7 July 2010
Programme Appraisal:
The Social Contract Revisited
2 July 2010
Workshop:
Constitutions and the Classics: Sieyes and de Maistre
21 May 2010
Workshop:
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
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20 May 2010
Annual Lecture:
Politicizing Law, Judicializing Politics: A Realist Approach to Comparative Constitutionalism
Professor Ran Hirschl, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Toronto
11-13 January 2010
Workshop:
Law, Courts, and Democracy
8 December 2009
Workshop:
The Social Foundations of Constitutions: China, Hungary, Romania
5.30 pm, 7 October 2009
Lecture:
Black Swans and Elephants on the Move: How Emergencies Impact on the Welfare State
Professor Frank Castles, Australian National University and University of Edinburgh
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8-9 October 2009
Workshop:
The Social Contract in Hard Times
9 July 2009
Constitutions and the American Classics: Madison and Jefferson
28 June-10 July
Summer School
Friday 5th June
Workshop:
Human Rights, Security, and Proportionality: The Court's Point of View
6.00 pm, Thursday 4th June
FLJS Annual Lecture:
Rights and their Limits: The Role of Proportionality
Aharon Barak, Professor of Law, Yale Law School and former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
2-5 pm, Wednesday 3rd June
Workshop:
The Endurance of National Constitutions
Professor Tom Ginsberg, University of Chicago
5.30 pm, 29 April 2009
Lecture:
Equality in an Era of Responsibility
John Roemer, Professor of Political Science and Economics, Yale University
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30 April-1 May 2009
Workshop:
Equality and Personal Responsibility in the New Social Contract
2.30-5.00 pm, Thursday 26 March 2009
Workshop:
The Social Foundations of Constitutions
5.30 pm, 28 January 2009
Lecture:
Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach
Mark Drumbl, Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University
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29 January 2009
Workshop:
Can International Courts do Justice? Conceptions of Justice in Responding to Conflict
5.30 pm, Thursday 4 December 2008
FLJS Annual Lecture 2008:
Natural or Naturalizing? – The Law’s Ways with Truth and Justice
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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5 December 2008
Workshop:
The Capacity of Courts to Handle Complex Cases
3-4 December 2008
Workshop:
Constitutions and the Classics from Hobbes to Bentham and Beyond
5.30 pm, 29 October 2008
Lecture:
Beyond the Third Way in Labour Law: Towards the Constitutionalization of Labour Law?
Professor Hugh Collins, Professor of English Law, LSE
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30-31 October 2008
Workshop:
Work, Employment, and Industrial Relations in the New Social Contract
9.30 am-2pm, 27 October 2008
Symposium:
Rule of Law in China: Programme Conclusion
6.00 pm, Monday 7 July 2008
Lecture:
Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain
Professor AWB Simpson, University of Michigan
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8-9 July 2008
Workshop:
In Times of Crisis Can We Trust the Courts?
5.30 pm, 11 June 2008
Lecture:
Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights
Chief Justice Pius Langa, Chief Justice of South Africa
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12-13 June 2008
Workshop:
Adjudicating Socio-Economic Rights
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Lecture:
Taxing Away Poverty: the Promise and Perils of the Contemporary Welfare State
Douglas J. Besharov, Professor, Maryland University School of Public Policy, and Social Welfare Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
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24-25 April 2008
Workshop:
Plucking the Goose: The Role of Taxation in the Modern Social Contract
13-14 December 2007
Workshop:
Judicial Reforms in China
10 October 2007
Lecture:
Will the Right Basic Income Please Stand Up: Communitarian Arguments for a Guaranteed Basic Income
Amitai Etzioni, former senior advisor to the White House and president of the American Sociological Association
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11-12 October 2007
Workshop:
The Contract for Income Support and Pension in the Modern Welfare State
17-18 September 2007
Workshop:
The Role of Law and Dispute Resolution in Achieving Economic Growth and Social Justice in China
17-19 July 2007
Workshop:
Courts as Social Policy Makers
24 May 2007
FLJS Annual Lecture 2007:
If the Public Would be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care?
Professor Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago
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25 May 2007
Workshop:
Courts and the Making of Public Policy
18 April 2007
Lecture:
Contract, Obligation, Rights and Reciprocity in the New Modern Welfare State
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19-20 April 2007
Workshop:
Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
15 March 2007
Lecture:
China's Trapped Transition
Minxin Pei, Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
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16 March 2007
Workshop:
Is China Trapped in Transition?
25-26 September 2006
Workshop:
Regulating Enterprise in China: The Regulatory Impact on Commercial Law
25 June 2006
Lecture:
Courts, Legislatures, Administrators, and the Making of Social Policy
Professor Martin Shapiro, Professor of Law, University of Clifornia
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26-27 June 2006
Workshop:
Courts and the Making of Social Policy
2 June 2006
Lecture:
The Way to the Rule of Law in China
11-13 May 2005
Workshop:
The Rule of Law: Chinese Law and Business