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Building project notices w/c 18 April

Please note: As advised separately, a crane will be on site to lift steels to the 2nd floor on Monday 18 April. The crane will be situated on the standing...

Special Edition of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law: Women and Poverty-A Human Rights Perspective

The OxHRH is thrilled to announce the publication of a special edition of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. The special edition has been guest edited by OxHRH...

UN launch of World Trends in Freedom of Expression

PCMLP are delighted to announce the publication of UNESCO’s flagship study, World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development. The lead authors of this report include Nicole Stremlau (University...

Two Faculty members shortlisted for the Peter Birks Book Prize

James Goudkamp and Jure Vidmar have both been shortlisted for the Peter Birks Book Prize. The shortlist of six also contains two other recent Oxford Faculty members - Jonathan Morgan...

Sue Bright awarded a knowledge exchange seed fund grant

Sue Bright has been awarded a knowledge exchange seed fund grant to support the maintenance of the Housing After Grenfell blog. The Housing After Grenfell blog provides a forum...

Horst Eidenmueller contributes to WEF project “Reimagining Regulation for the age of AI”.

Over the last decade, AI has emerged as the software engine that drives the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This recent progress is remarkable in important respects, but also creates unique challenges....

Malaysia: DPRU research featured in news article on women on death row

The article, by lawyer Ngeow Chow Ying, focused on death sentences imposed for drug trafficking under the country's Dangerous Drugs Act, which make up the majority (73%)...

MLF Alum on first OUP 'Hindi word of the year' panel

The 'Hindi word of the year' campaign is similar to the immensely popular English word of the year campaign. Hindi is the only language, other than English,...

Professorship of the Philosophy of Law

Applications are invited for the post of Professor of the Philosophy of Law, tenable from 1 October 2006 (or as soon as possible thereafter), and associated with a Fellowship at...

Article in The Independent highlights call for release of pregnant women from prison supported by Shona Minson.

Shona Minson, whose work on the rights of children whose parents are in prison has led to changes in sentencing guidelines, has created a video with Dr Laura Abbott, an...

Oxford finishes second in the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition 2017

The University of Oxford, participating for the first time in the competition, finished second in the oral rounds of the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition held in...

Shaping the Future of Safe Childbirth - New Episode

While maternal mortality rates have been decreasing, they have not been decreasing for all types of women. Women in poverty, women with disabilities, young women, women in rural communities...

Call for Papers: Oxford Economic Papers Proposed Special Issue on Innovation and Intellectual Property

In recent years the work of Mark Rogers, our former colleague and an editor of this journal, was focused in the field of innovation and intellectual property. His work made major...

New collaborations

Border Criminologies is currently developing collaborations with the Spreading Data website and the Monday Morning Meetings on Migration podcast. Spreading Data is a data visualisation project that seeks to add...

Building project notices w/c 12th October 2015

The works have been temporarily suspended due to issues that need to be resolved before works can move forward. As such, there are no intrusive works scheduled for next week.It...

Oxford Students Visit The Hague, April 2013

A group of BCL/MJur students from the University of Oxford and LLM students from the University of Glasgow visited The Hague between 16-18 April 2013 in a trip organised by...

Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme 2013-2014

The Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme is a new programme initiated by the Public International Law Group within the Oxford Law Faculty. The aim of the programme is to provide...

OTJR Hilary Term Card 2020

Oxford Transitional Justice Research is delighted to present its term card for Hilary 2020: ...

Internship at the International Court of Justice: Call for Applications

The traineeship programme is similar to a judicial clerkship or judicial assistantship and provides an opportunity for one Oxford student or recent graduate to work for nearly a year at...

Oxford PIL on Syria

Dapo Akande and Antonios Tzanakopoulos of PIL at Oxford have weighed in on the conflict in Syria: Dapo has given a series of interviews on the legality of a possible...

Wadham Human Rights Forum Lecture Series

The Wadham Human Rights Forum has an exciting series of lectures planned for February. On Thursday 7 February, Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights, will...

Workshops on Defences in Private Law

Andrew Dyson (Corpus Christi College), James Goudkamp (Keble College) and Frederick Wilmot-Smith (All Souls College) will convene four workshops over the next four years to investigate defences in private law....

eCommerce Week 2019: Dr Ying Yu delivers talk at UN

Oxford One Belt One Road programme Deputy Director Dr Ying Yu was invited to deliver a talk at the United Nations during eCommerce Week 2019. Organised by the United...

Jeremias Prassl wins the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize

Jeremias Prassl expressed his gratitude to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and noted how important it is to develop the legal sciences.Private law...

Jaakko Kuosmanen: Sustainable Development Goals - A Beacon of Light or Another Stumble in Global Governance?

The scepticism arises from the MDGs. The final MDG report, which was released a week before the summit, shows that while progress has occurred in many spheres of global development,...