Václav Janeček wins the Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award

Václav Janeček (DPhil in Law, 2017) won the Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award for his research on data ownership.The Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award annually rewards the...

Building project updates w/c 11 July

There are works planned on site for Saturday morning (9th July) - this will consist of medium to low noisy works. There are no works planned on site on Sunday...

Call for Papers: Deportations & Expulsions

In this issue, we invite contributions analysing, documenting and carrying out critiques of historical and contemporary practices of deportation and expulsion. We are interested in the political and legal scaffolding...

CSLS holds its first Annual Socio-Legal Lecture

Shari'a and Constitutionalism in Islamic Societies: Dialectics of Legality and Normativity, by Professor Abdullahi A. An-Na'im of Emory University, took place on Wednesday 20th May 2015. Please click here to...

Oxford wins prizes at Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot 2021

We are proud to announce that a team representing Oxford won two prizes at the Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot, the world’s top competition law moot hosted by King’s...

Drones, Armed Conflict and Lawful Killing: Is the US at war?

On 12 November, Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, addressed the use of drones at a seminar hosted by the Oxford Martin Programme on Human...

New paper on coronavirus measures in private law by Johannes Ungerer

The Coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to private legal relations. These challenges demand that States provide measures that go beyond traditional private law responses such as force majeure, material adverse...

Well done to our Faculty cycling team!

The Oxford Law Faculty/All Souls Tour de Yorkshire team, Ian Loader and Guy Goodwin-Gill, successfully completed Stage 1 on Friday last in support of the Mines Advisory Group, despite the...

University of Oxford wins the inaugural LSE-Featherstone Sexual Identity and Gender Orientation Moot

Two Oxford teams have competed in the inaugural LSE-Featherstone Sexual Identity and Gender Orientation Moot, named after the LGBT rights campaigner Baroness Lynne Featherstone. The weekend saw more than 150...

Joint OPBP and OLA Social Event 2011

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) and Oxford Legal Assistance (OLA) held their Annual Social Event on Wednesday, May 18th 2011. We were incredibly honored to have as our special...

Ground-breaking South African Judgment on the Right to a Basic Education

On Thursday 20 February, Judge Glenn Goosen of the South African High Court declared that the South African government's failure to provide basic furniture to schools across the Eastern Cape Province was...

Researchers from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies present results of extensive drought and water scarcity project

The event showcased the main findings of the MaRIUS project including the key outputs available for use by both academic researchers and stakeholders. The event also highlighted the further work...

Building project notices w/c 21 December 2015 and w/c 4 January 2016

W/c 21st December 2015- GF West Toilets – Creation of lift shaft including breaking through existing concrete...

The Role of Accountability in Contemporary Public Law

On February 11th, 2014 at 5.00-6.30pm in The Cube, at the Oxford Faculty of Law there will be a panel discussion on:
 
 The Role of Accountability in Contemporary Public Law
 
 Speakers: Nick Bamforth,...

Unintended Consequences of Financial Regulation Workshop

If done well, regulation can advance societal goals, but it also can misfire by targeting the wrong issues, failing to address the heart of problems and having unintended consequences, which...

Book symposium: Julie Dickson's "Elucidating Law"

On 11 October 2022 the Jurisprudence Discussion Group hosted a book symposium of Elucidating Law (OUP 2022) by Julie Dickson, with comments from Tom Adams (Oxford) and Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco...

Our team is growing

The Border Criminologies team continues to grow and branch out from its Oxford base. We are pleased to announce that Maartje van der Woude from the University of Leiden has...

Sir Ernest Ryder to join the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies as a Senior Associate

Sir Ernest is a distinguished member of the judiciary, who was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013, and the Senior President of Tribunals for the...

Oxford team wins prizes at the NLS-Trilegal International Arbitration Moot 2021

The Fourteenth NLS Trilegal International Arbitration Moot took place virtually between 20th and 23rd May 2021. 50 teams from 6 countries submitted memoranda for the claimant and respondents in hopes...

Oxford Alumni recognised in Queen's Counsel Appointments

Congratulations to all Oxford alumni who were made up to silk this year. This is a great accomplishment, and reflects well on their talent and hard work.Oxford University alumni appointed...

Phase A works overview

Construction commencement: 1 September 2015Complete Handover date for Phase A works: 11 December 2015Beard acknowledges the need for a phased handover for the mobile racking extension area. This area will...

John Finnis’s Collected Essays

Though officially retired from his former Oxford posts, John Finnis continues to give seminars and to supervise research students in the Faculty as an Emeritus Professor. And in his writing,...

Report on the fourth Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition

The fourth Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition took place from 30 March – 2 April 2011. The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy welcomed...