College Record 2017

Trinity Term
Karuna Dietrich Wielenga (Visiting Scholar and British Academy Newton
International Fellow), ‘Labour, law and politics: a historical understanding of the
informal sector in India.’
Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos (Research Member of Common Room and Post-
Doctoral Researcher in Urban Transformations, University of Oxford Centre on
Migration, Policy and Society), ‘City aesthetics in informal settlements in Ouro
Preto, Brasil.’
Antonio-Miguel Nogues-Pedregal (Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of
Social Anthropology, Department of Social and Human Sciences, Universitas Miguel
Hernández), ‘Five conclusions on the socio-anthropological study of tourism.’
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Foundation marked its second decade of bridging the gap between academia
and policymaking with a series of high-impact events and publications, the
highlight of which was a restaging of the Putney Debates (1647) in February 2017
at St Mary’s Church, Putney, to address the constitutional challenges raised by the
EU Referendum. They were conceived by Professor Denis Galligan (EF 2017–),
Director of Programmes at the Foundation, who was struck by the parallels between
the constitutional uncertainties posed by the result of the Referendum and those
faced in 1647, when the original Putney Debates were convened in the wake of the
English Civil War and gave rise to many of the civil liberties we value today.
The new Debates were convened in association with the Faculty of Law, the Centre
for Socio-Legal Studies and Wolfson College, and saw more than thirty speakers
debate the issues over four sessions, chaired by Joshua Rozenberg, the UK's leading
legal commentator, by Baroness Onora O’Neill, Cambridge philosopher and crossbench
Peer, and by members of the Law Faculty including Professor Galligan, Alison
Young and Paul Craig. Debaters included the renowned philosopher and prominent
Brexit critic A C Grayling; the former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Stephen Sedley;
Rob Murray, representing Gina Miller in the Article 50 case; constitutional expert
(and tutor to David Cameron) Vernon Bogdanor; prominent human rights lawyer
Michael Mansfield QC; political economist Will Hutton; the historian and Guardian
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