Jufang Wang argues that the threatened banning of the Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok on ‘national security’ grounds would undermine much-needed competition within the tech industry and lead to a more fractured ‘splinternet’.

In this policy brief, Dr Jufang Wang reviews China's regulation of digital media platforms against the backdrop of the party-state's concerns that the platforms' increasing power as gatekeepers of online news and information may undermine its information control.

This Report summarizes the main points of two recent reviews on the resolution of disputes in England and Wales. Prof Chris Hodges and Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales find that the justice system has broken down in England and Wales, and needs a radical overhaul to digitize and modernize the system.

Can the rights of individuals to make personal injury claims from pharmaceutical companies have adverse long-term consequences for society?

LSE media expert and Government adviser Damian Tambini argues that social media companies have a duty of care to protect users from harms caused by content published on their platforms, in response to the government's policy proposals in its White Paper on Online Harms.

This policy brief outlines major developments and issues in consumer dispute resolution systems in Europe that were highlighted at the conference 'Consumer ADR: Delivering Fairness and Justice for Consumers, Business and Markets' held at Wolfson College, Oxford on 18 and 19 March 2019.

There is a general trend among recent populist movements to implement measures that interfere with the independence and proper functioning of the judiciary. These movements seek to frame the courts in opposition to the popular will, yet the truth is more complicated than the populists would have us believe.

Populists challenge liberal constitutionalism by claiming to put the ordinary citizen in the centre of the political system, while reducing the powers of the ‘enemies of the people’. Sociologist Prof Paul Blokker argues that populists reduce democratic legitimacy, and asks: Why have populists found it so easy to radically change constitutional institutions and norms, and what can we do about it?

One of the driving principles behind the contemporary populist vision of democracy is to no longer respect legal boundaries and constitutional constraints to the so-called ‘will of the people’.

Through analysis of the contemporary Italian political situation, this policy brief addresses a number of critical constitutional strains caused by populism, including: