The Directors of the Board of The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society in association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,

University of Oxford

 

invite you to a symposium at The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn

 

The Social Contract Revisited ~ Programme Appraisal

 

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Gray’s Inn, High Holborn, London WC1R 5ET

 

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Over the past three years, the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society has been engaged in a programme of study to evaluate rights and responsibilities between citizens and the state through the notion of the social contract.

This Programme Appraisal will assess the results of this body of work, which aims to bring to bear the acuity of scholarly research to a range of contemporary policy issues, including taxation, pension reform, employment and industrial relations, equality and personal responsibility, and the effect of the economic crisis on the social contract.

 

An extensive collection of reports and policy briefs from this programme are available from our website at www.fljs.org/SCpublications

 

Please register online at www.fljs.org/7July

 

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Programme

 

Gray’s Inn, High Holborn, London WC1R 5ET

 

Wednesday 7 July 2010

 

9.00-9.30                  Arrival and registration

 

9.30-9.45                  Tea and coffee

 

9.45-10.00       Introduction by Paul Dodyk, Chair of The Social Contract Revisited Advisory Board

                         

10.00-10.30          The Promise of Social Welfare: New Foundations for the Social Contract

Fred D’Agostino, Professor of Humanities and Associate Dean, University of Queensland, Australia

 

10.30-10.45          Questions

 

10.45-11.15     Critical Assessment of Programme and Publications

Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley

 

11.15-11.30     Questions

 

11.30-12.00     Tea and coffee

 

12.00-12.30     An Appraisal of The Social Contract Revisited

Matthew Diller, Dean and Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York

 

12.30-12.45     Questions

 

1.00-2.30         Reception and Lunch

 

 

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