New Scholarships Announced for the Master's in International Human Rights Law and the University of Oxford

Following an application to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, we are very pleased to report that funding has been secured for seven scholarships for candidates from developing African and South Asian...

Building project updates w/c 13 June

No works are planned for Saturday 11/Sunday 12 June.w/c 13 JuneGF / FF / SF BLL general cleaning and moving materialsGF / FF / SF BLL and Main Core possible...

The Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on the Rights of the Child

The Human Rights Law Centre Summer School on the Rights of the Child will run from 23 to 27 June 2014.
 
 The Summer School faculty are all highly experienced international experts...

Brunsfield Foundation Scholarship Announcement

Students and graduates from the University of Oxford’s Master’s in International Human Rights Law engage in a range of human rights activities worldwide, including working in refugee camps, defending detainees...

Alison Young on Radio 5 live, speaking on Brexit

Listen to the interview through iPlayer RadioAlison is on at around 9.28 on the clock....

John Davies, Emeritus Fellow in Law, Brasenose College

John Davies, for many years a Fellow of Brasenose College, died on the 21st October 2020. He was 86 years old. His connections with Brasenose stretched back to 1954 when...

Workshop on Theorising Indirect Discrimination Law

On 17 and 18th March 2016, Tarunabh Khaitan and Hugh Collins held an international conference at All Souls College and Wadham College on the theoretical foundations of the law of...

Works update Wednesday 9 March

Please note that breaking out works will take place on Wednesday 9th March in the Ground Floor toilet area. This work will take place from 7:30am-9am and from 1pm -5pm....

Prof Fredman helps launch 'Transformative constitutionalism' in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Prof Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub[linkme], presented at the launch of the book 'Transformative constitutionalism' on 14th March 2014 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
 
 The launch event was hosted by GV and...

Watch: Shona Minson talks to BBC about effects of imprisoned parents on children

Dr Shona Minson talks to the BBC about children with imprisoned parents. During lockdown, contact between an imprisoned person and their relatives was limited. The results of that on prisoner's...

Swimming Camels

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Kevin Grecksch has recently been awarded British Academy seed funding for a project on ‘Reflecting about ‘Swimming camels’ on the North-East Coast of England: Knowledge, translation...

Oxford team excels at the Fourth International Roman Law Moot

When the panel of five judges from Liège, Naples, Trier, Athens and Vienna awarded the Oxford and Cambridge teams equal ranking points in the Grand Final of the Fourth International...

Development Finance in Emerging Markets: Challenges, Innovations and Results

The conference considered many aspects relating to development finance in emerging markets, and speakers included representatives from international financial institutions, central banks and governments as well as leading legal academics...

Oxford Wins Fourteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition

The 14th International Roman Law Moot Court was held online from 7th - 9th April 2021. Hosted by the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, this year’s competition featured a problem question...

Dapo Akande appointed to African Group for Justice and Accountability

Professor Dapo Akande has been appointed as a member of the African Group for Justice and Accountability which is an independent Group of twelve senior African experts on international criminal...

Intérêt légitime as the Oxford French Law Moot becomes international

The Oxford French Law Moot , sponsored by French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, was held in Oxford on 14th March 2011. In its fourth year, the competition has its...

Call for Papers: Experiencing (in)securities

This workshop builds from the premise that the experience of migration produces inherent vulnerabilities: from physically perilous journeys and exposure to exploitative criminality, to precarious living conditions and desperate survival...

Sanja Bogojević featured in Swedish children's book ‘Researchers’ Dreams’

Congratulations to Dr Sanja Bogojević who features in the children’s book Research Dreams (original title Forskardrömmar). The book tells the story of 60 leading Swedish (or Sweden-based)...

Global Reach of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog

When we launched the OxHRH Blog in June 2012, we had a clear aspiration: to offer an intellectual space that could be resourced and shaped by contributors...

Award for Joint Best Paper at the International PhD Colloquium on the Regulation of New Technologies

Congratulations Hannah!...

The 15th Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot 2017

The 15th annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot competition was held at the Faculty of Law and Pembroke College with 24 teams from across the world. The 2017 problem concerns...

Call for Papers: Legacies of Empire

General InformationSubmissions are sought for a special issue of Punishment & Society, ‘Legacies of Empire’. The special issue will examine the global legacy of empire and colonialism through its effects...

Investing in Securities Conference

Professors Jennifer Payne and Louise Gullifer organised a conference on 16 May 2014 on ‘Investing in Securities’ at Harris Manchester College. The morning session was devoted to the difficulties and risks...

Announcing our new AfOx Visiting Fellow in Law, Dr Emile Sunjo

He will be working on a project in collaboration with the Cameroon Conflict Research Group. The project 'From peace-breakers to peace-makers? The role of Anglophone diaspora in Cameroon’s separatist...