It is with profound sadness that the Law School announces the sudden death of our beloved colleague Conor Gearty.

Dr McDonagh has published a piece in the Financial Times on Intellectual Property Law and the blockbuster drug Ozempic. Dr McDonagh argues that Novo Nordisk’s recent escalation of lawsuits against the ...

This follow-up report to the Grantham Research Institute’s recent 2022 report on Global trends in climate litigation, explores a subset of climate litigation in which governments’ policy responses to ...

Humanity is at a crossroads – a moment of great risk and great opportunity. One path leads to attractive growth and development; the other to great difficulties and destruction. As shown by each ...

This open letter to the leaders of the UK political parties during the 2024 General Election calls on them to pledge ambitious action on climate change. The letter outlines five specific actions ...

The world’s oceans cover most of the Earth’s surface and represent about 95% of the planet’s biosphere. They contribute to climate regulation by absorbing over a quarter of human-caused carbon ...

This report provides a numerical analysis of how many climate change litigation cases were filed in 2023, where and by whom, and a qualitative assessment of trends and themes in the types of cases ...

The COP26 and COP27 Presidencies, together with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, extended the mandate of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance (IHLEG) in July 2022, to ...

LSE has announced a new partnership with leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety and research company Anthropic, to provide all LSE students with access to its Claude AI technology. From next ...

This brief was produced jointly with the Centre for Policy Research in India and co-drafted with Climate Legal, based in South Africa.  In recent years, national climate governance instruments have ...

Response to the ruling made by a German court in the landmark climate litigation case brought by a Peruvian farmer against electricity producer RWE. Joana Setzer, Associate Professor at the Grantham ...

Carbon offsets have become a popular tool in global efforts to mitigate climate change. These programmes work by offering regulated polluters the opportunity to increase their own emissions if they ...