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Overview

Martin Loughlin is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on law, political science and international relations, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered by Loughlin's work include judicial and constitutional studies, law in society and culture, political theory and influence, comparative and international law studies, legal principles and applications, American constitutional law and politics, and political theology and sovereignty.

Frequent coauthors include Jens Meierhenrich, Adriaan Lanni, Luc Heuschling, Lawrence Rosen, and Lauren Benton.

The scholar has published in several venues, often contributing to the following:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
  • University of Toronto Law Journal
  • Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Recent publications by Martin Loughlin include:

  • The Rule of Law: A Slogan in Search of a Concept (2024) in Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
  • The city in the constitutional imagination (2021) in University of Toronto Law Journal
  • AV Dicey and the Making of Common Law Constitutionalism (2021) in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
  • Index (2021) contributed to Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Mapping the Theoretical Turn in British Public Law Scholarship (2021) in SSRN Electronic Journal

Martin Loughlin has published several books with notable academic presses. These include two editions of Against Constitutionalism (2022) released by Harvard University Press, the Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (2021) via Cambridge University Press, and the Advanced Introduction to Political Jurisprudence (2025) published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Foundations of Public Law

    Martin Loughlin

  • The Idea of Public Law

    Martin Loughlin

  • Investment Treaty Arbitration as a Species of Global Administrative Law

    Gus Van Harten;Martin Loughlin

  • Public law and political theory

    Martin Loughlin

  • The Paradox of Constitutionalism

    Neil Walker;Martin Loughlin

  • The concept of constituent power

    Martin Loughlin

  • Constituent Power and Reflexive Identity : Towards an Ontology of Collective Selfhood

    H.K. Lindahl;M. Loughlin;N. Walker

  • Sword and Scales: An Examination of the Relationship between Law and Politics

    Martin Loughlin

  • Legality and Locality: The Role of Law in Central-Local Government Relations

    Martin Loughlin

  • The Regulatory State

    Martin Loughlin;Colin Scott

  • Local government in the modern state

    Martin Loughlin

  • The Constitutional Imagination

    Martin Loughlin

  • Procedural fairness: a study of the crisis in administrative law theory

    Martin Loughlin

  • Ten tenets of sovereignty

    Martin Loughlin

  • Constitutional theory: a 25th anniversary essay

    Martin Loughlin

  • The paradox of constitutionalism constituent power and constitutional form

    Martin Loughlin;Neil Walker

  • The Twilight of Constitutionalism

    Petra Dobner;Martin Loughlin

  • Against Constitutionalism

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  • The functionalist style in public law

    Martin Loughlin

  • Constitutional pluralism: an oxymoron?

    Martin Loughlin

  • In defence of Staatslehre

    Martin Loughlin

  • The Conduct of Local Authority Business

    Martin Loughlin

  • What is Constitutionalisation

    Martin Loughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

David Dyzenhaus
David Dyzenhaus University of Toronto
Colin Scott
Colin Scott University College Dublin

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