We hold a programme of lectures and workshops, attended by lawyers, policymakers, academics, and business people from around the world. All lectures are free and open to the public.
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10.00-16.00, Thursday 17 May 2012 The Buttery, Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford
Workshop:
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
The final workshop in this series will examine the constitutions of Lesotho and Eritrea, and provide a review of the programme, which culminates in the publication of a collected volume of essays next year.
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17.30, Thursday 17 May 2012
Jesus College Ship St Centre, Ship St, Oxford
Annual Lecture in Law and Society:
The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States, and the Atlantic World
Pauline Maier, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inspired in part by the English Declaration of Rights of 1688, Americans began adding declarations of rights to their new state constitutions in 1776. Today the amendments to the Constitution proposed by the first Federal Congress are often described as a bill of rights. However, nobody at the time - Washington, Madison, nor even the great champion of bills of rights Thomas Jefferson - referred to them as such.
When did they acquire that title, and why? What does the complex story of the American 'bill of rights' suggest about the influence of English precedent on American constitutionalism, and of American constitutionalism on other parts of the Atlantic world?
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10.00-17.00, Friday 18 May 2012
Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford
Panel Discussion:
Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law
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Since Edmund Burke coined the expression ‘the Fourth Estate’, the media has been seen to play a crucial role in uncovering the truth and holding the powerful to account.
Today, the influence of multinational media empires and the phone hacking scandal have seen the press themselves become the focus of questions about accountability and responsibility. Print journalism faces a crisis of credibility and competitive viability, but also, an opportunity for self-reflection and reform for the twenty-first century.
This panel discussion will bring together media experts, lawyers, and policymakers in order to examine ongoing attempts to devise a new framework for media regulation in the light of the phone-hacking scandal and the competitive pressures of the evolving media landscape.
Panellists
Mark Stephens CBE, lawyer specializing in media law and regulation, representing phone hacking victims
Baroness Onora O'Neill, Crossbench peer and political philosopher
George Brock, Professor and Head of Journalism, City University London, former Managing Editor of The Times
Martin Moore, Director, Media Standards Trust
Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, LSE
Lara Fielden, Visiting Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, formerly of BBC News and Ofcom
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Friday, 29 June 2012
Memorial Room, The Queen's College, High St, Oxford
Workshop:
Do Constitutions Matter?
Professor Tom Ginsburg, Professor of International Law and Political Science, University of Chicago Law School
A new line of enquiry to determine how much constitutions matter to officials and the people, with emphasis on empirical evidence.
Full details TBC
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