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Constitutional expert asks: Can populism coexist with constitutional principles?, in FLJS Webinar streamed globally
22 June 2020
Can populism happily coexist with constitutional principles and practices? This is the provocative question posed by political scientist and constitutional expert Professor Daniel Smilov in the latest FLJS webinar, broadcast live to a global audience last week.
Over 100 people register for our first Live Webinar on The Narrow Corridor
16 June 2020
Watch video and download transcripts of our first live webinar on The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, a crucial new big-picture framework by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail. 
Prof Sir Adam Roberts calls for rethinking of liberalism to withstand the erosion of international legal and security norms
06 March 2020
This week Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations, University of Oxford, delivered a Keynote Lecture on the current setbacks experienced by liberal constitutional democracies, and set out a series of proposals for how we might rethink liberalism to withstand the threats it faces.
Colloquium on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism attracts sell-out audience to debate "darkening of the digital dream"
26 February 2020
A Book Colloquium on Shoshana Zuboff's groundbreaking The Age of Surveillance Capitalism drew a sell-out audience to Wolfson College this week, as part of an events programme by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society that continues to attract record attendances.
Professor Sir Adam Roberts heads 2020 FLJS Programme with call for a rethinking of the liberal order
06 February 2020
Professor Sir Adam Roberts will call for a rethinking of liberalism in a Keynote Lecture that heads up the new events programme of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in 2020. The programme will also feature our first ever Oxford-based Putney Debates, and has been designed to respond to three key issues of our times: the decline of the international order; climate justice; and human rights in the digital age.
Hilary 2020 Programme opens with public debate on Lord Sumption's bestseller Trials of the State
05 February 2020
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society’s Hilary Term opened this week with a sold-out Book Colloquium on former Supreme Court Judge Jonathan Sumption’s provocative bestseller Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics, in which he argues that judicial review has reached a critical level, and the time has come to return some problems to the politicians.
Professor Iain McLean unearths secrets of Adam Smith's lost work on jurisprudence
15 November 2019
Some of the secrets of Adam Smith's lost work on jurisprudence were brought to light in a FLJS lecture at Wolfson College this week by Senior Research Fellow in Politics Professor Iain McLean. 
Experts in transborder criminal networks expose Chinese criminal underworld
06 November 2019
Alex Chung, Research Fellow at University College London and FLJS Research Associate, exposed the shady world of transborder criminal networks, in discussion of his new book Chinese Criminal Entrepreneurs in Canada, Volume I and Volume II at a FLJS colloquium at Wolfson College this week.
Distinguished philosopher Professor Sir Richard Sorabji re-enters the fray on free speech and social media
30 October 2019
Distinguished philosopher Professor Sir Richard Sorabji re-entered the free speech debate in a lecture for the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at Wolfson College last night by reprising his 2015 lecture on the theme with a renewed focus on fake news and social media.
Journalists, academics, and government advisers debate how best to regulate online speech
25 June 2019
How do we prevent harms caused by online content, and should the state, or internet giants like Facebook and Twitter be primarily responsible for regulating content published on their platforms? This was the central question addressed by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at a workshop at Wolfson College last week to assess in what ways online speech is and should be governed in China and the West.
Experts assess the corruption of politics by private interests through ‘state capture’
14 June 2019
A roundtable of experts examined how politics can be co-opted by private interests through corruption and the unfair influencing of the ‘rules of the game’ – a process termed ‘state capture’ – in a workshop at Wolfson College this week.
Lawyer weighs the social costs of mass tort litigation against Big Pharma
12 June 2019
International lawyer Mary Bartkus, Special Counsel at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, shared her firsthand experience of cases involving multibillion dollar claims against Big Pharma at Wolfson College last night in her lecture entitled 
Constitutional expert Prof Neil Walker tackles populism and the conflictual politics of Brexit
14 May 2019
Constitutional expert Professor Neil Walker took on the thorny issues of Brexit and the problems caused by populist politics in a sell-out lecture at Wolfson College last night.
eCommerce Week 2019: Dr Ying Yu advises UN on how blockchain technology can be used to protect consumer rights
26 April 2019
FLJS Research Fellow and Oxford One Belt One Road programme Deputy Director Dr Ying Yu delivered a talk at the United Nations during eCommerce Week 2019, at an event in Geneva on 3 April, advising the UN on how blockchain technology can be used in the development of international, cross-border consumer protection practices.
Putney Debaters tackle 'constitutional crisis' and propose judicial reforms for 21st century
19 March 2019
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, in association with the Oxford Faculty of Law, last week staged the third in its series of modern-day constitutional conventions at St Marys Church, Putney, the home of the original debates of 1647.
Scholars reimagine Ostrom’s vision for collective action to confront the climate change challenge
12 March 2019
Earlier this week, a panel of scholars reviewed Elinor Olstrom’s groundbreaking book Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, a decade since she became – and remains – the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.

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