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Past FLJS events

March
1
2017
East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes against Humanity'
In this book colloquium, Philippe Sands QC will discuss East West Street, his prize-winning memoir that recounts how he unearthed long-buried family secrets whilst researching the fathers of the modern human rights movement in Lviv, home to his maternal grandfather.
February
2
2017
The Putney Debates 2017: Constitutional Crisis in the United Kingdom
As the UK questions its post-Referendum future, the Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society invites you to a re-staging of the Putney Debates, 370 years after the original debate ushered in a new democratic order.
December
12
2016
Empirical Evidence on Collective Redress in Europe
This conference, hosted by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and the Katholic University of Leuven, will report on a major research project that evaluates the comparative empirical evidence on different mechanisms offering collective redress.
December
8
2016
The Constitution in Crisis 2016
In this lecture, Professor Denis Galligan will spell out the principles of Britain's unwritten or uncodified constitution, and assess the implications as the UK questions it's post-Referendum future.
December
8
2016
Beyond the Liberal Constitution: European Voices of Dissent and the Constitutional Consequences
Across Europe and the US, the people are demonstrating their discontent with the ideas and institutions at the foundations of contemporary Western societies. In this workshop, a roundtable of experts will examine these rising populist currents and the effects on national constitutions and that of the EU.
October
28
2016
Free Film Screening: NO
A screening of NO — the Oscar nominated dramatization of the 1988 referendum in Chile to decide the tenure of Augusto Pinochet. With an introductory talk by Alan Angell, author of Democracy after Pinochet and member of St Antony's College and the Latin America Centre, Oxford.
October
13
2016
From Locke on Toleration to the First Amendment
In this lecture, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Dan Robinson will demonstrate that the First Amendment, in protecting the basic liberties — freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly — has suffered from diverse and conflicting interpretations.
July
9
2016
Populism and Constitutions
As part of Wolfson College's 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society will hold a colloquium entitled 'Populism and Constitutions', by Professor Denis Galligan, FLJS Director of Programmes and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University.
June
7
2016
Max Watson Annual Lecture: The Supreme Court Re-Assessed
In this Max Watson Annual Lecture, Alan Paterson OBE, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at the Strathclyde University of Law, will take a detailed look at the Supreme Court, its past, present and future.
June
2
2016
Free Film: Bridge of Spies
Directed by Stephen Spielberg and based on a true story, Tom Hanks plays Jim Donovan, an American lawyer recruited by the CIA in 1957 to represent Rudolph Abel at trial, after the European artist, living in the US, was arrested for spying for the
May
16
2016
Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring, Triumphs and Disasters
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, along with Wolfson College and the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society invites you to a book colloquium to discuss the newly-released book Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring, Triumphs and Disasters.
April
30
2016
Workshop: How Judges Decide
Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the FLJS, will open the workshop 'How Judges Decide'. 
April
29
2016
Lecture: How Judges Decide
Courts operate under principles of independence, which means they are neither directly responsive nor directly accountable to the political process. In this lecture, Justice Robert Sharpe of the Ontario Court of Appeal ask: How then do judges decide cases, especially hard cases? What are the underlying principles, the informal guidelines, the constraints and limitations?
April
18
2016
Conference on Consumer ADR/ODR
The Foundation for Law Justice and Society is delighted to support the fourth annual Civil Justice Conference on Consumer ADR/ODR.
March
10
2016
Environmental Implications of the Laudato Sì
This roundtable meeting brings together a small group of scholars from the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States to discuss the environmental implications of Pope Francis’s Laudato Sì, the encyclical in which he tackles questions about environmental damage and global warming.
March
9
2016
Undoing the Demos
In this book colloquium, a panel of discussants, led by Professor D.J. Galligan, will critique Wendy Brown's original and compelling argument, in Undoing the Demos, that neoliberal reason undoes the political form and political imaginary it falsely promises to secure and reinvigorate.
 
March
8
2016
Free Film Screening: The Square
A free screening of the Oscar-nominated and multi award-winning documentary The Square. The film details the incredible sacrifices made by a group of young Egyptian activists battling injustice, corruption and poverty.
March
3
2016
Workshop: The Science of Constitutions
This free workshop continues the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society's Science of Constitutions programme of research and discussion. Led by Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, the participants will analyse the variables affecting the success and failures of constitutions.   They will discuss and analyse merging constitutions in the Gulf States, as well as examining countries with constitutional systems currently undergoing stresses and strains, including Chile, Turkey, Poland and France. All welcome. Please register at www.fljs.org
March
2
2016
Can The Referendum Be Democratic?
In this FLJS lecture, Stephen Tierney, Professor of Constitutional Theory, University of Edinburgh, discusses the circumstances surrounding the forthcoming referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. He will ask whether a number of the perceived democratic failings of the referendum are, in fact, problems of practice rather than principle.
December
1
2015
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
In this book colloquium on David Bromwich’s biography of Edmund Burke, legal and political experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss Burke's life and work.