Research Seminars

The Public International Law Research Seminars are at the heart of PIL@Oxford research. These seminars are open to Oxford research students and Faculty members working in international law as well as to visiting scholars. The seminars offer an opportunity for members of the Oxford PIL research community to present their work - at various stages - to fellow students and academics in a friendly and informal atmosphere.

Held on Wednesday mornings in term time, from 09.30 to 10.30 in the Wharton Room in All Souls College. Each week a researcher makes a brief presentation on the subject of his or her research and the topic is then opened for discussion. This is one of the liveliest and most searching forums for discussion of international law in the University, and is an excellent way of keeping up to date in the subject and of honing analytical skills.

Previous papers presented:

Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne: Some Different Theoretical Approaches to the Laws of Armed Conflict

Ruvi Ziegler: Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Israel

Eirik Bjorge: Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live’  — What is the extent to which the European Court of Human Rights takes its cues from the UK in the shaping of rights under the ECHR?

Michail Risvas: The legal nature of the WTO Members' schedules of commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services: treaties, unilateral declarations or multilateral acts of special character?

Jessica Schultz: The European Court of Human Rights and internal relocation: an 'unduly harsh' approach?

Iben Yde: The case against the case against killer robots: a response to Human Rights Watch’s report on autonomous weapons