 44% 4% 3% environment we came a very respectable task for the scholars who agree to serve 15 University of Strathclyde 19.7 86% 2.42 15% 44% 24% 3% 14% second. The results provide further on the REF Panel. Every submitted faculty 15 University of Edinburgh 54.0 76% 2.42 32% 27% 17% 1% 24% evidence that LSE provides global research member submits four publications, each 17 University of Essex 28.4 81% 2.37 19% 39% 23% 0% 20% leadership. When we say our teaching is one of which was read and graded by the 18 University of Glasgow 30.4 80% 2.36 21% 39% 17% 2% 21% research led we really mean it! Panel on a scale of 1* to 4*, with 4* work 19 University of Leeds 29.0 71% 2.31 29% 33% 7% 1% 29% being the highest quality work. We 20 University of Birmingham 31.8 78% 2.30 22% 33% 19% 3% 22% owe a great debt of thanks to the scholars who served on the Panel for their remarkable commitment and Further details on the results and case studies detailing the Impact dedication to our profession. of LSE Law’s research are available by scanning this QR code or by visiting bit.ly/LSELawREF2014 They say that if you are not part of the solution, you are a part of that led states to decide to shift up a gear. And actually, for all the political the problem. For many people of my generation, Europe was solving discontent in Europe, that has happened this time too. As a consequence of the An Open Europe: problems. It gave us the freedom to travel, study, and find a job in crisis, EU institutions have acquired a 10 lot more powers, not only over countries 11 other countries. It gave us protection against discriminatory policies of like Greece, Portugal or Ireland, but also our own states. It promised a broader, liberal, integrated and inclusive more generally. interview with Professor But how do we tell whether that society. Much of that optimism seems misplaced now. The aftermath concentration of power is a good or a of the financial crisis, and the response of EU institutions to it, has bad thing? I think that there are two aspects here. left Europe not only financially reeling, but also politically and even For a start, I think that the EU is there Damian Chalmers for the same basic reason that any form emotionally fragmented. That is evident not only in the UK, with the of government is there: to take decisions Emmanuel Voyiakis that would not otherwise be taken. And rise of UKIP on an explicitly anti-EU platform, but throughout Europe, unless we are thinking about totalitarian from Spain and Italy to Greece and Hungary. Is this sentiment a by- states, governments are not there to be popular. As I see it, the amazing thing product of hard economic times, or do its causes run deeper into the about the EU is that it has remained as popular as it has because, unlike in way the EU is built and governed? If the EU needs to change, how national systems, at the European level we don’t really have a clear distinction should we go about changing it, and to what end? between the nation and its government. Someone may be deeply unhappy with Few are as well placed to address those keep pedalling or you’re going to fall. the Greek government and still consider questions as Damian Chalmers, Professor It seems like people have stopped oneself Greek, but someone who is pedalling, doesn’t it? deeply unhappy with the EU because of European Law at LSE. Damian’s résumé its policies affect him or her adversely I’m not sure this is a good metaphor features a wealth of academic and policy won’t necessarily feel the same political to begin with. I certainly don’t believe papers on a range of aspects of EU affiliation with “Europe”. The other that Europe always needs forward aspect is that, if you look at the history governance, from the role of democracy in EU momentum. This assumes that either of support for the EU, both in the UK decision-making to an examination of who are everything must be integrated, or the and throughout Europe, current levels the real users of EU law in practice. He has European project will collapse, and of support, or lack of support, are that would be a rather disastrous view served as Director of LSE’s European Institute, actually very similar to average historical and held visiting positions at the European of the political system and European governance in general. I like to levels. What has changed, particularly University Institute (2004); NYU (2011); the think of integration as a balance of in other parts of Europe, is that the EU National University of Singapore (2011); and competing forces. Some things we has moved into areas that are much the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies do well together, some things may be more politically salient and divisive, for example tax policy and migration. (2012). But what I found most impressive in better left to national systems, in some These policies are perceived to create the course of our interview is that his deep areas we could use Europe as a way of encouraging national systems to reflect winners and losers and that obviously has interest in EU law has not stopped him from more about their own practices and registered in political debates in many taking a critical distance to the “European political decisions. The other reason I member-states. Project” and its prospects of success. Damian find the bicycle-riding analogy suspect Doesn’t this expansion of EU Chalmers wants neither more nor less Europe. is that I tend to see the development of competence lie at the heart of what has He wants an open Europe: open to democracy, the EU more as a series of motorcycle been called the EU’s “legitimacy deficit”? crashes! There’s nothing to propel open to contestation, open to revision of the European integration more than a good There is a lot of truth in that. Quite a force and limits of its law. crisis. All the big moments of European lot of what the EU does could be done integration, and certainly most of the perfectly well by national parliaments, It has been said that governing Europe EU treaties, have been precipitated or just by civil servants. The real is like riding a bicycle. You have to by some political or economic crisis argument in favour of doing things through the EU is that sometimes those you visit the UKIP website, you won’t This doesn’t seem to be a question think of ways for stopping abuses of are really high. Now you might think alternatives do not work very well, e.g. find much by way of a principled specific to Europe… procedure, e.g. when one or two states that Norwegians care more about their when a national parliament might not criticism of the EU, but you will find “It’s difficult to choose one are holding everyone back on some neighbours than the British would, That’s precisely the point. I don’t think be well placed to do certain things on a lot against immigration. I think that crucial issue, in much the same way but for me the explanation is very issues about Europe and its governance its own. There are a lot of different one can make quite a lot of legitimate aspect, so I’ll simply say that that national systems have had to come different. It has to do with the fact are fundamentally independent from 12 reasons why that might be the case. criticisms of the EU without slipping up with solutions to similar problems. that very little of EU law can actually 13 issues about national governance. we have amazing students, For example, the EU spent thirty years But we would not need to reinvent the be invoked before national courts. My into an anti-immigrant position. At the Europe is a mirror about how we see discussing the content of chocolate and really interesting colleagues, wheel, so to speak. guess is that the figure is around one same time, I find it equally problematic our national systems and governments, that is something that would never be per cent, which is an exceedingly small when people defend EU membership if you will. This suggests some basic So your answer is, basically, to bite the done in a national parliament, largely both in Law and the rest proportion. This doesn’t mean that EU on the basis that it benefits our GDP. policy directions. For a start, I think bullet: you say “if my proposal makes because no national parliament would law isn’t enforced, but that the main way In both cases, the way the debate is there has to be a much greater sense of LSE, and a wonderful EU law-making more cumbersome, devote the time, or have the “attention of enforcing it involves the Commission conducted ignores the winners and of political ownership of EU decisions. so be it”. span” required to address some of the diversity that is hard to find taking national governments to the losers of the particular policies, as well For example, I have proposed that two more complex scientific and public Yes, I think so, though I’m not ECJ on infringement proceedings, not as the broader issues about the kind of thirds of national parliaments should anywhere else.” health aspects of chocolate. It also convinced it would block things too individuals taking a case to a national relationship we want with Europe. be required to say yes to a new EU has to be said that many legitimate much. And even if it did, then you’d court that goes on to apply EU law. measure, and that national parliaments interests are not well catered for in What would you want the parameters of have to think: was the blocked measure If that is the case, then we have some should be able to opt out of certain new rights, entitlements, claims and status national political systems. Minority and that debate to be? reason to think that allowing member- EU laws and regulations. This strikes of those persons. so important, did we really need it? My regional interests, the environment, core assumption is that we live in a by states to opt out would not necessarily I’m a great believer in representative me as having a much better chance of the interests of consumers of financial That sounds good, but are your and large liberal polity, and the starting destabilise the system. The further democracy and the party political generating national engagement with services, of the disabled, as well as concrete proposals realistic? Take point should be that no collective problem is that the current system system. One of the most appealing the EU, which in turn would allow us certain diffuse interests such as those of your proposal that new EU legislation legislative action is necessary unless the encourages secretive deals between aspects of that system is its ability to to think about what sort of community women and consumers, are just some should require the consent of two matter reaches a certain threshold national civil servants and Commission generate debates within parties, to we want to live in. Second, I think it is examples. So it’s no surprise that the thirds of national parliaments. Won’t of seriousness. officials on the application of EU law. create a balanced but varied policy also very important that we revisit the EU has pushed forward legislation in this make decision-making much My proposal tries to make the process of platform. The Conservative Party are authority of EU law. No matter how you You also propose that a member-state those areas that are more progressive too cumbersome? challenging the application of EU law fractured on the matter and the debate cut the statistics, about 35-45 per cent of should be able to opt out of a law when than what most national parliaments I hear that criticism a lot. My response more structured, open within their ranks has sometimes EU population are coming out against an independent study shows that the would be likely to pass. the EU, and that is a constituency whose is that the problem goes the other and transparent. seemed more like a vehicle to advance benefits of that law for that state are concerns we must take very seriously. way. If anything, EU law-making has For the first time in recent UK certain political careers. For their much lower than the burdens. You also But who would be the judge of what More specifically, I think that the EU become much too uncumbersome. political history, we see a party, the UK part, Labour closed down that debate. say that sometimes parliaments should constitutes “necessity” for departing must allow for two things. First, an Whatever the process might look on Independence Party, whose explicit The Lib Dems used to be quite a be allowed to deviate from EU law from EU law? paper, if you look at what actually political platform is to take the UK out idea of ‘principled protection’, that when they judge that there is a strong federalist party, but now they seem happens, the process is much too short Necessity may be too legalistic a term. of the EU. Given your view that some will provide everyone with certain and clear necessity for them to do so. simply to want to preserve the status and, actually, not very transparent. The If a national parliament wanted to pass things are better done at EU level, what safeguards in certain cases where Don’t these proposals open up lots of quo. The Greens and UKIP are having Commission proposes new legislation, legislation that overrode an EU law, is your perspective on the political national parliaments do not consider potential for abuse? a little more of those internal debates, EU Parliament looks at it, the draft it has to justify it, and to explain the debate about UK’s membership? those safeguards necessary. Second, it though it’s not clear whether they must provide for citizen initiatives from is then circulated to states, there is a I’m sometimes told that this would impact of this on other EU citizens I think it’s good that we have political have managed to rid them of certain people not adequately represented by meeting between a few MEPs and a few be the end of the EU as we know it, and those who are not adequately contestation about the matter. My strong prejudices. My own view is that their parliaments. I think that this last Commission officials and you have an but I’m unconvinced. First, there is represented in its own territory. There own view is that, to the extent that a proper platform for the debate must aspect is crucial. One thing people tend agreed law. This doesn’t strike me as the example of Norway. Norway does is a cost to this, because other member- it’s introduced the issue in a much be differentiated. Rather than look to miss is that the EU tends to benefit a particularly long-winded legislative not accept the primacy of EU law, states will look at the decision and more vibrant way, UKIP has done us at the EU as a monolithic structure, certain types of citizen, e.g. mobile process, and in many ways it’s an though it applies most of it. For their may take the view that the decision in a democratic service. What is more we must look at a range of different citizens, or citizens with an EU member- unsatisfactory one, so introducing part, supranational institutions have question has not been justified properly, problematic is that the debate has institutional processes and policies. state nationality. The EU has had little a process which requires national a supervisory role in relation to the or taken sufficient account of those become very unstructured, populist And throughout, my guiding question to offer to ‘immobile’ citizens or non- parliaments to say yes by a certain implementation of EU in Norway. other interests. Those member-states and, frankly, quite parochial, for a would be: what sort of political EU nationals who live in the EU. We margin should, in principle, be both The strange thing is this: Norway’s may therefore propose countermeasures number of reasons. For example, if community do we want to live in? have to think very seriously about the possible and desirable. We can always compliance levels with EU regulations in response and so on. Of course one would have to see how the procedure a difference in our everyday lives, it regulation. Therein lies the paradox I’m advocating would develop in seems to me that the “package deal” of the EU: it’s given us a free and practice, but I don’t think it would be argument carries less force. One rather liberal market, but it’s also given used all that much for two reasons. reason I do not like it is the sweep of governments the possibility of taxing First, there is limited parliamentary the horizon it imagines. For example, and regulating transnational conduct. 14 time and the appetite for conflict isn’t you can always tell Greek people that 15 My overall impression is that you want there as much as one would think. they are currently suffering for the to open entrenched ideas about EU Second, when push comes to shove, it greater good, or for the good of future law and what the EU should be doing seems to me that national parliaments generations or for the whole of Europe, to contestation. Would that be a fair would consider the position a lot more and so on, but in my view the grand reflection of the thrust of your work? carefully. Bankers’ bonuses seem to scale of that vision fails to register me a good example here. Proposals present and immediate suffering. I Yes, absolutely. I think that if we opened towards restricting the proportion of think there has to be a possibility for up the EU to more contestation, performance-related remuneration in some suppleness and attentiveness to we’d be more relaxed about where its bankers’ pay have been around for a the small scale. That doesn’t get around competencies lie. long time. The basic argument for a the problem of free-riding or gaming Let me turn to EU in the classroom. cap on bankers’ bonuses is that high the system, but maybe a mechanism You’ve taught EU law in many countries. bonuses encourage excessive risk- of justification for departing from EU Do student attitudes differ, e.g. are UK taking. The UK took the position that law, coupled with the possibility of students more Eurosceptic? this is a national, not an EU matter, counter-measures on the part of other and that UK Parliament should be states, would have a good chance of One of the great things about teaching allowed to take control of the problem containing that danger. at LSE is that our students come from in its own way. At the same time, the all over the world. I don’t know whether In a recent paper you said something consequence of that attitude might Euroscepticism is the right word for it, very provocative: that EU law was be that UK banks will no longer be but what you do find teaching at LSE is designed more to further the interests able to engage in transactions in other a beautiful cross-section of attitudes. For of EU governments that European EU states. So while UK parliament example, a non-EU student might find peoples. What do you mean by that? may have the prerogative to take that all this talk about European identity decision, I imagine that when they For one or another reason, the image rather exclusionary, a British student look at the bigger picture, even many people have of the EU is that might be more inclined to take a more bankers will realise how much of their of the defender of the rights of little sceptical view, while a student from bonuses depend on transactions with people. That is not quite the case. If other parts of Europe may be more the EU area. you look at who litigates in the EU, favourably disposed to a federalist view Institute is made up of people from academic discipline, as around different To learn more about Damian Chalmers, visit what you see is that the most dominant and so on. But it’s clear that a lot of the very different disciplines and that is “phenomena” and themes, and people Still, won’t the option of opting out lse.ac.uk/collections/law/staff/damian-chalmers.htm litigators are arms of government, not “romanticism” about the EU is gone, part of its very nature. One thing it have responded wonderfully to of certain laws encourage a myopic individuals, and one has to wonder and maybe that’s a good thing. By the has always been very good at is public that challenge. To access the papers mentioned in this interview and or short-termist attitude? A member- about why that happens. My view is that way, both Eurosceptic and federalist engagement. For example, in the four many more papers by LSE Law’s experts, visit the LSE state may be a net loser in relation to a Final question: what is it that you enjoy this is closely related to the fact that students are some of the most engaging years I was in charge, we had over one – Law, Society and Economy Working Paper Series page certain law, but a net winner in relation most in working at LSE and in LSE Law much of EU law has been designed students to teach, simply because they hundred public events per year, and the at lse.ac.uk/collections/law/wps, where you can also to another. What you are proposing in particular? to give EU institutions and national are passionate about the issues. trend has continued upwards since, with seems to me to undermine the sign-up for regular e-mail updates. governments new regulatory powers in topics ranging from classical philosophy, It’s difficult to choose one aspect, so possibility of seeing EU law as a sort of You spent a lot of time running the areas such as environmental protection, economic and political theory, country- I’ll simply say that we have amazing Emmanuel Voyiakis is an Associate Professor in LSE Law. “package deal”. European Institute. Tell us a little about financial regulation and so on. The specific events on Turkey, Spain, students, really interesting colleagues, its work and its aims. I am not sure about this. The package emergence of EU law in those fields Greece, events with serving public both in Law and the rest of LSE, and a deal idea works if we look at EU affairs has actually led to the creation of new In one or another way, I was involved officials, politicians, journalists and wonderful diversity that is hard to find as problems of international relations. national bureaucracies, and created with the Institute for about twenty years, so on. The main idea was to organise anywhere else. If we look at them as things that make a thicker web of EU and national and have been very proud of that. The our activities not so much around an One minute in the mind of… 16 Dr Veerle Heyvaert 17 What are you working on at the moment? What recent news story have you been I’m just finishing up a chapter that examines the impact thinking most about? As I’m writing this, an online news of transnational environmental regulation on conventional server has just broken the story that understandings of the location, sources, disciplinary organisation, LSE management has announced that, unless the Occupy LSE movement functions and structure of law. ceases its protest, it will have no choice but to escalate to legal action. Our …and that’s part of which broader What do you teach at LSE? institution is proud to have among research project? I teach Law and the Environment, its faculty some of the world’s most It’s part of a project on the and Law and Institutions of the EU creative minds in disciplines such transformation of environmental to our undergraduate students, and as management, government, and regulation. A large proportion of transnational environmental law in the communications. Whatever the merits environmental rules are no longer LLM and Executive LLM Programme. of the students’ demands, I cannot help issued by individual states, but by but feel that threatening legal action Do you share in the joys of LSE supranational organisations, by private after 12 days of peaceful protest is a administration? actors and/or networks of regulators. failure of the imagination. My research investigates how this I’ve had my fair share of form-filling Tell us about a non-law book transformation has changed the and committees over the years, but you’re reading selection of goals for environmental I shouldn’t complain because at the regulation, the choice of techniques moment I have the best admin job At the moment I’m reading Mirabeau used to influence behaviour, and going: together with Jeremy Horder I’m and the French Revolution (Charles the effectiveness and resilience of Director of LSE Law – Alumni relations. Warwick & John Neill). I enjoy reading environmental regulation. On a good Our Law alumni are a dynamic and historical biographies, and the French day, the completion date for this enterprising group, which makes my Revolution is an endless source of project is around 2017. On a bad administrative role a real pleasure. fascination – it’s history’s greatest tale of day, posthumously. triumph and tragedy. Name one daily chore you can’t avoid. What was the last conference or event Next on my shelf is Knausgaard’s My Facing the inbox. in your professional calendar? Struggle. I’ll try to hold off until summer What’s your commute like? because I’ve been warned it’s addictive. I very much enjoyed hosting Douglas A Mantel-fuelled winter of sleep Kysar (Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor Quite moving, really. deprivation a few years ago has taught of Law at Yale Law School) at LSE in What’s the next arts event in me a few lessons on that front. May. Doug is one of LSE Law’s Shimizu your calendar? Visiting Professors. During his stay, Douglas Kysar’s lecture “Who is Legally Responsible Doug gave a public lecture on the I am patiently counting the hours until for Climate Change?”, chaired by Veerle Heyvaert, prospects for climate change litigation, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend walk can be viewed at bit.ly/LSEKysar which was my privilege to chair. on stage in Hyde Park on 26 June. 18 To anyone who knows Lewina teacher-training course, and ended up in February 2015 was described as an 19 scoring 99% in the mathematics exam, excellent example of interdepartmental Coote, mention of her name can’t which she completed in record time. collaboration, promoting cultural Numbers, it seems, came naturally to her. understanding as well as breaking down help but conjure the image of barriers, and received very positive Lewina has an interesting history. reviews from those who attended. her broad smile and irrepressible Describing herself as “overseas Chinese”, Lewina was born in the Far East and 2014/15 marks Lewina’s tenth year “hello!” often delivered at high brought up in the British education at the London School of Economics speed as she dashes around the system. Interestingly, she attributes her and Political Science. Fittingly, it was “rebellious streak” to her time within this through an act of kindness that Lewina Department. Currently training as system. She bucks convention and baulks came to work at LSE. Sitting in a café, at procedures, preferring to pay attention she overheard some stressed students a solo opera singer, her favourite to individual circumstances and context. discussing their upcoming exams. When This explains Lewina’s capacity to balance they left, she noticed that they had left a aria is “Un bel dí, vedremo” an accounting career with her role as a notebook. In an effort to return this to from Madama Butterfly. Often tutor of those with learning difficulties them, she looked inside the notebook such as autism, dyslexia, hearing and and saw a reference to LSE. She recalls strikingly dressed in fuschia sight impairment. Colleagues in LSE Law having to look up “LSE” online to have benefited from Lewina’s expertise find out exactly what it was and where and green, it does not seem and understanding of the different to return the notebook. In doing so, premature to recognise Lewina ways in which people learn. In her own Lewina came across an advertisement teaching, she incorporates different for a job that was almost tailor-made as the Department’s “Butterfly” Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) for her at LSE. The students got their learning styles based on learning through notebook back…and Lewina got the in advance of her Covent Garden seeing, hearing and touch. She finds the job. LSE Law has been the beneficiary debut…albeit one with an experience incredibly rewarding. In her of this act of kindness and many words, “I am teaching adults who may others from Lewina over the years. uncanny knack for numbers. have been told they are stupid all their We pay tribute to Lewina after a lives… yet end up discovering through decade with LSE and count our good fortune to have such a vibrant virtuoso As the Department’s Finance Officer, different teaching techniques that in our midst! Lewina has key responsibility for LSE they have not necessarily been the Law’s budgets and finance monitoring ignorant ones”. process and is the contact point for all In yet another string to her bow, Lewina finance queries. “Numbers” is less a has been the Chair of EMBRACE since profession than a calling to Lewina. As a March 2013. EMBRACE is LSE’s black Lewina Coote: Finance girl, she was denied the opportunity to and minority ethnic (BME) staff network, do any maths subjects and was put into established to raise awareness of and an Arts stream. She ended up studying influence change around culture and the history of the Commonwealth at diversity issues affecting LSE staff. The Officer…and the the University of Birkbeck, specialising aim of the network is to provide support in India and Africa. Yet she was always as well as development and networking conscious she had a numerical mind. opportunities for all members. Twenty years after she had been denied Membership of the network has more Department’s “Butterfly” the opportunity to take mathematics at than doubled in the last year and is open secondary school level, Lewina elected to all LSE staff. It holds regular events. Devika Hovell to apply for the numeracy stream of a A celebration of the Chinese New Year Mike Redmayne 20 21 18 June 1967 – 10 June 2015

The tragically early death of Mike Redmayne is a devastating loss gusto, providing me with a raft of yet more incredible examples, including – for the Department of Law, for LSE, and for legal scholarship. his personal favourite – a man who was placed on the sex offenders’ register for Mike joined the Department in 1999, that he insisted on continuing until simulating sex with his bicycle… moving to us from Brunel University, just a few weeks before his death, his More seriously, I learned a huge amount where he had taught for two years dignity and composure such that many from Mike about evidence, and in following his first post at the University of his students were unaware that he was particular about the debate about the of Manchester. A graduate (both gravely ill. pros and cons of character evidence, so undergraduate – Law with French – and For most of Mike’s 16 years at LSE, I PhD) of the University of Birmingham, brilliantly and meticulously dissected had the pleasure and privilege to work and a talented climber and cyclist, Mike and reconstructed in his fine recent with him on the criminal law team. might well have been drawn to a career monograph Character and the Criminal I was immediately impressed by his at Manchester, nearer to his native Trial (OUP 2015). This book illustrates intellectual speed and sharpness and Cumbria. But, to LSE’s great good two further qualities. First, Mike was a his collegiality, though Mike’s natural fortune, Mike’s beloved partner Louise courageous and independent-minded reserve meant that it took a little while was based in London, and Mike headed thinker. When he started work on for us to build the friendship which I south to join her. character evidence, the general tenor enjoyed with him over the last decade. of liberal scholarly debate about the It is comforting to recall the pleasure This happened partly through humour, subject in this country was, roughly which Mike took in his job at LSE. and partly through shared intellectual speaking, that character evidence was Virtually from the day he arrived, he and cultural interests. One story sums a case of “Give a dog a bad name and was central to the Department: a key up not only Mike’s mischievous sense hang him”: only reactionaries would member of the criminal law team; of fun but also his conscientiousness. contemplate extending its admissibility the genius of evidence scholarship Mike was a quick study, and it didn’t in the common law. Mike, well aware and teaching; in due course a hugely take him long to work out that my of both the fuzzy historical origins respected director of the LLB primary intellectual concerns were legal of the rule in English law, and of programme, member of the APRC theory and history rather than doctrinal the standard admission of character and of the Promotions Committee analysis. He loved to tease me about evidence in civilian systems, and with and a very successful articles editor of this. One Sunday evening, I received a real command of the empirics, the Modern Law Review. He used not an email from him along the following looked at the subject dispassionately, only his erudition but his marvellous lines: “Hi Niki, I know you think I’m analytically, and exhaustively. The result dry sense of humour and timing (not the kind of sad ******* who spends his is a fine, nuanced analysis and one to mention his taste for the absurd, in weekends on law websites, but did you whose conclusions thoroughly unsettle which both criminal law and evidence notice that the House of Lords has just the orthodoxy. It is sure to have a huge cases of course excel) to excellent effect … (some important new case followed).” impact on the field. in his teaching. But in doing so, he Even during his last months, he was still never detracted from the core business tutoring me: I remember a particularly Second – as his students know so at hand. That is why his students revered hilarious exchange just after I had well – Mike expressed himself with him as well as enjoying him. In 2008, he delivered the sexual offences lectures, an admirable economy and lucidity was awarded the Department of Law’s which he had been giving for the last which nonetheless combined in a rare teaching prize: he remains in 2015 the few years. I wrote to ask him if it was way with a truly literary elegance of only full professor ever to have been his impression that the facts of the key expression. Indeed Mike brought his distinguished in this way. His devotion cases had become yet more incredible fine aesthetic sense to every aspect of his to teaching is exemplified by the fact in recent years. Mike responded with work: the Mike who wrote so beautifully Mike Redmayne continued

was Mike the voracious reader of poetry, Aside from being a world-class scholar, Mike was a keen outdoors What follows is a tribute to Mike’s – whether the decision concerned to challenge himself with other outdoor essays and novels, a particular admirer consistency – a trait that many who knew renouncing to a day out climbing his sports as well, such as ice-fall climbing, 22 of masters of prose style like Tobias sportsman. He was a rock climber, a cyclist and a trekker. Mike had the opportunity to witness. last project because of work or family alpine climbing and fell running. He just 23 Wolff; the Mike whose two books are The qualities that made him stand out reasons, whether it concerned giving enjoyed being out there – whether in also beautiful artefacts was also the Mike He also enjoyed mountain and cycling literature and movies. as a scholar and a teacher were the same up the chemotherapy and waiting winter or in summer, with the rain or the who loved music, good food and wine, Our friendship mainly developed outside the walls of the New qualities that made Mike such a special for the illness to follow its course. I sun, with company or alone. sweeping landscapes and mountain companion at the crag and on the road. admired him greatly for this and I knew Mike was terse and intense in his ranges; and the Mike who cycled to that it was not just façade. Mike was Academic Building, on the cliffs of Swanage, the ragged rocks Mike was self-effacing in his scholarship communication. Both in writing and work each day, even through the worst a transparent person: his impressive and in his demeanour at work. He in speaking he definitely epitomised of weathers, was the Mike who, having of the Peak District, and the roads of Cumbria. Some students – sometimes baffling – exterior would have no issue with telling his the maxim “say less to say more.” After swept into the Department in full Lycra demeanour reflected internal strength of Mike – acquainted with conditional probability and Bayes’ students that he did not remember reading drafts of my papers he would regalia, emerged magically from his and poise. It is inevitable for me to the facts of a particular case, that he often suggest that I use fewer words office ten minutes later in quietly stylish relate Mike’s solidity and composure to theorem – may picture him sitting at his desk trying to calculate felt unable to answer a question on to express an idea, that I cut a whole working clothes. I will never forget the the qualities of rock, in particular, of a the spot, that his theories had flaws paragraph or section, that I put in the fleeting expression of amused disbelief the probability that two evidence-law scholars share so many gritstone boulder standing somewhere and that the students themselves footnotes all that is not essential – in fact, which flickered across Mike’s face when in the Peak District. One of those may be able to perfect them. Openly he would probably disapprove of the he and Louise arrived last summer at passions. In fact, Mike and I once tinkered with the thought that boulders with rounded handholds and length of this eulogy! I often wondered our holiday home and I asked him if he acknowledging one’s limits – whether a link exists between being fond of evidence law and loving the smeary footholds, no loose edges nor whether this trait of Mike was related to would like to use one of our (perfectly or not the others recognise them as sandy cracks: an impenetrable and his attraction for the outdoors. After all, serviceable but bog standard) bikes. such – requires considerable confidence outdoors. We quickly discarded such relationship as outlandish: compact block of rock requiring careful the outdoors is a place where words may A moment later he emerged from in one’s strengths. Disregarding or interpretation before the climb. And be superfluous. It is gestures and actions the boot of their car brandishing his my encounter with him was just a marvellous coincidence. denying them, instead, is often the yet, when you finally manage to read the that count mostly; and atmospheres may super-sleek racing bike. Even a bicycle sign of over-confidence. This is a trait line, it feels as if you had understood be such that no word could possibly add philistine like me could appreciate this that Mike certainly did not possess. something important, something that is to them. to be an object of real beauty. The fine line between confidence and worth considerably more than the effort over-confidence plays an important Mike cared for his climbing and cycling Mike is mourned by not only his and the wait. role in climbing. As with his teaching partners as he did for his younger colleagues but by the many hundreds and writing, Mike was aware of his Mike’s evidence scholarship had a very colleagues. Not only did he make sure of students whom he instructed and weaknesses and strengths as a climber. wide scope. He wrote about virtually that his fellows were having a good time; inspired over his distinguished career He knew that he was not strong on every problem in English and Welsh he would also take it upon himself to at LSE. We will remember him as the overhangs and that he needed to train evidence law that deserved theoretical teach the nuts and bolts, as well as the best of colleagues, the best of teachers, specifically for them before embarking attention: standards and burdens of tricks, of the discipline. This was always the best of friends: brilliant yet modest; on a steep route. However, he also knew proof, sexual history evidence, the done with discretion, modesty and, of reserved and yet exceptionally witty; that he had a fine technique on slabs right to silence, the privilege against course, few words. Now that Mike is gone, generous; utterly reliable; irreplaceable. and he would not shy away from putting self-incrimination, the paradoxes some climbers, some cyclists, some young Our thoughts are with Louise and the himself in situations that I considered of statistical evidence, the right to scholars will have to do things on their other members of his family. terrifying, tip-toeing on small foot-holds confrontation, entrapment, improperly- own. I believe that memory is an endless with the last protection hanging metres Professor Nicola Lacey obtained evidence and, obviously, source of teachings. We only have to keep below. Had he called into question expert evidence and character evidence it alive, and I doubt it will be hard for us his strengths at that time… well… you – the topics of his two monographs. to do so. would have probably seen him walking His articles and books feature in the We will miss you Mike: in class, at the crag with crutches in the New Academic reading lists of university courses across and on the road. Building at least once. the country and overseas, and have left Dr Federico Picinali Mike always gave me the impression of a mark in scholarly debates worldwide. knowing what was the right thing to do Mike’s attitude towards the outdoors was in a given set of circumstances. What is similarly open and adventurous. He had more remarkable, Mike always seemed his favourite disciplines, rock climbing capable of putting his decisions into and cycling – which are already very practice with self-possession and serenity varied in themselves! However, he liked Appointments and awards 24 25 Appointments New appointments Awards

Professor Christine Chinkin has been Dr Chaloka Professor LSE Law warmly Dan L. Burk appointed Emeritus Professor of Beyani, (pictured Gerry Simpson, congratulate (pictured left) is Promotions and International Law and is the Director left) Associate (pictured left) Professor Chancellor’s of LSE’s Centre on Women, Peace and Professor in LSE currently Julia Black Professor of Law new arrivals Security. Full details of the new Centre Law, has been Kenneth (pictured left) at the University can be found on page 36. nominated by the Bailey Chair of and Professor of California, United Nations International Law Michael Lobban, Irvine, where he Promotions Professor Linda Deputy Secretary at Melbourne who have just is a founding Tom Poole and Andrew Lang have been Mulcahy (pictured General to be a University, been elected member of the promoted to Professor, with effect from left) has been member of his Senior Experts Group on has been appointed to our Chair of Fellows of the British Academy. Seven law faculty. In 2015’s Lent Term he was 1 August 2015 – congratulations to both. appointed as the Human Rights Up Front (HRuF). Dr International Law. Gerry will join us in LSE academics, including LSE Director awarded the Leverhulme Visiting first Director of Beyani addressed the World January 2016. Professor Craig Calhoun, are among 42 Professorship in LSE Law and delivered the PhD Humanitarian Summit preparatory highly distinguished academics from 18 three public events on patents. The New arrivals meeting for the Middle East and North UK universities elected British Academy events can be viewed at bit.ly/LSEBurk Academy, which Dr Niamh Dunne will be joining Africa in his capacity as UN Special New Fellows for 2015 in recognition of will launch in us in September 2015. Niamh is In 2014-15, Dr Nick Sage, Dr Insa Koch Rapporteur on the Human Rights of their outstanding research. September 2015. currently a Lecturer in Law at King’s On 18 December 2014, Dame Hilary and Dr Andrew Dyson all joined LSE Internally Displaced Persons in Amman, The PhD Academy is being created in College London, where she teaches Mantel and Professor Andrew Ashworth Law as Associate Professors and Patrick Jordan, 3-5 March 2015. Before that he response to a strong demand from PhD Competition, EU and Tort law. On Thursday 2 were both awarded honorary doctorates O’Brien and Paolo Saguato were undertook an official mission to the students for a dedicated place where July, the University from LSE. Dame Hilary Mantel, twice appointed as LSE Fellows – welcome Central African Republic and Two new Fellows join LSE Law in they can get the information and of Edinburgh winner of the Man Booker Prize and to all. September 2015. Manuel Penades-Fons support from centralised services, which Cameroon 9-15 February 2015. awarded Professor former undergraduate student in LSE was an LLM student at LSE in 2008-9 provides dedicated space for a common Martin Loughlin Law, was awarded Doctor of Literature. and has been a guest teacher for us room, advanced teaching and Following her work on the effect of (pictured left) an Professor Andrew Ashworth CBE in the area of commercial arbitration Visiting Professors interdisciplinary workshops, and enables custody chains on investor rights, honorary QC (Hon) DCL, Emeritus Vinerian for several years. Manuel was formerly them to create a stronger sense of Dr Eva Micheler has been appointed Doctorate of Laws Professor of English Law at the In June 2015, Mary Stokes joined a Teaching Fellow at the University of community and belonging to LSE as a a member of a steering group for a “in recognition of University of Oxford and graduate of LSE Law and in September 2015, Warwick. Michele Finck’s DPhil is from whole. The physical element of the PhD project at the Department for Business his outstanding academic achievement in LSE Law in 1968, was awarded Doctor Christopher Kuner also joined us, both the University of Oxford, where she has Academy is currently under Innovation and Skills. The project was the understanding of the history and of Laws. as Visiting Professors until 2018. been teaching EU Law. construction on the fourth floor of the launched in December 2014 following contemporary significance of public law”. Library and should be completed by the the implementation of the Kay Review end of September 2015. Professor and is entitled “Understanding the Class Teacher Awards are nominated by Mulcahy will work with the Pro Director intermediated shareholding model”. academic departments in recognition for Research, Julia Black, to ensure that of the special contribution made by the School takes full account of its PhD Congratulations to Professor Michael graduate teaching assistants, teaching activity in developing its overall strategic Bridge, who has been appointed fellows and guest teachers to their work. thinking, its research strategy and the Bencher of his Inn of Court, the This year’s LSE Law winners have been infrastructure for interdisciplinary Middle Temple. The Inns of Court have announced as Anthony Jones, Cressida research by our research students. an historic role in the training and Auckland, Manuel Penades-Fons and regulation of barristers. Each Inn of Simon Witney. Congratulations to all Court is governed by a Treasurer, who four winners and thank you for your acts for one year, with the help of the contributions to the Department. benchers, who are senior barristers and act as the Inn’s governing body or “Parliament”. Farewells Administrative staff Departures changes New books 26 27 Goodbye to Gillian Urquhart who has been appointed as the Department Manager for LSE’s Department of Methodology. Joy Whyte joined LSE Law as Department Manager in August Duxbury, Neil (2015) Dyzenhaus, David and Dyson, Andrew, 2006 and is leaving us to take the post of Executive Officer Lord Kilmuir – A Vignette Poole, Thomas, eds. Goudkamp, James to LSE’s Inclusion Task Force. Matt Rowley joins us from Hart Publishing, (2015) and Wilmot-Smith, the Finance Department to succeed Joy as Department Oxford, UK Law, liberty and state: Frederick (eds) Manager (Strategy and Resources). Dianne Delvaille took the ISBN 9781782256236 Oakeshott, Hayek and (2015) opportunity for early retirement and departed in March 2015 Schmitt on the rule of law Defences in Tort after just over ten years’ service. Malcom Smith departed the Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing, Department in late 2014 following his maternity cover post Cambridge, UK Oxford, UK Patricia Palacios-Zuloaga (pictured top left) has left LSE for Harriet Carter, who returned to her post of Department ISBN 978110709338 ISBN 9781849465267 Law to take up a Lectureship at Essex; Zelia Gallo (pictured Manager for Operations and Personnel in January 2015. top middle) has been appointed to a Lectureship at King’s Jen O’Connell is on secondment to the Economics College, London and Mara Malagodi (pictured top right) is Department for 18 months and in August we welcomed moving to a Lectureship at City University. We thank all three Enfale Farooq as her cover. Poole, Thomas (2015) Gee, Graham, Hazell, Bridge, Michael G. for their valuable contributions to LSE Law and wish them Reason of state: law, Robert, Malleson, Kate (2015) every success for the future. prerogative and empire and O’Brien, Patrick Personal property law Cambridge University Press, (2015) Fourth ed., Oxford Cambridge, UK The politics of judicial University Press, ISBN 9781107089891 independence in the UK’s Oxford, UK changing constitution ISBN 9780198743088 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK ISBN 9781107066953

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Moloney, Niamh (2014) EU securities and financial markets regulation 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK ISBN 9780199664344 Young Woman of the Year presented me with the Young Woman back after completing their studies. “Last year was definitely a of the Year Award from Women on This financial assistance is needed but the Move. It was an extremely proud I understand that change won’t come rollercoaster. I was shortlisted for moment as the amazing Annie Lennox overnight and so the campaign to raise a Liberty Human Rights Award Let Us Learn: campaigning graced us with her presence at the awareness continues. In the mean 28 29 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. time I will study the Diceyan theory of 2014 and I remember attending This award will allow me to push parliamentary sovereignty and smile as the campaign forth with the bonus I read another case where Lord the award ceremony and being for equal access Chrisann Jarrett of getting media training and being Denning dissents. overwhelmed by the amazing connected with other human For further information about the work people do in order to My name is Chrisann Jarrett, I am 20 years old and originally from Having faced this issue myself I rights campaigners. was forced to take a gap year after “Let Us Learn” campaign, please visit better society despite being Jamaica. Although I have yet to fulfil the mantra of “work hard play completing my A-Levels in 2013. During Through this campaign I hope in the justforkidslaw.org/our-goals/let-us-learn this time, I didn’t allow this situation long term there will be a change of or follow on Twitter @LetUs_Learn faced with adversity. We were government policy offering young hard!”, studying gives me much joy. After surviving my first term to overcome me and instead, whilst all overcomers.” completing my internship with Just migrants with discretionary leave a at LSE I sigh, looking back with a smile at registration day when I for Kids Law, I was able to channel my student loan which they will then pay energy towards the system and put the queued for an hour and was then granted my very own LSE student campaign issue on the map. ID. It’s been a long time coming. Relief is what I felt when LSE In October 2014 an article was posted on The Guardian online speaking offered me a scholarship allowing me to commence my degree. Not about the “Let Us Learn” campaign and the barriers to higher education. so long ago I was writing a response to a parliamentary inquiry into This provided a lot of momentum but the Youth Justice System and now I’m here and doing what I have I thought it interesting to scroll down and read the comments section (much to always wanted to do – study law. my regret). I was livid having read how venomous some of the comments were. But Rosa Parks was correct when she said ‘You must never be fearful of what Last year I started my own campaign you are doing when what you are doing called “Let Us Learn”. I campaign for is right’. Since the airing of my campus equal access to higher education and interview on BBC Newsnight, over 30 focus on the issue of young migrants young people have been in contact who are lawfully in the UK but are that cannot go to university because of unable to take up their places at their student finance barriers. There is a need chosen university. This is because of and so I’m hopeful. the discriminatory student finance rules which prevents ambitious young Last year was definitely a rollercoaster. I was shortlisted for a Liberty Human people from getting student loans as Rights Award 2014 and I remember they are described as “not eligible” due attending the award ceremony and to the amendments in the Education being overwhelmed by the amazing Regulations 2011. Through this equal work people do in order to better society access campaign I have met so many despite being faced with adversity. amazing young people who have been We were all overcomers. I have since taught that education is the gateway received an award of recognition from to a successful life, some of whom the London Leadership and Peace want to study Chemical Engineering, Awards 2014 and I have also been Mathematics and International Relations nominated for a Sheila McKechnie and all are self-driven. Award. On 4 March 2015, Livia Firth When asked to write this discipline, an opportunity to study I decided to take a break from LSE to a alongside students with invaluable large extent because living in London piece, I was advised to keep lived experience, and an opportunity can be exhausting. However, this sleepy to develop my own opinions on volatile Riviera town has been challenging in so my references to long walks current events that up until this year I’d many other ways. I’ve been thrown right 30 31 on the beach by sunset to a always shied away from for fear of not into the deep end in a field of regional having the “appropriate” knowledge. study I know absolutely nothing about. I’ve had to play catch up, committing minimum (officially for reasons Sciences Po Paris’s campus in Menton to extra research, extra reading, extra offered all this and more. Thrown right of irrelevance, but I suspect essays and just talking to students into the deep end, my A-Level French around me with a wealth of personal seemed a long way away when I was jealousy also played a part!). knowledge. I’ve bumbled along stammering my way through setting up speaking a language I don’t really know, Fortunately, there have been a bank account, signing my lease and managing to base an entire essay on buying a phone contract. I’m one of the a few academic benefits to “la commodification” of contemporary few students not studying Arabic – a year art – unfortunately, a word that doesn’t spending the year studying of study doesn’t seem worthwhile in the exist in French. I’ve had to integrate long-run – which meant the frequent at Sciences Po Paris’s Middle into a community with a number of “habibtis” (darling), “khalas” (enough) cultural quirks: the undisguised horror East-Mediterranean campus and heartfelt “Yallahs” (let’s go!), took at the prospect of eating savoury food some getting used to. The painstaking for breakfast; the failure to respect in Menton, France besides early phase of French immersion is pedestrian crossings; the ordeal of coming to an end and I’m starting to the French “bise”, awkwardly kissing the gorgeous weather, the stumble through conversations without every individual on both cheeks upon abundance of pastries, the sea getting myself tangled up in the slang or entering a room. the constant – and frankly unnecessary view from my apartment… – “verlan”, or the inversion of Menton dragged me from my LSE letters within words (“merci” bubble and right out of my comfort becomes “cimer”). zone. It’s terrifying straying from what But I digress. appears to be a clearly defined path: One of my reasons for applying to university, graduation, career. It’s It’s terribly easy as an LSE student – Menton was specifically because I terrifying being thrown into a culture, a especially as an LSE Law student – to didn’t feel like I had much exposure to language, a community and a discipline be sucked into the cycle of campus inter-disciplinary discourse. Especially that is completely alien to you. But manager jobs, vacation scheme as a Law student, it can feel like you being terrified was definitely worth it. interviews and training contract sometimes lose sight of the wood for deadlines, academic enjoyment of your all the trees, dragged into the minutiae subject lost somewhere in the void. of statutory detail and case references, LSE’s graduate employability is very without much awareness of “the bigger high for a reason, and I know that in picture”. So I leaped at the chance a few years I will truly appreciate the to study everything from the shifting careers support and the push to think boundaries in the Middle East, to the about the future that this university has evolution of Turkish foreign policy, to instilled in me. At the same time, as my the effects of rent on state-building in second year drew to a close, I realised the Arab world. I’m taking courses in that I needed some time out of the “LSE history, politics, international relations, complex” to re-learn how to enjoy my political economy and languages, education again rather than looking at offering a breadth of choice that I didn’t A Year in the Sun it as a means to an end. have access to at LSE.

Malvika Jaganmohan Choosing to study the Middle East for Studying in Menton this year has a year was an indulgence. It was the offered me something special that I can opportunity to break out of my own take with me when I graduate next year. Pro Bono Matters – a new 32 Postgraduate Group at LSE Law 33 Natasha Lewis, LLM Public International Law 2014/15 The LLM year is a life-changing experience but it is also fast-paced and frenetic. You arrive in London, get used to the tube map, catch the remnants of September sun, and start classes with around 280 other students from around the world. Many of our 2014/15 intake arrived at LSE Law eager to do pro bono work, having done so in our home countries. While as undergraduates we had volunteered in legal clinics, as postgraduate students with diverse specialisms we were looking for cutting-edge projects with a public interest and social justice focus. We were lucky to find a supportive Law faculty that had laid the foundations for Pro Bono Matters, LSE’s postgraduate pro bono group. As Professor Emily Jackson said at our launch on 11 March, “pro bono really does matter” to LSE Law, with its strong tradition in human rights, public law and international law, bolstered by the involvement of many academics in pro bono work.

We had humble beginnings – over here’s what they’ve achieved in just On a personal note, being part of coffees and chats after class, we six months: the Pro Bono Matters story has been decided to talk to our professors the highlight of my LLM experience. • Interviewed young people and about volunteering on projects. My It has been about more than doing prepared a submission to the friend Tania Marcello and I met Chris work that makes a difference. I have UK Law Commission on Thomas, Pro Bono Coordinator for been fortunate to volunteer alongside proposed reforms on offences postgraduate students, who together my friends, and to get to know many against the person, supervised by with Henrietta Zeffert, a PhD student, inspiring academics who are engaged Dr Emmanuel Melissaris. had drafted a constitution for a pro in meaningful work outside of teaching bono postgraduate group. The faculty • Worked with Emeritus Professor and research. I look forward to handing were looking for interested students to Christine Chinkin on a report on over our group to the next LLM intake, work with academics on cases, research the implementation of UN Security who I am certain will hit the ground projects and submissions. We decided Council Resolution 1325 on women, running and make the group bigger to create a group that would work on peace and security, presented to and better. two projects (one domestic and one a UN expert panel in April and If you would like to know more about international) and to aim to make our discussed at a workshop with the new Pro Bono Matters, please email us at initiative sustainable for future LLM/ LSE Centre for Women, Peace and [email protected] PhD intakes. We were lucky to have a Security in May. committed group of volunteers, who • Organised a well-attended launch met every fortnight to shape our vision. event with LSE faculty, alumni, It is impossible to name all of my students and interested organisations fantastic, talented peers who have made to source future projects and Pro Bono Matters a reality. Instead, more volunteers. Access to Justice after

34 35 the Legal Aid Cuts Becky Steels The cuts to legal aid under, When I attended the panel discussion cases of passports being cancelled from “Access to Justice after the Legal 20 year old, British-born citizens simply predominantly, the Legal Aid, Aid Cuts. A Conversation with… because their parents were not British; Solange Valdez (Ealing Law Centre), passport renewals being refused; and Sentencing and Punishment of Francis FitzGibbon QC (Doughty applications for British passports for Street Chambers), and Rachel Marsh children with one British parent failing. Offenders Act (LASPO) 2012 are (LawWorks)” in mid-November 2014, These are not cases that revolve around all but a taboo subject. Indeed, this stance was laid out in all its ugly the dregs of society. And these are not glory by a shrewd member of the cases that would have been won, or even you’d almost be forgiven for audience. People, she said, take the fought, without legal aid. Daily Mail view: lawyers are parasites knowing very little about them for money; their prey are the dregs of Immigration law does not necessarily pertain to all of us. The universality at all. Compare, say, the NHS. society. With this at the back of our minds, why would we care about legal of law, though, means it permeates Headlines blare almost weekly aid cuts? all aspects of life, and we cannot be immune to this. We cannot ignore it. with tales of diabolical plans This stance, though, is wrong. It is Heading for the criminal Bar, the refrain inherently flawed, both in content comes back again and again: “Have you to cut funding or to privatise and in before premise. The British not, yet, become disillusioned with the conception of the rule of law rests firmly whole system?” And the answer again the NHS. And protests take on the equal treatment of all people and again resounds in my head: “No.” before the law, from the Prime Minister place repeatedly against such to the man on the Clapham omnibus. It This is not because of a belief that the measures by an engaged, and is no great claim, though, to state that system will continue to work in the face people are not equal in life. Different of the legal aid cuts. It is very clear that largely outraged, British public. opportunities and different means result it will not. Francis’ framing of the issue in inequality. Magna Carta of 1215 was as a “political fight”, though, reflects the Turning back to the law and to the starting point of civil liberties, and approach which we now need to take. legal aid, it’s a whole different for basic rights like access to justice now Panellists were clear that we must not to be restricted to only those for whom mirror the coy, accepting attitude of the picture. People don’t care. And money is no object is indefensible. Bar Council and Law Society; rather we Public health, sometimes coupled must combat the negative image the people don’t care because of with the right to life, is protected by media have created in the public psyche the NHS in this country and rightly of lawyers and those whom they help. the hubris of man; the pride and provokes a reaction in people when it is It is a recognition of the fundamental delusion that “it won’t affect me”. threatened. What is unclear is why it is import of genuine equality before the more acceptable to devalue the right to law, and the provisions required from fair trial. We should care about the legal the government to support this, that aid cuts, and we should care precisely will be necessary in returning the because they undermine the rights to justice system in England and Wales which, as human beings, we are entitled. to its proper position.

Solange went to great lengths in her impassioned speech to emphasise the danger posed by the legal aid cuts. As an immigration solicitor, she detailed 36 37

New Centre for Women, Peace and Security launched at LSE On 10 February 2015, LSE • promoting women’s participation in The Centre will introduce the MSc decision-making and the resolution in Women, Peace and Security and a hosted First Secretary of State of conflict concentrated programme for NGO • preventing sexual and gender- workers, lawyers, military personnel, William Hague and UNHCR based violence civil servants and diplomats – providing unique education for those whose LLM Graduate Laila Hamzi Selected • integrating a gender perspective Special Envoy Angelina Jolie work would benefit from a deeper throughout peacekeeping understanding of the law and practice Pitt to launch the UK’s first and peacebuilding of women, peace and security. academic Centre on Women, • increasing accountability and ending for Coveted ICJ Traineeship impunity of perpetrators of sexual and In launching the Centre, Ms Jolie Pitt Peace and Security. gender-based violence said, “I am excited at the thought of LSE is delighted to announce LSE is one of a limited number Applications will open in late 2015 all the students in years to come who of leading universities invited to to current students and recent The Centre will play a leading role in will study in this new Centre. There is submit candidates to the Court for LSE law graduates for the 2016 Professor Christine Chinkin, recently developing the multi-sectoral approach that LSE graduate Laila Hamzi no stable future for a world in which consideration. LSE Law nominated traineeship programme. retired from LSE Law, is leading the required to further the aims of the crimes committed against women (LLM 2014) has been accepted Laila Hamzi in February to the ICJ. Centre, which will provide an academic women, peace and security agenda. It will: go unpunished. We need the next Following a highly competitive selection space for scholars, practitioners, • develop research and practice on generation of educated youth with process, Laila was assigned to assist Judge activists, policy-makers and students to to the University Traineeship issues relating to women, peace and inquisitive minds and fresh energy, Cançado Trindade (Brazil). She will develop strategies to promote justice, security and sexual violence in conflict- who are willing not only to sit in the Programme at the International start at the Court in September, joining human rights and participation for affected settings classroom but to go out into the field other successful candidates from Yale women in conflict-affected situations • bring together cutting edge scholars, and the courtrooms and to make a Court of Justice (ICJ) in University, Oxford University, New York around the world. Through research, activists and practitioners to advance decisive difference.” University, Harvard Law School, Peking teaching and multi-sectoral engagement The Hague. knowledge and influence global and University, Columbia University programmes, the Centre aims to The Centre also received a message of local policy-making and elsewhere. promote gender equality and enhance support from US Secretary of State The nine-month traineeship programme • build partnerships with those working women’s economic, social and political John Kerry and Secretary Hillary is similar to a judicial clerkship and Laila Hamzi graduated from the LLM on issues of women, peace and security participation and security. Rodham Clinton. offers a rare opportunity to work at at LSE in 2014 with a Distinction and – military personnel, UN agencies, one of the world’s most important legal the Lauterpacht/Higgins Award for A podcast of the event can be found at Founded with the support of the regional and local bodies and institutions. Trainees work closely with the Best Overall Performance in Public bit.ly/LSELaunch Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict civil society actors – to achieve the members of the Court on tasks International Law. Laila has worked as Initiative, the Centre will promote and positive change such as drafting opinions, orders and an intern in the Karadzic Defence team progress research and policy-relevant • consolidate existing, and produce new other court documents, preparing at the International Criminal Tribunal discussion on the four pillars of women, academic and international knowledge case files and research on a variety of for the former Yugoslavia and at the peace and security: on women, peace and security international legal issues. Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law. On 12 November 2014, six Furthermore, it was not uncommon to On 4 April 2015, the LSE team flew see the team sleeping in the library to to Washington DC to participate LSE students from all corners save time or taking a nap on the floor in the international rounds of the of the Moot Court Room to gain some competition, where the best 120 teams of the world met in the Moot extra energy! in the world meet with the goal of 38 39 becoming World Champions. The team Court Room in LSE Law for the The UK national rounds took place in put in a huge effort. In the group stages, first time. United by a common the majestic Gray’s Inn in London. After we came up against Greece, Ethiopia, two days of nerve-racking competition the eventual runners-up (Universidad goal, we worked tirelessly to and after having won all our preliminary Pontifícia Católica of Chile) and a matches against UCL, University of semi-finalist (University of Western overcome the challenges posed Aberdeen, the University of Sussex and Australia). In true LSE fashion, the by the largest international law the Honourable Society of the Inner UK national champions battled tooth Temple, the LSE team advanced to the and claw, managing to persuade one of competition in the world: the quarter-finals. Once more beating Inner the three judges against Australia and Temple, we had half an hour to prepare losing to Chile only on the memorial Philip C. Jessup International for our semi-final against Durham scores. Unfortunately, LSE did not Moot Court competition. From University. The hard-fought moot was make the list of teams that progressed a very close match and some of us to the knock-out rounds. Nonetheless, there on, six strangers became managed to scream and cry at the same the atmosphere of the competition and LSE Wins time when we found out that the bench the opportunity to meet people from a team in the truest sense of unanimously put forward LSE as the all over the world made the week we spent in Washington the experience winners and that we now had a ticket to the word and the busiest five of a lifetime. The fact that, despite our the international rounds in Washington. months of our lives began. group stages, Julian still managed to The final against the University of place as the 9th best oralist in the entire Jessup Cup 2015 Oxford still feels like a dream. Having competition also became an immense The Jessup Competition is an advocacy already exceeded all expectations, source of pride for the team. Clàudia Baró Huelmo competition with written and oral we entered the Great Hall of Gray’s pleadings to address issues relating to There are several people without whom Inn laughing, joking and smiling at public international law in the setting of these “peoples” could not have made it everyone we came across. In our routine the International Court of Justice. The so far. We would especially like to thank pre-match huddle, we decided just to 2015 problem covered issues as diverse the guest judges who took the time and have fun. In front of a panel of seven as the right to self-determination, the the interest to help us become better propriety of counter-measures and the eminent judges, that’s exactly what we advocates. Thank you, Devika Hovell, intricacies of treaty termination under did. The adrenaline and excitement Jan Kleinheisterkamp and Emmanuel the doctrine of fundamental change of the experience was palpable and Voyiakis. Furthermore, we would of circumstances. After exhausting both our oralists put on an incredible also like to thank Andrew Lang for day-long sessions, we finally managed performance. Two hours later, our Team bringing the team together and for his to submit two 54-page memorials three Captain walked to the podium and continuous support. Finally, the biggest minutes before the deadline. It was received the UK Jessup Cup on behalf thank you of all goes to George Kiladze, then time for the second stage of our of LSE. Moreover, Amalie received the our coach. His tenacity, enthusiasm, training: pleading before a bench of award for “Best Oralist in the Final hard work and encouragement drove judges. The weeks leading to the UK Round” and Julian won the award us to excel in ways we never dreamed were possible. national rounds, training sessions for “Best Oralist in the Preliminary increased exponentially and we ended Rounds”. There are no words to up meeting from 8am to 11pm every describe the happiness, the nervousness, single day to make sure we were ready the disbelief, the pride and exhilaration to challenge every UK team. Our efforts we experienced in that moment. were visible both in our progress as We jokingly say that, at that moment, oral advocates but also in the gross we became a “peoples” under neglect of coursework and social life. international law. TEAM 40 Taylor Wessing BEAVER 41 Commercial Challenge Team Beaver (Farah Rohaizat, Sin Nii Leong, Arnav Gupta) TEAM Participating in the Taylor an actual Taylor Wessing deal and we wrecking Q&A session, during which, were required to consider the practical we had to keep our hypothetical client’s Wessing Commercial Challenge issues involved in the early stages of the best interests in mind. BEAVER transaction. The Challenge enabled us The Challenge allowed us to grow both gave us the unique opportunity to to cultivate a keen sense of commercial as a team and as individuals, constantly awareness, enhancing our ability to not challenging and pushing us to our immerse ourselves in the role of only think in-depth about legal issues limits. We relished in the adrenaline but also the surrounding business a city lawyer in a real business rush that the competition gave us. considerations. Following this, we were It boosted our confidence and one of three teams that were selected to situation. It offered great insight motivation to pursue a career in go through to the finals held at Taylor commercial law. The experience into how a successful law Wessing’s London office. Preparing highlighted our individual strengths for the final stage of the competition firm works. We were proud to and weaknesses and collectively we was a gruelling process but as law worked towards bringing the best out of students we were used to many late represent LSE, aptly naming each other. caffeinated nights. We worked tirelessly, In addition, being able to gain a better ourselves “Team Beaver”. We doing research, forming our pitches, understanding of a business in the practising and arguing over the fine legal sector allowed us to assimilate our emerged as the winning team print. Nevertheless, the rewards were legal knowledge with practical skills. well worth the effort. out of a total of 30 teams from The qualities we developed during the The finals involved a whole day at the challenge will stay with us throughout universities around London, firm with presentations, a private tour our working lives. As a team, we believe and were awarded a week long of the firm and networking sessions. that this is a big step towards advancing One of the highlights of the day was our future legal careers. vacation scheme with the firm our particularly memorable encounter with the Managing Partner of the firm over the Easter vacation. This will in the lift. His encouraging words give us the invaluable experience to keep “fighting!” further fuelled our motivation to win. The day was that we are eagerly looking challenging but stimulating. When it was our turn to present the pitch, the forward to. anticipation was tangible. Our weeks of preparation culminated into that The first part of the Challenge involved single moment. We presented in front preparing a fictional written pitch as of a panel of judges that comprised of legal advisers for a hypothetical client’s partners and associates of the firm. Our acquisition. 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Slaughter and May Prize Slaughter and May Prize Best performance in Part I Best overall degree performance Carolina Bazarova (Part I and II combined) Philippe Yves Kuhn Morris Finer Memorial Prize Family Law Taxation Prize Zoe Jayne Carter Arisa Manawapat Mali Williams UK managed by the police and security PhD PROFILES services. Temporary exclusion decisions require the Secretary of State to have “reasonable” suspicion of involvement in “terrorism-related” activities – a low 44 45 hurdle for a broad test. Challenging the reasonableness of her decision will be On Secret Justice hard, or rather impossible, when her Bernard Keenan secret evidence is protected from cross-examination. My PhD research is concerned and physical materials used under the Closed practices do not only impact conditions of secret evidence hearings. on suspected terrorists and their ability with the growing use of “closed Closed material is almost always classified to challenge security measures. We, material” in UK courts. Closed information produced by the intelligence constituted broadly as the public, have services. First legislated for in 1997, they become increasingly dependent on instantaneous communication systems material is a form of information were introduced to deal with expulsion transmitting packets of information of non-citizens from the UK on grounds over the internet. If Edward Snowden’s that can be shown to the court of national security, following a 1996 leaks were correct about the technical decision from the European Court of as evidence without being capacity of GCHQ – and there is Human Rights that said there had to be nothing to suggest otherwise – then disclosed either to the public some sort of legal process in place to the government has the potential judicially review executive decisions, thus to intercept and examine any or, crucially, to the other side protecting human rights while protecting communication that may potentially state secrets. In subsequent years the in the case. Instead, a Special concern national security, economic form of closed material has been adopted wellbeing, or serious crime. Complaints Advocate is usually appointed in a number of forums and situations about unlawful surveillance are dealt where national security is invoked. Since with by the Investigatory Powers to view the secret material the Justice and Security Act 2013 it’s been Tribunal (IPT), another court that possible to hold closed judicial reviews and, where possible, make normally operates almost entirely in and to assess claims for damages in closed secret. The IPT recently ruled that session. The damages claims concerned representations on behalf of it is satisfied that the government’s the excluded party. The Special have arisen from alleged UK involvement almost entirely secret arrangements in overseas torture and rendition. for overseeing these enormous powers Advocate has to do this without The availability of Closed Material are lawful and that they effectively taking instructions about the Procedures has enabled new forms of protect us against mass interception security practices to emerge, all under of private information. More precisely, secret information. legal oversight. Indefinite detention and paradoxically, the IPT found that was infamously introduced after 11 arrangements were not lawful because not enough information about them I initially became interested in secretive September 2001. This gave way to was in the public domain, but because courts during my LLM at LSE in 2007- Control Orders (which have since the IPT’s judgment revealed a bit more 08, in Professor Conor Gearty’s course been rebranded as T-PIMs). Recently about the secret policies in place, the on Terrorism and the Rule of Law. we have seen an increase in the use fact of the judgment itself made the After my LLM I practiced immigration of exclusionary immigration powers, regime lawful. This is an extraordinary and asylum law in London for five and the exercise of executive power idea: an unlawful situation was years, and gained a bit of experience to remove British citizenship from rendered lawful by the very challenge in the material challenges involved naturalised persons. The new Counter against its illegality. But at least it keeps when fighting a case without knowing Terrorism Act 2015 will enable citizens me interested. the complete picture. As a result, I’m and non-citizens alike to be subject to interested in the practical problems, temporary exclusion from the UK for techniques, special knowledge practices up to two years, with their return to the PhD PROFILES

46 Constituent power and social justice 47 in postcolonial India: my intellectual journey so far Moiz Tundawala

I am a second year PhD student in LSE Law, keenly interested liberties cases, and emphasised upon its distinctiveness as a postcolonial in constitutional theory, postcolonial studies, Indian politics and democracy in resorting to arbitrary government, and the theory of human rights. My research project, exceptions while upholding social entitlements for the sake of popular which is being supervised by Professor Martin Loughlin and Professor welfare. But soon I realised that norm and exception were not Thomas Poole, seeks to map the career of constituent power in strictly segregable or mutually postcolonial India by engaging with the different forms in which it exclusive categories. A closer study of constitutional practice suggested that has been invoked for the provision or denial of social justice. It has the norm was not normal enough, and similarly, the exception was not changed considerably in the past one and a half years of my stay at exceptional enough. So instead of treating the two as binary opposites, LSE. Here is a brief account of my intellectual journey so far. it was better for me to think of them as extreme ends on a spectrum I began with the ambition of bringing encompassing a plethora of competing out the uniqueness in India’s values and goals. postcolonial engagement with the rule of law by analysing its application Following from this insight, I started in the jurisprudence of the Supreme developing an alternative theoretical Court on equality, civil liberties and framework which had the constitutional social rights. For someone working concept of political reason at its centre, on the postcolonial dimension of along with two conceptions of public constitutional adjudication, it was easy reason and reason of state as rival to get attracted by the Carl Schmitt categories on the norm exception inspired norm/exception dialectic, spectrum. At this stage, I also broadened with the metropolitan constitutional the scope of my project to cover the system taken as the norm and the judicial discourse on constitutional colonial as the exception. By extending amendments and the basic structure this framework to India’s postcolonial doctrine, since it had a close bearing context, I hoped to show marked on the way liberty and equality cases continuities with the colonial past were decided. What attracted me most in so far as both acknowledged the to reason was that it did not have an exceptional in equality and civil oppositional other, in the way that 48

norm had the exception. Its competing to the concept of constituent power in In a postcolonial constitutional conceptions were capacious enough postcolonial India. Its starting point is system which derived legitimacy as a to cover law in its three variants, the paradoxical moment of founding, response to colonial exploitation, the differently understood as custom, right characterised by the simultaneous social question could hardly remain and command, as also any purposive acceptance of a radical transformative non-political. Nor could it be easily deviation or violation therefrom. Added agenda of a social revolution under translated into the language of human to this, reason was more familiar to democratic constitutionalism on the rights. Most social entitlements in India’s constitutional tradition than one hand, and a colonial regime the Constitution are in fact couched norm and exception. In fact, it could of legislative and administrative as legally justiciable or injusticiable be said that the Court’s jurisprudence governmentality on the other. My responsibilities of government, which on the three areas I was interested in project will try to make theoretical sense were deemed necessary for the survival essentially revolved around reason and of this paradox through the concept of political democracy in the country. its competing conceptions. Therefore of constituent power, and explore the Even those which were framed as rights it was difficult to think of any other ways in which it has been dealt with by do not share the normative premises of analytical category which could be more constituted authorities in the aftermath idealised theories of justice. They may EXECUTIVE LLM pivotal for my project. of the Constitution coming into force better be understood as constitutional on 26 January 1950. attempts at removing manifest injustices All this while I was committed to an in which the vocabulary of rights at PROGRAMME FOR WORKING PROFESSIONALS integrated approach focusing on liberty, Finally, I have forced myself to limit the best serves an instrumental purpose. equality and constitutional amendments scope of this research to issues of social Therefore I have realised that it An innovative and intellectually exciting simultaneously. But while researching justice only. It was difficult to give up on would perhaps be more productive for a draft chapter, it became clear the civil and political dimension, but if to approach the politicisation of the part-time degree programme designed to me that the project might get I had to choose between the two, there social question through the concept unwieldy and therefore it was necessary was greater potential for making an of constituent power. In the next two to narrow down to something more original contribution to the scholarship for working professionals and a half years, I shall try to look manageable. So instead of studying the on postcolonial constitutional theory closely at the paradox of founding, and entire corpus of judicial decisions on by looking at social justice through Study for the LLM by taking a set of intensive Arbitration / Dispute Resolution the way it plays out in fundamental the three areas, I decided to focus only the prism of constituent power. The rights overriding constitutionalism modules over a period of three to four years. on certain constitutionally significant literature on constituent power throws Corporate / Commercial / Financial Law of Government in Parliament, episodes and weave my story around up pertinent questions relating to basic structure constitutionalism of Constitutional / Human Rights Law them. This took me to the distinction constitutional guardianship. However, the Supreme Court, and societal between ordinary and extraordinary I feel that they have not yet been constitutionalism of social and political International Law constitutional moments, usually equated sufficiently extended to the social movements in postcolonial India. with the exercise of constituted power question, which is predominantly Media Law and constituent power respectively. Ever regarded in modern political thought since, I have been able to figure out that as a depoliticised domain of necessity, the core of my research actually pertains or lately as a human rights concern. PhD PROFILES

50 Tackling Your Topic 51 and Yourself Velimir Zivkovic

Under the supervision of Professor Jan Kleinheisterkamp and deceiving not just the listener, but him- or herself. Mr Chris Thomas, Velimir is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at There are many other things I could the London School of Economics and Political Science. His PhD talk about my first year and a half at LSE. The opportunities to coach research explores the possibilities of reforming international the LSE Vis moot team and to teach undergraduates are high on that list. investment law through modified deliberative democracy methods, The experience gathered in both soft law instrument and academic endeavours. cases is truly invaluable. So too is the principle of treating PhD candidates I am a second year PhD candidate at The fantastic thing about LSE was how as the equals of academic staff. Many LSE Law researching in the area of it shattered the many preconceptions I productive conversations I have had international investment law. I finished had. “Rerum cognoscere causas”, was not started as chats in the corridors of the my undergraduate study of law and my just a motto in my case. It became a New Academic Building. first LLM degree at my home university goal. The questions shifted from how A PhD is not for everyone, that much of Belgrade. After that came a Magister to why? Should we actually codify the is clear. The opportunity to read and Juris degree at the University of Oxford existing practice? Or is progressive reflect for weeks and months can make and after further (often parallel) spells codification a better choice? And if it you unsure, confounded and scared of in practice, consultancy and research I is, what principles should underlie it? ever trying to voice something on your started my PhD at LSE in October 2013. My research shifted into legitimacy own. The interdisciplinary perspectives This is to say that I had experienced tensions, arbitral system-building so often espoused by LSE do not make quite a lot before coming here, yet I was and rethinking of the function of the this task any easier. Yet, I am glad to be a hard-nosed positivist in the Germanic international investment regime. The here and tackle these challenges one by one, paragraph by paragraph, chapter tradition without being really aware role of soft law qualitatively changed by chapter. of it. My original PhD topic proposal from the one of ensuring consistency to seems to me now so desperately naïve the one of legitimacy-enhancing reform. and one-sided. I wanted to explore I forayed into deliberative democracy how the jurisprudence of international and into the works of Jürgen Habermas, investment arbitration tribunals could something that had hardly occurred be codified and then used in the form to me before. I am grateful to the of a soft-law codification to iron out unique LSE atmosphere of challenging inconsistent interpretations of similar everything. Those who expect to now provisions in arbitral awards. I was know exactly where my topic is heading building on my Oxford dissertation and are going to be disappointed at this was full of confidence that it could be point. A second year PhD student who done the way I originally envisioned it. claims to know this is inadvertently My doctorate explores the concept of PhD PROFILES home in law. How does law engage with home? What are the legal conditions that make possible different experiences of home? How does law make itself 52 53 present in the space of home, where we The Lake Home might least expect to find it? I take up three “home problems”, set in different Henrietta Zeffert parts of the world, and examine the interconnections between law and As lawyers we rarely talk about home. We might approach home home in each. I argue that while these interconnections are not always intuitive in roundabout ways – in housing regulation, household debt and or obvious, they illustrate that home the “home state” in refugee law. But we rarely, if ever, notice how is at least in part shaped by law. This seems an important enquiry because the law operates on our homes, even inside our homes, assembling consequences of the links between law and home can be devastating. and disassembling the conditions, foundations and materials of our Let me introduce one of those home homes, literal and figurative. problems: the lake home at Boeung Kak Lake, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is surprising when home is at the human existence. The image of “home For decades, fisher people at Boeung centre of everyday life. Home is a site as haven” conjures a place liberated from Kak Lake have lived in stilt homes set for daily practices as well as major life fear, emotionally noble and natural, a in the shallows. The stilts steady homes events. It is the navel of our journeys to metaphor for comfort, solidarity and through monsoon floods and the fury and fro, and an arbiter of the transitions protection. Yet many homes are far from of summer storms. In the dry season, we make during our life course. Home is this ideal. Home is replete with conflict, the stilts shelter cows and chickens, also one of the most idealised places of anxiety and precariousness. ducks and dogs, and the many-headed project had determined that the land being priced out or entering distress perhaps in new and different forms. was unused and unowned. This was sales in the face of a debt, or being From local human rights activism despite local reality and contrary to expelled from their land when the and a national land law regime, customary land and property norms. land is used as collateral for repayment to the law-making of international The lake and its surrounding villages of a loan, or where there are gaps institutions such as the World Bank 54 55 automatically became state land, between customary rights and formal and transnational legal processes rendering residents illegal squatters in rights guaranteed through titling, as around land grabbing, law travels across their own homes. The state was then at Boeung Kak Lake. There is also the these jurisdictional boundaries but free to dispose of the land – which it did perhaps deeper problem of legalisation. consistently engages with home. On do, leasing the lake to the developer, What is the effect of legalising the seeing this, it might become possible sealing a deal that had been privately boundaries of villages and the existence to imagine using home as a starting discussed for years. of homes through a formal property point for discussing new and different regime, a regime which includes some forms of law and legality, which don’t Scholars talk about a “spike” in large- and excludes others with neat lines necessarily map onto a state-framed scale land acquisitions in the decade drawn on maps and registered records interpretation of law or the limits of following the oil, food and finance of title, and where power asymmetries a particular legal regime. This in turn crises of 2006 – 2008. There has been a cut across these transactions, troubling might help with strategies to address flurry of rule-making activity since then the ability to resist? challenges and risks to do with home among states, international institutions, that exist today on a global scale, such multilateral groups and non- The picture emerging from the story as land grabbing, and which directly or governmental organisations to address of the lake home is of a confluence of indirectly affect an increasing number the issue. The rules, charters and laws and legal processes, operating at of people. declarations that have been developed all levels and originating from multiple focus on facilitating investment in land locations, meeting at the site of home and reducing investor risk, offering and issuing out again from home, slim protection to people living in areas targeted for acquisition. And yet the effect for local landholders can be dramatic. At Boeung Kak Lake, forced evictions began in 2009. Residents were naga snake. Khmer mythology tells transformed the lake. Now fenced, regulatory instruments, and other relocated but the Bank’s resettlement how the naga builds its nest among dredged and filled in with sand, the capacity building initiatives to manage policy, which offered some safeguards, the stilts, bringing good luck and lake and surrounding land have been the new land regime. Bank staff trained was not implemented. Local activists protection against misfortune to the leased by the Cambodian government to and assisted local officials to carry out and housing rights organisations family dwelling above. The stilt homes a foreign developer with plans to build these tasks. To facilitate the project, and have challenged the evictions in state are built by hand and often house many a luxury satellite city. Most of the stilt meet the Bank’s funding conditions, courts without success. United Nations generations under one roof. There is a homes have been destroyed. Around the national government enacted a new mandate holders have criticised the single room for living, sleeping, eating, 3,500 residents have been evicted from land law enshrining, for the first time government’s failure to meet human making and playing. The ground below their homes and relocated to housing in the Cambodia’s history, individual rights standards. – or a waiting canoe – is reached by a sites on the edge of the city in the property rights, as well as rules Cambodia remains fragile following ladder poking up through a small gap in largest forced movement of people enabling foreign investment in land. decades of civil war. The country is the floorboards. since the civil war. The new regime completely replaced sustained by international aid, riddled Cambodia’s existing land tenure system Boeung Kak Lake is the largest of In the backdrop to the land grab with corruption and rapidly shrinking and extinguished almost all legal and Phnom Penh’s seven lakes and a natural at Boeung Kak Lake, another story from the pillage of its northern forests. customary rights in land and property asset that has historically ensured the unfolds. A World Bank land project At Boeung Kak Lake, a development that existed prior to 1979, the beginning capital’s dominance as a gateway to operated at the lake between 2002 and project which promised to increase of the Khmer Rouge era. South East Asia. The lake is also a vital 2008. The project promised to improve tenure security left local people less floodplain, insulating the city from security of tenure for local people and The project ended abruptly in 2008. No secure. The merits of land titling annual tides, and a retreat for city- to develop land and property markets. land titles were ever issued. Residents and the creation of markets for dwellers from Cambodia’s oppressive The project had various components, were denied the opportunity to test property rights where macroeconomic sticky seasons. However, a land grab including systematic land titling, their title claims. Local officials charged conditions are not adequate are indeed that began almost ten years ago has developing land-related policies and with surveying the land as part of the questionable. Small landholders risk PhD Completions 2013/14 56 57 LSE Law students awarded with their PhD in the academic session 2013/14

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EVENTS Opening the discussion, Professor Dr Jan Komarek made a strong case Dr Jo Murkens argued forcefully in Chalmers suggested that the best for the UK staying in the EU from the favour of the UK remaining within answer to the question of whether the EU perspective and examined what the EU from a political perspective, UK should leave the EU was “don’t made the “EU perspective” on this highlighting that the EU was a political know.” He vividly outlined the many question a different one to perspectives project (concerned with, for example, benefits of EU membership (including shaped by national interests. He argued peace and prosperity) as well as a free Leaving the EU? the fact that we are “alive today” (!) that the EU provides an important trade area, and warning that the UK tended to regard the EU only in terms Niamh Moloney – a reference to the EU-derived rules framework for mediating difference which protect pregnant women against and for discussing “big issues.” The of economic association despite the importance of the EU beyond the discrimination) but warned that the establishment and operation of this economic sphere. He queried why the EU had weak democratic authority. framework was an achievement, and one UK was absent on the world political Cautioning against predictions that which supports genuine engagement stage and, in particular, indifferent to LSE Law’s highly successful 2014-2015 Public Lecture Series leaving the EU and/or engaging in beyond national interests. But this the EU’s role in international relations; other forms of association with the EU framework was not that stable and, continued on 17 February 2015 with a Public Lecture on one of why did the UK not assist the EU in would strengthen democratic credibility, together with its achievements, could developing a collective position on the questions of the hour: “Leaving the EU?” Chaired by Professor he called for further consideration of be undermined by Brexit. While Dr matters of international importance? the reforms which might make the EU Komarek conceded that his argument Niamh Moloney, the event saw Professor Damian Chalmers, Dr Jan Dr Murkens also suggested that major fit for purpose (and suggested that was an idealistic one, he argued that legislation derived from the EU Komarek, Dr Jo Murkens and Emeritus Professor Carol Harlow – all the longer a “don’t know” position it was nonetheless an important one and of social importance, including of LSE Law – debate the timely and contested question of “Brexit.” obtained, the easier it would be for the given the many achievements of the with respect to the environment, UK to bargain with the EU). Professor EU, including the emergence of the workers’ rights, and data protection, A thronged Hong Kong Theatre heard the panellists debate the Chalmers called, for example, for closer Central and Eastern European states as would be renegotiated as part of any consideration to be given to the rights independent Member States of disassociation from the EU and queried many issues associated with the UK deciding to leave the EU and of the immobile (and not just of the the EU. He concluded by warning why the UK sought to obstruct such mobile, as is traditional in EU law) that a decision to leave the EU important rules. He also underlined the engaged in a very lively Q & A session with panel members. and for discussion on the relationship would be a decision to say “no” to potential impact of a Brexit referendum between transnational and the EU’s achievements and to its on the constituent parts of the UK, national citizenship. governing framework. and warned of the dangers of a break- 60 61

up of the UK. He concluded with an to the referendum on EU membership Leaving the EU? continued unforgettable “Brexit Rap”, which promised by Prime Minister David brought roars of approval from Cameron, she explained the legal the audience. background (and noted the likelihood that any such referendum would The panel discussion concluded with be based on existing parliamentary a fascinating account by Professor constituencies and suffrage) and the Carol Harlow of the legalities of a role of the Electoral Commission referendum on EU membership and in reviewing the wording of the of a subsequent UK exit from the EU. question to be asked of the electorate. With respect to the operation of any She concluded by warning that a such referendum, for example, she referendum on EU membership could noted the growing resort in the UK be very destabilising, including with to referenda as means for delivering respect to the political consequences for constitutional change, but reminded Scotland and Northern Ireland. A lively the audience that a referendum is Q & A followed during which panellists advisory and not binding. She explained and audience members debated this that a referendum is closely based on EVENTS most timely of topics. statute, being based on a particular statute which contains the terms of Leaving the EU? can be viewed at reference for the referendum and its bit.ly/LeavingTheEU procedures; a referendum is accordingly a question for the government of the Human Shield day and for Parliament. Professor Harlow drew the audience’s attention to the 2000 Act which set the ground rules for referenda and established by Professor Judith Butler the Electoral Commission which supervises referenda. With reference Tor Krever is a PhD Candidate in LSE Law and Assistant Editor of the London Review of International Law. On 4 February, Judith Butler delivered the inaugural London Review population – the population becomes already realised, is that when we see The video and podcast of Judith Butler’s lecture is eligible for attack and loses video of children slaughtered on a Gaza available at bit.ly/LSEHumanShield its immunity”. beach, we in fact see enemy combatants of International Law annual lecture, titled “Human Shield”. The You can find out more about the London Review of and their weaponry destroyed. After all, This discursive interpolation, Butler International Law at http://lril.oxfordjournals.org London Review, an international law journal now in its third year of if one can erase the concept of a civilian 62 went on to suggest, is not limited to the 63 population, one will always have a ready military battlefield – it is found not only publication, places an editorial emphasis on theoretical, historical justification for murder. in Gaza, but also in Ferguson, Missouri and socio-legal scholarship in the international legal field. The and the various urban centres of the lecture was supported by LSE Law and Oxford University Press. United States in which black people are killed by an increasingly militarised Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor and who as perpetrator? police force. A black man leaves a store in the Department of Comparative unarmed and is perceived by the police It matters, on Butler’s approach, Literature and the Program of Critical who gun him down as a threat. Another whether the human shield in question is repeatedly states he cannot breathe Theory at the University of California, understood as voluntary or involuntary. and the chokehold is tightened. He too Berkeley. Her work is marked by Once a belligerent compels civilians dies because he is perceived as a threat. incredible breadth, from Gender Trouble: to act involuntarily as shields, Butler It does not matter that these men are Feminism and the Subversion of Identity argued, those protected persons unarmed; the threat they pose is not (1990), a canonical text of queer theory, become part of the field of military one that comes from carrying weapons. to more recent interventions such as action and lose their immunity. Their The “threat they embody – the threat Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? bodies can be now be understood as that is their body – justifies the violent (2009) and Parting Ways: Jewishness and weapons deployed against the assaulting action against them”. the Critique of Zionism (2012). force, which can now argue justification How is it that black men are perceived In her lecture at LSE, Butler turned in killing them. In other words, the as threats when unarmed and even her critical gaze on the issue of human claim that a population was involuntarily physically subdued? These individuals, shields. Under international law, the positioned to shield a military target turns that population into a weapon of Butler suggested, are already established use of human shields is a war crime, war: a “shield becomes reconceptualised as civilians “worth killing” – civilians one that involves using the presence of as a weapon for the purposes of who are “always almost killing, about to civilians and other protected persons waging war”. kill” and who “if let free will go on to so as to render certain areas or military kill”. Here, then, is a racial phantasm, forces immune from attack. Yet the We are left, Butler observed, with a the body perceived so that it is figured – very deployment of civilians as human paradox. “An assaulting army can as in Palestine – as an instrument of war. shields presumes that an opposing designate a population as an involuntary It is merely a defensive manoeuvre on force will not deliberately bomb those human shield and the involuntary the part of the police to harm, subdue civilians because that too is a war crime. character of that very designation and eliminate that body. The murdered effectively produces them as a human There is, then, Butler explained, a black man is not a civilian, but rather a shield in a public discourse that comes wager played out on the battlefield. threat to civilian order. to accept the allegation, even when One group can only destroy another by they’ve neither been positioned that way Tracing the arc from Palestine to committing a war crime in the course by their own government nor positioned Ferguson, Butler observed that “there of that destruction. The other group, themselves.” Using the example of can only be a war crime in Gaza if there in turn, can only ward off attack by Palestine, Butler showed how the is an accepted civilian community and presenting its civilian population as a civilian population of Gaza is regularly there can only be unjustified police target that either invites the assaulting figured as involuntary human shields by homicide if the person who is killed party to commit a war crime by realising the Israeli government, an attribution is understood as an innocent civilian. its military objective, or offers a of status that works as part of a broader But if both of those populations are disincentive for that objective. There is Israeli war strategy: “the discursive now recast as security risks or threats, at play a tactical wager: who will commit allegation of the status of human or their bodies are understood as a war crime first? Who will commit it in shield to a specific civilian population”, weaponised from the start, the sphere such a way as for it to be condemned as Butler argued, “operates precisely of civic protection is displaced by the such? Who will be positioned as victim to rationalise the destruction of that protocols of war.” The risk, perhaps 64 65 We are the Our most ambitious action was our last. Just a few weeks ago we took possession of LSE Director Craig Calhoun’s apartment (magnificent; opulently overlooking the Thames) for a debate about wealth and 66 67 higher education. Calhoun himself was not in though his partner was – her tweets from the upstairs study alerted the Director and on arriving home at 9pm he found us still in deep debate – Nick Barr, Tim Leunig – GUERRILLAS both faculty workers – were joined by the Student Union’s Nona Buckley-Irvine, and a group of LSE people brave enough to have We the LSE guerrillas take our stand against the lack of creativity allowing him to believe the taken a ticket to an unknown destination and imagination in university teaching today. Why must class be Guerrillas was his idea (easily done) one miserable February evening. we have secured his commitment Brothers, sisters, trans-siblings: this is just to something that is in truth way scheduled in the way it is? How are lectures to be treated as fresh the beginning! As this last action shows, we beyond him. and lively if they take place at the same time and in the same are growing in confidence, drawing nearer Our first strike was in the crypt of and nearer to the full levers of power. In place on a regular basis, and deal only with topics that have been Westminster Cathedral: the first thirty education what is power? Not knowledge LSE workers (students? professors? for we deny there is such a thing, but rather anticipated, set out in advance and generally drained of life? What staff? – we recognise no such the networks of influence and opportunity is this about disciplines, as though the world were segmented into distinctions!) in a flash queue in the that the ostensible search for knowledge New Academic Building were guided to at the right place brings. The right place silos – marked LAW, ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY and so on – and not a grubby street in Westminster when at is LSE, top ranking, international, hugely a preordained time they entered a dark influential. If we can realise our Manifesto the messy confusion of rival ideas that it is in reality? Why do some and dank passage that lead beneath here we can achieve anything, anywhere. humans claim a greater right to teach than others based simply on the Cathedral to a Holy Place where, And even if we do not what does our failure surrounded by the tombs of cardinals, leave: memories of unexpected discussions the arbitrary title PROFESSOR – good at school and afraid to leave they debated the MEANING OF HELL, for those courageous enough to have in the company of the School chaplain sought them out; debate about topics on it for real life, all that they now bring to others is prejudice amplified Jim Walters, a sociologist of cults Eileen which we feel strongly but of which feelings by wider reading. Barker and an anthropologist with we knew nothing before we had the chance a specialism in humanism to explore them. If this is failure then we Matthew Engelke. devotedly hope that more lectures and Agreed at our inaugural meeting two Our first action after issuing our classes should fail more often. years ago, the Guerrilla Manifesto Manifesto was to identify a useful idiot, Next up was Highgate Cemetery. We Death to routine! (i) deplores the concept of the pre- a conduit through which to channel our took possession of it one Summer ordained in teaching; (ii) demands ideas. We settled on CONOR GEARTY evening when it was ostensibly “closed” Professor Conor Gearty – under whose name this article that all “teaching” engagements be (under whose name we write this (albeit not to the guerrillas!) and appears – is Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs SURPRISE INTERACTIONS WITH piece) for various reasons: he had just after our LSE people had wandered and Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE. He has LEARNING; (iii) calls for teaching that started a new Institute at LSE and was this mysterious place of death we worked long and hard for these titles. is SPONTANEOUS, UNEXPECTED, therefore more vulnerable than most, summoned them by bell to the graves MYSTERIOUS and therefore having something to prove, a rationale of Karl Marx and Herbert Spencer, MEMORABLE; and (iv) recognises for his Institute’s existence that he frowning at each other across a gravelly as teaching only that work in which needed to demonstrate; his presence path, one a great revolutionary, KNOWLEDGE IS CO-PRODUCED BY on Twitter and his access to the levers the other a cheerleader for social ALL THAT ARE PRESENT: truth is no of power within LSE communications, Darwinism. Lea Ypi and Tony Giddens longer the preserve of the priest, the allied to his perceived status within the debated their merits, both school learned or the ostensibly “qualified” – organisation (“a full professor” – what a people immune to status however high humanity is our qualification, voice our pompous comedy!) made him someone they rise and natural sympathisers common means of communication. through whom we could work; and by therefore with the Guerrilla agenda. EVENT 68 Greece: The Future 69 of Europe? Manolis Melissaris On 25 January 2015, SYRIZA (Synaspismós tis Rizospastikís Aristerás – Coalition of the Radical Left) won the snap general election in Greece and subsequently formed government in coalition with the right-wing party of the Independent Greeks. The SYRIZA victory was of great significance for a number of reasons. First of all, it is the first time that the Left forms government in Greece and, to this day, it remains the only left-wing government in Europe. Secondly, SYRIZA’s main manifesto pledge was to end the politics of austerity, which had been practiced in Greece since 2010 when the country was excluded from the financial markets because of the enormity of its debt and subsequently resorted to being bailed out by the so-called Troika, which comprised of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. In return for the bailouts, successive Greek governments had agreed with its lenders a series of structural reforms, which involved mainly widespread privatisation of public assets and drastic cuts in public spending, largely in salaries and pensions. SYRIZA coming to power boded a collision with the Troika and, according to some, with Greece’s European partners. Quick off the mark, LSE Law organised Kicking off the event, Professor Talani in its longer-term historical context, a highly informative and stimulating focused on the causes of the Greek both Greek and European, interpreting public event entitled “Greece: The crisis and the Eurozone crisis generally it as towards the reorientation of the Future of Europe?” on 13 February. and argued that it is due not to the Eurozone’s financial policy as well as Legal Biography Project The aim of the event was to explore “fiscal delinquency” of Greece or the redemocratisation of decision-making 70 71 the significance of the SYRIZA victory rest of the countries in the European processes. He concluded by urging for Europe; whether its importance is South (and Ireland) but rather to a the SYRIZA government to reorganise Among the Legal Biography Project’s activities, perhaps the exhausted in the immediate question combination of the global financial the Greek state and social services of the Greek debt and the future of the crisis and the structural imbalances of around the recently emerged social most visible have been the public conversations with eminent Eurozone or whether it might bring to the European Monetary Union. She solidarity structures and practices. Paul the fore deeper tensions or different argued that, although the crisis was Mason attributed the SYRIZA victory judges and lawyers. Since 2007, the project has hosted a series visions of a democratic Europe. mainly one relating to competitiveness, not only to its support by participants of interviews with judges who have sat on the Supreme Court, it was mistakenly treated as a fiscal crisis in social movements but also to the The panel of speakers comprised of thus failing to address its real causes. charisma of the party’s leaders. After House of Lords, and Court of Appeal, as well as those who have people with a great deal of experience Professor Glendinning highlighted giving an insider’s account of the state in the politics and economics of three binaries in tension. First, he of the negotiations between Greece held the office of Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice. We have Europe and especially Greece and considered the tension between the and its lenders at the time (it is worth the Mediterranean region. Professor conducted interviews with some of the pioneering women who have left Keynesian strand, on the one hand, noting that his predictions were largely Simona Talani is the Jean Monnet and the more radical left-wing strand confirmed eventually), he discussed Chair of European Political Economy achieved eminence on the Bench, as well as one of South Africa’s in SYRIZA. Given the signs that the the implications of the SYRIZA victory in the Department of European and government has chosen to take the for European politics and institutions Constitutional Court Judges. These interviews explore not only their International Studies at King’s College former approach in its negotiations expecting that both will eventually be London and has written extensively careers at the bar and on the bench, but their family background with its lenders, Glendinning wondered nudged in a more progressive direction. on European political economy as well what ramifications a deal that falls short The lively discussion that followed as the political economy of the Arab and education, the influences which set them on their chosen of the expectations of the more radical focused on many of the points made by unsettled early childhood, spending Spring. Professor Costas Douzinas wing may have in terms of the party’s the speakers. paths, and the chance opportunities, or obstructions, which they five years in a home for disadvantaged (Professor of Law, Birkbeck School and the government’s coherence. of Law; Director of the Birkbeck The full event podcast for Greece: The Future of children, before winning a scholarship Secondly, he considered the tension encountered in their careers. Institute for the Humanities) is one Europe? is available at http://t.co/6ta88WbNhH to Pretoria High School. This school between economic and political of the most influential and prolific Many of our interviewees have revealed Ronald Coase and Richard Posner were – which modelled itself on the English European integration emphasising the thinkers of SYRIZA and has been how their later lives were shaped by developing the economic analysis of law. public school tradition – gave him the competing incentives that countries involved in political developments childhood experience and education. Once he had returned to the United excellent academic education, which such as Greece and Germany might in Greece since the beginning of the In his recent conversation with Sir Ross Kingdom, his career at the bar was often led to his eventually studying Classics have for further political integration; crisis. Professor Simon Glendinning Cranston, the current Lord Chief Justice, driven as much by chance as planning - at Stellenbosch and Law at Oxford. the former from a position of (Professor of European Philosophy, Lord Thomas (pictured right), spoke such as a chance meeting while acting as Always conscious that as a boy, he had vulnerability and the latter from a LSE European Institute) is one of the of his childhood in Wales, where his marshal on circuit for Mr Justice Cusack been given opportunities denied to his position of dominance. Lastly, taking leading philosophical thinkers on the father was a solicitor in Ystradgynlais, in Wales, which led to his joining a set sister, he also became increasingly aware a philosophical history approach, he idea of Europe. Paul Mason (Channel as well as acting as clerk to the justices of chambers specialising in commercial that as a young white South African, he discussed the symbolic representation 4 Economics Editor and Guardian and coroner. He was educated at the work at 4 Essex Court, where he joined enjoyed all manner of advantages denied of the idea of Greece for Europe as well columnist) has been following and village school in the mining community a group of remarkable commercial to those excluded under apartheid. His as the deep-seated European dimension reporting on events in Greece arguably of Cwmgiedd, before being sent to lawyers. As he explained, life at the political views became more radicalised of the construction of Germany and the more closely than anyone in the British commercial bar in the early 1970s was post-WW2 attempt to “Europeanise” boarding school in England, at the age after the death in detention of the black media. He is also currently working on very different from the contemporary Germany, which, as Glendinning noted, of nine, first in Harrow and later at consciousness leader Steve Biko, and a documentary, with director Theopi experience, with a rather smaller could only lead to the Germanisation Rugby. The young John Thomas was when he returned to South Africa from Skarlatos, on developments in Greece number of practitioners and rather less of Europe. driven by a sense of adventure and Oxford, he began to develop a human lucrative business. after the SYRIZA victory. The event intellectual curiosity. Before going up rights practice (at the University of the was chaired by LSE Law’s Emmanuel Professor Douzinas traced the origins to Cambridge, he spent nine months as Edwin Cameron’s path into the law, Witwatersrand’s Centre for Applied Melissaris, who is originally from Greece of the sudden increase in SYRIZA’s a teacher at Mayo College in Rajasthan, and ultimately to be a justice on the Legal studies), combining critical legal and has recently written a number of electoral back to the mass resistance and learning much about both politics and South African constitutional court, was academic work with advocacy in court. pieces on Greek politics both in English solidarity movements over the last five local village life in India. After leaving also significantly shaped by his early He became one of the country’s most and in Greek. years. He also placed the SYRIZA victory Cambridge, he spent a year at the experiences. Born into a modest family prominent human rights activists in the University of Chicago, at the time that in Pretoria, he had a very unstable and 1980s, acting as counsel (for instance) for the Sharpeville Six, as well as EVENTS Tuesday 27 October 2015, Thursday 10 December 2015, Lent and Summer Terms 2016 remaining a high-profile activist for gay 6.30pm – 8pm, 6.30pm – 8pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, rights in South Africa. Often a brave Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE At the time of print, LSE Law’s 2016 and fierce critic of those in authority, New Academic Building, LSE events schedule was being finalised. he told Linda Mulcahy in his interview UN International Human Rights Day Events are expected to include a return 72 An LSE Law Matters public discussion 73 that twenty years after being castigated Forthcoming Events event with LSE Centre for the Study of of the hugely popular …On Trial as part Human Rights by a Minister of Justice under an Theorising Transnational the LSE Space for Thought Literary apartheid government, he found Legal Orders Fighting the Behemoth: Law, Festival 2016, a panel of LSE Law Tuesday 13 October 2015, experts discussing current legal and himself under criticism from an ANC Wednesday 30 September 2015, Professor Shaffer addresses the creation, politics and human rights in times 6.30pm – 8pm, political issues in the second A Question Minister of Justice. 6.30pm – 8pm, operation and decline of transnational of debt and austerity Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE of Law and further Law Matters Sheikh Zayed Theatre, legal orders across areas of life that Other interviews have shed light on Recent events have put Greece in the lectures showcasing the research of New Academic Building, LSE A Gender Institute, LSE Law and LSE transcend the nation state. the experience of women seeking to spotlight and at the forefront of critical LSE Law academics and visiting Government public debate make their way at the bar. Lady Hale, An LSE Law Matters Inaugural Lecture Speaker: Gregory Shaffer is questions that connect human rights Shimizu professors. who was one of the most brilliant Confronting Gender Inequality: Chancellor’s Professor, University of protection, democracy, debt, and “Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL”: Full details and up to date information law students of her generation at Findings from the LSE Commission California at Irvine School of Law, and austerity. The situation has exposed Machine Intelligence and the Law can be found at lse.ac.uk/LawEvents Cambridge, described how her on Gender, Inequality and Power Vice President of the American Society grave concerns regarding the failure of gender told against her when seeking HAL 9000 will soon no longer be of International Law international lenders to factor in social The LSE Commission on Gender, a pupillage, which resulted in her science fiction: sentient machines will rights in the management of the debt Inequality and Power will present Chair: Andrew Lang is Professor of starting a career as an academic, rather quickly be with us. How will the law and in the crafting of conditionalities their findings at this public debate. Law at LSE than a practitioner. Dame Mary Arden and lawyers meet their challenge? imposed on Greece. What if the Examining persisting inequalities had more luck in the same era, when Follow the event on Twitter: loans weren’t made in the interest Speaker: Andrew Murray is Professor between women and men in the UK, the fortune removed one potential gender- #LSEShaffer of the people of Greece, should the of Law with particular reference to Commission has focused on the media, related obstacle to her obtaining subsequent debt incurred be illegal? New Media and Technology Law at the economic sphere, political life, and a pupillage. She recalled that the Is the debt “sustainable” if social LSE (Twitter: @AndrewDMurray) the legal profession. building housing the set of Chambers Monday 16 November 2015, rights are violated in order to service where she was seeking to be a pupil Chair: Julia Black is Pro Director for Speakers: Shami Chakrabarti is director 6.30pm – 8pm, it in the coming years? The recent had recently been refurbished after a Research at LSE and Professor of Law. of Liberty (Twitter: @libertyhq); Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE handling of the crisis also throws into major fire, and that, for the first time Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi is a doubt Europe’s commitment to basic Follow the event on Twitter: An LSE Debating Law event in its history, separate lavatories had freelance journalist principles of democracy, with strong #LSEMurray been installed for men and women. As (@Rebecca_Omonira); Polly Toynbee is Order without Law? Gangs and voices condemning EU Member States a result, it was felt that the Chambers a journalist and writes for the Guardian other forms of alternative social for not respecting the outcome of a order in and beyond the prison referendum held in one of its Member could now take women pupils – since Tuesday 6 October 2015, (@pollytoynbee) they would no longer have to go to States and where creditors are 6.30pm – 8pm, Chair: Tim Besley is School Professor of Scholars from three disciplines debate the Royal Courts of Justice to use the being charged with requiring a Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Economics and Political Science, and the significance of gangs and informal facilities – and three were taken on. Government to act under threat of a W Arthur Lewis Professor of social ordering, and their relationship Life at the bar remained tough for An LSE Law Public Conversation humanitarian catastrophe. Development Economics to formal social ordering such as law. young female barristers, and her later On Liberty: In Conversation with Speaker: Zoe Konstantopoulou Speakers: Dr Insa Koch is Assistant attempts to organise a nursery for Shami Chakrabarti Follow the event on Twitter: (President of the Greek Parliament) those with young children, #LSEtalksGender Professor in Law and Anthropology, LSE fell on deaf ears. To mark the paperback release of “On Law; Dr Lisa McKenzie is Fellow in the Chair: Dr Margot Salomon (Centre for Liberty”, Shami Chakrabarti will be in Sociology Department, LSE (Twitter: the Study of Human Rights; LSE Law; The conversations we have conducted conversation with Conor Gearty and @redrumlisa); Dr David Skarbek is Director of the Laboratory for Advanced have given rich insights into the taking questions from the audience Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, Research on the Global Economy) background and personalities of the and Twitter. King’s College London men and women who continue to shape (@DavidSkarbek) Speaker: Shami Chakrabarti is director Unless otherwise stated, events are free our law. Many of them are available as of Liberty (Twitter: @libertyhq) to attend with no registration required podcasts via the LSE Law website; and Chair: Nicola Lacey is Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, LSE and seating allocated on a first come first we hope to add many more interviews Chair: Conor Gearty is Director of the served basis. with members of the legal profession in Institute of Public Affairs and Professor Follow the event on Twitter: #LSEgangs the coming years. of Human Rights Law at LSE (Twitter: @conorgearty)

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