New report on parliamentary engagement with human rights
A new report finds that while there has been an increase in the UK parliament's involvement in debates about human rights over the last decade, and in the quality of that debate, there is still considerable scope for parliament to have a bigger role in engaging with human rights.
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Book Launch for a Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime
The publication of A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of The International Intellectual Property Regime (Oxford Univ. [more…]
Borders of Punishment Conference
On April 19 – 20, an international conference took place in the Manor Road Building drawing together a range of scholars working on the intersections between migration, criminology, and criminal justice. [more…]
New Report Explores the Problem of Trade Mark Clutter
A recent report co-authored for the UK Intellectual Property Office by Professor Christine Greenhalgh, provides insights into those aspects of trade mark law that can create so-called cluttering. [more…]
ESRC-funded seminar series on immigration detention
Mary Bosworth is part of an interdisciplinary team from the Universities of Oxford, York, Birmingham, Lancaster and Exeter who have been granted funds from the ESRC to hold a seminar series entitled 'Exploring Everyday Practice and Resistance in Immigration Detention'. [more…]
Events
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Criminal Law Discussion Group
Locating The Presumption of Innocence, Malcolm Thorburn, Queen's University, Canada, at 12:00
EU Law Discussion Group
The Regulation of State Aid in the EU: Is It Time to Give Up?, Professor Andrea Biondi, King's College London, at 13:00
The Regulatory Imagination
The regulatory imagination in a global context: regulatory competition & transnationalism, Dr. Veerle Heyvaert, LSE, at 16:00
Taxation Law Guest Lectures
Seminar on Transfer Pricing, Dr Michael Kobetsky, Melbourne Law School, at 17:00
Corporate and Business Taxation - Guest Lectures
Transfer pricing, Dr Michael Kobetsky, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and a member of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Transfer Pricing. , at 17:00
RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
The perfect storm: the challenge of EU obligations on reception of asylum seekers and European human rights norms, Professor Elspeth Guild, Radboud University Nijmegen & Queen Mary University, at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Confirmation and Verisimilitude, Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at 17:00
Conferences
& Workshops
(not shown above)
Thursday 17 May 2012
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions, at 10:00
Friday 25 May
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Private labels, brands and competition policy - The eighth symposium on competition amongst retailers and suppliers
Wednesday 30 May
Law and Finance Workshop
"Private equity backed IPOs" and "Recent Developments in the Law of Set Off", Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saďd Business School and Louise Gullifer, Professor of Commerical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, at 12:00
Tuesday 12 June
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
The ‘Right to be Forgotten’ and Beyond: Data Protection and Freedom of Expression in the Age of Web 2.0, at 10:30
Friday 15 June
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Round Table Discussion on Competition Law and the Latin American Experience
