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Podcasts from the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an independent institution affiliated with Wolfson College and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. This course includes topics such as Max Watson Annual Lecture: Ethical Business Practice and Regulation, The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World and so on.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Credit: University of Oxford
Course Curriculum
Module 01: | |||
Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights | 00:49:00 | ||
Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights Part 1 | 00:25:00 | ||
Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights Part 2 | 00:22:00 | ||
FLJS and Aspen Institute Lecture: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain | 00:57:00 | ||
Courts, Legislatures, Administrators, and the Making of Social Policy | 00:52:00 | ||
Contract, Obligation, Rights and Reciprocity in the New Modern Welfare State | 00:58:00 | ||
If the Public Would be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care? | 00:47:00 | ||
Beyond the Third Way in Labour Law: Towards the Constitutionalization of Labour Law? | 01:06:00 | ||
Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach | 00:56:00 | ||
Equality in an Era of Responsibility | 01:07:00 | ||
Human Rights and their Limitations: The Role of Proportionality | 01:12:00 | ||
Module 02: | |||
2009 Annual Lecture: Human rights and their limitations: the role of proportionality | 00:59:00 | ||
FLJS part 1: Human Rights | 00:03:00 | ||
FLJS part 2: Freedom of Speech | 00:01:00 | ||
FLJS part 3: Criticisms and Answers: Proportionality vs. Strict Scrutiny | 00:05:00 | ||
FLJS part 4: The Relationship between Political and Judicial Branches | 00:05:00 | ||
FLJS part 5: Closing Remarks: Cases of Family Reunification and use of torture | 00:06:00 | ||
FLJS part 6: Laws in times of peace and war | 00:02:00 | ||
Politicizing Law, Judicializing Politics: A Realist Approach to Comparative Constitutionalism | 00:52:00 | ||
The History of Modern Constitutionalism | 00:41:00 | ||
The Role of Courts in a Democracy: Debate | 01:41:00 | ||
The Indirect Origins of the Judicial Constitution: 2011 Annual Lecture in Law and Society | 00:56:00 | ||
Module 03: | |||
Norm Entrepreneurship – Theoretical and Methodological Challenges | 00:17:00 | ||
Where do norms come from? | 00:17:00 | ||
War, Law and the Cold War: Making the European Convention on Human Rights | 00:13:00 | ||
Explaining the Momentum behind the Council of Europe’s Norm Entrepreneurship | 00:17:00 | ||
Sixty Years of Normative Production in the Council of Europe: The Legal Nature, Elaboration, Challenges and Trends of the CoE Conventions | 00:19:00 | ||
The Council of Europe and the death penalty: intergovernmental legitimation as enabling and constraining | 00:18:00 | ||
The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: From Standard-Setting to Standard-Implementation | 00:17:00 | ||
Hard Law, Soft Law and the Politics of Standards: Regulating Political Parties in Europe | 00:16:00 | ||
From Conditionality to Disconnection-The Ambivalent Relationship between the Council of Europe and the European Union in the Field of Criminal Justice | 00:15:00 | ||
The International ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and the ‘Responsibility to Rebuild’- A Dual Agenda | 00:21:00 | ||
Module 04: | |||
Keynote Speech | 00:19:00 | ||
The Middle East Revolution: take 2, Constitutionalism | 00:28:00 | ||
Will Constitutional Theocracy bloom after the Arab Spring? | 00:43:00 | ||
Abbe Sieyes, Guttenberg, and Habermas: Constitutional Revolutions in Egypt and the Arab World | 00:44:00 | ||
Europe on the Brink? Introduction and Historical Issues | 00:28:00 | ||
Europe on the Brink? Political Issues | 00:18:00 | ||
Europe on the Brink? Economic Issues | 00:16:00 | ||
Europe on the Brink? Constitutional Issues | 00:17:00 | ||
2012 Annual Lecture in Law and Society: The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States and the Atlantic World | 00:59:00 | ||
Constitutional Borrowing and other Hazards: The Islamic Republic and Transformations in Islamic Law | 00:34:00 | ||
Redirecting Fleet Street: Introduction | 00:02:00 | ||
Module 05: | |||
Redirecting Fleet Street 1: The Failure of UK Press Accountability Systems | 00:22:00 | ||
Redirecting Fleet Street: 2: Press Regulation: Taking Account of Media Convergence | 00:17:00 | ||
Redirecting Fleet Street: 3: Tweets, Beaks and Hacks: Regulation and the Law in the Age of New Media Journalism | 00:10:00 | ||
Redirecting Fleet Street 4: What Should Press Regulation Regulate? | 00:23:00 | ||
Redirecting Fleet Street 5: Constitutionalising Media Power | 00:21:00 | ||
The Place of Britain in a Future Europe | 00:56:00 | ||
Are Courts Representative Bodies? | 00:22:00 | ||
Are Courts Representative Bodies – a Canadian Perspective | 00:13:00 | ||
New Questions in Regulation – Panel Discussion | 00:51:00 | ||
New Questions in Regulation: Regulatory Capture Revisited | 01:24:00 | ||
Module 06: | |||
Economic Rights and Regulatory Regimes: Is there still a ‘right’ to water? Panel I | 00:58:00 | ||
Economic Rights and Regulatory Regimes: Is there still a ‘right’ to water? Panel II | 00:46:00 | ||
Economic Rights and Regulatory Regimes: Is there still a ‘right’ to water? Panel III | 00:56:00 | ||
Economic Rights and Regulatory Regimes: Is there still a ‘right’ to water? Roundtable Discussion | 01:04:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Opening Remarks | 00:27:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Regulating the Press | 00:46:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Newsgathering, journalistic sources, and criminal investigations | 00:15:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: The Sanctity of Press Partisanship | 00:15:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Public Interest | 00:49:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Closing Remarks | 00:20:00 | ||
Media Law after Leveson: Newsgathering, data protection and source protection | 00:18:00 | ||
Sharia law and Muslim legal mythology | 00:42:00 | ||
Module 07: | |||
Comparing Sharia with the Modern Constitutions | 00:22:00 | ||
Pro-Women Legal Reform in Morocco: Is Religion an Obstacle? | 00:29:00 | ||
Implementing “Sharia” in Syria’s liberated areas | 00:21:00 | ||
Al-Azhar and Interpretation of Sharia in the New Egyptian Constitution | 00:09:00 | ||
Annual Lecture in Law and Society: Law and Social Illusion | 01:03:00 | ||
Sharia-guided family laws in Bangladesh: The Impact of the Constitution | 00:13:00 | ||
First Annual Conference on Consumer ADR: Jacqueline Minor | 00:44:00 | ||
National models, achieving full coverage, sources of funding, building business Support | 00:44:00 | ||
How do Institutions Change? The Prospects for Law and Justice Priorities in the Post-2015 International Development Agenda | 00:59:00 | ||
Machiavelli’s The Prince-500 Years On | 00:50:00 | ||
Module 08: | |||
The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy | 00:57:00 | ||
Can We Save Countries from Economic Crises? Some lessons from IMF and EU experience over three decades | 00:50:00 | ||
Shakespeare and the Lower Register of Constitutional Thought | 01:22:00 | ||
The Critical Mass Marker Approach to Gender Quotas | 00:33:00 | ||
Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards -The diffusion of a distinct national policy reform | 00:26:00 | ||
Democratic Deficits and Gender Quotas: The Evolution of the Proposed EU Directive on Gender Balance on Corporate Boards | 00:47:00 | ||
(In)formal Economies, Economies of Favour: The End of Transition? | 01:08:00 | ||
Book Colloquium: Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media | 01:34:00 | ||
Social Media and the Culture of Connectivity | 00:54:00 | ||
Reassessing the Civil Law Tradition: the Changing Role of the Judge Annual Lecture in Law & Society 2014 | 00:56:00 | ||
Module 09: | |||
Early Resolution in Ombudsmen schemes | 00:12:00 | ||
Ombudsman Service – Consumer Engagement | 00:15:00 | ||
Where next for ombudsmen schemes? | 00:15:00 | ||
Could Scotland Join the European Union? | 00:53:00 | ||
Killing by Drones: The Legal and Public Policy Dimensions | 00:53:00 | ||
Social Media: A Critical Introduction | 00:18:00 | ||
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks | 00:19:00 | ||
The New Regulatory Space: Reframing Democratic Governance | 00:41:00 | ||
Constitutional Instability : The Case of Central and Eastern Europe – The Break-Up of Nations: The Constitutional Dimensions Using Ukraine as a Case Study | 00:41:00 | ||
Constitution Making – The Break-Up of Nations: The Constitutional Dimensions Using Ukraine as a Case Study | 00:24:00 | ||
Module 10: | |||
Successful Constitutions – The Break-Up of Nations: The Constitutional Dimensions Using Ukraine as a Case Study | 00:35:00 | ||
Patent Policy in Genomics and Human Genetics: Epistemic Communities, Courts and the Democratic Shaping of Patent Law | 00:25:00 | ||
Persepolis: Introductory talk by Kaveh Moussavi, Iranian human rights lawyer | 00:23:00 | ||
Citizenship, Religious Rights and State Identity in Arab Constitutions: Who Is Free and What Are They Free to Do? | 00:22:00 | ||
Social Media: Foundations of the Cyber-Society and the Role of Law | 00:24:00 | ||
Max Watson Memorial Lecture: Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship | 00:43:00 | ||
William Browder on the State of Law in Putin’s Russia | 01:12:00 | ||
Neoliberalism Workshop: Contradictions in liberal reforms: The regulation of labour subcontracting | 00:27:00 | ||
The Neoliberal Construction of Modern Slavery: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers | 00:14:00 | ||
Neoliberalism as Analytical Starting Point: Possibilities and Problems | 00:23:00 | ||
Module 11: | |||
Neoliberalism, Trade Unions and the Labour Market: An overview of the core ideological claims | 00:19:00 | ||
Neoliberalism workshop: Implications for future visions of work and organisation | 00:24:00 | ||
Can The Referendum Be Democratic? Reflections On The Brexit Process | 00:53:00 | ||
How Judges Decide | 00:41:00 | ||
Populism and the Constitution: The Case of Britain in the Wake of the EU Referendum | 00:23:00 | ||
From Locke on Toleration to the First Amendment | 00:41:00 | ||
Introduction to Film Screening of Pablo Larrain’s NO | 00:10:00 | ||
The Constitution in Crisis 2016 | 00:57:00 | ||
European Voices of Dissent and the Constitutional Consequences for the European Union | 00:30:00 | ||
Beyond the Liberal Constitution: The United States – Taking the Bullying Pulpit | 00:31:00 | ||
Module 12: | |||
Constitutionalism without Consensus in Contemporary Turkey | 00:17:00 | ||
Putney Debates 2017 – Session I: Parliament and the People | 01:34:00 | ||
Putney Debates 2017 – Session II: Changing and Strengthening the Role of the People | 01:27:00 | ||
Putney Debates 2017 – Session III: Parliament, the Executive, the Courts and the Rule of Law | 01:30:00 | ||
Putney Debates 2017 – Session IV: Preserving the Liberal Constitution | 01:26:00 | ||
The Will of the People? The History of Petitioning in Britain and Its Implications for Today | 00:39:00 | ||
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World | 00:49:00 | ||
The Forgotten Flight: Terrorism, Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Justice | 00:53:00 | ||
Max Watson Annual Lecture: Ethical Business Practice and Regulation | 01:02:00 | ||
Assessment | |||
Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
Certification | 00:00:00 |
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