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Message from the Acting Dean |
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After his first four years as Dean, Timothy Endicott has taken a very well-deserved sabbatical break this term to undertake research in Canada. I have been Acting Dean, and have seen at first hand the extraordinary dedication and effort of all those who work to advance Law in Oxford — academics teaching and researching within the Faculty, its Centres and the Colleges; and Faculty Officers and the administrative staff who provide support without which our operation could not be so successful. Oxford Law is full of life and activity, and we have plans for its continuing development—from the redevelopment of the St Cross Building as a Centre for Law, to the investment in teaching and research through academic appointments, and the development of our courses to continue to attract the world’s best students. A selective snapshot of what we have been doing recently is set out below.
On behalf of the Faculty, I send you best wishes for a prosperous 2012.
John Cartwright |
FACULTY NEWS
Opening of the new Faculty Centre and the Cube |
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The Cube at the St Cross Building, in use shortly after opening, in October 2011.
Photo © Rob Judges |
On 3 October we celebrated the completion of the first phase of the redevelopment of the St Cross Building, with a stunning new lecture/seminar/mooting space ('The Cube') and other seminar rooms, in a new Faculty Centre which provides a focus for the administrative offices of the Faculty.
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Annual Report from the Institute of European and Comparative Law |
The 2011 Annual Report gives an account of another successful academic year at the Institute, in which it carried on with its mission to support the Oxford Law Faculty in its teaching and research activities in EU law and comparative law. |
Dapo Akande on Radio 4 |
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Dapo Akande participated in the BBC Radio 4 programme Iconoclasts on 31 August to discuss whether the Geneva Convention should apply in the war against terrorism. |
RESEARCH NEWS
European Award for Legal Theory |
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Maris Köpcke Tinturé pictured with some members of the jury at the award ceremony at the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy World Congress. |
Maris Köpcke Tinturé has won the 2011 European Award for Legal Theory, an award made once every two or three years to the author of the best doctoral thesis submitted anywhere in Europe, in the area of legal theory and philosophy of law. |
Geneviève Helleringer wins two prizes |
Geneviève Helleringer, EC Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, has been awarded two prizes for her thesis on The terms of the contract: the annual prize of the Revue des Contrats and the Prize of the French Institute, Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. |
Rebecca Williams receives second prize in the Peter Birks Book Prize |
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Rebecca Williams received the second prize in the Peter Birks Book Prize competition for her book, Unjust Enrichment and Public Law (Hart Publishing). Nicholas Barber’s book The Constitutional State (OUP) was also on the shortlist of six books. |
Sarah Green shortlisted for Inner Temple Book Prize |
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Sarah Green’s book The Tort of Conversion (Hart Publishing, co-authored with John Randall) was shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize. |
Jonathan Herring shortlisted for British Medical Association book of the year award |
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Jonathan Herring’s book Medical Law and Ethics was shortlisted for the British Medical Association book of the year award; the book was listed as highly commended. |
Susan Bright wins RICS Best Paper Award in Property |
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Susan Bright won the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Best Paper Award in Property for 2011 for a paper, written with Nicholas Macklam and Nicholas Hopkins, The Shared Ownership Lease: Can the Wrong be Righted?
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Visiting professors |
Christopher McCrudden: Visiting Professor
Gabriel Moss QC: Visiting Professor in Corporate Insolvency Law
Sir Stephen Sedley (from Hilary term): Visiting Professor - to teach history of public law
Philippe van Parijs (from Trinity term): Visiting Professor - to teach Constitutional Principles of the European Union |
STUDENT NEWS
Oxford Pro Bono Publico Report on use of secret evidence for the Joint Committee on Human Rights |
Oxford Pro Bono Publico has produced a Research Paper to assist the Joint Committee on Human Rights in its scrutiny of the Government’s Green Paper on Justice and Security, which proposes reforms to the way secret evidence is used in judicial proceedings. |
Second UNIQ summer school gives insight into law at Oxford |
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Between 18 and 29 July the Faculty hosted 60 students under the University’s second UNIQ summer school, a free summer residential programme for Year 12 students currently studying at UK state schools. |
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Price Media Law Moot Court
The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is organising the 2011 Regional Rounds in India of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition from 15 to 18 December in collaboration with the National Law University, Delhi and the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. |
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EVENTS
Iniuria and the common law |
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An international seminar on Iniuria and the common law took place at All Souls College on 9 and 10 September. |
Preventive Justice |
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Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner and Patrick Tomlin hosted a major inter-disciplinary workshop in All Souls College on 15-16 September as part of their three-year AHRC research project on Preventive Justice.
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Lord Mance delivers the High Sheriff's Law Lecture 2011 |
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(l-r:) The High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Mrs Penelope Glen; Registrar of the University of Oxford, Ewan McKendrick; Lord Mance; Vicar of the Unversity Church, Revd Canon Brian Mountford.
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Lord Mance delivered the Oxford Shrieval lecture 2011 in the University Church on 11 October, on the subject Should the law be certain?
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Richard Danzig speaking in Washington DC |
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On 15 December The Honorable Dr Richard Danzig, Chairman of the Board of the Center for a New American Security, spoke at an Oxford Law Lunch Event in Washington DC, drawing on insights from his career.
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ALUMNI REUNION
2012 North American Reunion |
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The 2012 North American Reunion will be held in New York on 13 and 14 April 2012. Further details to follow.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
7-8 January 2012: Conference on European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law.
3 February 2012, 5 pm: Lecture in honour of Sir Jeremy Lever, KCMG, QC, to be delivered in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre by Professor Miguel Maduro.
11 February 2012: Memorial service for Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Justice of the Supreme Court, in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
12 March 2012: Fifth Oxford French Law Moot organised by the Institute of European and Comparative Law. |
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