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Miscarriages of Justice

Professor Carolyn Hoyle and a small team of researchers have been working on projects relating to wrongful convictions.Her research on the Criminal Cases Review Commission (with Dr Mai Sato) was...

Public Law Discussion Group

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Responsibility to Protect and Human Rights

Prof. Jennifer Welsh (Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect) and Dr. Gilles Giacca (former postodoctoral fellow and research coordinator on the programme) conducted research on...

Oxford Programme in Asian Laws

Immigration Detention and the Changing Nature of Penal Power

Lead by Mary Bosworth this project has many strands, including work on everyday life in immigration detention centres in the UK of staff and detainees, and human rights monitoring of...

Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law - Closing Conference: September 2021

Recent progress with advanced digital technologies such as AI has been dramatic. The deployment of AI promises to expand the range of automated tasks to include those done by ‘knowledge’...

Armed Conflict, Security and Human Rights

A number of discrete research projects make up the field of Armed Conflict, Security and Human Rights. These projects draw on human rights law and jurisprudence, legal theory, constitutional...

Gender sensitisation for judicial education in Pakistan and Indonesia

This project provides accessible and culturally significant material for a gender sensitization training of judicial officers in Pakistan and Indonesia. Through two independent actions this project fosters in-depth knowledge of...

The Realities of Relocation: Analysing Disputes Over Post-Separation Family Migration in the English Trial Courts

Relocation cases are legal disputes between separated parents which arise when one proposes to move to a new locality with their child and the other objects. Relocation disputes are increasingly...

Trusting the Middle-Man: Impact and Legitimacy of Ombudsmen in Europe

Published PROJECT REPORT UK report & individual ombudsman reportsUKAJI blog postFor Naomi's staff profile and up-to-date publication list, see hereThe research objective of...

Globalisation and the Policing of Internal Borders

PROJECT OVERVIEW In Australia, as elsewhere in the developed world, internal border policing is intensifying and diversifying as globalisation increases anxieties about inclusion and belonging. This research programme explores diverse forms...

Environmental Law Discussion Group

This discussion group offers a forum for the presentation of papers that fall within the very broad scope of environmental law. This discussion group has been running for over...

Public International Law Research Group

The Public International Law Research GroupThe PIL Research Group is a research group within Oxford Law Faculty – a major centre for the study of international law for over 400...

Addressing Torture and Torturous Violence by Vicky Canning

Torture is a serious violation of human dignity, but one which remains peripheral to mainstream sociology, often situated instead in psychological studies or international relations. Sexual torture, or sexualised torturous...

Supporting Online Justice: Enhancing Accessibility, Participation, and Procedural Fairness

Background There is currently very little online support to prepare members of the public for appearing in a hearing from their own home or to guide them around these new virtual...

Greece

Unaccompanied Children at the Gates of Europe RRE partnered with Still I Rise to investigate the situation facing unaccompanied minors during Covid-19 in Samos. Drawing from desk research,...

CPR Palazzo San Gervasio

Information provided by Paola Petrucco, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (Coalizione Italiana per le Libertà e i Diritti Civili, CILD) 1. How many people are currently detained in...

Belgium

Left in-between – Documenting the situation for refugees and displaced people in Brussels, Belgium Summary: Hundreds of refugees and displaced people are known to be sleeping...

Decolonising the Law Discussion Group

The discussion group offers a forum to reflect on the idea and practice of decolonisation in the field of law. The discussion group is oriented towards three things: first, to...

Victim personal statements at sentencing

Two members of the Centre for Criminology – Elspeth Windsor and Julian Roberts -- have published a report for the Sentencing Academy in London. The review marks 20 years since...

Environmental Legal Mobilisation

This research project, led by Dr Michael Molavi, explores the law and politics of environmental legal mobilisation. As a research field, it is situated at the intersection of human rights,...

CPR Bari Palese

Information provided by Paola Petrucco, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (Coalizione Italiana per le Libertà e i Diritti Civili, CILD) 1. How many people are currently detained in...

Oxford Women in Law

Our mission is:To provide a network for graduates of the University of Oxford working in the law to discuss career issues, particularly those facing women, to share experiences and to...

Italy

Exacerbation of a crisis As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold in Europe, the situation for displaced people in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia deteriorated further. Vulnerable...

Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot

The Intellectual Property Moot is held annually in Oxford over 3 days in March. It is hosted by the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre and organised by the Moot...