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Latest policy briefs urge ombudsmen to "bridge the gap" in civil justice for consumers
17 July 2014
The Chief Ombudsman of the Ombudsman Service Lewis Shand Smith has responded to recent reforms to legal aid and European legislation on consumer dispute resolution by urging ombudsman schemes to “bridge the gap in the delivery of civil justice”, in a policy brief published by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society.
FLJS Policy Briefs propose new approaches to EC policy on gender equality
17 June 2014
New proposals to tackle gender imbalances in the workplace have been put forward by two leading gender equality experts in policy briefs published by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society today. The recommendations offer alternatives to the blanket 40% quota for female directors of publicly listed companies that the European Commission is considering imposing across the EU.  
EC Honorary Director General lays bare ‘false arguments’ on an independent Scotland's membership of the EU
06 June 2014
The Honorary Director General of the European Commission Graham Avery has criticized the ‘false arguments’ made by politicians who have claimed that Scotland would have to ‘join the queue’ for membership of the EU if it vote to become independent from the UK in September.
Professor Carlo Guarnieri delivers 2014 Annual Lecture in Law & Society
29 May 2014
Professor Carlo Guarnieri delivered the 2014 Annual Lecture in Law and Society at Wolfson College yesterday, outlining a wide-ranging account of the changing role of the judge in the twentieth century throughout Europe and beyond.
Frank Field MP cautions against “failure of nerve” over Modern Slavery Bill
14 May 2014
Frank Field MP, the Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Modern Slavery Bill, has cautioned against a “failure of nerve” by the government to implement laws to help protect victims of human trafficking, at an Oxford roundtable organized by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society at Wolfson College.
Leading human rights lawyer calls for end to impunity of Indonesian genocide perpetrators
07 May 2014
A leading human rights lawyer has called for measures to ensure that the perpetrators of mass killings in Indonesia are brought to justice, at a screening of the BAFTA-winning documentary The Act of Killing, held at Wolfson College on behalf of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society. 
Top ombudsmen respond to growing consumer empowerment and expectations
06 May 2014
The UK’s top ombudsmen met at Wolfson College last week at a conference organized by the FLJS and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies to explore how to maintain trust in ombudsmen in a rapidly changing environment.
The future of privacy at stake, argues media expert at launch of new programme in social media
30 April 2014
How will social media shape our understandings of identity and privacy in the twenty-first century? This was just one of the questions posed by José van Dijck, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, in a lecture held at Wolfson College this week to launch a new FLJS programme in social media.
Russia specialist forecasts 'dramatic' economic crisis for Russia
26 March 2014
Russia’s economy will suffer a sizable economic crash in the near future, the socio-economist and Russia specialist Dr John Round forecast at an event last week held at Wolfson College. 
Academic experts respond to European proposals to combat male-dominated boardrooms
18 March 2014
Legal and gender experts from the UK, US, and Europe yesterday outlined their responses to the controversial policy proposals by the European Commission to introduce quotas as a means of combating gender imbalances in corporate boardrooms, in a workshop convened by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in affiliation with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.  
What did Shakespeare have to say about constitutional thought?
07 March 2014
In a lecture entitled ‘Shakespeare and the Lower Register of Constitutional Thought’, held at Wolfson College on Wednesday, Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, drew on some of the lesser known passages from the plays to make an illuminating case for Shakespeare’s views on the nature of authority, the fragility of constitutional order, and the innate social divisions that persist to the present day.
Former EU and IMF Official spells out forgotten lessons of Eurocrisis
28 February 2014
On Wednesday 26 February, Max Watson, Wolfson College Fellow and Director of the Political Economy of Financial Markets programme at St Anthony’s College, drew on his thirty years of experience at the European Union and International Monetary Fund to outline the key lessons from the previous decades of crisis management that were forgotten in the handling of the Eurozone crisis.
Law proves to be Machiavelli’s Princely inspiration
10 December 2013
Five hundred years on from Niccolò Machiavelli’s first mention of what was to become one of the most influential works of modern political philosophy, The Prince, Professor Paolo Carta last night developed a fascinating reappraisal of the inspiration and contemporary relevance of Machiavelli’s crowning achievement.
New programme on law, film, and literature opens with rich exploration of narrative and logic
27 November 2013
Professor William Twining, UCL, last night delivered the inaugural lecture in a new programme on Law, Film, and Literature at Wolfson College, in which he raised intriguing questions regarding the relationship between evidence, narrative, and logic. 
New programme launched with debate on Millennium Development Goals
18 October 2013
A panel of experts from the University of Oxford, Harvard, and the World Bank sounded a cautious note about the prospects for achieving the Post-2015 International Development Agenda, at a panel discussion convened by the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society this week.
FLJS Policy Brief attributes US government shutdown to Tea Party ‘fundamentalism’ over Obamacare
15 October 2013
As the world braces itself for the possibility of an American debt default that could trigger another global financial disaster, the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society has published a policy brief which attributes the origins of the crisis to the Tea Party’s ‘fundamentalist’ approach to Obamacare and the US Constitution.

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