International Roman Law Moot Court Competition

The International Roman Law Moot Court Competition brings together students and academics from different European jurisdictions to promote the study of Roman law and the common legal inheritance of...

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Preventing and Investigating Violations of International Law in Armed Conflict

This research project (based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and led by Dr Elizabeth Stubbins Bates) is at the intersection of international human rights law and international humanitarian...

Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Mooting Championship

The Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Mooting Championship was the first championship to be established by the Oxford Law Faculty that focuses solely on legal issues affecting persons with...

Bonavero Discussion Group

Regular discussion groups on human rights organised by the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. ...

Willem C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot

The Willem C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition is the sister competition to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. The Vis East Moot provides...

The Clarendon Law Lecture Series

The Family Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: A European Analysis

The aim of this research project is to find out more about the experiences of women survivors of domestic abuse of the family court system. The information collected as part...

Traditional Leadership, Customary Law, Land and the Constitution

Project Description It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. One of the enduring challenges in that transition has been the question of the role of...

LSE-Featherstone Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Moot

The LSE-Featherstone Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Moot competition, organised by the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is dedicated to the consideration of...

Orienting Institutions towards the Long Term

It is a common complaint that policymaking is too much oriented towards the short term. One countermeasure to this myopia consists in speaking to the conscience of policymakers and urging...

Empirical Methods for Evidence-Based Competition Law

Over the past decade, empirical legal research has gained ground across many areas of law. Yet, its use in competition law remains limited, particularly within the European context. Most scholarship...

Τhe implications of the new Immigration Act on labour and precarious labour: Interview with Tonia Novitz

Professor Tonia Novitz discusses the recently passed Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 and its implications with Dr Devyani Prabhat. For more see here. ...

Environment and Human Rights

This research programme explores the interrelationship between the environment and human rights.The links between human rights and environmental protection have been posited for several decades at both international and national...

Addressing the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment: Developing Collaborative Training: 'Safeguarding Children when Sentencing Mothers'

The project developed from doctoral research conducted by Dr Shona Minson at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, which analysed the place of children in maternal...

Fiction and Human Rights Network

Return to the Bonavero NetworksWhen the concerns of the real world are so pressing, what on earth do imagined worlds have to offer? The Fiction and Human Rights Network's specific...

Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power

This project explores what happens to our understanding of punishment when we place matters of identity and subjectivity at the centre of analysis. Revisiting the canon of texts in punishment...

Global Criminal Justice Hub

Contact Please contact Leila Ullrich if you would like any further information, or if you would like to contribute to supporting these initiatives. We are particularly interested in fundraising for students...

Transnationalism from above and below: Migration management and how migrants manage (MIGMA)

This project bridges legal, criminological, geographical, anthropological and sociological perspectives on the relationship between what European states do to curb and steer migration, and what migrants do to ensure their...

Risk Management, Vulnerabilities and Policing Migration

Helene explores how the nexus of crime and migration on global and national level affects policing of migration in a welfare state. The Norwegian state devotes enormous resources to identifying...

Delivering Regulation & Ethical Business Regulation

Led by Professor Christopher Hodges, this Programme examines the way in which regulation is delivered to achieve its intended outcomes. We work closely with various governments and many regulators across...

Mooting: What Is It and Why Take Part?

A guide to mooting is available here.WHAT IS MOOTING?A moot court competition simulates a court hearing (usually an appeal against a final decision), in which participants analyse a problem, research...

Rights in the Collaborative Constitution

In 2014/15 Aileen Kavanagh received a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to engage in a research project on 'Rights in the Collaborative Constitution'. During that year,...