Two new options courses to be offered on the BCL/MJur programme

From September 2021 two new courses will be added to the BCL/MJur options list. Philosophy, Law, and Politics will be led by Professor Ruth Chang, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence....

Black History Month: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Celebrates its Black Alumni, Blessed Ngwenya

Blessed studied for a MSt and then DPhil at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) from 2009 to 2014 under the supervision of Bettina Lange and Nicole Stremlau. His...

Climate Change Special Issue Publication

A Special Issue of Climatic Change, "Climate Justice in Interdisciplinary Research" has just been published.It brings together the work of 37 cross disciplinary authors and is unique in pairing up...

Inaugural International Intellectual Property Moot

The International IP Moot ran on 22 and 23 March 2003. Twenty-one teams from the UK and the Republic of Ireland participated by presenting skeleton arguments and then attending St...

The Brexit Case: Prerogative or Parliament?

Last week, the Supreme Court heard the arguments as to whether the UK government has the power to trigger Article 50. Alison summarises the process and gives an account of...

Building project updates w/c 16 May

No works are planned for the weekend of the 14th/15th May. w/c 16th May FF BLL stripping and removing metal book shelves and rackingSF/FF/GF BLL general cleaning and moving materialsFF...

Professor Jane Stapleton wins the William L. Prosser Award

Professor Jane Stapleton has been awarded the prestigious William L. Prosser Award by the Association of American Law Schools. The award was created in 1974 to honour outstanding contributions to the...

Oxford runner-up at the Monroe E Price Media Law Moot Court Competition

The University of Oxford team was the runner-up at the Monroe E Price Media Law Moot Court Competition held in Oxford, 1-4 April 2014. Team members were second-year undergraduates Eewei...

Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme

The Oxford Global Justice Internship Programme is a new programme initiated by the Public International Law Group within the Oxford Law Faculty. The aim of the programme is to provide...

RightsUp Podcast #RightsNow!-The UK Supreme Court Rules in Brexit

On 24 January 2017, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Court decided that the...

St Cross Building Project: Summer works

The St Cross Building project will continue throughout the Long Vacation, with major demolition work commencing on the 20th of June. Building users should be aware that a large amount...

Roger Hood Lecture: Portals to Politics: Grassroots Narratives of Policing in the “Low End”, Downtown Baltimore, South L.A., and the 53206

A recording of this year's Roger Hood Annual Lecture is now available....

Oxford Pro Bono Publico awarded Sigrid Rausing Trust grant

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) is delighted to announce that the Sigrid Rausing Trust has awarded us a grant of £15,000 to support and expand our activities over the 2013-14...

Giovanni De Gregorio publishes article: How big tech is changing who’s in charge of our rights and freedoms

Giovanni De Gregorio, a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Law, has recently published an article in The Conversation, discussing how big technology firms are shaping our...

Application now open: Internships with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)

The Fund will provide support to graduating students within the Faculty, recent Oxford law graduates and current research degree applicants, in appropriate cases, who wish to undertake internships at the...

Pembroke students win the JustCite Oxford Legal Assistance Immigration Law Moot Court Competition

Twelve teams consisting of two members each engaged in oral argument throughout the day. The moot problem concerned an asylum claim.After three rounds of competition, four teams progressed to the...

The Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, Volume 2 Issue 2, October 2014

The new issue of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (JAE) has now been published in hard copy and is also available online on the OUP website (free access).
 
 Articles:
 
 Niamh Dunne, Between...

OPBP Internship Fund Recipients Announced!

The Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) Executive Committee is delighted to announce the recipients of its 2011 Internship Fund Awards. Guruparan Kumaravadivel, Peter Morcos, Chris McConnachie, Mimi Zou and James...

Oxford University Teaching Awards

On 23 November 2015, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, presented the 2014 -2015 teaching awards at a ceremony held at Rhodes House. The teaching awards scheme is...

Law Faculty Alum and Former Colleague Dr Michael Spence appointed new UCL President & Provost

He is currently Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney and will take up his new post at UCL in early 2021. UCL said that it had been...

The Faculty restates its commitment to anti-racism on the anniversary of the death of George Floyd

Recently the Faculty, in collaboration with the Oxford Law Black Alumni Network, held a panel discussion featuring Matthew Ryder QC and Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones on ‘Institutional Racism and the Criminal...

New publication: ‘Addressing Disparate Impact: Indirect Discrimination and the Public Sector Equality Duty’

Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, has published an article in the Industrial Law Journal entitled ‘Addressing Disparate Impact: Indirect Discrimination and the Public Sector Equality...

Law Moderations 2011 Prize Winners

Four students have been awarded prizes in the Law Moderations for 2011. They are...
 Sweet and Maxwell (Overall Best performance)
 Kirsty Lea   -   Lincoln College 
 Constitutional Law
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Second UNIQ summer school gives insight into law at Oxford

UNIQ is Oxford University’s free summer residential programme for Year 12 students currently studying at UK state schools and for the second year running, the Law Faculty hosted 60 UNIQ...