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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.

Are Courts Representative Bodies? A Canadian Perspective

In this policy brief, Judge Robert Sharpe of the Court of Appeal for Ontario argues that it would be wrong for judges exercising the power of judicial review to claim...

The End of Press Freedom

The fourth and final policy brief from our series assessing the progress of the Leveson Inquiry and the future of media regulation sees the Director of the ...

The Russian Socio-Legal Tradition

The second report from our three-part series on Russian legal culture traces the evolution of the socio-legal tradition from imperial times to the present, to shed new light on...

Federalism and Its Discontents: The limits of New Institutionalism

From post-conflict Iraqi federalism to the decentralist teachings of the World Bank in the developing world, comparative federalism has found increasingly vibrant applications...

(Mis)Understanding American Federalism: On constitutions, collective action, competition, and quiescence

American federalism is often lauded for promoting democratic participation and accountability, but this view neglects the ways in which it actually structures day-to-day...

Regulating for Communication

In this policy brief, political philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill responds to the debate over press regulation sparked by the phone hacking scandal by assessing the...

The Leveson Inquiry: There's a bargain to be struck over media freedom and regulation

The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice, and ethics of the British press was triggered when the phone-hacking scandal’s full scale became clear in July 2011 and closed...

Press Regulation: Taking account of media convergence

This policy brief by media expert Lara Fielden proposes a radical new framework for press regulation based on a comparative study of international press councils, which...

The Social Contract Revisited: The Modern Welfare State

This report summarizes the three-year programme investigating the social contract and the modern welfare state.

Safeguards in Collective Actions

There is a consensus in Europe that collective action mechanisms need to include correct safeguards in order to prevent abuse.

Consumer-to-Business ADR Structures

This policy brief addresses the difficulty consumers face when trying to resolve minor disputes with business, for which the courts prove too slow and costly.

Constructing Legal Culture through Institutional Reforms: The Russian Experience

This report, published in collaboration with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, examines the legal culture in Russia and challenges the received wisdom from the West.

The Risk vs Hazard Debate: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Health & Safety Regulation within the UK and across the EU

Dr Sweta Chakraborty reviews the current debate over health & safety regulation, representing the views of academics, regulators, government, and lawyers, including the...

The Hidden World of Consumer ADR: Redress and Behaviour

This report summarizes the findings of an Oxford research project and an international conference which assessed alternative methods for settling consumer disputes that do not...

Lawyers: Socio-Legal Perspectives

In collaboration with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society is pleased to publish a workshop report examining different aspects of the...

The Foundations of Law: Legalism in the Ancient World, Europe, Asia

In collaboration with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society is pleased to publish a workshop report examining different aspects of the...

Do the Media Influence the Judiciary?

As judges face growing criticism for 'disproportionate' sentencing of those convicted of inciting riots, Sir Mark Potter, former President of the Family Division of the High...

The Court of Public Opinion: Justice, the Media, and Popular Will

This report examines the influence of the media on the judiciary and politics, and features insights from Lance Price, former Government Director of Communications, on the...

The Purposes, Organization, and Supervision of Regulators: Implications for Accountability and Liability

This policy brief advances the theory of 'confirmation bias' to explain recent systematic defective regulatory decision-making and actions, and posits that accountability and...

Access to Environmental Justice in England and Wales

This policy brief charts the slow boadening of access to environmental justice in England and Wales over the past few decades, and examines current and future prospects with...

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