29-31 October
Rhodes House, Oxford
Workshop: (invitation only)'Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations in the New Social Contract'
Session I: What is Work? Activation Policies and Care Work
Session II: The Global Social Contract
Session III: Industrial Relations - Social Dialogue and Social Contract
Session IV: Social Security in a Changing World of Work
Participants include:
Denis Galligan Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Martha Fineman, Professor of Law, Emory University
Steve Zamora, Professor of Law, Houston University
Karl Klare, Professor of labor and employment law, Northeastern University
Katherine Stone, Professor of Law, UCLA
Full details to be confirmed
3-4 December
Wolfson College, Oxford
Workshop: (invitation only)'Constitutions and the Classics from Hobbes to Bentham and Beyond'
This workshop will examine the nature and social basis of constitutions as conceived in the works of Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Smith, Bentham, Madison, and Sieyes. It will explore a range of approaches to the character and purposes of constitutions, with particular reference to their place in society, the social nad political issues they are meant to deal with, and to identify common themes, as well as competing ones, running through the classic accounts.
Programme and participants to be confirmed
5.30 pm, Thursday 4 December
St Hugh's College, Oxford
FLJS Annual Lecture: 'The Capacity of Courts to Handle Complex Cases'Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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5-6 December
St Hugh's College, Oxford
Workshop (invitation only)
Full details to be confirmed
5.30 pm, 28 January 2009
Rhodes House, Oxford
Public Lecture:'The International Criminal Court and Evolving Conceptions of 'Victim-Centred Justice'
Professor Antonio Cassese, Professor of Law, University of Florence, and former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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29-30 January 2009
Workshop: (invitation only)'Different Courts, Different Conceptions of Justice'
This workshop will explore a range of issues regarding how international criminal tribunals and courts respond to harm caused during conflict. The sessions will investigate the types of justice that the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the ad hoc courts and tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Cambodia believe they are pursuing and will assess how effectively they have delivered justice.
The workshop will explore the basis and impact of the justifications for punishment in the international realm – and the ways in which different courts' conceptions of justice (and particularly changes in their interpretations over time) have affected their own operations and wider public policy. The workshop will investigate key themes and concepts concerning responses to harm, including amnesty, restitution, compensation and reconciliation.
Full details to be confirmed
4-5 June 2009
Rhodes House, Oxford
Lecture: 'Human Rights, Security and Proportionality: The Court's Point of View'Aharon Barak, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Full details to be confirmed