The Hague Academy of International Law

Catherine Redgwell has been invited to deliver a special course during the public international law session of The Hague Academy of International Law in the summer of 2021, and Antonios...

The Myanmar Law of Contract

The last week of February saw the publication of ‘The Myanmar Law of Contract’ by Adrian Briggs and Andrew Burrows. This is the first book to look...

A W Brian Simpson (1931-2011)

Brian Simpson, long a member of the Oxford Law Faculty, and
 Law Fellow at Lincoln College from 1955 to 1973, died on 10 January at his home in Kent....

Recognition of Distinction exercise 2020 - Congratulations to our three new Professors!

Congratulations to: Liora Lazarus, Professor of Law Bill Swadling, Professor of Law John Vella, Professor of Law Laura Hoyano, Professor of Law ...

7th International Roman Law Moot

The International Roman Law Moot Court Competition returned to Oxford for its seventh instalment in 2014. From 5 to 8 April, the Oxford Law Faculty was delighted to welcome students...

Pathways to Law Programme

In October the Faculty of Law welcomed the first cohort of 35 students taking part in the new Pathways to Law Programme which is being run with the support from the Sutton...

New MSc in Intellectual Property now open for applications

We are delighted to announce that our new MSc in Intellectual Property is now open for applications for October 2022 entry. The MSc in Intellectual Property builds on the...

OBOR Director and Deputy Director speak at inaugural Thinkers' Summit, Beijing

Professor Denis Galligan and Dr Ying Yu were invited to speak at the inaugural Thinkers’ Summit at the School for Journalism and Communication at Peking University, Beijing....

New book published: 'The Anthropology of Law', by Dr. Fernanda Pirie

Questions about the nature of law, its relationship with custom, and the form of legal rules, categories and claims, are placed at the centre of this challenging, yet accessible, introduction....

Call for papers: The Future of Refugee Law?

The inaugural Annual Conference of the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) will take place from Wednesday 29 June to Friday 1 July 2016 in the elegant setting of the Senate House...

Oxford Law Alumni meet in Madrid

Just prior to the Oxford European Alumni reception on the 26 April 2013, law alumni from Brussels, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and the UK came together to share...

The Clarendon Law Lectures 2012

In November Lord Collins of Mapesbury delivered three lectures on “Justiciability in National and International Law” as part of the Clarendon Law Lectures. Taking the audience...

Sir Frank Berman awarded the Royal Order of Cambodia

Sir Frank Berman, Visiting Professor of International Law at Oxford, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Cambodia. The award was presented by Deputy Prime Minister...

Professor Horst Eidenmüller delivers keynote speech on the regulation of mediation

Professor Horst Eidenmueller will deliver a keynote speech on the regulation of mediation at a conference of the German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection on 28 May 2021.The...

Public International Law at Oxford launches new website

The Oxford Law Faculty has been a major centre for the study of international law for over 400 years. Please visit our newly launched website[linkme] to find out about our  distinguished group of international...

Call for Applications: OxBHR Graduate Workshop on Business and Human Rights - deadline extended

The workshop will be hosted by the Oxford Business and Human Rights Research Network (OxBHR) in association with the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. In advance, students should submit a...

Centre for Business Taxation Reports on Tax Avoidance

The Centre for Business Taxation has published three reports on tax avoidance, these reports were commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO) and they form part of the evidence base behind the...

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia workshop

Mindy Chen-Wishart and Alexander Loke of City University Hong Kong are the editors of a series titled Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia. Volume I on the Remedies for Breach is...

2017 Roger Hood Lecture - Video online

The time-table that opens Discipline and Punish—far more than the gruesome tortured death of Damiens—mirrors the experience of living on death row today. Thirty years and counting, a condemned man...

Watch the panel discussion - Glasnost! Nine ways Facebook can make itself a better forum for free speech and democracy

Watch the panel discussion The event was chaired by Professor Kate O'Regan, Director of the Bonavero Institute. The panellists were: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford,...

NUJS-Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Competition

From 19-21 February, 2010, teams from all across India competed in the national final of the NUJS-Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Competition. The competition was sponsored and funded through...

'Sentencing in Canada. Essays in Law, Policy and Practice'

This month Julian Roberts published a volume of essays with Justice David Cole entitled 'Sentencing in Canada. Essays in Law, Policy and Practice' (Toronto: Irwin Law).This is...

The legal ecology of resistance, or why normal IP rules should not apply to antibiotics

On Friday 25 April, 2014 Professor Kevin Outterson (Professor of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health) and Dr Timo Minssen (Associate Professor of IP-...

Secretary Clinton honours human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt outside the Bonavero Institute in Mansfield College on Monday 8 October and was made an honorary fellow...