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Registration Open for SCMR-JEMS Migration and Diversity Conference

Registration is now open for the SCMR-JEMS 3rd Annual Conference: Migration and Diversity: a dialogue across disciplines, hosted by the Sussex Centre for Migration Research on 16 March 2016, in...

An Affront to Dignity, Inclusion and Equality: Coronavirus and the Impact of Law, Policy, Practice and Access to Services on People with Disabilities in the United Kingdom

The Oxford University Disability Law & Policy Project and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, with the support of a group of leading academics working on disability law, have produced...

Insights from the Faculty into the wider impact of COVID-19

Liz Fisher co-authors a blog post which considers what form an expert response to the crisis needs to look like in the United States, arguing not only that expertise is...

2015 gives us an opportunity to develop 'a Magna Carta for the Earth'

Dr Helen McDermott reflects on the legacy of the Magna Carta and comments on how the 800th Anniversary offers an opportunity to consider our domestic and international policies, with the...

Conference Report: "Justice for Transnational Human Rights Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship"

Today, the growing importance of transnational issues and actors – climate change, the power of international businesses and corporations, the emergence of non-state actors, migration and human trafficking – has...

Oxford Pro Bono Publico contributes to a major Justice study on the use of intercept evidence

A major study on the use of intercept evidence in common law countries has concluded that the UK's ban on intercept evidence is archaic, unnecessary and counter-productive. The report details...

Paper in 'Science' co-authored by Thom Wetzer tackles climate change issues

The window to avert catastrophic climate change is closing fast. In a recently published article in Science (free version available here), Thom Wetzer and his colleagues outline...

New research finds that AI is improving the way the legal sector operates

The report found that around half of solicitors surveyed were now using at least one type of AI-lawtech. The deployment of AI-lawtech is changing the ways that...

OPBP Call for Volunteers: Legal Clinics Research

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) is seeking volunteers to assist in preparing research on legal clinics at universities around the world. This research will assist in on-going discussions and debates...

Oxford University expands scheme to help aspiring lawyers from poorer homes

Thousands of aspiring lawyers from non-privileged homes will benefit from a £1m expansion of a pioneering initiative which involves the University of Oxford and 11 other institutions, with nine leading...

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions European Fellowships 2018 – Call now open

These fellowships - financed by the European Commission - enable outstanding academic researchers to obtain funding for their own independent research projects. The fellowships also seek to promote career development...

Civil Procedure Rules at 20

On 10 June 2019 the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights hosted “The CPR at 20”, a conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Civil Procedure Rules...

‘Remembering Rwanda’ wins University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Award for outstanding public engagement with research.

Dr Julia Viebach, African Studies Centre and Jozie Kettle, Pitt Rivers Museum, have won a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award for Remembering Rwanda which encompasses two...

Making Disability History: Moot Marks Twentieth Anniversary of Disability Discrimination Act

An audience of two-hundred people filled the historic Holywell Music Room on Saturday 7th November to watch the Grand Final of the Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship 2015....

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

The Faculty of Law has announced the creation of a dedicated institute for the study of human rights law. You can read the full story on...

Joint Conference on Schemes of Arrangement

On 12 January 2017 the Commercial Law Centre and the National University of Singapore’s Centre for Law and Business jointly hosted a group of senior practitioners, scholars and judges at...

Building project notices w/c 4 April

w/c 4 April: GF WCs breaking out of concrete for drainage worksGF book delivery extension fixing lights switches, sockets, ironmongery etc.TF BLL lift shaft drilling and fixing timber to roof...

Emeritus Professor Keith Hawkins given legacy award by Law and Society Association

The LSA Legacy Award honors people whose contributions significantly helped to develop the Association through sustained commitment to the Association’s mission and legacy, extensive service, or scholarly publications that made...

Oxford Human Rights Hub in Kuwait and Qatar

Associate Professor Nazila Ghanea (OxHRH Associate Director) was in Qatar and Kuwait from 18 to 24 January 2014 along with Dr Başak Çali of Koç University, pursuing research regarding the...

Professor Dan Sarooshi Q.C. selected as a member of the panel of arbitrators to hear disputes arising from the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement.

The UK Government and the EU have selected Professor Dan Sarooshi Q.C. of the Oxford Law Faculty and The Queen's College, Oxford as a member of the panel of arbitrators...

Memorial event held for Professor Roger Hood

Professor Hood’s family, friends and colleagues gathered to celebrate his academic legacy and share their memories and experiences of working with him.The event featured a series of short presentations, reflecting...

MJur alumnus Alberto Escobar Rivas wins business law prize

MJur alumnus Alberto Escobar Rivas was recently awarded a prize in the field of business law for an essay he wrote about Brexit. The competition was organized by IE Law...

Dapo Akande interviewed about events in Libya

Dapo Akande has recently been involved in several media interviews about the developing situation in Libya. In articles posted on the European Journal of International Law's EJIL:Talk! blog, Dapo considers the recent controversy...

Professor Ian Loader awarded grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation

The study aims to recover and appraise the crime-relevant claims of the range of ideological positions whose proponents have over recent decades competes over the question of how to think...

Report on the second annual Oxford French Law Moot

The second annual Oxford French Law Moot took place in the Arumugam building of St Catherines College on Wednesday 6 May 2009. As in the previous year, the Moot was...