Peter Bryant

Your generosity was fantastic. In two weeks, we reached our target of £40k in gifts and pledges, with more support expected in the months ahead. Our student callers had some great conversations, and we were delighted to be able to update our records, and hear what Wolfsonians have been up to recently.

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Constitutional experts presented empirical analyses of constitutional practice around the world, drawing in large part on data compiled by the Comparative Constitutions Project, to identify the consequences of particular constitutional choices and determine exactly what factors make constitutions work.

Carmen gave a fascinating insight into the making of the book, written during her fellowship at Wolfson, read extracts and signed copies.

Carmen's memoir will be Radio 4 Book of the Week from Monday 16 July.

The homepage now includes a rotating banner feature, bringing you the latest key developments from the College, such as the President's video welcome message, and all the latest on our research clusters and new lecture theatre development.

Speaking of his pleasure at the appointment, John said: "I'm thrilled to be taking up the Fellowship at Wolfson. I'm going to be very active in the musical life of the college, putting on a series of concerts and recitals over the course of my tenure."

The Oxford-Lausanne Collateral Hominid Project invites institutions and individuals with collections of organic material from formally un-described species, or ‘cryptids' to submit details of the samples they hold, and then on request submit the samples themselves, particularly hair shafts, for rigorous genetic analysis. The results will then be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Baroness Kennedy, an acclaimed champion of civil liberties, expressed her admiration of Isaiah Berlin for his commitment to civil liberties and his passion for ideas, describing him as “one of the greatest scholars and creative thinkers of the twentieth century”.

She took as the starting point for her lecture the global economic crisis, which clearly demonstrated the importance of accepted norms to regulate today's interconnected world, and the need for the law to cross national borders to hold wrongdoers to account in the globalized marketplace.

The event, entitled Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Rule of Law was held at Wolfson College on 18th May, and featured media experts and senior figures from journalism, policymaking, and the law.

Martin Moore, Director of the Media Standards Trust, opened proceedings with a sobering account of how pervasive journalistic wrongdoing has been, extending far beyond the News of the World's phone hacking, as revealed by Operation Motorman.

Professor Maier, Professor of American History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered her engaging and wide-ranging lecture entitled The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States, and the Atlantic World, at Jesus College Ship Street Centre on 17th May.