Southernising Criminology

The Southernising Criminology Discussion Group is a student-led initiative that aims to extend criminological horizons outside the Global North, reflecting on distinct patterns and trends of crime, justice and punishment...

The Waiting Room Project

Using digital technologies we provided people with information and insights into policies around biobanking. We surveyed them on the key issues involved in order to increase awareness and the...

Teaching Resources

Course designed by Prof. Mary Bosworth and Prof. Lucia Zedner: Criminal Justice, Migration and CitizenshipCourse designed by Prof. Stephen Manning, Immigrant Law Group, PC and Prof. Juliet P. Stumpf, Lewis...

Ideas of Vulnerability and Exploitation: Migrant Workers and the Law: Interview with Virginia Mantouvalou

Professor Virginia Mantouvalou discusses with Dr Devyani Prabhat the main thrust of her research on legal and philosophical aspects of labour rights and other human rights, the right to work,...

Oxford v Cambridge Inter-Varsity Advocacy Cup

The Advocacy Cup is an annual inter-varsity advocacy competition in which Oxford oppose Cambridge and Leicester compete against University of Nottingham.The competition is run as an authentic...

Informality and the Media in Consumer Protection in Emerging Economies

Emerging economies have growing middle classes and growing consumer populations. Their legal systems, however, are often ill-equipped to deal with these rapid social and economic changes, even when consumer laws...

Spain

At the Western doorstep – Highlighting the human rights violations experienced by refugees and displaced people arriving in Europe through the western mediterranean route Summary: Within...

Adolescent to Parent Violence

Adolescent to parent violence has remained underexplored and largely unarticulated within the fields of youth justice, domestic violence, policing, and criminology, particularly in the UK. It is sometimes referred to...

Contributory Negligence in the 21st century: perception and reality

The doctrine of contributory negligence is one of the most important rules in English law. It reduces the amount of compensation payable to victims of wrongs by...

Human Rights Law Research Group

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Police and Policing Research Discussion Group

Over the last number of years, the Police and Policing Research Discussion Group has generally met fortnightly during term to discuss and reflect upon developments in policing and police research,...

Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot

The Dickson Poon School of Law at KCL offer students from across the world the opportunity to participate in the Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot.Teams are invited to submit...

Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group

The Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group is organised by the Law Faculty and provides a forum for the discussion and exchange of research in all areas of empirical legal...

OUP and ICCA National Mooting Competition

The Oxford University Press (OUP) and The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA) conduct an annual national mooting competition that attracts more than 50 teams from...

Atrocity's Archives: The Remnants of Transitional Justice in Rwanda

ATROCITY'S ARCHIVES: THE REMNANTS OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN RWANDA, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Project investigates and compares the legal archival documents of the local Rwandan Gacaca Courts with...

Business and Human Rights

In recent decades, there has been increased interest in business-related human rights impacts. Gross abuses have been clearly documented by various non-governmental organisations around the world and range from murder...

Unfree labour in UK detention centres

In this video Katie Bales and Lucy Mayblin present their work on labour in UK immigration detention centres and explore issues of exploitation and coercion. Watch the video here. ...

Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group

About The Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group analyses law and jurisprudence from a distinctly feminist standpoint that seeks to challenge underlying gendered assumptions behind both disciplines and their claims to neutrality. As...

Non-Credit Course: The Past and Present of Slavery - Developing a Strategic Response

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is offering a non-credit course on ‘The Past and Present of Slavery - Developing a Strategic Response’ in Michaelmas Term 2020. The course, moderated...

Towards the Environmental Minimum

Towards the Environmental Minimum is a book project led by Stefan Theil under contract with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming June 2021). The book explores the implications of environmental degradation and...

Central Asian Law Series