Happy Fifth Anniversary to the Oxford Human Rights Hub

In 2012 the Oxford Human Rights Hub was established under the auspices of Professor Sandra Fredman. Its founding mission was to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the...

Sandy Fredman leads new research project to develop a human rights approach to sexual and reproductive health

A project led by Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, has been awarded over £49,000 by Oxford's GCR (Global Challenges Research) Fund.In partnership with the World Health...

Oxford places seventh at the European Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot 2021

Oxford’s team comprising of Ayban Elliot-Renhard (MPhil in Law, St Antony’s) and David Horvath-Franco (BCL, Linacre) finished seventh in Europe in the 2021 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition....

'Comparative Human Rights Law' by Sandra Fredman

'Comparative Human Rights Law' by Sandra Fredman has been published by OUP.The books sets out cross-cutting themes which shape the ways judges respond to challenging human rights...

Michael Morrison publishes new paper on regulation of stem cell therapies

Michael Morrison has recently published a paper in Stem Cell Reports on the regulation of stem cell therapies in Japan, with colleagues from the University of Kyoto...

New OxHRH Podcast out! “I Can Hear Another Ambulance”: The Rise of Exponential Inequalities During COVID-19 (Episode 1)

Human rights experts tell stories of inequalities from around the world, revealing how these inequalities have been exacerbated during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This is Episode One of a...

Kalisher Trust-Wadham Student Scholarship - MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice

The Centre for Criminology is offering a scholarship for UK residents applying for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice degree commencing in October 2017. The award will be to the...

Call for Abstracts: International Law - Postgraduate Colloquium Oxford/Cambridge/UCL - deadline 30 April 2014

The deadline on the attached the Call for Abstracts for the Oxford/Cambridge/UCL Colloquium on Current Problems in International Law has been extended to Sunday 11 May 2014. We encourage the...

Oxford reaches Semi-Finals of HRLA Judicial Review Moot Competition 2020

As with most mooting competitions over the past year, the annual Human Rights’ Lawyers Association Judicial Review Moot took place online throughout November and December 2020. The competition involved first...

European Policy for Intellectual Property Association Conference, Zurich

From 11-13 September 2019, the 14th Annual Conference of EPIP (European Policy for Intellectual Property Association) took place at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. This year’s conference on the topic “The future...

Thom Wetzer joins Faculty as Associate Professor of Law and Finance

Thom’s research examines how law and finance can enable collaboration and coordination to improve outcomes, with a particular focus on financial regulation, corporate governance, models of financial...

Oxford lawyers publish human rights report for the European Parliament

A group of Oxford Faculty members and graduate students have completed a major report on the Evolution of Human Rights Charters for the European Parliament. The report surveys the evolution...

Round Table Discussion on Competition, Market Transparency and Information Exchange - 4 June 2015

On Thursday 4 June 2015, the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy, in conjunction with The Oxford/Stockholm Soderberg Venture and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement will host...

Dr Tarun Khaitan discusses democracy in a Philosophy 24/7 podcast

Democracies around the world—including affluent, long-established ones—seem to be deconsolidating. Elected autocratic leaders who are assaulting democratic institutions in our times employ very different techniques from the dictators of the...

Congratulations to the Oxford Jessup Moot Team

The Oxford Human Rights Hub congratulates the University of Oxford team for defeating the University of Cambridge in the final of the UK National Championship of the 54th Phillip C....

Professor Lavanya Rajamani featured in article by Oxford University

In the lead up to COP26 in Glasgow, Lavanya Rajamani has been featured in an article by the University which explores her long history with climate change,...

Fundamental Rights In Europe: A Matter For Two Courts - Friday 13 June 2014, Council of Europe, Strasbourg

Under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr Thorbjørn Jagland
 
 This event aims at disseminating research findings based on two projects:
 
 A British Academy study entitled Reflections on...

New Publication by Research Associate Ros Burnett on Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse

Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse, will be published in September 2016, and is edited by Dr Ros Burnett. The book contains 21 chapters by criminologists, psychologists, legal scholars...

Artistic engagement in immigration detention centres

As part of the Social Science Division's Bright Ideas series, Mary talks about her work on the project Border Criminologies and how detainees represent their experiences through their artwork....

OxHRH Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Brexit

Under the auspicies of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the OxHRH and Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA; Professor...

Announcing a new publication - Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties

Antonios Tzanakopoulos, together with Christian Tams of the University of Glasgow and Andreas Zimmermann of the University of Potsdam, has published a Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties. Offering...

Announcing the Faculty’s first Associate Professor of Asian Laws

Dr Bui is a graduate of Vietnam National University-Hanoi (LLB; LLM) and The University of Hong Kong (PhD). He was previously a research fellow at the Centre...

Appointment of OTJR New Convenor

OTJR is delighted to announce that Miles Jackson has been appointed as the St Anne's College Global Justice Research Fellow for 2013/14 and the Convenor of OTJR for this academic...