Moral Leadership in a Wikiworld - Professor Kenneth J Costa

Is leadership still needed in this modern age of digital online communities? What would it look like?

Leadership at a Time of Transition and Change - Peter Sutherland

Peter Sutherland, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, reflects on the marks of great leadership that he has met throughout his career.

Long Commerce: Transactions Across Time - Professor Michael Mainelli

General Sir Richard Dannatt, Former Chief of the General Staff, examines the challenges of leadership at a time of financial and geo-political dislocation, with the help of Professor Ken Costa.

Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence - General Sir Richard Dannatt with Professor Ken Costa

General Sir Richard Dannatt, Former Chief of the General Staff, examines the challenges of leadership at a time of financial and geo-political dislocation, with the help of Professor Ken Costa.

Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence: Lecture Two - Professor Ken Costa

The second part in a series of conversations/discussions to examine the challenges of leadership at a time of financial and geo-political dislocation.

A New Economic Model for Europe: Building sustainable growth - Dr Chris Gibson-Smith

The Chairman of the London Stock Exchange addresses the future of finance.

Leadership at a Time of Transition and Turbulence: Lecture One - Professor Ken Costa

A lecture on leadership in our time of financial and geo-political dislocation.

Changing Money: Communities, Longer Term Finance and You - Ian Harris

What is the future of money – as a unit of account, a medium of exchange and as a store of longer-term value?

Made in America: Christian Fundamentalism - Dr John A Dick

Fundamentalism is normally used only to refer to 'Other' cultures, but what of American Christian fundamentalism?

The Fundamentalist Mentality - William Joseph

An attempt to understand the type of person who might be drawn towards fundamentalism, and what policies should be in place to protect against it.

Fundamentalism - Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

An attempt to define, clarify and understand 21st Century fundamentalism and its political, social and religious implications.

Extinction or Evolution: The Future for Offshore Centres - Anne Craine MHK

What does the future hold for offshore centres? The Treasury Minister for the Isle of Man considers whether offshore centres are a nuisance or a benefit to the UK’s financial system?

Why do we hate? Why do we help? Asylum seekers and ambivalence in contemporary Britain - Andrew Keefe

What can psychology teach us about how we treat asylum seekers?

Water: What's the data?, by Dr Simon Jackman

Getting behind the spin to the hard facts of water and its investment possibilities.

The Role of the Media in Post-Conflict Societies: A Contemporary Look at Northern Ireland - Carrie Porter

A lecture on how the media plays a major part in the contemporary peace process of Northern Ireland.

Sustainability: Root Problems In Finance - Professor Avinash Persaud

Improving society's understanding and use of finance over the long-term.

The Creation of The Supreme Court - Was it worth it? - Lord Hope

Nearly a year after the creation of the newly-created highest judicial body in the UK, the deputy president of the Supreme Court of Justice looks back to access its success.

The Challenges of the New Supreme Court - The Rt Hon the Lord Phillips

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice looks back over the first nine months of the newly-created highest judicial body in the UK.

Re-balancing the knowledge long and wisdom short society - Professor Ken Costa

A lecture on what is lost and what gained by the rising pace of modern commercial life.

Cousin Marriage - Baroness Ruth Deech

How has civil partnership become established, and should it be recognised as marriage?

The Ethics of Reproduction - Baroness Ruth Deech and Professor Rayna Rapp

Two world experts investigate the intersection of medical ethics and the law over the issues surrounding IVF and sexual reproduction.

Re-aligning globalisation to promote commerce - Professor Ken Costa

A lecture to assess globalization in the light of the economic downturn, and to evaluate its place in our financial future.

The London Insurance and Reinsurance Market - Robert Woodthorpe Browne

"Lloyd’s is the McDonald’s of the Insurance Industry" - A lecture on the future of the London insurance and reinsurance market.

Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters - Baroness Deech

A lecture on the legal position of those who care for their family members.

Confessions of a Regulatory Headhunter - Douglas Board

How we led ourselves into financial crisis.

The New Consensus of the Governed: Re-imagining Corporate Governance - Professor Ken Costa

Leadership and the question of government involvement in business and finance.

From Servant to Master - Roots of Excess: Rebooting the servers - Professor Ken Costa

How did finance become not a means, but an end in itself?

Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy - Nigel Harris

The role of offering a safe haven for oppressed foreign intelligentsia and the cultural and intellectual benefits it incurs.

Our Changing Perceptions of National Security - Sir Richard Dearlove

The former head of MI6 considers how are our perceptions of national security changing in the post-9/11 world and where the potential threats might lie in the future.

British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

A lecture to mark the publication of Vernon Bogdanor's book on Prime Ministers in the Post-War World.

Cohabitation and the Law - Baroness Ruth Deech

How can former cohabitants resolve their legal issues when the relationship ends? Should there be a special law to give matrimonial-type financial rights and duties to former cohabitants?

Doing Good by Doing Well: Re-defining moral capitalism - Professor Ken Costa

If the capitalist system is to be the friend of society and not its enemy it needs to recover both its moral and human spirit. This lecture will try to determine how ethics can once again be restored seamlessly to its place in commercial life.

Capitalism's Transparent Failures - Patrick Young

Exchanges as the epicentre of markets - a contradiction in terms? In a world where the exchange is a minority interest pursuit, what is its future, and has the much-lauded golden age of electronic trading already reached its zenith in a developing world?

Are Bankers Good or Bad for Society? - Chris Skinner

An illuminating review of the history of banking and society, exploring why these former outcasts from high society are natural problem children and questioning whether they have a social future and, if so, what will it look like?

What makes a successful global financial centre? - Professor Michael Mainelli

There is hot competition for the top spot of financial centres, but is financial centre competition a zero-sum game or can everybody win? We'll examine today's financial centres to see what matters for success.

What's a woman worth? The Maintenance Law - Baroness Deech

Is it fair that a husband should undertake a lifelong obligation to keep his wife on marriage, regardless of behaviour and changes in women's status? Should spouses be free to make their own maintenance arrangements? - Maintenance law: the greatest battle-ground for conflict on modern gender euqality?

Will Sustainable Investing Survive the Recession? - Nick Robins

Without confidence commercial activity will dwindle, but how do we rekindle trust amidst the current recession?

Financial Crisis: Do We Need More Regulation? - Charlie McCreevy

What lessons should we learn from the current recession?

Sisters-in-Law: The Irresistible Rise of Women in Wigs - The Hon Michael Beloff QC

The history of woman in the legal profession in the UK, by The Hon Michael Beloff QC.

Metamorphoses: The Terrible Beauty of Change - Professor Michael Mainelli, John Harle, William Joseph

Sustaining a natural commerce - visions through words and music.

The New British Constitution - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Transforming our uncodified constitution into a codified one.

The Ascent of money: An evolutionary approach to financial history - Professor Niall Ferguson

Professor Niall Ferguson offers an evolutionary approach to financial history, questioning the impeding of 'natural selection' by keeping the financial dinosaurs alive through the life support of monetary injections.

Commercial Philosophy: Science or Religion? - Professor Michael Mainelli

Looking at the debate on the role of markets in society.

The Lord Mayor of London: Reflections on a Medieval Role in the Modern City - Sir John Stuttard

The 679th Lord Mayor discusses the role at the heart of the City of London.

Human Rights and Welfare - Baroness Ruth Deech

How human rights law impinges on fertility treatment.

Judges or Legislators: Who should rule? - Professors Vernon Bogdanor and Cristina Rodriguez

How are we to allocate the power between the law makers and the law enforcers? How are we to mark the differentiation between legislators and the members of the judiciary?

The Economies of China, the US and Europe - Sir David Brewer

Is the rise of the Chinese economy something which the US and Europe should celebrate or be afriad of?

Tearing up the ideological maps, and squabbling over the compass - Professor Rodney Barker

Political ideas in Britain at the start of the twenty-first century. The deaths of socialism and conservatism? New issues in political ideology: identity, culture, religion. The search for new ways forward. What, if anything, can we predict?

Beyond price: Trust me, I'm commercial - Professor Michael Mainelli

All markets are based on trust. Confidence is everything. Yet investors must take risks, new products and services must be explored, one needs to trade with strangers. This lecture will explore the role of trust in commerce and power while setting out some early thoughts on the Theory of Influence.

Fertility and Feminism - Baroness Ruth Deech

Has IVF increased women's control over their fertility and careers? Are women being exploited by clinicians and researchers? How will women be affected by the development of artificial gametes and wombs?

Ideological Weddings - Professor Rodney Barker

New rights and new lefts in Britain as both the chronological and the short twentieth centuries draw to a close. How new is new, how left is left, and how right is right? Is there genuine innovation, or just a rearrangement of old arguments?

Local or global? Network economics and the new economy - Professor Michael Mainelli

Should we prefer the brittle resilience of a very nervous central system to being nervous about robust but decentralised economic systems? We shall affirm the relationship between localised commercial freedoms and fundamental notions of democracy.

Other Britains: One size doesn't fit all - Professor Rodney Barker

Alternative forms of government, society and politics: small groups, communities, localities, and voluntary associations. The varied forms of pluralism: socialist, communist, conservative and liberal.

Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? - Professor Michael Mainelli

It is absurd to believe that more than half of us being 'above average', yet financial service salesfolk presume that the financial world is full of geniuses who perform, on average, 'above average'; at the same time accountants assume everything can be marked to fair value. We shall seek out related fallacies and pose the question, 'Do these people lack intelligence or integrity?'

The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate - Professor Rodney Barker

Why was it argued that the poor could not vote, and conversely why has it been argued that democracy cannot allow its citizens to stay poor? The debate in Britain over the distribution of property: conservative, liberal, socialist, feminist and anarchist answers to the problems of property and politics.

How well-meaning legal and accounting principles caused the financial crisis - Professor Avinash Persaud

Key players in the last financial crisis are a set of legal and accounting principles that are well-meaning, but turn financial hiccups into liquidity black holes. Professor Persaud will discuss regulatory solutions that would avoid this happening next time.

Choosing your baby - Baroness Ruth Deech

With new advances in IVF technology, how do we draw the line between eugenics and doing the best for the unborn child? The advantages and disadvantages of choosing the sex or ability of a baby. The new law on this will be explained.

It's a mad, bad, wonderful world: A celebration of commercial diversity - Professor Michael Mainelli

In some countries people haggle incessantly, in others to haggle is insulting. In many cities transportation costs are based on time rather than distance. On Alderney house buyers and house sellers both put up a deposit. This lecture examines how people use different commercial structures around the world and what we might learn from their strange ways.

Governance, Trust and Business - Sir Michael Snyder

A look at how best to tread the narrow path between freedom to flousish as a business and government restrictions, with trust and good governance as the key.

Commercial Ethics: Process or Outcome? - Ian Harris

This lecture explores the philosophy behind commercial ethics with examples of real world commercial ethical issues.

Building Jerusalem in England, or just stopping its roof from leaking? - Professor Rodney Barker

Faced with the problem of justifying what they want to achieve or preserve, ideologists have appealed to the past and the future, to home and to abroad. The different ways of solving this problem amongst conservatives, socialists, liberals, feminists and anarchists.

Ethics, Embryos and Infertility - Baroness Ruth Deech

An explanation of the ethical issues surrounding this cutting edge of medical advance. Should ethical choices be made by legislators, scientists, religion or business?

The American Presidential Election - Professor Vernon Bogdanor and distinguished guests

In the run-in to Barak Obama becoming president, Professor Vernon Bogdanor FBA CBE chairs a discussion between Adam Boulton, Peter Kellner, Catherine Mayer, Stryker McGuire on the American Presidential Election.

The Work of the Metropolitan Police Marine Support Unit - Superintendent Alan King

From 1839 to the present day, the work of the London Police carried out on the River Thames.

How long was the 20th century? - Professor Rodney Barker

Political ideologies in Britain from the Russian Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 'short' 20th Century: the shift from Left, Right, Communist and Fascist to an ideological pick and mix.

Protecting London: Police use of aerial imagery - Sgt Richard Brandon

Why are infertility and its treatment problematic, and why should there be regulation of this field?

Reproductive technologies and the birth of the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority - Baroness Ruth Deech

Why are infertility and its treatment problematic, and why should there be regulation of this field?

Asia's Rivals: The Economic rise of China, India and Japan - Bill Emmot

The implications for the world economy of developments in China, India and Japan: will it support or threaten the stability of the world economy?

Is the party over? Sustainable hopes - Professor Michael Manelli

Sustainable economics implies development without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. But can economies grow forever or are their limits to growth? Can capitalism handle zero-growth, or should we expect a catastrophic explosion?

Terrorism: Cold War or Bad Law? - Lord Carlile of Berriew QC

Caught between national security and individual liberty, Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of British anti-terrorist laws, discusses how does British law deals with terrorism?

News on the Roll - Christopher Cook

Sky News and BBC News 24 place a premium on reporting 'breaking news' but little news really breaks in any 24 hours, which encourages the 'creation' the impression of 'breaking news'. How is this done?

Save the world: A commercial break - Professor Michael Mainelli

From climate change to earthquakes, how does commerce play the key role in helping manage these global risks? An exploration of how creative thinking around tried economic concepts can lead to innovative solutions to global risks.

The British and American Constitutions - Professors Vernon Bogdanor and Cristina Rodriguez

Britain has an unwritten constitution, the USA has the world's oldest written constitution. How has this affected their constitutional development? What can Britain learn from Americans constitutional experience?

Whose Pictures? - Christopher Cook

An analysis of the way in which the three major nightly television newscasts give a different visual look to the same story, and what this means for our culture and society.

Whose News? - Christopher Cook

An exploration of current theories of news production paying particular attention to how audiences have been encouraged to believe that television news should be led by pictures.

Do we need a martian invasion in order to avoid attacking each other? - Professor Rodney Barker

Is human co-operation possible without external threats? What are the possibilities of co-existence and collaboration at the start of the twenty-first century?

How to get ahead in commerce: The sure-fire ways to make money - Professor Michael Mainelli

What are the guaranteed ways to make money, what are the successful habits of money-makers, and what can we learn that might help us towards a theory of commerce (before we make bags of money)? Along the way we'll learn a lot about competition, scarcity, information failure and externalities.

Explanations of Enmity: Pessimists, Optimists and Sceptics - Professor Rodney Barker

Theories, explanations and justifications of enmity, from Adam Ferguson in the 18th Century to Carl Schmitt in the 20th.

Perfectly Unpredictable: Why forecasting produces useful rubbish - Professor Michael Mainelli

Does increasing predictive power mean that prices are less important signals of preference? Can we predict new markets? - The emerging power of interacting directly with people's desires enriches, rather than undermines, our view of economics - though it may impair our privacy.

The Case for Sustainable Business - David Blood

'Sustainable' business and finance are the buzzwords in an age of social and environmental concern. But does 'sustainability' matter or is it just a case of business wolves in social sheep's clothing.

Demonisation and Witch Hunts in Religion and Politics - Professor Rodney Barker

The origins, character and life of political and religious witch hunts, and the relation between what people say, what they believe and what they do.