A Comparative Analysis of General Anti Avoidance Provisions
Judith Freedman has been awarded the 2012-13 Oxford-Melbourne Research Partnership funding with Ann O’Connell at Melbourne Law School. The two year project on “A Comparative Analysis of General Anti Avoidance Provisions” will include an international conference on recent proposals on the GAAR in February 2012. The research funding is part of the funding provided to Melbourne and Oxford by Allan Myers QC.
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Shearman & Sterling University of Oxford Moot Competition 2012
Can a passenger travelling in a stolen car who is injured in a collision due to the negligence of the driver recover damages in tort when he was complicit in the theft of the car? What standard of care does a driver who, unbeknownst to him, suffers from a disability that seriously impairs his ability to drive owe to his passenger? These questions were the subject of passionate submissions on Saturday the 4th of February 2012 at the 9th annual Shearman & Sterling University of Oxford Moot Competition. [more…]
OPBP launches 2012 Internship Programme
OPBP is pleased to announce that applications for the 2012 Internship Programme are open. [more…]
OPBP tenders submissions to the Attorney-General of Australia regarding Equality Law Reform
On the 22nd of September 2011, the Attorney-General’s Department of Australia launched a public discussion paper inviting community views on the proposed consolidation of Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation. [more…]
Seminar on Preventive Justice
On 5-6th January 2012 an international inter-disciplinary workshop on Preventive Justice took place at All Souls College. [more…]
Events
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Good Faith in Contract Law, The Hon Justice James Allsop, President, Court of Appeal of New South Wales, at 12:45
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Living With the Enemy: The Ethics of Belligerent Military Occupation, Professor Cecile Fabre, Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford , at 13:00
Law and Finance Workshop
"Contracting Co-Determination: An Analysis of Bargaining over Co-Determination Rules for a Societas Europaea" and "International Corporate Group Rescue and Insolvency: Principles, Models, Reform", Horst Eidenmuller, Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Company Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Felix Steffek, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Josiah Royce and the argument from error, Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University, at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
From Condor to MERCOSUR: The Struggle for Accountability for Past Human Rights Violations in Uruguay, Felipe Michelini, Deputy, Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies; Co-founder, Public Policy Institute of Human Rights Mercosur (IPPDH) , at 17:00
Conferences
& Workshops
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Tuesday 6 March 2012
Law and Finance Workshop
"Private equity backed IPOs" and "Private Equity Control over Portfolio Companies", Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saïd Business School and Jeremias Prassl, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, at 13:00
Thursday 8 March
Law and Finance Workshop
"Holding bank directors accountable: the role of boards, institutional shareholders and micro-prudential regulators", "Tug of War between an open market for corporate control and a long-term vision for UK firms: Revisiting the advisory role of target directors during a UK bid post the takeover of Cadbury's plc" and "What'’s (un)problematic about corporate power?", Andreas Kokkinis, UCL Faculty of Laws, Georgina Tsagas, QMUL School of Law and Marc Moore, UCL Faculty of Laws, at 15:30
Friday 23 March until Saturday 24 March 2012
Legal Challenges Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro and Regulation
Thursday 19 April until Friday 20 April 2012
The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion
Tuesday 15 May
Buyer Power in Competition Law, at 0930
