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2013 events programme announced
Programme includes book colloquium, lecture and regulation workshops
 Our programme of events kicks off in 2013 with a book colloquium on Chris Thornhill's 2011 work A Sociology of Constitutions. The author and fellow experts will discuss why modern societies require constitutions and assess the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.
Book Colloquium:
A Sociology of Constitutions
Thursday 7 February 2013
Manor Rd Building, Oxford
A report of our last book colloquium on Jürgen Habermas's The Crisis of the European Union is available on our News pages.
Later next month, Vincent Miró will explain how Dalmacio Negro's unfairly neglected Theory of the State serves as a unique insight into the problems of post-War Western societies, charting the development of the State and reconceptualizing it for the twenty-first century.
Looking further ahead, two workshops in March will assess new concerns about regulatory capture in the wake of the financial crisis, and the response of environmental policymakers to the challenges of climate change.
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Latest Publications
Policy brief on judicial review and report of Constitutions workshop
 In our latest policy brief, Court of Appeal Judge Robert Sharpe argues that courts undertake an important role in constitutional democracy by exercising their power of judicial review of legislation against constitutionally mandated standards.
Download: Also published last month, a comparative analysis of the constitutional insights of three classical scholars studied in our October workshop. Amir Paz-Fuchs
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Book on post-Communist reform in Eastern Europe to be published
Collected volume expected later this year from workshop in Bulgaria
 Last month, we collaborated with Sofia University, Bulgaria to convene a group of experts from across Eastern Europe, as part of a project to assess post-Communist developments in administrative law in the region.
The workshop, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, will result in a published volume of country case studies, edited by Professor Denis Galligan and Dr Daniel Smilov, which will reassess the interaction between the citizen and the state in central and Eastern Europe as played out through the administrative system.
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