Thomas  
POOLE

 
Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor

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In Residence

12 August 2024 to 30 August 2024

Current Courses

Law & Empire

Professor Thomas Poole is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2006. His research interests include constitutional and administrative law, legal and political theory, foreign relations law, constitutional history, law and empire, and the history of political thought. He is author of Reason of State: Law, Prerogative and Empire (Cambridge, 2015) and co-editor of volumes on Hobbes and the Law (Cambridge, 2012), Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2015) and The Double-Facing Constitution: Legal Externalities and the Reshaping of Constitutional Order (Cambridge, 2019). Tom is General Editor of the Modern Law Review and General Editor (with David Dyzenhaus) of CUP’s Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law.