Law Open Days

Friday 19 September – is the last of the 2014 Open Days.Planning to do law?Choosing a university?Ever thought of Oxford?Along with most colleges and departments the Law Faculty will open...

New Biomodifying Technologies policy briefing

Michael Morrison, who leads the Biomodifying Technologies project, has recently published a third policy briefing titled "Trends in Customisation and Personalisation of Advanced Therapies". The policy briefing...

Article by Professor Robert Burrell and Dr Catherine Kelly on the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Challenge for Innovation Policy

This brief note considers calls for a Grand Prize to incentivise research into a vaccine for COVID-19. These calls respond to perceived failures of the patent system. We argue that...

OPBP Call for Volunteers: Hate Crimes Research

Oxford Pro Bono Public (OPBP) is inviting volunteers to assist with comparative research for the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. The research involves the application of hate crime laws in relation...

Antonios Tzanakopoulos elected Secretary-General of the International Law Association

The International Law Association, founded in Brussels in 1873, has elected at the Meeting of its Executive Council in London on 18 October, Antonios Tzanakopoulos as the Secretary-General of the Association....

Defences in Equity

On 6 and 7 January 2017, the fourth workshop in the Defences in Private Law series took place. It concerned defences in equity, was hosted by Paul...

Doctoral funding opportunities in Law and Finance

The Global Network in Law and Finance (GLawFiN) is an interdisciplinary network of scholars located atColumbia Law School (New York), the University of Oxford (Oxford), and the House of Finance...

Making and Breaking Barriers: Assessing the value of mounted police units in the UK

Ben Bradford has been awarded a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to research mounted police in the UK, the 12 month project, which is being run in...

Ceding Sovereignty, Eluding Accountability? The Role of Private Actors in Immigration Enforcement

This British Academy-funded workshop brings together academics and advocates in a series of roundtables to examine privatisation in border control. Increasingly, liberal democracies turn to private actors to secure borders,...

New book - 'Law through the life course'

We are familiar with travelling through different stages of life. The cliched journey being from innocent childhood; to stroppy adolescence; to sensible middle age; to peaceful old...

Funded Internship at the International Court of Justice 2014-2015

Call for Applications – Deadline for submission is Thursday 30 January 2014
 
 The Oxford Law Faculty is one of a group of leading law faculties around the world invited by the...

'Intersectional Discrimination' by Shreya Atrey has been published

The book explores why intersectional discrimination should exist as a unique category in discrimination law and explains the theoretical, conceptual, and doctrinal roots of intersectional discrimination.It presents...

European Society of Criminology Working Group Symposium

On 15 April 2011 Prof Julian Roberts from the Centre for Criminology at University of Oxford and Dr Cyrus Tata from the Centre for Sentencing Research at Strathclyde University co-organized...

International Intellectual Property Moot 2004

Mona Lisa’s smile keeps intriguing – so found the contestants in the second International Intellectual Property Moot, held at Worcester College in April. Hosted by the Intellectual Property Institute and...

Bonavero Institute Build Update – February 2017

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights building project is progressing well and is still set to open in October 2017. Members...

Brexit and the UK Constitution: lecture by Alison Young

On Monday 9 January, Professor Alison Young gave a lecture at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. The lecture title was ‘Brexit and the UK Constitution: Where are...

SAJAP Receives Grant Support from the World Justice Project

The Southern African Judicial Assistance Project (SAJAP) between the Oxford Pro Bono Publico[linkme] (OPBP), University of Oxford and the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU), University of Cape Town has been awarded...

Lavanya Rajamani joins world-leading scientists to launch climate crisis advisory group

Leading scientists from across the world have launched an independent advisory body in response to the current climate and biodiversity crises, calling for “urgent, large-scale action to...

The Bonavero Institute publishes new Report No. 7/2020: 'A Human Rights and Rule of Law Assessment of Legislative and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic across 27 Jurisdictions'

In its 537 pages, the new Bonavero Report 7/2020 titled 'A Human Rights and Rule of Law Assessment of Legislative and Regulatory Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic...

CSLS gets moving for the Oxford Food Bank

From 1-8 August staff and students at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies are going to be running/walking/hiking/cycling/swimming to raise money for the Oxford Food Bank. This is being done in...

Dr Sandy Steel wins Wedderburn Prize

Sandy Steel, Associate Professor of Law has won the Wedderburn Prize for his article, Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law, which was chosen as the contribution to...

Making and Breaking Barriers - assessing the value of mounted police units in the UK

Making and Breaking Barriers - assessing the value of mounted police units in the UK Research work by Ben Bradford is the subject of a new impact case study, one...

Co-hosted Human Rights Events

The Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights are co-hosting a series of events over the coming academic year. Directors of both the Hub and Institute,...