Tripartite Graduate Research Colloquium in International Law

Tripartite Graduate Research Colloquium in International Law took place at UCL and brought together research students from Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL. Graduates presented their ongoing research in three different panels....

Funded Internship at the International Court of Justice 2014-2015

The Oxford Law Faculty is one of a group of leading law faculties around the world invited by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to participate in the ICJ's "traineeship"...

High Sheriff of Oxford’s Law Lecture Essay Competition- Top Prize for Ciara!

The Annual High Sherriff’s Lecture, held every second Tuesday of October, has a further challenge for students attending sixth form. The 2016 lecture, entitled 'A Matter of Life and...

Professor Judith Freedman gives annual CTA address

Judith Freedman, Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law gave the annual CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser) address on the 10 May 2016 held at the Institution of Civil...

The Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot 2017

The 15th annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot competition was held at the Law Faculty and Pembroke College from 16-18 March 2017. A total of 24 teams from Australia,...

Dapo Akande Elected to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law

Dapo Akande has been elected to the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law (AJIL). The AJIL is one of the pre-eminent international law journals in the world,...

Oxford Achieves its Best Result to Date in the Jessup Moot

The 2015 team from the University of Oxford achieved its best-ever result in the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, progressing to the semi-finals...

Lecture by His Excellency Judge Kenneth Keith of the International Court of Justice

The Faculty of Law was absolutely delighted to welcome His Excellency Judge Kenneth Keith of the International Court of Justice to Oxford on 1 March 2013. At a special session...

The Oxford Hong Kong Mooting Competition 2015

The Oxford Hong Kong Mooting Competition 2015 was held on 29 August 2015. Generously supported by Clifford Chance Hong Kong, the annual Competition is in its fifth...

EPIP Conference: 5-7 September 2018, Berlin

The Annual Conference of EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property) took place at ESMT Berlin, Germany, from 5-7 September 2018. Traditionally, the conference is interdisciplinary and invites scholars and practitioners...

Kate Jones examines how human rights frameworks should guide regulation of digital political campaigning

'Online Disinformation and Political Discourse: Applying a Human Rights Framework' outlines the ways in which digital technology is increasingly being used to further political aims which can then distort our...

Oxford Human Rights Hub contributes to independent review of the Human Rights Act

The Oxford Human Rights Hub has made a submission to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act. In the submission, they argue that the Human Rights...

Richard Ekins among Orwell Prize judges for 2021

The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to...

Bonavero Institute - Calls for Applications and Papers

The Bonavero Institute has annouced a range of calls for the coming term, including the Africa Research Visitorship funded by the Open Society Foundation (OSF) South Africa and based at...

Funding awarded for new Criminology research project


 Dr Mary Bosworth has been awarded a €1.2 million Starter Grant from the European Research Council to conduct a five-year project on “Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a...

Bonavero Institute Building Update

The Bonavero Institute building project is now focussing on the external works. At the rear of the building (running adjacent to 'Love Lane') backfilling, casting the retaining walls, and installing...

New book: 'The Structure of Tort Law' by Nils Jansen translated by Sandy Steel

This English translation makes available to anglophone readers a modern classic of German tort theory. It argues that modern German tort law is faced with doctrinal tensions...

New Year’s Honour

Philip Wood of Allen & Overy, who taught Global Comparative Financial Law on the BCL for some years, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours list.
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John Fell Award to explore water scarcity and management

New funding will enable additional research to shed light on a new and underexplored issue in water resource management: how large UK water consumers such as thermal power stations, pulp...

Prosecuting in the public eye: Transparency and Accountability of the DPP

On Thursday 23 January 2014 the Public Law Discussion Group welcomed Lord Ken McDonald QC and Sir Keir Starmer QC to the Oxford Law Faculty. They talked on the theme...

‘Access to Judgments and Justice Data’ workshop

Oxford, 6 March 2020—Members of the AI4Law research team hosted a workshop at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights to discuss pressing issues concerning access to judgments...

Call for Applications - Future Directions in EU Labour Law

Early Career Scholars in EU labour law and social policy are invited to apply for a space on the British Academy-funded project on Future Directions in EU Labour Law. The...