Justice & Governance
Contact:
Professor Denis Galligan
denis.galligan@csls.ox.ac.uk
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Projects
Historical Justice
Historical justice asks how modern states can address the lingering socioeconomic effects of past state-sponsored or systemic wrongs. This project is dedicated to bridging the gap between historical grievances and contemporary policy. An example is how to move to a more sustainable future without having the poorest communities pay the price for climate change.
Success and Failure of States
Analysing the success and failure of nation-states requires moving beyond traditional metrics like GDP to look at the “structural health” of a country. Focusing on governance models, we set out to identify and analyse the main factors that contribute to the performance, strength and resilience of national states.
Constitutional Foundations
This project examines the resilience of democratic institutions in an era of polarised governance and shifting social values. We investigate how the foundations of the state—the judiciary, the legislature, the executive, and the people—are adapting to a period of intense institutional scepticism.
This project is a bi-annual debate aimed at open scrutiny of a subject of constitutional importance. So far, a series of debates have been held on topics including: “Constitution in Crisis”, “The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe?”, “The Unity of a Nation” and “Democracy in Crisis”.
