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FLJS April 2016 Newsletter
The April 2016 issue of the FLJS e-newsletter is now available, with details of our forthcoming events, latest news and information about the inaugural Science of Constitutions study programme for senior policymakers and advisors in September. View the latest issue here or browse past issues in our news section, which you can access here.
Podcasts for Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law Workshop now available
Five of the presentations given as part of our Neoliberalism, Employment and the Law Workshop, held recently at Wolfson College, are now available as podcasts.   Visit our Podcasts page or click on the links on the right hand side of this page for further information and to download.
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Constitutions workshop illustrates the battle between law and society
13 December 2010 The latest workshop in the FLJS series examining the social and political foundations of constitutions was held on Saturday 11th December at the Ashmolean Museum, where experts from the US, UK, and Russia came together to investigate the Egyptian, Micronesian and Russian constitutional experience.
Findings of an FLJS policy brief inform UK Government's reform of civil litigation costs
23 November 2010
Inaugural Regulation workshop opened by former Head of NAO
15 November 2010
Oxford lecture examines the origins of modern constitutionalism
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.
FLJS launches on Facebook
2 November 2010
Major study into litigation funding and costs publishes
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.
'Social Contract Revisited' closes with Programme Appraisal at Gray's Inn
9 July 2010 To mark the conclusion of the Foundation's three-year programme entitled 'The Social Contract Revisited', an event was held on 7th July at the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, at which members of the Advisory Board formed an expert panel to provide a critical appraisal of the work and achievements of the programme.
FLJS Annual Lecture 2010: Politicizing Law, Judicializing Politics
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.
Latest publications examine the effect of the economic crisis on the social contract
2 March 2010
President of Israeli Supreme Court Speaks Out on Human Rights and Proportionality
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.
Policymakers and academics convene to debate role of equality and responsibility
8 May 2009 A high-profile convention of policymakers and academics met in Oxford on 30 April-1 May to debate the role of equality and responsibility, as part of the FLJS programme on The Social Contract Revisited. The issues discussed come as figures released today indicate that Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s.
Report and policy briefs on employment equality publish today
FLJS publishes findings of research into courts in times of crisis
13 March 2009

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