Law and Technologies Webinar Series

TITLE: 'Understanding expectations as techniques of legitimation: the case of imagined futures through global bioethics standards for health research'.ABSTRACTExpectations or strong beliefs about what can occur can...

Lights to celebrate 50 years

This week the St Cross Building has been spectacularly lit-up to highlight the three magnificent squares which are central to the design of the building, all in preparation for the...

Professor Dapo Akande Advises Public Inquiry Investigating Conduct of New Zealand Defence Forces in Afghanistan

Professor Dapo Akande has been appointed international law adviser to a public inquiry established by the New Zealand Government. The inquiry is examining the conduct of New Zealand Defence Forces...

Bodleian Law Library announces History of International Law collection in HeinOnline

Bodleian Law Library has just added the History of International Law collection in HeinOnline to their subscription, offering over 1,000 titles, covering subjects from the Law of the Sea to the...

OTJR@10 Workshop: Call for Participants 

OTJR@10Rethinking Transitional Justice:What Does It Mean Today?A Workshop for PhD Candidates and Early-Career Researchers22 June 2017To mark its 10th Anniversary, OTJR is organizing a one-day workshop to engage PhD candidates,...

Dr Miles Jackson awarded the ICJ Internship for 2015-2016

The Oxford Law Faculty is one of a group of leading law faculties around the world invited by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to participate in the ICJ's traineeship...

Oxford Hong Kong Moot 2017

The Oxford Hong Kong Mooting Competition 2017 was held on 26th August 2017. With the generous support of Des Voeux Chambers, Fangda Partners, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringers and Skadden, Arps, Slate,...

The Oxford Legal Walk 2015

On Monday the 19th of October, Faculty members will be taking part in the Oxford Legal Walk 2015, an 8km sponsored walk around the city....

Call for papers: Western Law Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

This year’s conference theme is 'Law: Stagnation, Evolution or Revolution?' We encourage scholars to explore the status of law in an ever-changing world. Has law failed to keep pace with...

Future Changes to Qualification as a Solicitor

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) announced on Tuesday 25 April 2017 that it will be introducing the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), which will most likely take effect in 2020.The SRA...

Will-Substitutes from a Comparative Perspective – a conference

Lady Margaret Hall was the venue for the highly successful two-day ‘Will-Substitutes from a Comparative Perspective’ conference held on 27 and 28 March 2015. The conference was organised by Professors...

Mary Adeyemo recognised in 2022 Vice Chancellor’s Diversity Awards

Mary received the award for her work enhancing opportunities for school students from under-privileged backgrounds to access higher education and to enter the legal profession. She is...

Join us for our Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on Friday 18 September

During the July events over 1,200 colleagues (including staff, students and academics) were involved with Q&As and some livestreamed content. Approximately 35,000 visitors took part, asking nearly...

Call for Papers: OTJR and JusticeInfo.Net

JusticeInfo.netJusticeInfo.net is an electronic platform offering real time journalistic coverage and academic analysis of transitional justice processes all over the world. The platform was...

The Law of Unjust Enrichment Lecture & Book Launch

Professor Andrew Burrows QC has recently published a Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, 2012). This novel project – drafted in conjunction with an advisory group of...

Intellectual Property Scholars from 41 countries gather in Oxford for ATRIP 2013 Congress

On June 23-26, over 180 delegates from 41 countries gathered in Oxford at Pembroke College for the 32nd Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and...

Louise Gullifer elected as Fellow of the British Academy

Louise Gullifer, Professor of Commercial Law, is one of the leading academic commercial lawyers in the UK, best known for her work on personal property security law...

International Intellectual Property Moot 2008

The delights of the English weather failed to dampen the spirit of the 23 teams who attended the 6th International Intellectual Property Moot this year at Worcester College in the...

Building project updates w/c 5 September

There are some medium to high level noisy works planned on site on Saturday 10th September from 8am-1pm.w/c 5th SeptemberBLL North area (GF) painting and finishing to wallsMain Core Toilets...

Human Rights and French Burqa Ban

Dr Eirik Bjorge, Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College and a member of Oxford's PIL community, was interviewed by Radio France[linkme] (07:00 on 27 November) in connection with...

Douglas-Scott’s on the position of an independent Scotland

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott’s research on the position of an independent Scotland within the EU has been widely cited in the media, including The Times and BBC.
 
 Professor Douglas-Scott’s research paper, ‘How easily could an independent...

Book: The Future of Contract Law in Latin America

A new volume in the Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law has been published. The Future of Contract Law in Latin America, edited...

Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow

On 28 November 2020 QLD (Queer Lawyers of Tomorrow) published an interview with Dr Victoria McCloud on topics relating to diversity and her experiences in the law....