Law Bulletin Hilary Term 2011

OPBP launch new internship scheme

Oxford Pro Bono Publico announced a new Internship Programme that will provide financial assistance to Law Faculty graduate students seeking non-paid or poorly-paid internships at public interest organisations.

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP pledges a new student scholarship

The Faculty are pleased to announce the new Paul Hastings Scholarship, which the law firm has established to help reduce the financial burden of an Oxford Law postgraduate student with an outstanding record of academic achievement.

Mooting

Shearman & Sterling Moot 2011: Can an employee take advantage of an investment opportunity? Winners were Ms Di Yu and Mr Richard Hoyle, both at Brasenose College.

Maitland Chambers Inter-collegiate Moot: The Honourable Mr Justice Sales of the Chancery Division of the High Court presided over this year's inter-cuppers moot, which was won by the team from St John's College.

Oxford French Law Moot 2011: On 14 March Oxford's Conor McLaughlin and Rosanna Thomson competed in and won the fourth Oxford French Law Moot, sponsored by Gide Loyrette Nouel.

Christopher McCrudden awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship

Chris McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights Law, has received a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to enable him to work on an integrated theory of comparative human rights law.

Grant awarded for research into the law on storing human tissue

Imogen Goold and Jonathan Herring have been awarded a grant to research into the law relating to the storage of human tissue and legal treatment of separated body parts, a project run in collaboration with Melbourne Law School.

Judith Freedman invited to join a UK governmental committee on tax

Professor Judith Freedman has been invited to be a member of a group of tax experts set up by the government to explore the case for introducing a general anti-avoidance provision into UK tax law.

Dapo Akande appointed to assist a review of the ICC Model Law on war crimes and genocide

Dapo Akande has been invited to join an Expert Group reviewing legislation that implemented the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, recognizing the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Christopher Hodges appointed as a rapporteur at this year's European Consumer Summit

The European Commission has invited Professor Christopher Hodges to be the rapporteur at a session on Alternative Dispute Resolution at the European Consumer Summit that will take place on 11 and 12 of April this year. Chris has also recently been appointed as the Erasmus Professor of the Fundamentals of Private Law at Erasmus University.

New academics

Dr Mai Sato: Howard League Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Research interests: attitudes to punishment; the death penalty; factors underlying punitivity; online survey methods and deliberative polling methods in social science research.
Dr Rebecca Mer: Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology.
Peter Neyroud: Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology.
Jacqui Karn: Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology.

Visiting academics

Professor Carol Sanger: Visiting Professor in the field of medical ethics and family law; the Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Tom Scott: Visiting Lecturer specializing in tax and lecturing on the MSc in Law and Finance degree; Chairman of the UK branch of the International Fiscal Association.
Professor Yan'an Shi: Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology; associate professor at Renmin University, China. Research interests: criminal policy and international cooperation in criminal matters.
Dr Leonidas K. Cheliotis: Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology; Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at Queen Mary, University of London.
Aaron Dhir: Visiting Scholar with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies; Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

In memory

Professor Brian Simpson, long a member of the Oxford Law Faculty and Law Fellow at Lincoln College from 1955 to 1973, died aged 79 on 10 January. Read his obituary in The Guardian.