Past FLJS events

Balancing Business Innovation with Data Protection?

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.

The Break-Up of Nations: The Constitutional Dimensions Using Ukraine as a Case Study

In this inaugural event in a new phase of our programme on the social and political foundations of constitutions, a group of experts will discuss the constitutional implications of the ongoing political turmoil in Ukraine.

Holey Union: The Constitutional Paradox of Secession

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.

The New Regulatory Space: Reframing Democratic Governance

In this lecture, Frank Vibert will argue that, in order to understand the evolving patterns of governance in modern democratic societies, we need to assess democracies in terms of the complex interplay of systems of social coordination — including the market, the law, regulation, and civil society.

Consumer Dispute Resolution: Implementing the Directive

This conference will bring together public officials, regulators, ombudsmen, ADR bodies, consumers, business and academics interested in ADR to examine the major topical issues arising out of implementation of the EU Consumer ADR Directive.

FLJS Films - We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

A free screening of the 2013 film We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, directed by Oscar Award winner Alex Gibney, with an introductory talk by Dr Jonathan Bright from the Oxford Internet Institute.

Killing by Drones: The Legal and Public Policy Dimensions

In this lecture, Rory O. Millson, Partner at Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP, will explore the legal and policy issues surrounding the increasingly common use of military drones to carry out "targeted killings" in the ongoing fight against non-State actors in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere.

Social Media: A Critical Introduction

Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media at Westminster University, will lead the discussion of his recently published book Social Media: A Critical Introduction, which navigates the controversies and contradictions of the complex digital media landscape.

Could Scotland Join the European Union?

With Scotland set to vote on independence in September 2014, this public debate will focus on the question of an independent Scotland and its membership of the EU.

Reassessing the Civil Law Tradition: the Changing Role of the Judge

Professor Carlo Guarnieri from the University of Bologna will deliver the 2014 Annual Lecture in Law and Society, assessing the changing nature of the civil law judge in the context of legal culture around the world.

The Business of Traffic in Humans

This workshop will explore the role of the state and businesses in the fight against trafficking in human beings, with participants including Frank Field MP, Chair of the Commission on the Anti-Slavery Bill, addressing recent developments in the European and national policy context.

Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media

This book colloquium invites attendees to rethink their understanding of development issues in favour of a holistic approach encompassing literature, film, and other non-conventional forms of representation.

FLJS Films: The Act of Killing

A free screening of the 2014 BAFTA-winning documentary, The Act of Killing, with talk by human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, Director of Legal Advocacy at the Bertha Foundation and Wikileaks lawyer.

Trusting the ‘middle man’: Impact and Legitimacy of Ombudsmen

Recent EU legislation requires each member state to provide an ADR body for nearly every consumer sector. This conference will explore the implications through expert opinion from academic, practitioner, and policy perspectives.

Social Media in the Modern World: Legal, regulatory and human rights issues

A workshop to explore the legal, political, constitutional, and human rights issues raised by the prevalence of social media in modern life.

Social Media and the Culture of Connectivity

This lecture will reflect on how social media have become normalized in everyday life, and ask: what are the implications of the fact that large parts of everyday life are increasingly commercialized and engineered through social media?

(In)formal Economies, Economies of Favour: The End of Transition?

Twenty-five years on from the collapse of communism in the Eastern Bloc, we discuss two new publications on the importance in everyday life of the informal economy in a post-Soviet, post-Socialist era.

Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards and Democratic Legitimacy

This debate will address the controversy surrounding the use of quotas as a legal mechanism to address gender inequality in corporate boards of directors.

Shakespeare and the Lower Register of Constitutional Thought

In this lecture, Professor Denis Galligan will assess constitutional thought in the plays of Shakespeare, and argue that it is the view of the common people depicted in the plays that offers the key to a more authentic understanding of constitutionalism and constitutional history.

Can We Save Countries from Economic Crises? Some lessons from IMF and EU experience over three decades

Max Watson, a former senior official at the IMF and the European Commission, will discuss what lessons emerge from three decades of experience in handling economic crises, and how change can be catalysed in the face of deeply entrenched obstacles to reform.

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