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LSE FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE:
THE RULE OF LAW AND POLITICAL EMERGENCIES
FRIDAY 15th MAY, 2009
9.30am-5.30pm
London School of Economics
New Academic Building
Room LG01
Welcome and Introduction: 9.30-9.45
Session 1: 9.45.-11.15 (The Rule of Law: Legality, Teleology, and Sociology)
Paper: Prof. Martin Krygier (UNSW, Law)
Response: Prof. Chandran Kukathas (LSE, Government)
Session 2: 11.30-1.00 (The Rule of Law: Procedures Matter)
Paper: Prof. Jeremy Waldron (NYU, Law)
Response: Prof. Nicola Lacey (LSE, Law)
LUNCH
Session 3: 2.15-3.45 (Crisis Governance in the Administrative State: 9/11
and the Financial Meltdown of 2008)
Paper: Prof. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard, Law)
Response: Prof. Paul Kelly (LSE, Government)
Session 4: 4.00-5.30 (Situating International Human Rights Law in an Age of
Counter-Terrorism)
Paper: Prof. Conor Gearty (LSE, Human Rights Centre)
Response: Prof. Chris Brown (LSE, International Relations)
DRINKS RECEPTION
5.30-7.00
The conference is free, but as spaces are limited registration is required.
Please email [log in to unmask] with ‘Rule of Law’ in subject line by
May 10th.
The organisers wish to thank the Departments of Law and Government (LSE) for
their generous support of this event.
Dr Philip Cook
Government Department
London School of Economics
Dr Thomas Poole
Law Department
London School of Economics
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