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Journalists, academics, and government advisers debate how best to regulate online speech

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Experts assess the corruption of politics by private interests through ‘state capture’

A roundtable of experts examined how politics can be co-opted by private interests through corruption and the unfair...

Lawyer weighs the social costs of mass tort litigation against Big Pharma

International lawyer Mary Bartkus, Special Counsel at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, shared her firsthand experience of...

Upcoming Events

FLJS Films: Peterloo

21 Oct 2019 19:00

FLJS Films opens its 2019-20 programme with acclaimed director Mike Leigh’s latest film Peterloo, which, by bringing to light a little-known atrocity in Manchester 200 years ago, makes a timely comment on the repercussions and resonances of public protest.

Free Speech, Good Speech, and Social Media: Self-control or legal control?

28 Oct 2019 17:30

In this lecture, Professor Sir Richard Sorabji considers free speech in the age of social media, and questions whether legal restrictions on certain speech acts or self-restraint would be the most effective and appropriate means to secure freedoms

Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada

4 Nov 2019 17:30

In this book colloquium, a panel of speakers will discuss Alex Chung’s recent book: Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, and explore the elusive breed of criminal entrepreneurs from China known as the Big Circle Boys (BCB).

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