The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is pleased to announce that the video of our 2024 annual lecture is now accessible on an open access basis.

Applications are now invited for 2024/25, with a closing date of 16th May.

The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) is delighted to announce the launch of a set of new podcasts on our Frontiers os Socio-Legal Studies podcast.

Christopher Hodges OBE, Emeritus Professor of Justice Systems, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford is at the centre of advising the Government on delivering full and fair compensation to the 3,500 or more sub-Postmasters and Mistresses who are victims of the Post Office's Horizon computer system scandal.

On the 26th of September, the “Re-thinking digital Justice in Forced Migration” event was hosted at Trinity College. The event was organized under the CSLS ERC ConflictNet project to consolidate research with regards to how AI and digital technologies are being used in contexts of forced migration.

2023 has seen the arrival of a strong cohort of new students studying a wide range of exciting topics. Five are embarking on the DPhil and six on the MPhil.

For the second year running, Professor Linda Mulcahy, Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has been appointed as one of the judges in the Inspirational Women in Law Awards. 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Universities in the global South have been leading debates on decoloniality, epistemic justice, and challenging established modes of how knowledge is created. The methods through which we come to know what we know, however, have only been marginally impacted by these debates.