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Nuremberg Moot Court

The Nuremberg Moot Court is an international competition, held in English in Nuremberg, Germany. University teams from all over the world are invited to argue a fictitious case before the...

StemBANCC

This ambitious project brings together internationally renowned scientists and clinicians to study and develop new therapies for 8 major diseases of our time: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Autism, Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Migraine, Pain...

Inside: Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison

Every year 1,300 men and women lodge a claim with the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), seeking to challenge their conviction. Despite these numbers, we know surprisingly little about these...

Regulating Corporate Power

This research project (led by Dr Nick Friedman) critiques the ways in which law both constitutes corporate power (primarily through corporate and property law) and controls the exercise of that...

The Common Law and Finance: Perspectives from the Bench

2018 marks twenty years since the publication of La Porta et al’s seminal “Law and Finance” paper in the Journal of Political Economy. Although the methodology used in early law...

PIL Research Seminars

Public International Law Research SeminarsThe Public International Law Research Seminars are at the heart of PIL@Oxford research.These seminars are open to Oxford research (MPhil and DPhil) students and Faculty...

Enhancing Public and Professional Understanding of Sentencing

There are several elements to the initiative. First, in conjunction with colleagues from Cambridge, members of the Centre have created a London-based Academy designed to promote greater public and professional...

OCHA Project - Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations have been engaged in a research project which seeks...

The Shadow Payment System

This is a project run by Dan Awrey and Kristin van Zwieten.Effective payment systems are vital to the smooth and efficient operation of the modern economy. ...

Business Law Research Group

Deep Tech Dispute Resolution Lab

Recent years have seen growing interest in technological innovations in the legal profession, not least in the field of dispute resolution. We are witnessing the dawn of...

Unlocking the Potential of Artificial Intelligence for English Law

Roman Law

The revival of Roman law scholarship in Western Europe began with the rediscovery of Justinian’s Digest in northern Italy c. 1070. The immense value of this text, a 50-volume compilation...

Governance of Health Data in Cyberspace

Iceland, Sweden, Norway and the UK provide case studies of where initiatives have raised public outcry because of a failure to fully comprehend social expectations about the use of health...

Oxford Transitional Justice Research

Who we areOxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) is an inter-disciplinary network of academics and students working on issues of transition in societies recovering from conflict and/or repressive rule. Founded in...

College Mooting

Many College Law Societies run moots. These moots take place throughout the year. Some of them are open to students who are not members of the College that runs...

Safeguarding Human rights in Immigration Detention

In two ESRC IAA knowledge exchange projects, Dr Hindpal Bhui, inspection team leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), and HMIP’s lead on immigration detention, worked with Professor Mary Bosworth...

Political Parties Partisanship and the Constitution

Partisanship and the Constitution is a new joint research project by Udit Bhatia, Ewan Smith and Leah Trueblood of the Bonavero Institute, with generous support...

A study of the effects of prisoner re-entry on children and their caregivers in England and Wales

Family support has ‘a significant impact’ on a former prisoner's likelihood of successful reintegration into society and reduces their risk of reoffending (Naser, Hart, 2006:21). In criminological desistance literature families...

BioSHaRE

The mission of BioSHaRE is to ensure the development of harmonized measures and standardized computing infrastructures enabling the effective pooling of data and key measures of life-style, social circumstances and...

Discrimination & Poverty

Human Rights Protections at the Border: Immigration detention

In two ESRC IAA knowledge exchange projects, Dr Hindpal Bhui, inspection team leader at HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP), and HMIP’s lead on immigration detention, will work with Professor Mary...

Modern Slavery and Human Rights

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is part of the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (the Modern Slavery PEC) along with other UK-based research institutions. The...

Media

Our new video project is part of our broader efforts to reach a wider audience, contribute to public debate on immigration and crime control, challenge the criminalization of migration, and...

Research Students' Lunch Group

Talking about your research is important, but so is talking about your other research-related issues regardless of your specialisation. This is precisely what our discussion group facilitates—informal...