Promoting and Protecting Education in Situations of Armed Conflict

On the occasion of the Human Rights Council’s 25th session, which was dedicated to “access to justice for children”, a study, co-authored by Dr Gilles Giacca, on the United Nations...

Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Fellow Public Lecture

In March 2015, Professor Dapo Akande visited the University of Melbourne School of Law’s Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law as the 2015 Sir Ninian Stephen Visiting Scholar. In addition...

Call for Papers: Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants

1. SPECIAL THEME This year’s special theme – ‘Mass Influx? Law, Policy and Large-Scale Movements of Refugees and Migrants’ - reflects a need to re-examine complex issues surrounding large-scale sudden...

Cooperative Agreement with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

On 6 June 2012, the Institute of European and Comparative Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law renewed their academic partnership, which has existed since...

University of Oxford Shearman & Sterling Moot Competition 2014-15

The University of Oxford Shearman & Sterling Moot took place in Keble College on Saturday 7 February 2015. The problem was based on the law of trusts, specifically on whether...

Call for papers: Studying Asylum Adjudication from Below: North American and European Perspectives

Through a focus on the practices of everyday life in asylum offices, this panel aims to bring together international perspectives on how to understand and interpret asylum adjudication in liberal,...

Jeremy Lever Lecture 2015

Judge Koen Lenaerts gave the annual (and fourth) lecture in honour of Sir Jeremy Lever on Friday 30 January, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre. Judge Lenaerts is Vice President of...

Publication of 'Scholars of Tort Law' edited by Donal Nolan and James Goudkamp

The publication of 'Scholars of Tort Law', published by Hart Publishing, marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law scholarship. Instead of concentrating on...

Dr. Dominic Roser publishes co-edited book on Climate Justice

Dr. Dominic Roser (Research Fellow on the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations) and Clare Heyward (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Warwick and previously a...

Lord Rodger of Earlsferry


 It is with sorrow that we have learned of the death of Alan Rodger, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, on 26 June 2011.
 The Supreme...

The Archives We Built: Online Capacity Building Resource

Atrocity’s Archives: The Role of Archives in Transitional Justice is a collaborative project between swisspeace in Bern, the Stasi Records Archive in Berlin and the Faculty of Law at University...

Herbert Smith and Oxford join forces to deliver lectures in India

Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty, and Chris Parsons, chairman of the India group at Herbert Smith LLP, will each deliver a series of lectures at the...

Imogen Goold appointed Visiting Professor of Medical Law at Gresham College

Imogen Goold (Associate Professor and Fellow of St Anne’s College) has been appointed Visiting Professor of Medical Law at Gresham College. Founded in 1597, Gresham College is...

Academic workshop on best practices in the field of electronic registry design and operations

An academic workshop was held at Harris Manchester College on 30 and 31 March 2016, as part of the e-registry project run jointly by the Commercial Law Centre at Harris...

Building Project Notices w/c 9 November 2015

Weekly update w/c 9 November 2015 The results of the acoustic trials are currently being assessed. As such, there is no noisy work currently scheduled on site for the week...

Leading Copyright Historian Appointed as Astor Lecturer for Trinity 2013.


 The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and the Faculty of English will host Professor Mark Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara) as the Astor Lecturer in Trinity 2013.  Professor Rose...

Leaseholders and refurbishment event: overcoming the legal, practical and policy challenges

The meeting brought together representatives from government departments, first tier tribunal judges and managers from housing associations and local authorities to addressed the financial, communication and engagement issues that can...

Building project updates w/c 20 June

w/c 20th JuneMain Core, English Faculty, BLL & Criminology (GF/FF/SF) – drilling & fixing for hoarding erectionMain Core North (SF) – drilling & fixing into concrete & metal for partitionsMain...

Business Development Exercise with Allen & Overy

The session focused on developing an innovative, effective and engaging business development plan to build a relationship with a fast-growing Telecommunications company and win a greater share...

13th Annual Intellectual Property Law Moot

The Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC) is delighted to announce arrangements for the 2015 Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot, and invites universities from around the world to enter...

OLBA launches Changemakers interview series

OLBA Changemakers is a new series which features members of the OLBA Network in conversation with people who have inspired and influenced transformative change both locally and internationally at the...

Introducción al Derecho Inglés de los Contratos

The third edition of John Cartwright’s Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (Hart Publishing, 2016) has been translated into...