Alumni
At least one Prime Minister or President of the countries of Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Saint Lucia, Ghana, Peru, Jordan and Thailand has earned an LLB or LLM from the law school. [8] Former President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, earned a PhD in Law in 1984. Singapore's founding Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, initially enrolled to read law at the school before transferring to Cambridge. [9] Jane Yumiko Ittogi, the First Lady of Singapore, earned both her LLB and LLM from the LSE Law School. [10] Whilst at LSE, she met Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the ninth President of Singapore, who is himself an LSE alumnus. [11] Cherie Blair, a barrister and wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, earned an LLB in 1975. [12] Former United States Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Kennedy, spent the final year of his degree at the school. [13]
The school also educated Shami Chakrabarti, Eugenia Charles, John Compton, Jean Corston, Linda Dobbs, Audrey Eu, Lord Tony Grabiner, Makhdoom Ali Khan, Mia Mottley, Dorab Patel, P. J. Patterson, Mitchell Symons, Mónica Feria Tinta, J. A. G. Griffith, Ciarán Ahern and Veerasamy Ringadoo. [14]
Staff
Among the staff of the school, Arnold McNair and Robert Jennings went on to become presidents of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), while Hersch Lauterpacht became an ICJ judge. Lady Higgins became the first female judge elected to the ICJ. [7] Derry Irvine (Baron Irvine of Lairg) was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1997; at that time the office combined roles as head of the judiciary of England and Wales, presiding officer of the House of Lords, and senior minister in the Prime Minister's cabinet with responsibility for the courts, before these powers were reallocated by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. [15]
Other notable current and former professors at LSE Law School include Julia Black, Robert Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley, Hugh Collins, Ross Cranston, Paul Davies, A. V. Dicey, Neil Duxbury, Judith Freedman, Conor Gearty, Laurence Gower, Christopher Greenwood, Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins, Jeremy Horder, Emily Jackson, Otto Kahn-Freund, David Kershaw, Nicola Lacey, Niamh Moloney, David Hughes Parry, Thomas Poole, Henry Slesser, Stanley Alexander de Smith, Cedric Thornberry, Sarah Worthington, Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton, Glanville Williams and Michael Zander.
