Brasenose Lawyers Triumph at Cuppers Mooting Competition

The Grand Final of the University of Oxford & Maitland Chambers Undergraduate (Inter-Collegiate) Cuppers Mooting Competition (“Cuppers”), was held on 19th February 2013.

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Leading Copyright Historian Appointed as Astor Lecturer for Trinity 2013.

The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and the Faculty of English will host Professor Mark Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara) as the Astor Lecturer in Trinity 2013.  Professor Rose has had extensive involvement in copyright litigation over thirty years and is one of the world’s leading historians of copyright.  He is currently working on a book for Harvard University Press that focuses on six copyright cases spread over 250 years.

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Celebration of H L A Hart's The Concept of Law

On Monday, February 25, Professor Leslie Green attended a celebration at Queens University, Canada to mark the recent publication of the third edition of H L A Hart's The Concept of Law (OUP 2012).

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Balliol and Queen's Law Students Triumph at the Shearman and Sterling Moot

The Shearman & Sterling LLP University of Oxford Moot Competition was held at St. Catherine’s College, the University of Oxford, on Saturday, January 26, 2013.

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Project on Empirical Studies of Trade Mark Data.

The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre is working with several partners to support scholarship using the empirical study of trade mark data.

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Wadham Human Rights Forum: 'Hacking, Blagging and Bribing? The Press After Leveson' 25 Februrary, 5.30pm

Hugh Tomlinson QC, a leading media law silk and Chair of Hacked Off, is visiting Wadham to speak about the aftermath of the Levenson Inquiry. 

Mr Tomlinson is a noted specialist in media and information law including defamation, confidence, privacy and data protection.

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European Copyright Society Opinion on the Reference to the Court of Justice in Svensson

Professor Dinwoodie is a member of the European Copyright Society which recently published an Opinion on The Reference to the CJEU in Case C-466/12 Svensson (15 February 2013).  The case, which was referred to the Court by the Swedish Court of Appeal, raises the important question whether setting a hyperlink to a copyright protected work amounts to ‘communication to the public’ within the meaning of the Information Society Directive.

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Why Competition Law ?

  This lunchtime event will provide students with a unique opportunity to engage in discussion on future careers in competition law.

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Oxford Defeats Cambridge in the Jessup UK Final

A four-member team from the University of Oxford won the UK National Championship of the 54th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition held in London on 17 February 2013.

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Ronald Dworkin, 1931-2013

We record with sorrow the death of our colleague, Ronald Dworkin, in London on 14 February 2013. Professor Dworkin was 81 years old, and is survived by his wife Irene Brendel Dworkin, his children Anthony and Jennifer Dworkin, and two grandchildren.

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