1 in 3 women in the UK will have an abortion – so why is it so secret?

My Body My Life, hosted and part funded by the University of Oxford, opens at the Old Fire Station next month (November 7-11).Designed to look like a fashion boutique, the...

Attorney General's Award for Ben Ogden

Ben Ogden, newly qualified Associate at Allen & Overy and a Hertford alumnus who was killed in the Nepal air accident in October, has been honoured with the Attorney General's...

HeLEX participates in the EU-STANDS4PM Project

EU-STANDS4PM is an open network and seeks input from all relevant stakeholders that have an interest in advancing predictive in silico methodologies in personalised medicine through broadly applicable standards for...

*** Eldon Law Scholarship 2015 ***

Applications for the Eldon Law Scholarship are now open. The closing date is midnight on Sunday 2 November....

Call for Papers: Studying Africa, Studying Anywhere: Area Studies for an Interconnected World

Africanists study subjects that are not just African. Some examine phenomena that by their very nature cross continents, or transcend them. Most study phenomena that occur at multiple sites, some...

Announcing a new publication: The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function, Gleider Hernandez


 
 
 Oxford University Press has recently published Gleider Hernanzdez's book: The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function. The book is based on a Gleider's Oxford D.Phil (Wadham College) obtained in 2010. Gleider...

New OxHRH Blog Series Out! Development of Disability Rights in the Indian Supreme Court

In a significant judgment delivered in February 2021, a three-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court made a seminal contribution in advancing disability rights jurisprudence in India and globally....

Lecture by Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and former Prime Minister of New Zealand

In February 2013 the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations, in association with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), welcomed  Helen Clark to Merton...

Winners of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize

We are proud to announce the winners of the fifth Border Criminologies Masters Dissertation/Thesis Prize, who will receive £200 and £100 worth of Routledge books. For the first time this...

The Australian Personal Property Security Act 2009: The Five Year Review

This lecture, the third in the Commercial Law Centre series was given on 27th May 2015 by Associate Professor David Brown of the University of Adelaide. The session was...

Bonavero Institute Call Announcement: Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations, funded by the Oak Foundation

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is delighted to announce a range of calls in relation to the project on Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations funded by the Oak...

Professor John Armour elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

The British Academy has today announced the election of 66 new Fellows, representing the very best of humanities and social sciences research, in the UK and globally. Hogan Lovells Professor...

DPhil student Václav Janeček awarded Bolzano Prize

Each year, the Bolzano Prize is awarded in three categories, and Václav received the prize for social sciences and humanities for his book 'Critique of Legal Responsibility'. Václav...

New publication on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (OUP)

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law (Oxford University Press)
 Dr Gilles Giacca recently co-edited a book titled Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Oxford...

Oxford Pro Bono Publico - Call for Volunteers - Arbitrary Detention Research

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) is inviting volunteers to assist with research for the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention. The research will relate to procedures and remedies available to...

Jamie Edelman receives Oxford Teaching Award

Professor Jamie Edelman has received an Oxford Teaching Award for introducing mooting into Oxford's undergraduate law degree. Professor Edelman is the Faculty Mooting Co-ordinator, and was given the award for...

Oxford hosts the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association

In September 2016, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre hosted the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association at Pembroke College. Video recordings of...

The Third Intellectual Property Conversazione

The Third Intellectual Property Conversazione was held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford on Friday 18 March, in conjunction with the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot.
 Hosted by the Oxford Intellectual Property...

Online Markets and Offline Welfare Effects - The Internet, Competition, Society and Democracy

On 22 May 2017, the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy hosted an event on the digital economy. The event brought together more than...

Law and Computer Science Students Working Together, Again

For the second consecutive year, students from the Department of Computer Science and their peers from the Faculty of Law have formed interdisciplinary groups of six (three computer scientists and...

Associate Professorship of Taxation Law in association with Harris Manchester College

The appointed person will teach tax law at graduate level, especially on the part-time MSc in Taxation, and also at undergraduate level, they will engage in research at the highest...