Papers relating to the academic work of Harold J. Laski. Contains: manuscript lecture notes written by Laski; typescript list of teaching staff with their age and salary for academic year 1946/47; manuscript paper titled 'The Social Basis of Ethical Principles' written by Laski, submitted to and rejected by 'Mind' and believed to have never been printed as of 1969; manuscript account written by Laski of an interview with Sir Clive [?], 15 Nov 1932; manuscript text of a speech given by Laski at a meeting of the Fabian Society marking their Golden Jubilee.

Lecture notes on various aspect of political and social theory, including: theory of the state; the American Experiment; international institutions; private enterprise; principles of industrial organisation; bases of international government; relations of states; state and nations; problem of authority; political institutions; dynamics of social change; place of the state in modern society; nature of state power; state and its sovereignty; property; freedom; political thought on English Civil War; Conciliar Movement; political theory to 1600; political theory of Reformation; the encyclopedists; toleration in England; physiocratic school; nature of social revolution; purpose of the state; laissez faire; democracy and planning; American Revolution; introduction to theories of Marxism (state, class struggle, dictatorship of the proletariat); present status of democracy; trade unionism in a planned society; nature of social revolution; English Socialism until 1848; Voltaire; elements of government; French political thought 1715-1815; Russian political ideas; democracy and planning; nature of revolution - the Jacobins; Idealist theory of state; Colonial period of American political theory; struggle for law and legislation; Hume and the birth of the Enlightenment; Conservatism; counter-revolution; local government; European ideas and 1848.