One of the leading political writers of our time, Professor Timothy Garton Ash will deliver this lecture on free speech, outlining his ten principles for a connected world, and a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age.

In this free film screening of The Castle, voted Australia's favourite film, a working-class Melbourne family fights eviction by the government, taking their case as far as the High Court. With an introduction by Professor Denis Galligan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?