International Intellectual Property Moot 2005

The price of being a celebrity and the right to personal image were the subject of debate at the third annual International Intellectual Property (IP) Moot, held this year at...

Rebecca Williams presents at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum

11 November 2020—Professor Rebecca Williams presented some of the latest findings from the her Law and Technology Education research stream of a large-scale multidisciplinary project called ‘Unlocking the Potential of...

Oxford Law and Phase 4 of Pathways to Law

We are very pleased to announce that we will be continuing our provision of Pathways to Law into Phase 4 of the programme. At Oxford, the programme is run jointly...

Information, Advice and Representation in Housing Possession Cases

Research published by Professor Susan Bright of the University of Oxford and Dr Lisa Whitehouse, Law School, University of Hull.Following three years of research, this collaboration between the University of...

Telephone problems within the Law Faculty are now resolved

The Law Faculty Offices experienced telecommunications problems due to a hardware failure from 16th-17th June. This mean that no telephones were operational although email was unaffected. However, we are glad...

Law Faculty's success at the 2012 Teaching Awards

The Law Faculty was well-represented at this year's Oxford Learning Institute's Teaching Awards ceremony on 7 November in Rhodes House. Among those receiving awards from Dr Sally Mapstone, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for...

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.Dr Daisy Akinyi Ogembo is...

Statement on healthcare provisions for undocumented migrants and those in immigration detention

Border Criminologies is an international network of researchers, practitioners and those who have experienced border controls. Our globalised expertise lies in researching and advocacy around border controls, policing and immigration...

Digital assets project conference 26th June 2019

The first presentation, examining sovereign digital currencies, with some thoughts on the Libra currency proposed by Facebook, was given by Anton Didenko (University of New South Wales). Edmund Schuster (LSE)...

Great books ready to review

Here at Border Criminologies we have some great books ready to review. If you are interested please email us at bordercrim@law.ox.ac.uk with a short bio and the books you are...

PCMLP and UNESCO publish study on countering online hate speech

UNESCO has just launched a study on Countering Online Hate Speech PCMLP have been working on in the past few months by Iginio Gagliardone (in collaboration with Danit Gal, Thiago...

Jonathan Herring appointed to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

He teaches medical law and ethics, family law and criminal law. He has written extensively in all of these areas and his recent books have focused on...

Finalists for the 17th Oxford International IP Moot Court Announced

A total of 60 submissions were received from seventeen countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom...

Border Criminologies Working Paper Series

Border Criminologies is pleased to announce the launch of the Border Criminologies Working Paper Series. The working paper series provides an opportunity to enhance the visibility and dissemination of research...

Call for Papers: Political Parties, Partisanship, and the Constitution - a workshop for early career researchers

From 14-15 March 2019 the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights will host a workshop for early career-researchers on the topic of Political Parties, Partisanship, and the Constitution, with the generous...

Launch of the Global Network for Commercial Law Research

The GNCLR links centres/groups for commercial law research at leading universities around the world with a view to promoting collaboration through joint conferences and research projects, research visits and exchanges,...

'Media, Conflict and the State in Africa' by Prof. Nicole Stremlau

Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges about what the role of media should be in political transitions, particularly when attempting to build a new state...

Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Mooting Championship 2020

The 2020 Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Mooting Championship took place on 14 November 2020. Twelve teams competed in the group stages, and the four top-ranked teams advanced to the Semi-Finals...

Building project updates w/c 31 October

There are medium to high level noisy works planned on site for this coming Saturday morning (8am-1pm) - 29th October.w/c 31st October FF Criminology - painting and decoratingFF Main Core...

The inaugural Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship

** This story has also been covered on the University news page *** The Grand Final of the inaugural Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship took place in the beautiful...

The Oxford Business Law Blog reaches 10,000 readers

The Oxford Business Law Blog (‘OBLB’) has recently reached the 10,000 readers mark.Just two months after its launch, the OBLB has already published more than 90 blog posts, and reaches...

Professor Jennifer Payne elected to the International Insolvency Institute

Professor Jennifer Payne has been elected to the International Insolvency Institute in recognition of her work in the field of debt restructuring. The Institute is a selective non-profit organisation...

NUJS-Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Competition

From 19-21 February, 2010, teams from all across India competed in the national final of the NUJS-Herbert Smith National Corporate Law Moot Competition. The competition was sponsored and funded through...

DPRU partners The Death Penalty Project interviewed at CogX festival

On 16 June, the Co-Executive Directors of our partner organisation, The Death Penalty Project, were interviewed at the CogX festival by journalist Afua Hirsch.Featured on a panel titled 'The Future:...