This workshop will examine the relationship between Western law, Sharia, and the future of Muslim societies, assessing the emergence of political Islam triggered by post-Arab Spring elections in various Muslim countries. 

Linda Mullinex from the University of Texas and members of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies will discuss Class Actions from American and European perspectives. 

This workshop will examine how environmental policymakers are responding to challenges in water resource management caused by severe weather events associated with climate change. 

A discussion of Chris Thornhill's book A Sociology of Constitutions, which questions why modern societies require constitutions and presents a distinctive analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.

A workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria, exploring the relationship between the citizen and the administrative state in ten central and eastern European countries.

Professor Richard Sorabji, Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College.  The surprising and unrecognized meaning of the terms for conscience was established in the 500 years from the playwrights of the fifth century BCE down to Paul.

András Sajó, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights will address this important issue of judicial legitimacy at a time of growing public distrust in the representativeness of the political system, and legislation in particular.

This workshop will survey the contemporary scene in Russia with regard to how law is used in everyday life, the means of dispute resolution, together with a more speculative assessment of what might be learned from the Russian case about law as a social phenomenon in general.

Written constitutions are central documents for modern governance, yet there is an enduring concern that they are mere 'parchment barriers' without independent causal efficacy.