Inspiring Women: Challenging the Diversity Deficit in the Legal Professions

This project will investigate the lack of diversity in the upper echelons of the legal professions in England and Wales and the relative invisibility of women lawyers in positions of...

Private Law Research Group

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100 years of Women in Law at Oxford

2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, which made it possible for women to qualify as barristers or solicitors for the first time. We...

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Centre for Competition Law and Policy

Policing the Borders Within: Law Enforcement in a Global Age

Ana’s project documents existing arrangements and practices in the policing of immigration status, and examines the everyday operation of immigration-police cooperation in England. Focused on two major regional police forces,...

Tax Law Research Group

Tax stands at the core of state sovereignty, affecting markets, society, and taxpayers' daily lives. Tax scholarship involves big questions of justice and efficiency, alongside question of regulatory design and...

Freedom of Association

Freedom of association occupies a central position in the scheme of fundamental human rights. It is explicitly protected in general human rights instruments such as the European Convention on Human...

Camp Jail, Lahore

Full Name: District Jail, LahoreAddress: Shadman 1, Shadman, Lahore 540001. How many people are currently detained in the center and what is the centre’s maximum capacity?There were around 3,000 prisoners...

Border Criminologies

BioGOV: Governing Biomodification in the Life Sciences

What is the significance of biomodifying technologies? Biomodifying technologies are foundational or ‘gateway’ technologies. They act on such fundamental aspects of biology that they underpin a vast swathe of potential applications...

Copyright and Course Packs: A Collision Course of Competing Value?

Can university departments authorise the creation of course packs consisting of photocopied excerpts from copyright-protected works? This question was recently considered by the Delhi High Court in The Chancellor, Masters...

Sound Files

Many of these presentations are also available on our iTunes U account.15 October 2014: Interview with Oxford University PressInside Immigration Detention [0:30:06] Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford)8 June 2014: Lecture...

Children's Rights Network

Return to the Bonavero Networks The Children’s Rights Network are a group of researchers, students, and practitioners primarily based in Oxford, working on a broad range of issues related to...

A New History of Law in post-revolutionary England

This four year project seeks to recover and reassess the history of English law, broadly conceived, over the seven decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. During that period limited...

Know your Rights in Immigration Detention

The lack of any information in a language they understand often leaves detained people in limbo about their future. Fighting back through demanding to know about their cases is their...

Place, Crime and Insecurity in Everyday Life

Ian Loader is a co-investigator on this project led by Dr Evi Girling at Keele University.At the heart of our research is the question of what it means to feel...

Emerging Digital Rights

Emerging digital technologies present some of the greatest challenges, and potential opportunities, for human rights. Rapid changes in technology have been accompanied by the emergence and strengthening of digital rights....