Oxford Global Justice Annual Lecture - Judge Theodor Meron

Save the date for our forthcoming Oxford Global Justice Annual Lecture on 1 December 2014 by Judge Theodor Meron (President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia &...

Border Criminologies Guest Twitter Project

We would like to invite you to the launch of the Border Criminologies Guest Twitter Project on Monday 7TH November! For this project, our Twitter account @Bordercrim will be taken...

The Oxford Public International Law group is delighted to announce awards to 4 students under the Global Justice Internship Programme

Thanks to the generosity of The Planethood Foundation, this year the Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme will provide financial assistance to four Oxford law graduates - Jerome Temme, Callum Musto, Ardevan Yaghoubi...

Marking Stephen Lawrence Day 2021

The Faculty is fortunate to have a Freshfields Stephen Lawrence scholar among its undergraduate students. The scholarship is designed to address the disproportionate under-representation of black and black...

Oxford Wins National Final of CEDR Negotiation Competition 2021

We are proud to announce that a team representing Oxford has won the CEDR Negotiation Competition 2021. The team consisted of two students, Yueyi Li (St Peter’s College, MSc Law...

Dworkin Conference

A colloquium on Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its publication, was held on 7 June 2011. Participants were Oxford legal philosophers, including some...

CfP: Southern Perspectives on Border Controls

Much of border criminology scholarship has documented and theorized on the border control apparatus and practices of Western European and North American countries, and Australia. Such work has illuminated our...

Now published: Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law, Individual Modes of Responsibility for Collective Crimes by Neha Jain

Individual Modes of Responsibility for Collective Crimes by Neha Jain International criminal law lacks a coherent account of individual responsibility. This failure is due to the inability of international tribunals to...

Helena Kennedy appointed Founding Fellow

The appointment was made in recognition of Helena Kennedy's exemplary dedication to the establishment of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and as an expression of the high esteem with...

Call for Papers: Counter-mapping the borders of Europe in the MENA region and Sub-Saharan countries

Over the last five years the European Union has restructured its politics of border externalisation, increasing its bilateral agreements with third countries for the containment of migration flows and strengthening...

Professor Ian Loader announced as editor of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

The Howard League for Penal Reform will relaunch their journal as the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice in 2016. Ian Loader, Professor of Criminology, has been announced as the...

Joint Conference on Recoveries in the Vicinity of Insolvency

The conference was organised by Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne (Oxford) and Wee Meng Seng (NUS).The conference considered not only British law, but also drew practical and comparative insights from...

A Theory of Discrimination Law Panel Discussion

On 15 October 2015, the Faculty of Law and the Jurisprudence Discussion Group hosted a panel discussion of A Theory of Discrimination Law (OUP 2015) by Professor...

Call for papers: 'Boat Refugees' and Migrants at Sea Conference - London: 23 & 24 June 2014

"Boat Refugees" and Migrants at Sea: A Comprehensive Approach - Integrating Maritime Security with Human Rights - that will take place at the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study,...

Building project notices w/c 28 March

Week commencing 28th March:GF WC breaking through concrete for drainage worksGF WC drilling and fixing into concrete and metal for stud partitionsSF / GF laying of floor finishesGF book delivery...

Call for papers: Freedom of Movement: Exploring a Path from Armed Conflict, Persecution, and Forced Migration to Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, and Development

Individuals wishing to present a paper, organized panels and roundtables, film and video documentaries and news media clippings/exhibits, or poster/photo exhibits must submit a 250-word abstract and 100-word biography. Organized...

Our Dean talks about equality on International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we asked the Dean of the Faculty, Mindy Chen-Wishart, to reflect on equality and diversity in the legal sphere and share her insights into how...

PIL student leads in AJIL

The lead article in the July 2011 issue of the American Journal of International Law is by one of our current DPhil students, Claus D. Zimmermann. Below is the abstract of...

Professor Dinwoodie delivers the George P. Smith Distinguished Visiting Chair Lecture

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie has been appointed the 2011 George P. Smith Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Maurer School of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington in the United States.   Professor Dinwoodie spent two...

'Domestic Abuse and Human Rights' by Jonathan Herring

Jonathan Herring has written a new book: 'Domestic Abuse and Human Rights', published by Intersentia. The book explores how human rights can and should be used...

Negative externalities of corporate behaviour

These and other questions were explored by leading scholars and practitioners from around the globe in a one-day conference at Harris Manchester College on 17 January 2020. The conference was...

Professor Les Green gives keynote address at the UK IVR

In October Professor Les Green gave a Keynote address at the UK IVR (Society for Social and Legal Philosophy) at the University of Leeds law school. The title was ‘Sovereignty...

Indonesia: New opinion piece: ‘People may change mind about death penalty, but government?'

On Tuesday 27 July, Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Director of the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), and Parvais Jabbar, Co-Executive Director of DPRU partner organisation The Death Penalty...