Learning Lessons from Litigators: Realising the Right to Education Through Public Interest Lawyering

In 2017, a staggering 262 million (or one in five) children and youth were out of school.More worrying still, this rises to one in three children and...

The Antitrust Enforcement Symposium

The Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy in collaboration with the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement host a yearly symposium dedicated to competition law enforcement. The next Symposium is scheduled...

Goode on Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law

The book is the classic text on corporate insolvency law, providing a clear and comprehensive treatment of the fundamental principles underpinning insolvency law, and long relied upon...

Oxford reaches Grand Final of FTB Kingsland Cup and Prize Moot 2021

The 2020-21 iteration of the FTB Kingsland Cup and Prize Moot received the highest number of entries in the history of the competition. A team from Oxford, consisting of Daniil...

Laura Hoyano featured in Counsel Magazine

The interview with Laura, conducted by barrister and lecturer, Lynne Townley, celebrates Laura's work and career as a barrister who 'advocates for change'.Read the full interview....

Call for Papers: Governing (in)securities

The migration crisis has seen multiple apparent failures in the European project – of solidarity, response and co-operation. In this sense, the new politics of (in)security applies as much to...

Associate Professor Liora Lazarus speaks to BBC Radio about 'whole of life' sentences

Associate Professor, and OxHRH Associate Director, Liora Lazarus, spoke to BBC Radio on 18 February 2014 about the Court of Appeal's decision in R v McLoughlin [2014] EWCA Crim 188 in relation to...

New! RightsUp #RightNow Podcast Episode on the Death Penalty in the Middle East and North Africa

In the six years following the Arab Spring, there has been a notable increase in death sentences and executions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In this episode,...

Tarunabh Kaitan wins University of Melbourne award

Tarunabh Kaitan has won an award in the excellence in engagement category at the University of Melbourne Excellence Awards, mainly for his work on equality in India.Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta,...

Johannes Ungerer comments on EU Brexit infringement case

The article discusses the basis for the case and what the ramifications of the outcome might be....

Shaping the Policy of Elected Police and Crime Commissioners

Shaping the Policy of Elected Police and Crime Commissioners Research by Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology, has played an important part in shaping debate about the role and future...

Legal Validity: The Fabric of Justice by Maris Köpcke

Critical human interests are affected on a daily basis by appeal to past decisions deemed to be 'legally valid'. They include statutes, deportation orders, judgments, mortgage contracts,...

Australian Law Reform Commission adopts Professor Hodges’ research in recommending a fundamental change to adopt regulatory redress

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently published its Final Report Integrity, Fairness and Efficiency—An Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders.This Report makes a series of...

Modern Slavery Bill uses evidence from Liora Lazarus

The Joint Committee on the Draft Modern Slavery Bill has published a report for its plans to improve the draft Bill. The report adopts Associate Professor in Human Rights Law Liora...

New graduate scholarship

We are delighted to announce that South Square, a business, financial and commercial law set with a pre-eminent reputation in insolvency and reconstruction law, has generously...

Oxford Students visit International Courts in The Hague

In what is becoming a tradition, a group of BCL/MJur students from the University of Oxford visited international courts in The Hague on 27 and 28 March 2014. The trip...

Research project on Unwanted Intimate Examinations with Jonathan Herring, Camilla Pickles, and Marthe Goudsmit

As part of this project they are guest editing a special edition of the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, and are hosting a panel at the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics World...

European Copyright Society Opinion on the Reference to the Court of Justice in Svensson


 Professor Dinwoodie is a member of the European Copyright Society which recently published an Opinion on The Reference to the CJEU in Case C-466/12 Svensson (15 February 2013).  The case,...

Call for Papers: Gendering Migration

We are pleased to invite submissions for the fifth issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, slated for publication in June 2017. Young activists, independent researchers, graduate...

Kalisher Trust-Wadham Student Scholarship Announced for 2018

The Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce that, thanks to the generosity of the Kalisher Trust and Wadham College, we will once again be offering a Kalisher Trust-Wadham Student...

Professor Douglas-Scott discusses constitutional implications of leaving the EU

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott discussed leaving the EU on a panel with Professor Sir David Edward QC (former UK judge at the European Court), Sir Konrad Schiemann QC (formerly Court of Appeal...

Paper co-authored by Sandy Fredman shortlisted for the best paper award at the Weizenbaum Institute's annual conference

A paper on the FairWork Project, which Sandy Fredman co-authored, was one of three papers shortlisted for the best paper award at the German Internet Institute (the Weizenbaum Institute's) annual...