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Workshop: The Court of Public Opinion
8th July Oxford workshop to assess media impact on courts & politics
As new revelations regarding tabloid reporting of high-profile cases emerge, we will be assessing the media's impact on the judicial and political process, at a critical juncture for relations between the judiciary, the media, and the legislature.
Former Appeal Court Judge Sir Mark Potter and government Director of Communications Lance Price will debate the issues with journalists and media experts.
The Court of Public Opinion: Justice, the Media and Popular Will
9am-5pm, Friday 8th July
Full details and online registration
This workshop follows a related event on 16th June, at which media lawyers and political scientists assessed how the media presents and reports on constitutional affairs.
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Latest Reports and Policy Briefs
Courts in a Democracy Report and accompanying policy briefs published
 A report of our February workshop and Public Debate on The Role of Courts in a Democracy, featuring Charles Clarke and Lord Justice Jacob, was published in June. The report and complete collection of accompanying policy briefs, including the latest on access to environmental justice, can be downloaded from the link below. The Role of Courts in a Democracy Also published in June was a report summarizing the findings of the Social Contract Revisited programme. The Social Contract Revisited: The Modern Welfare State |
Annual Lecture Podcast and workshop news
Annual Lecture and workshop explore constitutional aims and origins
 The Annual Lecture in Law and Society was delivered on 15th June by Professor Denis Galligan at Jesus College, Oxford.
In the lecture, entitled The Indirect Origins of the Juridical Constitution, Prof. Galligan outlined the limits of representative democracy, and advanced the concept of the People as corporation to account for the constitutional prominence of rights at the expense of provisions for political representation.
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 On 17th June we held the penultimate workshop in our series on the social and political foundations of constitutions, to explore the concepts of constitutions as mission statements, and the diffusion of constitutional principles across nations. The afternoon session was devoted to an examination of the EU Constitution by Professor Neil Walker, who acknowledged that the indeterminacy and controversy surrounding the EU Constitution are both problematic and mutually reinforcing. Read more
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