Rebecca Williams
Professor of Public Law and Criminal Law
Faculty officer role(s):
Admissions Co-ordinator
Biography
Rebecca Williams is a Professor of Public Law and Criminal Law, in association with Pembroke College. Rebecca was previously a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, having done her PhD at Birmingham. Before that she was both an undergraduate and a BCL student at Worcester College, Oxford. Rebecca's principal teaching interests are criminal law and public law, and her research interests include:
- Law and Computer Science
- Criminal Law (including EU criminal law)
- Public Law (including EU and US public law and comparative approaches)
- The interrelationship between public law and unjust enrichment
Increasingly her work focuses on the relationship of law and technology and the ways in which the law will need to develop in order to keep pace with technological developments and together with Professor Tom Melham from the Department of Computer Science and Dr Václav Janeček from the Faculty of law she is a co-founder of OLTEP, the Oxford LawTech Education Programme. Her work also includes examining optimum methods of decision-making and the use of criminal law as a form of regulation and it has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and the High Court of Australia.
Publications
WILLIAMS R, ‘Accountable Algorithms: Adopting the Public Law Toolbox Outside the Realm of Public Law’ [2022] Current Legal Problems
WILLIAMS R, Cotterill C, Edwards P, and others, ‘From Transparency to Accountability of Intelligent Systems’ [2022] Data and Policy
Naja I, Markovic M, Edwards P, and others, ‘Using Knowledge Graphs to Unlock Practical Collection, Integration, and Audit of AI Accountability Information’ (2022) 10 IEEE ACCESS 74383
WILLIAMS R, ‘Rethinking Administrative Law for Algorithmic Decision Making’ [2021] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Janeček V, Williams R and Keep E, ‘Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services’ (2021) 40 Computer Law and Security Review
Janecek V, Williams R and Keep E, ‘Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services’
Williams R, ‘COMPOUND INTEREST ON RESTITUTION OF OVERPAID TAX: AN INEVITABLE ANSWER TO THE WRONG QUESTION’ (2018) 77(3) CAMBRIDGE LAW JOURNAL 468
Williams R, ‘Rethinking Deference for Algorithmic Decision-Making’ [2018] SSRN Electronic Journal
Williams R, ‘Structuring Substantive Review’ [2017] Public Law 109
Williams R, ‘The Multiple Doctrines of Legitimate Expectations’ [2016] The Law Quarterly Review
Jones A and Williams R, ‘The UK Response to the Global Effort Against Cartels: Is Criminalization Really the Solution?’ (2014) 2(1) Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 100
Williams R, ‘Voluntary Intoxication – A Lost Cause?’ (2013) 2013(129 (April) Law Quarterly Review 264
Williams R, ‘Unjust Enrichment and Public Law: A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU’
Williams R, ‘Law Commission Consultation Paper No. 183 on Conspiracy and Attempt - Comments on Conspiracy’ [2008] (19) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Williams R, ‘When Is an Error Not an Error? Reform of Jurisdictional Review of Error of Law and Fact’ (2007) 2007(Winter) Public Law 793
Williams R, ‘Deception, Mistake and Vitiation of the Victim’s Consent’ (2007) 124 Law Quarterly Review 132
Williams R, ‘The Beginnings of a Public Law of Unjust Enrichment?’ (2005) 16(1) King’s College Law Journal 194
Williams R, ‘Policy and Principle in Drugs Manslaughter Cases’ (2005) 64(1) Cambridge Law Journal 66
Williams R and Christopher F. Forsyth P, ‘Closing Chapter in the Immigrant Children Saga: Substantive Legitimate Expectations and Administrative Justice in Hong Kong’ (2002) 10 Asia Pacific Law Review 29
Williams R, ‘The ECJ’s ’Remedies Jurisprudence’ and the Role of Domestic Courts - How to Transfer Principle Alongside Competence’ Restitution Law Review
JANECEK V and WILLIAMS R, ‘LawTech Education: A View from Oxford’ in Thanaraj and Gledhill (eds.), Teaching Law in a Digital Age (Routledge 2022)
Williams R, ‘The Theoretical Basis of Accomplice LIability’ in B Krebs (ed.), Accessorial Liability after Jogee (Hart 2020)
Williams R, ‘UK Criminal Law: Just Another Regulatory Tool?’ in M Dyson and B Vogel (eds.), The Limits of Criminal Law: Anglo-German Concepts and Principles (Intersentia 2018)
Williams R, ‘R V Flattery, a Landmark, a Door or a Floodgate?’ in Handler and Mares (eds.), Landmark Cases in Criminal Law (OUP 2016)
Williams R, ‘Overpaid Taxes: A Hybrid Public and Private Approach’ in B Haecker, C Mitchell and S Elliott (eds.), Restitution of Overpaid Tax (2013)
Williams R, ‘The Current Law of Intoxication: Rules and Problems’ in J Herring (ed.), Intoxication and Society (2012)
Williams R, ‘Cartels in the Criminal Law Landscape’ in C Beaton-Wells and A Ezrachi (eds.), Criminalising Cartels (2011)
Williams R and Padfield N, ‘Le Cas Anglais: L’absence d’interactions?’ in G Giudicelli-Delage and S Manacorda (eds.), Cour de Justice et Justice Pénale en Europe (2010)
Eleftheriadis P, Armour J, Enriques L, and others, ‘Legal Aspects of Withdrawal from the EU: A Briefing Note’ (Oxford University Law Faculty, 14 July 2016)
Happa J, Nurse J, goldsmith M, and others, ‘An Ethics Framework for Research into Heterogeneous Systems’ (2018)
Williams R, ‘Lady & Kid and Others V Skatteministeriet and Ministre Du Budget, Des Comptes Publics Et De La Fonction Publique V Accor SA: Unjust Enrichment and the European Court of Justice, a Loss of National Competence and Principle?’ (2011) 2011(6) British Tax Review 631 (case-note)
Williams R and Shiers R, ‘FII GLO (Chancery) and F J Chalke; Tax and Restitution Developing Hand-in-Hand’ [2009] (4) British Tax Review 365 (case-note)
Williams R, ‘Unjust Enrichment in EU Law’ (2012) Bar European Group
Williams R, ‘Award of the Runner-up Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for R Williams, Unjust Enrichment and Public Law - A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU’ (2011)
Williams R, ‘Law Commission Report (LAW COM No 318) Conspiracy and Attempts’ (2009)
Williams R, ‘Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation (Appellants) V Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Another (Respondents) [2012] UKSC 19’ (2000)
Williams R, ‘Joined Cases C‑113 10, C‑147 10 and C‑234 10, Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG V Hauptzollamt Aachen, Opinion of Advocate General Sharpston’ (2000)