OxHRH Blog Taking Off

The OxHRH Blog is fast becoming a leading source of news on human rights developments from around the globe. In the last month the blog's readership grew to over 400...

Results from “a public debate: 'a world court for human rights?'"

To mark the end of the Human Rights for Future Generations Programme (ending Sep-16) a public debate was held at the Oxford Martin School, 9th May...

PIL Research Student Nikiforos Panagis - appointed at the International Court of Justice

DPhil student Nikiforos Panagis has been appointed as Associate Legal Officer (Law Clerk) at the International Court of Justice. Each Law Clerk is assigned to a Member of the Court...

Bonavero Institute announces New Head of Programmes

The Bonavero Institute is delighted to announce that Professor Freya Baetens has been appointed as its new Head of Programmes. She is expected to take up her appointment later in...

Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre to host the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association.

The Call for Papers for the 11th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association has just been announced. The Conference will take place at Pembroke College in September 2016. ...

Booking now open for Criminology 50th Anniversary Summer Conference

Our Summer Conference on Saturday 4th June will bring together MPs, QCs, senior Police, and many high-profile key-note figures from criminal justice non-profits to discuss ‘Contemporary Dilemmas in Criminal Justice’...

Global Justice Internship Programme Awards Announced

The Oxford Public International Law group is delighted to announce awards to 5 students under the Global Justice Internship Programme. Thanks to the generosity of The Planethood Foundation, the Oxford...

Oxford Students visit International Courts in The Hague

The PIL group and the convenor of the IDS course of the BCL/MJur (Professor Antonios...

Australia Alumni Events 2013

Oxford Faculty of Law’s Angus Johnston, Tutorial Fellow in Law at University College, gave talks in Melbourne (12 March) and Sydney (15 March) to alumni on “The EU's Emissions Trading...

Anti-racism statement from the Law Faculty

Almost two weeks have passed since the death of George Floyd in the United States. We have since witnessed a nation in turmoil in the grip of racism. But racism...

Do animals have legal rights?

Kevin Grecksch, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the CSLS, recently discussed the question of whether animals have legal rights in a podcast (https://oxplore.org/question-detail/are-humans-more-important-than-other-animals#1943) aimed at young people for Oxplore. ...

The value of water

CSLS researcher and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kevin Grecksch’s work is featured on the university’s ‘True Planet’ campaign that has been launched recently. The blog article explains the challenges of...

Attention Oxford Criminology Alumni!

Oxford Criminology will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016.To celebrate this event, we are collating short alumni stories to tell the world what our wonderful students go on to do...

Landmark Cases in Public International Law, Oxford 17 June 2015

On 17 June at The Old Library, All Souls College, Eirik Bjorge and Cameron Miles (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) organized, under the auspices of Professor Catherine Redgwell, an authors' workshop in...

New “Law and Emerging Technologies” invited speaker seminar series

The Faculty is delighted to announce the establishment of a new “Law and Emerging Technologies” invited speaker seminar series, hosted by Professors Jane Kaye and Justine Pila as co-Chairs of...

International Research Prize for DPhil student Václav Janeček

The jury decided to award the prize to Václav this year for his interdisciplinary research on personal data ownership in the context of EU law and the...

Judge Frank H. Easterbrook delivers lecture entitled "Legal Origins, Securities Fraud, and the Efficiency of the Common Law"

The series, convened by Joshua Getzler and Kristin van Zwieten, was motivated by “legal origins” literature in which the apparently persisting effect of origin or legal family has been explained...

Annual Roger Hood Lecture

“How do institutions think about and respond to calls for increased accountability to the law and human rights?” Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat from the University of Toronto provided answers to this...

Ros Burnett discusses her research on Victoria Derbyshire Show.

Dr Ros Burnett, Research Associate in the Centre for Criminology, discussed her research into how people who are wrongly accused of a crime are affected afterwards on...

Timothy Endicott lecture to the Hong Kong Bar Association

The Dean of the Faculty of Law, Timothy Endicott, gave a lecture to the Hong Kong Bar Association on March 20, at the invitation of the Chair, Mr Paul Shieh...

Discrimination and Informality

Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, will be speaking at a seminar organised by the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for Human Development in...

Oxford Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice Alumni Drinks Reception and Talk

On Tuesday 28 February, the Faculty of Law hosted the first Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice Alumni Drinks and Talk at the Oxford Cambridge Club in London. The...

Good Practice Guidelines to Diversifying the Curriculum

The Faculty is thrilled to start the New Year by endorsing the Good Practice Guidelines to Diversifying the Curriculum.The Guidelines are based on a collective exercise in ‘Curriculum Health Check’...

Delivering Dispute Resolution: A Holistic Review of Models in England and Wales

This book reviews the techniques, mechanisms and architectures of the way disputes are processed in England and Wales. Adopting a comparative approach, it evaluates the current state...

Inaugural Hong Kong Law Lecture - Thursday 3 October 2013

Keble College invites you to the inaugural Hong Kong Law Lecture which will take place on Thursday 3 October 2013, at Allen & Overy (Three Exchange Square, Central).
 The evening will...