| FLJS part 5: Closing Remarks: Cases of Family Reunification and use of torture |
Aharon Barak talks about the implications for human rights law of Israel barring family reunification between Palestinian and Israeli citizens. Part 5 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| FLJS part 4: The Relationship between Political and Judicial Branches |
Aharon Barak discusses how the political and judicial branches of government balance their sometimes conflicting interests with the rights of the citizens. Part 4 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| FLJS part 3: Criticisms and Answers: Proportionality vs. Strict Scrutiny |
Aharon Barak talks about the need for proportionality within human rights law as a means for protecting it against other considerations. Part 3 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| FLJS part 2: Freedom of Speech |
Aharon Barak discusses the idea of Freedom of Speech and asks whether it is right to limit this freedom to protect against hate speech. Part 2 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| FLJS part 1: Human Rights |
Aharon Barak talks about human rights and the limitations imposed on them that are necessary for society to preserve itself. Part 1 of the 2009 Foundation for Law Justice and Society Annual Lecture. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| 2009 Annual Lecture: Human rights and their limitations: the role of proportionality |
The former President of the Israeli Supreme Court Aharon Barak addresses the appropriate balance between security and the safeguarding of human rights. |
Aharon Barak |
24 July, 2009 |
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| Human Rights and their Limitations: The Role of Proportionality |
The former President of the Israeli Supreme Court Aharon Barak addresses the appropriate balance between security and the safeguarding of human rights. |
Aharon Barak |
5 June, 2009 |
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| Equality in an Era of Responsibility |
John Roemer, Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University, explores the historical formulations of responsibility in egalitarian theory, and argues for a more direct and non-contractarian approach to its integration. |
John Roemer |
30 April, 2009 |
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| Data Protection, Freedom of Expression and the Media |
Antony White QC delivers a seminar on the laws of data protection, the media and freedom of expression and the right to privacy and how the laws are adapting in the light of the Naomi Campbell-Mirror Group and the Michael Douglas-OK magazine cases. |
Antony White |
31 March, 2009 |
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| Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach |
Why do ordinary people perpetrate genocide and crimes against humanity? How can these perpetrators be held accountable? Are international prosecutions effective? Is imprisonment a fitting punishment? |
Mark Drumbl |
29 January, 2009 |
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| Beyond the Third Way in Labour Law: Towards the Constitutionalization of Labour Law? |
Professor Collins argues that New Labour was responsible for the real break from the political settlements of the Trade Disputes Act 1906. He suggests that a new social contract is required that constitutionalizes social and economic rights. |
Hugh Collins |
2 December, 2008 |
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| If the Public Would be Outraged by Their Rulings, Should Judges Care? |
This Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Cass Sunstein on 24 May 2007, questions the limits and legitimacy of judicial independence in the face of public opinion. |
Cass Sunstein |
11 August, 2008 |
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| Contract, Obligation, Rights and Reciprocity in the New Modern Welfare State |
This lecture, delivered by Lord Raymond Plant on 18 April 2007, opened the inaugural workshop in the Foundation's programme on 'The Social Contract Revisited'. |
Raymond Plant |
11 August, 2008 |
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| Courts, Legislatures, Administrators, and the Making of Social Policy |
This lecture, delivered by Professor Martin Shapiro on 25 June 2006, opened the inaugural workshop of the Foundation's programme on 'Courts and the Making of Public Policy'. |
Martin Shapiro |
11 August, 2008 |
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| FLJS and Aspen Institute Lecture: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain |
Delivered by Prof. AWB Simpson at the Aspen Institute on 7 Jul 08, it gives an account of the response of the courts to detention without trial during WWII. It serves to open a two-day seminar entitled 'In Times of Crisis Can We Trust the Courts?'. |
AWB Simpson |
8 August, 2008 |
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| Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights Part 2 |
In a keynote lecture the Chief Justice of South Africa addressed the relationship between the entrenchment and enforceability of socio-economic rights in South Africa. |
Pius Langa |
3 July, 2008 |
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| Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights Part 1 |
In a keynote lecture the Chief Justice of South Africa addressed the relationship between the entrenchment and enforceability of socio-economic rights in South Africa. |
Pius Langa |
3 July, 2008 |
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| Transformative Constitutionalism and Socio-Economic Rights |
In a keynote lecture the Chief Justice of South Africa addressed the relationship between the entrenchment and enforceability of socio-economic rights in South Africa. |
Pius Langa |
2 July, 2008 |
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