Programmes

A thematic overview of our work, investigating the interconnections between law, society, politics, and economics.

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Professor Sir Adam Roberts heads 2020 FLJS Programme with call for a rethinking of the liberal order

Professor Sir Adam Roberts will call for a rethinking of liberalism in a Keynote Lecture that heads up the new events...

Professor Iain McLean unearths secrets of Adam Smith's lost work on jurisprudence

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Upcoming Events

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

24 Feb 2020 17:30

This book colloquium will discuss Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, her influential account of the challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, specifically, how the commodification of personal information threatens our core values of freedom, democracy, and privacy.

Liberal International Order in Trouble

2 Mar 2020 17:30

Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, Oxford, will analyse the contemporary decline of the liberal order, and call for a rethinking of liberal ideas and practices. The Keynote Lecture will open a workshop the following day.

Law and Contemporary Issues: The International Order Under Scrutiny

3 Mar 2020 09:30

A workshop to scrutinize in-depth the transformation of the contemporary international order, as outlined in Professor Sir Adam Roberts' lecture of the previous day. Participants include Oxford Professor of Socio-Legal Studies Denis Galligan, international lawyer Mary Bartkus, social scientist Prof Ralph Schroeder, and economist Prof David Vines.

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