Contact details
Law Department
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
Tel: 020 7955 6714
Fax: 020 7955 7366
E-mail:
lawdepartment@lse.ac.uk
See our Staff list for a complete list of all people in the Law Department.
See our
Visiting Fellows FAQs page for information about visiting opportunities
within the Department.
Finding Us
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Equality and Diversity
The Law Department and the London School of Economics are committed to
widening participation and providing help and assistance to students with
special requirements. Across the School and within the Students' Union,
there are many specialist advisers and organisations who can provide extra
support to students during their time at LSE. Their expertise covers many
areas including gender issues, sexual orientation, issues affecting ethnic
minorities and disability.
Race Equality
The Law Department and the London School of Economics values the racial,
ethnic, nationality and cultural diversity of all its students, employees,
governors, alumni and visitors. The Department and School believe in equal
treatment and we are committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination and to
the promotion of equality, opportunity and good race relations between
persons of different racial backgrounds based on merit and will not tolerate
any form of racial discrimination.
If you require further information please contact
Joy Whyte at departmental level on 020 7955 7278 or the School Race
Equality Office on 020 7955 6866 or the LSE race equality web link
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/raceEquality
Disability
The Law Department and the London School of Economics and Political
Science aim to ensure that individuals of whatever race, gender or degree of
disability can have equal access to studying opportunities.
Provisions came into force in December 2005 to extend the definition of
disability to include people suffering from mental illness, cancer, HIV or
MS, and oblige the School to ‘proactively’ eliminate discrimination across
all areas of the institution (i.e. the ‘Public Sector Duty’). LSE must
detail its work in this area in a ‘Disability Scheme’, and a start has been
made on this by Jean Jameson.
Students with disabilities which may impact on their studies should
contact the Adviser to Students with Disabilities and/or Dyslexia (Contact:
Disability Office) in good time to negotiate reasonable adjustments which
will set out in an Individual Student Support Agreement (ISSA). They must
also agree to the extent to which this information will be shared within the
School.
If you require further information please contact
Joy Whyte at departmental level on 020 7955 7278 or the School
Disability Office on 020 7955 6034 or
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collection/disabilityoffice
About the Law Department
Since the foundation of the LSE
just over a century ago, the study of law has been an integral part of the
School's mission. The Law Department is one of the largest in the School.
Its special place in a school of social sciences has given legal studies in
the Department a distinctive, interdisciplinary character. The Law
Department has played a major role in policy debates and policy-making and
in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world. It
enjoys a uniquely cosmopolitan student body, and has deeply influenced legal
education in most common law countries.
Staff and students in the Law
Department come from all over the world, and bring to the Department an
unparalleled international and interdisciplinary outlook in teaching and
research. This has always been the mission of the LSE Law Department. As an
important vehicle for this approach to legal studies, members of the LSE
were prominent among the founders of the Modern Law Review, a journal that
quickly achieved an international and influential role at the forefront of
legal scholarship.
Closely linked to this innovative
approach has been the exploration of new fields of study. Many important
subjects were first taught and examined systematically from an academic
perspective at the LSE. These include banking law, taxation law, civil
litigation, company law, labour law, family law, aspects of welfare law, and
studies of the legal system and the legal profession. These subjects, and
many others, have since become central to the concerns of lawyers and
researchers.
For the latest from
the department see our News and
Events pages. Our annual alumni
newsletter 'Ratio' 
is also available online.
