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Dr Ying Yu addresses consumer concerns at UN expert consultation meeting
03 December 2018
On 29 November, FLJS Research Fellow Dr Ying Yu addressed escalating consumer concerns at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Consumer Protection in Geneva, Switzerland. During the meeting, entitled 'Emerging Consumer Protection Trends: Implementing the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection', Dr Yu outlined the most pressing concerns and proposed remedies to improve the current risky environment for consumers who buy and sell goods and services across borders in the e-commerce and digital marketplace.
FLJS co-founder examines constitutional fall-out from populist surge, in 2018 Max Watson Lecture
06 November 2018
Professor Denis Galligan, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, delivered the 2018 Max Watson Annual Lecture at Wolfson College last week, on the constitutional consequences of the rise in populist movements around the world.
Professor Hodges presents design of new Financial Ombudsman for SMEs to Treasury Select Committee
26 October 2018
On 23 October, FLJS Board Member Professor Christopher Hodges gave evidence to the House of Commons Treasury Committee as part of the Report by Simon Walker CBE into new routes for small and medium-sized businesse (SMEs) to challenge banks. The Review was commissioned by the banking association UK Finance, and recommended that
FLJS Fellow Dr Ying Yu presents research at United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
24 July 2018
FLJS Research Fellow Dr Ying Yu, Programme Coordinator of the FLJS Consumer Rights in China programme and Deputy Director of the Oxford University One Belt One Road (OBOR) programme, presented her research on dispute resolution and consumer protection at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 9-13 July at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. 
FLJS panel weigh Great Enrichment against social inequality in Deirdre McClosky's defence of Bourgeois values
19 June 2018
A panel chaired by Emeritus Professor Denis Galligan assessed the relative merits of the huge increases in global wealth in recent centuries against increasing social inequality in a Book Colloquium at Wolfson College last week to discuss economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey's latest offering.
FLJS Fellow Dr Ying Yu challenges conventional wisdom on Confucianism and western jurisprudence
13 June 2018
FLJS Research Fellow Dr Ying Yu gave a bold reinterpretation of Confucian thought at Wolfson College yesterday, drawing parallels between Eastern and Western jurisprudence to challenge the conventional wisdom that the two major civilizations have developed along entirely different lines.
Academics and practitioners examine how best to achieve fairness for consumers
12 June 2018
​How can we best ensure that consumers receive fair treatment in the marketplace? Ombudsmen, economists, and regulatory experts met at Wolfson College today to discuss this question as part of an FLJS workshop on changing regulatory approaches to economic fairness.
FLJS Fellow Dr Ying Yu to participate in UN Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy
05 June 2018
Law, Justice and Society Research Fellow Dr Ying Yu has been invited by the United Nations to participate as one of the experts at the forthcoming UN Conference on Trade and Development, to be held in Geneva on 9-10 July. The conference is the third session of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Consumer Protection Law and Policy.
Policymakers, business leaders, and regulators assess shift from deterrence to values-based ethical business practice
08 May 2018
Policymakers, business leaders, academics and regulators came together at Wolfson College last week to develop a new approach to the promotion of ethical business practice. It sought to demonstrate the benefits to businesses, consumers, and regulators of a new focus on fostering strong, ethics-based organizational cultures within businesses, rather than a ‘big stick’ deterrent approach to regulation.
Prominent critic of Law and Justice Party denounces “assault on the rule of law in Poland” as “out of a political thriller”
09 March 2018
In a FLJS lecture at Wolfson College last night, Marcin Matczak, the renowned lawyer and professor at the University of Warsaw, strongly denounced the policies implemented in Poland in recent years that have served to undermine the independence of the judiciary.
Former UN and World Bank advisor proposes modern-day UK Constitution based on consent and fairness
08 March 2018
Last night, LSE Visiting Fellow Frank Vibert, a former advisor and fellow to the United Nations and World Bank, set out a concise yet comprehensive vision for a written UK Constitution at a FLJS lecture at Wolfson College.
FLJS panel assess “undisciplined effervescence” of Niall Ferguson’s The Square and the Tower
02 March 2018
An FLS panel expressed both merit and misgivings over the scope and ambition of renowned historian Niall Ferguson’s latest bestseller, in a Book Colloquium held at Wolfson College yesterday to discuss The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power.
Putney Debates 2018 questions need for electoral reform and a Federal UK at historic St Mary's Church
06 February 2018
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, in association with the Oxford Faculty of Law, staged the second in its series of modern-day constitutional conventions at St Marys Church, Putney, the home of the original debates of 1647.
Expert panel assess the role of law in determining collective memory of defining national events
19 January 2018
The FLJS events programme for 2018 was opened at Wolfson College last night with a Book Colloquium in which an expert panel met to discuss the emerging legal regime governing collective memory.
AC Grayling calls for a codified UK Constitution to protect citizen rights to good government
13 December 2017
Last week, renowned philosopher Professor AC Grayling made an impassioned plea for both greater constitutional clarity over the future use of Referendums and reforms to the way that MPs represent their constituents in Parliament, in order to protect the right of all citizens to good government.
Government announces new approach to investigations into stillbirths following recommendations in FLJS Policy Brief
01 December 2017
On Tuesday 28 November, Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt announced new plans to conduct independent investigations into cases of stillbirth, in line with proposals published in a FLJS Policy Brief submitted to the government consultation on the issue earlier this month. As a result of the new policy, investigations will be handled independently by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, the new NHS safety investigator led by safety experts, to establish for the families what went wrong and why.

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