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columnist Timothy Garton Ash; and Robert Hazell CBE, founder of the Constitution<br />
Unit at UCL.<br />
Themes included the tension between the will of the people and representative<br />
government; the need for greater civic education to confront political apathy and<br />
misinformation; the importance of preserving free speech and the popular voice in a<br />
post-truth society; the widespread ignorance of constitutional principles, even within<br />
Parliament itself, and the case for a written constitution for the UK. The debates can<br />
be watched again on the Law Faculty YouTube channel, and a collected volume<br />
of the speakers’ contributions (Constitution in Crisis: The New Putney Debates,<br />
with an introduction by Professor Galligan) will be published at the end of August.<br />
Copies will be distributed to every MP and higher court judge in the land, and will<br />
be available to buy online and in bookshops.<br />
The Foundation also organized a colloquium in collaboration with Oxford Transitional<br />
Justice Research on the book East West Street: On the Origins of ‘Genocide’ and<br />
‘Crimes against Humanity’. This memoir, which tells the personal histories of the<br />
key legal protagonists at the Nuremberg trials, won the Baillie Gifford Prize for<br />
Non-Fiction in 2016. Its author, the highly respected international lawyer Philippe<br />
Sands QC, gave a moving account of the origins of the human rights movement, in<br />
discussion with Professor Dapo Akande of the Faculty of Law and Professor Stephen<br />
Humphreys of LSE.<br />
Two other notable lectures were the third Max Watson Annual Lecture, delivered<br />
by the Professor of Justice Systems, Chris Hodges, who announced governmentendorsed<br />
proposals to transform business ethics through a trust-based approach<br />
to regulation; and a keynote lecture on Free Speech by Timothy Garton Ash, who<br />
presented his ten principles for a connected world.<br />
The Foundation also publishes Policy Briefs and Opinion Pieces, which in the past<br />
year have covered subjects including the EU Referendum, the French presidential<br />
elections, the Turkish constitutional referendum, modern slavery, ethical business<br />
regulation, and the political and constitutional situation in West Papua, which was<br />
presented to policymakers at the House of Parliament in October 2016. Events<br />
in Michaelmas term will begin with a free film-screening at the end of October,<br />
followed on 6 November by our next colloquium, on Ivan Krastev’s new book After<br />
Europe, which provocatively interrogates the future of the European Union.<br />
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