New appointment for Dr Victoria McCloud

Dr Victoria McCloud, a graduate student at CSLS, has been accepted as as an Associate Fellow of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, part of The International Centre for...

Judith Freedman appointed Chair of the Tax Law Review Committee of the IFS

The IFS created the Tax Law Review Committee (TLRC) in 1994 and its focus is on the working of the UK's tax system. Committee members come from...

'Equal Justice' by Frederick Wilmot-Smith

Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on your wealth? We wouldn’t dream of passing a law to that effect, but our legal system, which permits the...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Law in Context Early Career Workshop, June 2016

The purpose of this international workshop is to bring together scholars at a relatively early stage in their careers to support them in developing research projects and preparing publications to...

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott gave evidence at the House of Commons

Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform select committee on the draft clauses for the Scotland Bill.
 
 This draft legislation is designed to...

New OxHRH RightsUp! Podcast: Free Speech Crisis in University

In this episode, Gauri Pillai, Managing Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, speaks to Professor Adrienne Stone, Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at...

Law and Technologies Webinar Series Podcasts now available

Our successful webinar series is now available to watch at your convenience, linked to our Podcasts subsection on our home page.This term, guest speakers included :Assistant Professor Ma'n Zawati, McGill...

Good Luck to the Oxford Jessup team at the International Law Moot Court Competition Finals

The Public International Law Group wishes the Oxford Jessup team good luck for the international finals to be held between 31 March – 6 April 2013 in Washington, D.C. The...

The High Sheriff's Lecture 2013

The annual High Sheriff's Law Lecture took place at the University Examination Halls on 15 October 2013.  Hosted by Professor Graham Upton, the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, this year's lecture...

Special Edition of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice

The Special Edition of Oxford University Press’s flagship Journal of IP Law and Practice growing out of the OIPRC/NUS Design Law Reform Conference in Singapore last year is now published....

Grand final of the University of Oxford Maitland Chambers Inter-Collegiate (Cuppers) Mooting Competition 2015-2016

The University of Oxford Maitland Chambers Inter-Collegiate mooting competition took place in Keble College on Thursday 18 February 2016. The moot problem was dealing with an appeal to the Supreme...

The Bonavero Institute Launches Inaugural Conversation Series

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights launches a series of judicial conversations in advance of its official opening of the Institute building in October. The Institute’s conversation series will invite...

Jeremias Adams-Prassl awarded €1.5m by the ERC for research into AI in the workplace

This significant achievement will allow the Faculty to engage in critical research on constructing legal frameworks to maximise the unlocking of AI potential in the workplace whilst...

CfP: 2nd International Conference for Carceral Geography

Carceral geography research is rich, diverse and multi-scalar, focusing on wider structural, political and institutional contexts as well as on everyday experiences, practices and agency; it is sensitive to change...

New death penalty report sheds light on inconsistencies in death sentencing in India

The National Law University of Delhi, in association with the London-based Death Penalty Project and the Universities of Oxford and Reading, interviewed 60 former Supreme Court judges about their views...

Tariq Modood to deliver Oxford Law Faculty’s 2021 Annual Equality and Diversity Lecture: Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition

The event will be chaired by Professor Tarun Khaitan (University of Oxford; Head of Research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights), with an introduction by the Dean of the...

UNIQ Summer Schools 2016

In July we hosted another cohort of teenagers here at the Faculty, for our two weeks of the UNIQ summer school. This Widening Access summer school gives Year 12 state...

Professor Maurice Mulvenna, Ulster University, podcast now available

Professor Maurice Mulvenna, Ulster University, presented "Analysis of digital health data: from research lab to app store" on Wednesday 12 May 2021 which is now available to stream.Our grateful thanks...

ICCSN Oxford Hosts Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor

Captivating over 200 students and members of faculty in a filled lecture theatre at the Oxford Faculty of Law, former Nuremberg chief prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz shared his incredible story with...

Law Faculty alumnus elected President of the European Court of Human Rights

Robert achieved an MJur with distinction in European and Comparative law (University College) in 2000. He won the Clifford Chance Prize (proxime accessit) and the Civil...

6th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture


 from left to right: Prof Ian Loader, Prof Frances Heidensohn and Prof Roger Hood
 This year’s Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture was delivered by Professor Frances Heidensohn of the Department of...

Sue Bright interviewed on BBC Look North

Leaseholders at the Metis Tower in Sheffield may have to pay £20,000 per property to cover the cost of removing unsafe cladding. BBC Look North spoke with Professor Susan...