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Lecture and workshop unpack Sharia Law
Prof Robert Gleave will lecture on Sharia law & Muslim legal mythology
 This week, we invite you to join us for a lecture and workshop that aim to to unpack the mythology and promise of Sharia law.
Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies at Exeter University, will open the debate, which will assess the implications of a Sharia-based society for post-Arab Spring and other Muslim countries.
Professor Robert Gleave:
Sharia Law and Muslim Legal Mythology
5.30pm, Thursday 16 May 2013
QEH, Mansfield Rd, Oxford
Full details and registration
Further details of the accompanying workshop and a full listing of all events, including our Annual Lecture in Law & Society on 13 June, are available at the link below.
All upcoming FLJS Events
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Media Law after Leveson podcasts
FLJS debate points way forward for Leveson reforms
 We revisited the contested issue of press regulation last month with a workshop at the Oxford Faculty of Law that brought together prominent legal figures, academic experts, and representatives of Hacked Off and the Guardian to debate the Leveson reforms and the draft Royal Charter devised to implement them.
A series of podcasts and Opinion Pieces from the debate are available to download from our Resources pages.
Read more and download podcasts
Leveson and the Royal Charter: an unsatisfactory stalemate
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Latest Publications
Policy briefs on financial regulation and water rights available to download
 In the latest policy briefs from our Regulation Programme, a former director of the Central Bank of Ireland looks back at the regulatory failings leading to the financial crisis, and Profs Howarth and Morrow tackle the future challenges to water rights posed by climate change and population growth.
Download:
Max Watson, formerly CBoI and IMF
"The root of the problem was an intellectual or moral failure to identify and contain concentrations of risk"
Bill Howarth, University of Kent
Rights, Interests, and the Water Resource: Crossing the Rubicon?
Karen Morrow, Swansea University
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