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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

This workshop will examine the issue of patent governance in the public interest. The debate will focus on university licensing of patents, the improved quality of patents issued, and the relationship between scientific commons and proprietary assets in research collaborations. 

The proliferation of information communication technologies over the past decade represents the single largest challenge to the protection of personal data. This workshop will investigate whether it is possible for regulators and companies to strike a balance between business innovation and data protection in the Digital Age. 

This lecture will open a new phase of our programme on the social and political foundations of constitutions, by assessing how democracies manipulate potent constitutional tools to prevent secessionists from achieving their goals.