Shows
Department of LawExecutive LLM Master of Laws [Video]Contributor(s): Professor David Kershaw (Director), Dr Margot Salomon, ELLM Students | The following video has been produced to promote the Executive Master of Laws Programme offered by the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The Executive LLM programme is a part-time degree for working professionals.2016-09-3005 min
Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfBlood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the worldContributor(s): Professor Leif Wenar | Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the petrol station and the mall. In this lecture, Leif Wenar will talk about his new book, Blood Oil, which goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that puts shoppers into business with...2016-03-011h 26Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoBlood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the worldContributor(s): Professor Leif Wenar | Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the petrol station and the mall. In this lecture, Leif Wenar will talk about his new book, Blood Oil, which goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that puts shoppers into business with...2016-03-011h 26Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and austerityContributor(s): Zoe Konstantopoulou | Greece is at the forefront of questions connecting human rights protection, debt and austerity. Zoe Konstantopoulou will share her insights on the fight to secure social rights. Zoe Konstantopoulou (@ZoeKonstant) was President of the Greek Parliament and a politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), and is a practicing lawyer. She was elected to the post of President on 6 February 2015 with a record number of 235 out of 300 votes, making her the youngest Speaker in the history of the Hellenic Parliament. As Speaker, she worked to expose the truth around the debt and human crises...2015-12-101h 19Autumn 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoFighting the Behemoth: law, politics and human rights in times of debt and austerityContributor(s): Zoe Konstantopoulou | Greece is at the forefront of questions connecting human rights protection, debt and austerity. Zoe Konstantopoulou will share her insights on the fight to secure social rights. Zoe Konstantopoulou (@ZoeKonstant) was President of the Greek Parliament and a politician of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), and is a practicing lawyer. She was elected to the post of President on 6 February 2015 with a record number of 235 out of 300 votes, making her the youngest Speaker in the history of the Hellenic Parliament. As Speaker, she worked to expose the truth around the debt and human crises...2015-12-101h 19