Justin Fisher

Justin Fisher is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Magna Carta Institute and Head of the Department of Politics, History & Law at Brunel University London. His research focusses principally on elections, political parties, political trust and the regulation of political activity. He has acted as an advisor to Parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Electoral Commission, the Committee of Standards in Public Life and the Council of Europe, and is currently running a large ESRC-funded project on constituency level campaigning at the 2015 general election. In June 2015, he curated the exhibition Magna Carta Today at the Brunel University London Magna Carta Centre in Runnymede.

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Sunday 18 October 2015, 10.00 Cinema 3

From betting to minimum pricing: saving the poor from themselves?

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