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Policy Briefs offer Lessons for Leveson
Why Nations Fail and Do Constitutions Matter?
European policy on collective legal actions
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The summer edition carries policy briefs on the Leveson Inquiry and collective litigation, a podcast of the Annual Lecture 2012, and analyses of the factors that determine a nation's success.
Policy Briefs offer Lessons for Leveson  
Media experts assess Leveson and make proposals for press regulation

Press Regulation: Taking account of media convergence Last week, we published a policy brief by Lara Fielden proposing a radical new framework for press regulation, on the same day that she appeared before Leveson to present what he described as a "monumental" study of press regulation across the world.

This week, former Times Managing Editor George Brock calls for strengthened legal defences for public interest journalism and incentives for non-statutory regulation.

Podcasts from our Panel Discussion on media regulation are available to download now, and further policy briefs from panellists including Baroness O'Neill, who appeared at the Inquiry this week, will be published in the coming weeks.

Experts explore Why Nations Fail and ask: Do Constitutions Matter? 

Economic inequalities examined and constitutional myths debunked

 

Professor Pauline Maier delivering the Annual Lecture in Law and Society 2012Why are some nations rich and others poor? This was the fundamental question raised by a colloquium last month, Why Nations Fail, based on the acclaimed book by award-winning economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.
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On 29 June we confronted the widespread scepticism of the effectiveness of constitutional promises in many developing, and even well-established states, with a workshop entitled Do Constitutions Matter?
 

Professor Pauline Maier argued persausively for the influence of the US Constitution at the Annual Lecture in Law and Society 2012, as she charted the dramatic evolution of the Federal Bill of Rights from its C18th origins to the near religious significance it has taken on today.   

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European policy on collective legal actions
Policy Brief exposes 'Catch-22' of EU system for collective legal actions
Safeguards in Collective Actions As European policymakers grapple with how best to respond to mass infringements of law, this policy brief argues that any system for collective legal actions will give rise to excessive litigation and other forms of abuse.

Identifying the 'Catch-22' that, even if effective safeguards were possible, such a system would deny widespread access to justice, the authors recommend alternative forms of collective redress.

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Safeguards in Collective Actions
Chris Hodges and Rebecca Money-Kyrle, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
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