Prorogation of Parliament

Prorogation refers to the conclusion of a parliamentary session, causing a recess period and effectively terminating all parliamentary business. In the United Kingdom, it is...

Chinese Law Discussion Group

The Chinese Law Discussion Group (CLDG) is a new forum at Oxford for exploring a full range of issues with respect to the intersection/ comparison of Chinese, civil, and common...

GNLU International Moot Court Competition

The GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC), organised annually by Gujarat National Law University (India), simulates a WTO panel and revolves around contemporary issues of international trade law. The moot,...

The Emotional Demands of Working in Asylum Practice by Neil Graffin

In this video, Neil Graffin, Senior Lecturer of the Open University Law School, describes his empirical work into the emotional demands of working in asylum practice, and briefly outlines some...

Our Enhanced Future

Increasingly, technological and medical developments are providing people with ways to enhance themselves. Such developments include cognitive enhancement drugs (e.g Ritalin), devices (e.g transcranial direct current stimulation or tDCS, which...

Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence

Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence is an online forum for discussion of new ideas and fresh perspectives in the philosophy of law. The global health crisis prevents many of us from...

ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition

Founded in 1972 as the Observer Moot, the ESU-Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition, organised by the English-Speaking Union and sponsored by Essex Court Chambers, is the largest and oldest...

EU-wide

Headlines – an RRE blog compilation An important aspect of Refugee Rights Europe’s work has always been to shed light on the often desperate situation experienced by people...

COVID-19, Public Policy and Commercial Law

Absent intervention by policymakers, mass bankruptcies across multiple sectors of the real economy can be expected to follow any significant period of trading shutdown. As the COVID-19 pandemic progressed, policymakers...

The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions: A Comparative Analysis

The quality of corporate governance is a key component of asset allocation. In countries characterized by concentrated ownership, minority shareholder expropriation, also known as tunneling, is the main concern from...

Death Penalty Research Unit

The Death Penalty Research Unit has three main aims: (a) to develop empirical, theoretical and policy-relevant research on the death penalty worldwide; (b) to encourage death penalty scholarship including at graduate level,...

OxonCourts

About OxonCourtsThe defining approach of OxonCourts is interdisciplinarity. We contend that is it not possible to truly understand courts without studying legal, political, economic, and sociological aspects of judging together....

Access & Outreach

The Faculty of Law is committed to attracting the strongest students to study, regardless of a candidate’s background. In order to achieve this aim, we host range of activities...

Immigration Detention Archive

This archive includes a range of material culture produced by and about detention. It currently houses several thousand pages of bureaucratic documents and 30 letters, 3000 photographs, 400 drawings and...

The Oxford-Burma/Myanmar Law Programme

The Faculty of Law’s Myanmar Law Programme is part of a University-wide effort to aid Myanmar’s redevelopment, which includes several other Oxford colleges and departments. We believe that the range...

CPR-Torino

24th March 2020 – 27th April 2020 Information provided by Paola Petrucco, Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (Coalizione Italiana per le Libertà e i Diritti Civili, CILD)1. How...

Oxford v Cambridge Varsity Roman Law Moot Court Competition

The Oxford v Cambridge Varsity Roman Law Moot Court Competition brings together students who have an interest in Roman Law from two ancient rivals: the Universities of Oxford and...

Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis Prize

Border Criminologies seeks to support early career researchers working on the intersections between border control and criminal justice. As part of this goal we are pleased to announce the new...

Preparation for Lecturing and Teaching at Oxford

The Law Faculty strives to promote a first-rate learning experience in a dynamic and captivating teaching environment. Excellence in teaching is the hallmark of the Oxford learning experience. Like any...

The impact of COVID-19 prison lockdowns on children with a parent in prison

'The impact of COVID-19 prison lockdowns on children with a parent in prison' Background In March 2020 prisons in the UK put in a place a restricted regime in order to...

Mooting: How to Take Part

The Faculty of Law at Oxford offers an outstanding Mooting Programme, offering undergraduate and postgraduate students the opportunity to participate in an extensive range of competitions, both internal and external. The...

NLIU-Justice RK Tankha Memorial International Arbitration Moot

The NLIU-Justice RK Tankha Memorial International Arbitration Moot, based on international commercial arbitration, is supported by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and L&L Partners, India. Teams are required to...

University of Southampton Annual National Mooting Competition

Since 2011, the University of Southhampton have been running an inter-varsity moot which invites teams across the country to our University to take part. Every two-person team will compete in...

Experiences of adolescent to parent violence in the COVID-19 pandemic

This project is based in the Centre for Criminology and aims to produce a fast evidence base on experiences of adolescent to parent violence (APV) in the...