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Professor Hugh Collins elected to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law |
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Hugh Collins has been appointed by the University as the new Vinerian Professor of English Law. Professor Collins will succeed Professor Andrew Ashworth in the Vinerian Chair from October 2013. Professor Collins will be a Fellow of All Souls College. |
Linklaters Chair in Comparative Law |
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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that the Professorship of Comparative Law, held by Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, has become the Linklaters Professorship of Comparative Law. The Professorship, which is attached to Brasenose College, has been named for the firm in recognition of Linklaters’ support for Law in Oxford. This Chair, one of the longest-established in the Faculty, was previously held by Professors FH Lawson, Otto Kahn-Freund, Barry Nicholas and Bernard Rudden. |
Human Rights Blog Builds A Worldwide Community |
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The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) Blog has fast become a leading source of human rights news and opinion. Since its launch in July 2012, the blog has featured contributions from global leaders in human rights, including Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Equal Rights Trust; Clive Stafford Smith, Director of Reprieve, and Professor Frances Raday, leading human rights advocate and scholar. It has developed a dedicated following, currently attracting over 8000 readers each month. |
Human Rights for Future Generations |
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Human Rights for Future Generations is a new interdisciplinary research programme that aims to contribute to academic and policy thinking on the human rights dimensions of poverty, armed conflict and environmental change. Drawing on the disciplines of law, philosophy, and international relations, the programme investigates the existing normative, legal and institutional human rights framework to face these challenges. The programme is funded by the Oxford Martin School and is based at Pembroke College. |
FACULTY NEWS
Baroness Ruth Deech and Professor Mark Freedland named as Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa |
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The Faculty is delighted that Ruth Deech and Mark Freedland are to be appointed Honorary Queen's Counsel. |
Professor Judith Freedman recognised in the New Year's Honours List |
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The Faculty congratulates Judith Freedman who has been awarded a CBE for services to tax research. |
Ronald Dworkin |
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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. |
Hart’s The Concept of Law, 3rd edition (OUP, 2012) |
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Fifty years on from its original publication, H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most influential work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time.
In the recently published third edition, Oxford’s Professor Leslie Green provides a new introduction that sets the book in the context of subsequent developments in social and political philosophy, clarifying misunderstandings of Hart's project and highlighting central tensions and problems in the work.
Oxford University Press is offering our readers a 20% discount on copies of the new edition when bought through their website. Please follow these links and enter the promotional code ALAUTH13 at the checkout.
Buy hardback | Buy paperback |
FACULTY EVENTS
Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 17:00 – The H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture
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Venue: The Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church, Oxford. For information about attending this event please contact marion.hawtree@univ.ox.ac.uk.
The H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture delivered in Oxford by a distinguished speaker. The lecture is named for H.L.A. Hart (1907-1992), Professor of Jurisprudence in Oxford from 1952 to 1968. |
Tuesday 23 May 2013 at 17:00 – The Roger Hood Annual Lecture
Professor Andrew Ashworth,
Vinerian Professor of English Law:
“Why Sentencing Matters” |
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Venue: Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre, Manor Road, Oxford.
The Annual Roger Hood Public Lecture Series was established in 2006. It honours and celebrates the long and distinguished career of Professor Hood and his particular contribution to Oxford Criminology. Past speakers have included Professor David Garland of New York University, Professor John Braithwaite of the Australian National University and Professor Nils Christie of the University of Oslo, among other distinguished academics. |
14 & 16 May 2013 at 17:30 – The Oliver Smithies Lecture Series
Professor Harold Hongju Koh,
Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School:
“International Law as Smart Power”
Tuesday 14 May: "I: The Global Dimension"
Thursday 16 May: "II: The Constitutional Dimension" |
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Venue: The Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building, St Cross Road, Oxford.
This year’s Oliver Smithies Lectures will be given by Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and formerly Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State.
The Oliver Smithies Lectures are generously funded by Professor Oliver Smithies (1943) as a way of giving generations of undergraduates and postgraduates at Balliol College the opportunity to hear and meet outstanding academics from the USA and other countries working in a variety of fields. |
STUDENT NEWS
Oxford to represent the UK in Jessup Moot Final |
Good luck to our second year undergraduates - Rajkiran Barhey (Hertford), Jiahui Huang (Magdalen), Danny Tang (Harris Manchester) and Daryl Ho (Balliol) – who are representing the UK at the International Finals of the Jessup Moot which are being held in Washington D.C. between 31 March and 6 April 2013. Special thanks are due to the team’s coach, Shreya Atrey (DPhil Candidate, Magdalen College). |
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ALUMNI EVENTS
Vancouver Alumni Tea Party |
In conjunction with the University’s North American reception in Vancouver on 18 March 2013, the Faculty of Law hosted a tea party for Law alumni.
Dr Dan Awrey, University Lecturer in Law and Finance, spoke on current developments in the Law Faculty including the Master's in Law & Finance and the appointment of Catherine Redgwell as the new Chichele Professor of Public International Law.
As always with Law alumni gatherings, the event brought together alumni who studied law, as well as those who read another subject in Oxford and went on to practise law. |
Australian Alumni Events |
Oxford Faculty of Law’s Angus Johnston, Tutorial Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford, gave talks in Melbourne (12 March) and Sydney (15 March) to alumni on “The EU's Emissions Trading System: Some Lessons and Prospects”.
Given the Australian trading scheme is being linked explicitly to the European emissions trading scheme, Angus Johnston covered the implications of this, and how various EU changes might then flow through to the Australian scheme.
The event was run in conjunction with University College. We are grateful to Herbert Smith Freehills who hosted the Melbourne lecture. |
Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice Reception |
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The Faculty of Law hosted its annual Diploma in Intellectual Property Law & Practice Alumni Reception at the Royal Society in London on 25 February. The event, attended by about 60 Diploma alumni and tutors, featured a fascinating talk by Geoffrey Hobbs QC (One Essex Court) on trade mark cases before the the European Court of Justice. |
Masters in Law and Finance Alumni Reunion 2013 |
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The alumni reunion of the Masters in Law and Finance programme (MLF) was held on Friday 15 March at the offices of Hogan Lovells in London. The event was attended by 50 past and present students on the MLF together with John Armour, Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance and members of the MLF Advisory Board. |
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Beijing, China, 9-11 April 2013
The Oxford Law Faculty will be giving a two-day intensive lecture programme in three Beijing universities between 9-11 April. The Law Faculty will be hosting an alumni event on 11 April.
Further details regarding the alumni event will follow shortly. To register your interest, please email Ellen Moilanen, ellen.moilanen@law.ox.ac.uk
Madrid, Spain – European Reunion, 26 April 2013
As part of the University’s European Reunion in Madrid on 26 April 2013, there will be an Oxford Law reception, hosted by Linklaters, for all Law alumni before the main University event.
Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Faculty of Law, will be speaking about the exciting future directions of the Law Faculty. The reception will be taking place at the Linklaters offices from 3:30-5pm.
For further details or to register your interest for the event please email Michelle Robb, michelle.robb@law.ox.ac.uk
St Petersburg, Russia, 16-20 May 2013
Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Faculty of Law, will be visiting St Petersburg from 16-20 May. We will be looking to host an alumni reception or dinner during his visit. More details will follow regarding the event at a future date. In the meantime, if you are interested in meeting with the Dean please email Michelle Robb, michelle.robb@law.ox.ac.uk
Singapore, June 2013
Professor Endicott will be visiting Singapore at the end of June and is looking to hold an alumni event for all oxford Law alumni. Details of the event will follow.
To register your interest in meeting with the Dean please email Michelle Robb, michelle.robb@law.ox.ac.uk |
NEW – CLASS NOTES
Please get in touch!
In our next ebulletin we will include a 'Class Notes' section, to keep alumni in touch with the latest news. This will consist of short entries by individual alumni giving name, degree studied at Oxford, matriculation year and up to 50-100 words on your professional /personal life, whatever you would like to share.
If you would like to contribute please send your entry to Kate Whetter, Publications Officer kate.whetter@law.ox.ac.uk by 31 May 2013.
We are keen to hear from law alumni as well as those who have studied other subjects at Oxford and gone on to practise law.
Maureen O’Neill, Director of Development |
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