Thomas Poole

Lecturer at the London School of Economics & Political Science

T.M.Poole@lse.ac.uk
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Thomas Poole is a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics & Political Science. Tom studied Law at University College London, St John’s College, Oxford and Manchester University. Before coming to LSE in 2006, he taught at Nottingham University. He has held visiting positions at the University of New South Wales (2003-4 & 2005-6), the European University Institute (2007), Melbourne University (2008) and the University of Toronto (2008). Tom works mainly in the field of public law and constitutional theory.

Tom has written widely in the areas of constitutional politics, constitutional and administrative law, constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law. Current projects include: a comparative and conceptual examination of the changing nature of administrative law in our ‘age of rights’; an inquiry into the constitutional politics of the ‘emergency constitution’; and an empirical investigation into the impact of the UK’s Human Rights Act.