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Past FLJS events

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.
November
19
2015
Neoliberalism, Employment, and the Law
This workshop will assess the impact of employment regulations on the strategic behaviour of employers in the aftermath of privatization. 
November
11
2015
Free Film Screening: Timbuktu
A free screening of the Palme D’Or-nominated film, Timbuktu depicts the dignified resistance of the Malian community living under extremist laws, and offers an elegiac exposition of the forces behind the migrant crisis.  
November
6
2015
William Browder on the State of Law in Putin's Russia
In this lecture, William Browder, author of New York Times bestseller Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, will give a firsthand account of corruption, dirty politics, and murder in Russia, as told by one of Putin’s Most Wanted.
October
29
2015
Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship
In this Max Watson Memorial Lecture, Eric Heinze, Professor of law and Humanities from Queen Mary University London argues that modern democracies have better ways of combating hate speech than by resorting to censorship and punishment of those who incite hatred.
October
14
2015
Social Media: Foundations of the Cyber-Society and the Role of Law
This workshop will identify the key concepts that make-up the cognitive, normative, and regulatory structure of the online social arena, or cyber-society.
June
9
2015
The Politics of West Papua: Research and Policy
Against the background of an ongoing conflict for independence from Indonesia, West Papua has experienced decades of violence and underdevelopment. This roundtable brings together leading researchers and policymakers to discuss the underlying sources of these problems.
June
1
2015
The Science of Constitutions: Measures of Success and Failure
A two-day workshop to explore the factors that determine successful constitution-making.
May
20
2015
Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law
This workshop will examine the role of images in legal scholarship, and will establish a new network of scholars from various disciplines—art, history, law, anthropology—interested in the intersection of images and law. 
May
16
2015
AALIMS-Oxford Conference on Political Economy of Islam and Muslim Societies
A two-day conference will bring together leading academics and policymakers to investigate the political economy of Islam and Muslim societies.
May
5
2015
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State
This book colloquium will examine Pullitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.
April
29
2015
Free Film Screening: Leviathan
A free screening of the winner of the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, Leviathan is a coruscating portrayal of the corruption of the law, Church and State in Putin's Russia.
March
4
2015
Freedom of Speech: What It Has Been and What It Should Be
Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College Professor Richard Sorabji CBE will deliver this timely lecture on the history and philosophical principles underlying the concept of free speech.