*NEW* OxHRH Podcast: Gender in Colombia's Peace Transition (with Isabel Jaramillo Sierra)

In this episode, we speak with Dr Isabel Cristina Jaramillo from Los Andes University in Colombia about “Gender in Transition: Studies about the Role of the Law in the Distribution...

Murray Hunt appointed as the UK's alternate representative on the Venice Commission

Visiting Professor, Murray Hunt has been appointed the UK’s alternate representative to support the UK’s new representative on the Venice Commission, Tim Otty QC. Murray, who...

Robert George awarded a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Dr Robert George (Jesus College) has been awarded a three-year British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, to start in Michaelmas Term 2011. His project, entitled "The realities of relocation: analysing disputes over...

Building project updates Michaelmas Term 2016

Over the summer, a large amount of work for phase 2 of the St Cross Building project has been undertaken. Many new spaces are now open for users, including refurbished...

Establishment of Intesa Sanpaolo Graduate Scholarships

The Scholarships shall be available to graduate students with a degree in Italian Law demonstrating exceptionalacademic merit or potential commencing the Masters in Law and Finance at...

OPBP: Call For Volunteer Researchers for project on the Right to Early Childhood Development

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) is looking for volunteers researchers to assist with an advocacy brief for The Equality Collective on the right to Early Childhood Development (ECD) as a...

IV Oxford Symposium on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration

The conference was opened with welcome addresses from Dr. Kristin van Zwieten (Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford) and conference organiser André Luís Monteiro (Mannheimer, Perez...

2022-2023 ICJ Judicial Fellows Programme

Each year the International Court of Justice (ICJ) invites applications for participation in its Judicial Fellowship programme from candidates nominated by their university. The Fellowship programme is similar to a...

Appointment of a new Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Florian Grisel as an Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in January 2021. Dr Grisel is a graduate...

Louise Gullifer delivers Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Lecture at the National University of Singapore

On 25 August 2016, Professor Louise Gullifer delivered the 10th Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Lecture at the National University of Singapore Law School. The lecture was entitled "'Sales'...

Roxana Radu elected as Program Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network

In January 2020, Dr Roxana Radu (Postdoctoral researcher, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy) was elected as Program Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).GigaNET is a...

Inaugural lectures for Eidenmuller and Enriques

In 2015, the Faculty welcomed two new Professors - Horst Eidenmuller to the position of Freshfields Professor of Commercial Law, and Luca Enriques as Allen & Overy...

Watch: Charles Foster talks about his book on swifts, 'The Screaming Sky'

Charles Foster, Sean McCormack and Jonathan Pomroy talk about Charles' book on the common swift: 'The Screaming Sky'. This discussion was part of the Festival of Nature 2021. Watch here:...

Investigating Adolescent Violence towards Parents

Rachel Condry (University Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology and a Fellow of St Hilda's College) has recently conducted a three-year research project on adolescent-to-parent violence funded by the Economic...

Laura Hoyano's guest blog post on the Henriques Review of Operation Midland

The blog post 'Terminology does matter: ‘believe the victim’, investigative mindsets and unlearned lessons from miscarriages of justice' discusses the Henriques Review of Operation Midland. Operation Midland...

Bonavero Institute Student Fellowship Awards - 2017

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is pleased to announce the following Student Fellowships awarded for 2017.The awards have been made possible through a generous gift made by Eric L....

New appointment for Professor Linda Mulcahy

Professor Linda Mulcahy, the Director of the Centre for Socio-legal Studies has recently been appointed a member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Panel College. The Future Leaders Fellowships aims...

Just Published - Great Debates in EU Law

In the latest volume in the Great Debates series, Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Sanja Bogojević provide a colourful guide to the evolution of the Unions’ ’new legal order’....

Kevin Grecksch appointed editor of book series

Kevin Grecksch has been appointed co-editor for the Palgrave Macmillan book series ‘Global Challenges in Water Governance’. He will share the editorship with Shilpi Srivastava, research fellow at the Institute...

Professor Les Green gives Dewey Lecture at the University of Chicago

Freedom of speech protects speech that is, for example, offensive. But having the right to offend does not give anyone a reason to offend others. How we should speak is...

Blackstone Chambers Human Rights Moot Court Competition 2019

A total of eight teams gathered to argue a hypothetical case which dealt with issues of international human rights law, including freedom of expression and the presumption of innocence. Across...

International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) training day in Oxford – 8 October 2013.

International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) is a group, organised in the main by city law firms in London,  which organises a three month training programme, for young African lawyers (see http://www.ilfa.org.uk/).
 In...

SAVE THE DATE: ESRC Socio-Legal Masterclass, 29-30 July 2019

SAVE THE DATE! This years national Socio-Legal methodology Master Class is being held at St Catherine’s College in Oxford on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th July. As in...

Bonavero Institute publishes Annual Highlights

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights has now published its 3rd Annual Highlights. Despite the disruption to the Hilary Term as a result of the...