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Reforming the EU Consumer ADR Landscape: Implementation and its Issues

This report describes the discussions at the Third Oxford Consumer ADR conference, which brought together policy officials, regulators, ombudsmen, alternative dispute...

An Informed Dialogue Supporting Safe Innovation in Medical Technology

What do we want from medical technology, and how can we get it?
This policy brief addresses a series of interrelated questions on how regulatory reform in the...

The Status of Public and Private Enforcement of Law in the EU: Innovation and Transformation

This report examines the significant changes to the European legal system in recent years – including the increasing role of alternative dispute resolution (ADR),...

CDR Mechanism for Consumer Dispute Resolution

A report in Chinese on the use of alternative dispute resolution methods to resolve consumer disputes.

Harmonizing the Ombudsman Landscape

Chief Ombudsman of the Ombudsman Service Lewis Shand Smith assesses the major shifts being felt across the civil justice landscape in the UK, in this policy brief published in...

The Impact and Legitimacy of Ombudsman and ADR Schemes in the UK

Measures by the EU to improve access to justice for citizens in the European single market due to come into force in 2015 will have significant consequences for the...

Corporate Boards, Quotas for Women, and Political Theory

In this policy brief, Jude Browne, Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, seeks to overcome the three main objections to gender quotas on corporate...

Democratic Deficits and Gender Quotas

In this policy brief, leading equality law scholar Professor Julie C. Suk traces the evolution of the EU proposal, and argues that it has become increasingly concerned with a...

Populism vs. Constitutionalism? Comparative Perspectives on Contemporary Western Europe, Latin America, and the United States

In this policy brief, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser takes a comparative approach to challenge the conventional wisdom that populism, by virtue of its ambivalent relationship with...

Implementing the EU Consumer ADR Directive

This policy brief outlines a new blueprint to resolve disputes between consumers and business more quickly and fairly, as part of measures to improve the handling of small...

Are Populists Friends or Foes of Constitutionalism?

In this policy brief, Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia sets out a definition for populism and argues that, contrary to claims by the Tea Party and other populist...

The Tea Party, the government shutdown, and Obamacare

Obamacare has been the bête-noire of the Tea Party movement since its founding in February 2009. The current Tea Party tactic — shutting down the federal government unless...

Islam and Women in the Constitution of Bangladesh

This brief focuses on the legal aspect of gender in Bangladesh, examining specifically Muslim women and the impact that the shifting emphasis ...

Private Rights and Public Responsibilities: Recent developments in Scots water law

This policy brief examines recent reforms in Scottish water law and considers whether there has been a shift from private rights to private responsibilities, or perhaps, from...

Water Rights and Stewardship

To what extent are water rights subject to restrictions based on ideas of stewardship? This brief provides a critical analysis of one particular law reform — section 27...

Is there still an Economic Right to Water?

This policy brief addresses how the meaning and scope of farmers’ economic rights to access and use water are changing through increasing emphasis on stewardship ...

Water Rights and Water Trading in England and Wales

This policy brief assesses the role of ‘rights’ in water use and water trade in the face of increasing water scarcity and uncertainty caused by climate change. 
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Leveson Reforms, Editorial Freedom, and Press Discussion of Ordinary Members of the Public

Paul Wragg of the University of Leeds assesses the impact of Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations for press regulation on ordinary members of the public.

A Royal Charter for the Press: How does it measure up to regulation overseas?

In this policy brief, published in conjunction with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Lara Fielden examines the three key qualities Lord Justice Leveson...

Media Law after Leveson: A view from the coalface

In this policy brief, the Guardian’s Director of Editorial Legal Services Gillian Phillips presents her perspective on the post-Leveson media law landscape, arguing...

Rights, Interests, and the Water Resource: Crossing the Rubicon?

This policy brief discusses the fitness for purpose of rights-based approaches to the freshwater resource, and the increasing significance of climate change and population...

Integrated Water Resources Management and the Right to Water Security

The purpose of this policy brief is to reflect upon global objectives for water management and the way that these relate to national concerns about water in the United Kingdom...

From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

This policy brief revisits the idea of regulatory capture to explore the influences that changed financial sector regulation, including new ideological currents, changes in...

Experiences of Law in Contemporary Russia

In the wake of renewed speculation regarding the rule of law in today's Russia raised by the death of Boris Berezovsky, we publish a report to identify the actual experience of...

Constitutions and the Classics: Coke, Blackstone, and Rousseau

This report assesses the contribution to constitutional thought of Edward Coke, William Blackstone, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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