News

23 November 2010

12 November 2010 On 11 November, Professor Horst Dippel from Kassel University, Germany, delivered his lecture on 'The History of Modern Constitutionalism', as part of the Foundation's programme on the Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions.

28 September 2010 The findings of a major international study into the funding and costs of litigation in thirty-five countries is published today. The policy brief, the first in a series on European civil justice systems, summarizes the results of an extensive research project by a team at Oxford University to investigate the costs of litigation cases and provide recommendations for possible alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.

24 May 2010 On Thursday 20 May the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society held its Annual Lecture in Law and Society, at which the renowned constitutional scholar Professor Ran Hirschl from Toronto University advocated a realist approach to the current trend towards constitutional supremacy.

9 June 2009 Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel and Visiting Professor of Law at Yale University delivered the FLJS Annual Lecture in Law and Society at Rhodes House, Oxford on 4 June. The lecture, organized by FLJS in association with the Law Faculty and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University, outlined his theory of proportionality as a means to reaching the appropriate balance between securing public goods and the safeguarding of human rights.

12 February 2009 We are pleased to announce the appointment of our new Events, Marketing and Administration Officer, Sally Lane, who started work with us last week. Sally will oversee the organization of our events and help with our marketing activities. She will work part-time on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday, and can be contacted at sally.lane@fljs.org, with any queries relating to our events.