Price Moot Court - China National Rounds

On December 2 – 4 2013, the inaugural China National Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition took place in Beijing. The Competition was hosted by Renmin University...

Access and allocation in climate change adaptation

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kevin Grecksch published a paper this month addressing key socio-legal questions in the field of climate change adaptation. This concerns for example access to basic needs,...

**SAVE THE DATE** Conference on Ethical Business Practice and Ethical Business Regulation

Ethical Business Practice and Ethical Business Regulation are new concepts that are transforming business success and regulatory performance. This conference will explain the concepts and share the...

The Covid-19 Crisis Webinar : Videos now available

On the 5 June 2020, 45 speakers contributed to an Oxford University Law Faculty Webinar on ‘The COVID-19 Crisis: Legal, Policy and Ethical Challenges’. The sessions, which covered a range...

Oxford Reaches Last Sixteen of Nuremberg Moot Court 2021

We are proud to announce that the Oxford team reached the Last Sixteen of the Nuremberg Moot Court 2021. This is the first year Oxford has qualified for the oral...

Mounted police units 'boost public trust'

Researchers have measured the value of mounted police units in the UK. They have found that the high visibility of the police horses and riders on neighbourhood patrols boosts levels...

Birke Häcker made an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn

UNIQ Summer School Welcomes University Chancellor

On Monday 15 July, the UNIQ Law Summer School had the pleasure of welcoming Oxford University Chancellor Chris Patten to the Law Faculty, for a morning of...

CSLS postdoc Kevin Grecksch receives ‘best poster award’ at ESEE 2019 conference

Kevin Grecksch, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the CSLS, received the ‘Best Poster Award’ at the European Society for Ecological Economics Conference in Turku, Finland (18-21 June...

Workshop on the Holding of Securities through an Intermediary

On 15 September 2016, a small scale invited workshop was held by the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College on the holding of securities through an intermediary. The...

Preventive Justice Project hosts Oxford-UNSW postgraduate workshop

On Monday 5th December 2011, Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner and Patrick Tomlin hosted a  Postgraduate Workshop at the Centre for Criminology on ‘Anti-Terror Laws and Preventive Justice’ jointly...

New OxHRH podcast episode - The Politics of Global Health Data (with Sara Davis)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought questions around global healthcare financing and equitable access to treatments to the fore. But this is not the first time a spotlight has been thrown...

New: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies launches Blog

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has recently launched Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, its new blog dedicated to promoting dialogue between socio-legal scholars from around the world. It...

Liz Fisher awarded Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust

The Fellowships are for well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. The Fellowship will enable Liz to pursue research for three years...

Faculty members shortlisted for Peter Birks Prizes

Congratulations to Joanna Bell, Andreas Televantos and Gabrielle Watson who are among five early career scholars who have been shortlisted by the Society of Legal Scholars for...

PIL - Jurisprudence workshop on '(international) legal positivism', 5 June 2015

A one day workshop on '(International) Legal Positivism' was hosted by Jean d'Aspremont (Manchester), John Gardner (Oxford), Jörg Kammerhofer (Freiburg) & Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford) on 5 June at the...

Professor Sandy Fredman, QC

The Oxford Law Faculty congratulates Professor Sandy Fredman who has been made Honorary Queen's Counsel. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will...

Ruth Chang gives Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture in Cardiff

Ruth Chang gives Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture in Cardiff. See more information here.Date: 16 May 2019Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PMVenue: Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13),Cardiff University Main Building,Park...

Dr. Hindpal Singh Bhui : Three-year Visiting Professor appointment

Hindpal is an Inspection Team Leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP). He leads inspections of prisons and other forms of custody, and heads inspection of the immigration detention estate...

Faculty of Law Scholarships 2012-13

By the generosity of our donors, 20 graduate students were awarded scholarships in 2012.
 [Listed in alphabetical order of awarding body.]
 
  
 
 Anne Kessing
 Brasenose
 BCL
 3VB (3 Verulam Buildings)
 
 
  
 
 Daniel Khoo
 St Anne's
 BCL
 Essex Court
 
 
  
 
 Jonathan Turner
 University
 MPhil
 CEPL (Centre for Ethics...

Inquiry into the Safety of Maternity Services: Dr Macleod gives evidence

Dr Sonia Macleod gave oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee Inquiry into the Safety of Maternity Services at their hearing on 3 November....

Survey of property law academics

A survey of property law academics to analyse the various differing approaches to research....

Lecture on the ‘illegitimacy of Brexit’

The ‘illegitimacy of Brexit’ will be the focus of a free public lecture at the University of Wolverhampton next week.Professor Pavlos Eleftheriadis from the University of Oxford will visit the...

Call for Contributions: Utopia at the Border

Utopia at the Border aims to consider the relationship between borders and the utopian. Borders are to be critically examined even as participants question their own relationships to borders through...