Water governance: flexibility, uncertainty and participation

CSLS researcher and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kevin Grecksch published an article on the University’s Science Blog explaining the challenges of water governance in a world of...

Video: Engaging with drought and water scarcity

A new video featuring Kevin Grecksch among other researchers, summarises the multidisciplinary ENDOWS (Engaging diverse stakeholders and publics with outputs from the UK Drought and Water Scarcity programme) project and...

Report of Professor Adrian Briggs' visit to Yangon Auust-September 2015

I was in Yangon for the week of Sunday 30 August to Saturday 5 September 2015. As I was in the region for various reasons, it was convenient and comparatively...

Watch Imogen Goold's third Gresham Law Lecture 'Freezing Eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society'

Her third lecture, 'Freezing eggs and Delaying Fertility: Law, Ethics and Society' of the three part series, 'Your Body Parts and the Law', is now available to watch on YouTube:...

New publication about managing water resources

A new article has been published which sets out a framework for a joint hydro-meteorological-social analysis of drought.The article defines and links in an innovative way ‘Drivers’ of, ‘Responses’ to...

Seminar on Preventive Justice

On 5-6th January 2012 an international inter-disciplinary workshop on Preventive Justice took place at All Souls College. It was attended by scholars from Denmark, Germany, Sweden,...

The Child and Medical Treatment: the chance to live, or to die with dignity?

Why is there any question mark over a parent’s right to decide if medical treatment for their child continues? From the parents of Ashya King who successfully secured proton beam...

Judith Freedman appointed Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation

Judith Freedman, Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law, has been appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).
 
 The CIOT is the leading body in the UK for...

Dapo Akande interviewed about the ICC

Dapo Akande, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford, is interviewed on the BBC World Service about the difficulties faced by the International Criminal Court following withdrawal...

New Paper by Chris Hodges on Covid-19 Injury Compensation Arrangements

Covid-19 Injury Compensation Arrangements A paper analysing the injury compensation arrangements that are needed to support adequate take-up of new vaccines has been written by Prof Chris Hodges, to assist...

New Book - 'Corporate Bankruptcy Law in China'

Natalie Mrockova's new book provides an unique insight into China’s business world and its interaction with the judicial and political system. Corporate Bankruptcy Law in China utilises...

DPRU/DPP Joint Statement: Why Malaysia should abolish the mandatory death penalty as a prelude to ending capital punishment

This Joint Statement is issued by the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU), University of Oxford, and The Death Penalty Project.It is believed that the Malaysian Cabinet will meet this week...

Lecture and Webinar on the Statutory Review of the Australian Personal Property Security Act

This lecture, the third in the Commercial Law Centre series was given on 27 May 2015 by Associate Professor David Brown of the University of Adelaide and was sponsored by...

Law Open Days

Planning to do law? Choosing a university? Ever thought of Oxford? Along with most colleges and departments the Law Faculty will open for prospective students in July and September. Look...

United Nations Arms Trade Treaty

Dr Gilles Giacca (Programme Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and Research Associate, Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict) co-authored a...

Oxford Wins 2020 Varsity Roman Law Moot

In classic COVID-style, the 2020 Varsity Roman Law Moot was conducted online in July 2020.The team from Oxford comprising Henry Fahrenkamp (Magdalen) Nicholas U Jin (Merton), Rhea Chopra (LMH), and...

Ruth Chang appointed Professor of Jurisprudence

Ruth Chang is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in New Jersey, United States. She has been a visiting professor at the University of California...

Shazia Choudhry appointed as a Specialist Adviser to the Women and Equalities Select Committee

This stage of the enquiry, launched in November 2021, draws on a wealth of existing evidence submitted as part of two recent high-profile consultations, will conduct an exploration of existing...

Nazareth Village and the Creation of the Holy Land in Israel-Palestine:The Question of Evangelical Orthodoxy

Dr Lena Rose has published a new article in Current Anthropology. This paper is based on her doctoral research in Israel-Palestine, and while engaging with an altogether different fieldsite to...

Building project notices w/c 21 March

Please note: Works on the main core area have now commenced. The SCR and JCR on the 2nd floor and the female toilets on the first floor are now closed....

PIL DPhil student Mr Hannes Jöbstl selected by the International Court of Justice to undertake a traineeship in 2020-2021

As the result of a generous donation from the Planethood Foundation and funds raised by members of the Oxford Public International law subject group, the Oxford Law Faculty is able...

Independent Ombudsmen and ADR providers: building bridges in the energy market

On 13 March, during the 7th Citizens' Energy Forum, NEON, the National Energy Ombudsmen Network, presented the report on ADR in the Energy Sector in Europe with research conducted by Dr Naomi Creutzfeldt, ESRC...

Recordings of the Virtual Workshop 'British-European Relations Post-Brexit: a Legal Kaleidoscope' now available online

The recordings of a virtual one-day workshop on Brexit have been made available online by the Institute of European and Comparative Law, which hosted the event via Zoom on Monday...