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. 

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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.

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has been extremely successful in three national competitions to fund post-doctoral fellows.  Three candidates supported by the Centre In the 2022-2023 competitions run by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) have been awarded grants to conduct research with us. 

The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies hosted the sixth annual  Socio-Legal Methodology Masterclass on 4th-5th September 2023 this year. 

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is very pleased to announce that the film of its 2023 annual lecture is now available on the following link.

During the first two weeks of August, the CSLS annual Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute welcomed over 50 participants from 32 different countries with the majority of the participants coming from the global south. 

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is delighted to announce that Visiting Professor Mark Fathi Massoud has been announced as a recipient of the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin.

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies was delighted to co-host a two-day workshop for early career academics in partnership with the International Journal of Law in Context and the Wolfson College's Law in Societies research cluster. 

The Oxford Centre for Socio-legal Studies is hosting its sixth annual  Socio-Legal methodology masterclass on 4th-5th September 2023

The CSLS is excited to partner on a new EU Horizon project titled Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age. This large consortium project involves researchers from across Europe and will investigate the relationship between media and new technologies, including AI and social media, and political processes in Europe.

The CSLS is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a prestigious British Academy International Writing Workshop grant, in partnership with colleagues from the University of Johannesburg and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is proud to announce that one of its core staff, Associate Professor Bettina Lange, has been announced as the winner of the one of the Social Science Division’s Teaching Excellence Awards.