news
Call for Abstracts: International Law - Postgraduate Colloquium Oxford/Cambridge/UCL - deadline 30 April 2014
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 30 April 2014 to jennifer.hassan@law.ox.ac.uk […]
Sir Frank Berman awarded the Royal Order of Cambodia
Sir Frank Berman, Visiting Professor of International Law at Oxford, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia […]
BCL Student 2nd in Times Law Award
James Beeton, a BCL student, has won the 2nd Place Prize in the 2014 Times Law Awards […]
Judith Freedman delivers talk on Business Tax: Public Debate and Future Trends
Judith Freedman, Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law, visited Hong Kong in March for the Oxford Asia Alumni Weekend and whilst there also gave a talk at HK University’s Faculty of Law, organised b […]
7th International Roman Law Moot
The International Roman Law Moot Court Competition returned to Oxford for its seventh instalment in 2014 […]
forthcoming events
Friday 25 April: The legal ecology of resistance, or why normal IP rules should not apply to antibiotics, Professor Kevin Outterson / Dr Timo Minssen, Boston University, Chatham House / University of Copenhagen
Tuesday 29 April: Church Property in the Latin West, 200-1200: Starting Over, Dr Conrad Leyser, Worcester College, Oxford
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Contemporary Issues and Challenges: Book launch in collaboration with Oxford University Press, Professor Eibe Riedel, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Public Law, European and International Law at the University of Mannheim, Former Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Wednesday 30 April: Formulary apportionment in the U.S. international income tax system: putting lipstick on a pig?, Professor Robert J. Peroni, The University of Texas at Austin
Islamic Banking in the German Socio-Legal Context (7.00pm, Said Business School, Seminar Room A), Dr Johannes Engels, German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority
recent events
Wednesday 23 April: United Nations Commission of Inquiry into alleged Human Rights abuses in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, HON MICHAEL KIRBY AC CMG, former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Tuesday 22 April: Apparent Bias, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
Meandering Tort Law in Australia, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
Sodomy Revived: The Supreme Court of India Reverses Naz - Based on the Tagore Lectures delivered at the University of Calcutta, December 2013, Justice Michael Kirby, AC CMG, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia
next conference
25–26 April 2014: The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann
recent lecture recordings
International Law and the Emergence of Mercantile Capitalism: Grotius to Smith
Speaker: Professor M Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki
6 Feb 2014 [0:48:29]
What is an International Crime?
Speaker: Professor K J Heller, SOAS/ University of Melbourne
30 Jan 2014 [0:33:16]
Behind Marx's "hidden abode": toward an expanded conception of capitalism
Speaker: Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at The New School
28 Jan 2014 [1:28:41]
Drone Attacks: Promotion and Protection of Human Hights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism
Ben Emmerson QC, Matrix Chambers, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism.
14 Nov 2013 [1:22:48]
Communicative Justice and International Criminal Law: Re-thinking the Rationale for International Criminal Justice and Jurisdiction
Dr D Guilfoyle, University College London
7 Nov 2013 [0:29:51]
