Roundtable on Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations

On 22-26 October 2020, the Bonavero Institute hosted an online roundtable to discuss challenges and opportunities for using civil claims against state and non-state actors as a mechanism for human...

Emily Hudson's work informs Australian Law Reform Commission report proposing broad fair use exception to copyright.


 On 5 June 2013, the Australian Law Reform Commission released its Discussion Paper in the inquiry Copyright and the Digital Economy. The Discussion Paper recommends that the Australian Copyright Act...

Interview with Rt Hon David Lammy MP

David Lammy is the Labour Member of Parliament for Tottenham, England, where he was born and raised. After being elected for the seventh time in December 2019, he was appointed...

Oxford wins Dublin City University National Moot Court Competition 2020

We are proud to announce the success of our students in the DCU National Moot Court Competition 2020. This competition, hosted by Dublin City University, was the biggest ever university-level...

Douglas-Scott on public governance in Spanish media

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott spoke in Barcelona on 31 October on public governance, democracy and constitutionalism at the international conference Building a new State. While there, she was interviewed by several Catalan...

Lord Justice Sales in China

In late September 2016, Lord Justice Sales travelled to China with the support for the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government. Sales LJ exchanged views on environmental...

Alan Watson: 1933 - 2018

Born in 1933 in Hamilton in the West of Scotland, Alan Watson studied law at the University of Glasgow before, in 1957, he first arrived in Oxford. He held a...

Claire Hansen is appointed as Chair of the UK Law Students' Association

Claire Hansen, a second year senior status law student at Harris Manchester College,  has recently taken up the role of Chair of the Executive Committee of the UK Law Students'...

Oxford Wins the 2014 ELFA First Award for a Doctoral Thesis on European Law

The European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) has awarded the 2014 ELFA First Award for the best thesis on European Law to Dr Anzhela Yevgenyeva. Anzhela completed her doctorate at the...

Good Faith in Public Law

Good faith constitutes a general principle of law. It refers to ‘a sense of loyalty to, and respect for, the law’; to ‘the absence of dissimulation, deception and fraud’; and...

Professor Akande briefs the ICC

At the beginning of June Professor Dapo Akande briefed the Assembly of States Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at the United Nations Headquarters in New...

Dr John Zerilli awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Currently a Research Fellow within the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, John will take up his Fellowship at the Faculty...

Report of the 2019 Symposium on Trends in Retail Competition

The Report of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on competition amongst retailers and suppliers is now available to download. The symposium covered five themes relevant to competition involving...

Celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of the MSc in Law and Finance

During the 2020 Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend, the city of Oxford came to life as people from all over the world gathered to celebrate different disciplines, perspectives, and reminisce about...

Equality and diversity essay competition for Oxford Law undergraduate students launched

This essay competition is open to all undergraduate students in the Oxford Law Faculty, including those who were finalists in the 2020-2021 academic year. Competition entries will be judged by...

Advice to UN Special Rapporteur

In early June, Antonios Tzanakopoulos visited the UN Office in Geneva at the invitation of the Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures to assist with the Special Rapporteur's work to...

Oxford Transitional Justice Special Seminars

Oxford Transitional Justice is hosting two exciting seminars on Tuesday, 11 February 2014.  All are welcome!
 
 Tuesday 11 February: 12:30 – Seminar Room F, Law Faculty: OTJR Special Seminar - Dr...

Can an employee take advantage of an investment opportunity? Report from the Shearman & Sterling Moot 2011

When can a senior employee of a company take advantage of an investment opportunity offered both to him and the company?Does it matter if the company refuses the opportunity?Does it...

Oxford Human Rights Hub publishes annual report

In this period of extreme isolation, anxiety and dislocation the Oxford Human Rights Hub has been working hard to keep people connected and to shine a spotlight...

LMH Law Society holds inaugural ADR competition

The Lady Margaret Hall Law Society recently celebrated the success of its inaugural Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition, a first for an Oxford college. The competition drew students from colleges throughout...

New grants for housing related research projects

Fabiana's project 'Exploring the collective in multi-owned housing' is an empirical study of how people living in sites in which there is 'multi-owned housing' think about property ownership. More...