South Asian Law Series

Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law

The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and...

Enhancing Responsibility

The project is led by Dr Nicole Vincent (Georgia State University), and comprised of inter-linked sub-projects: philosophy, law and psychology. The law project is led by Dr Imogen Goold working...

Michael Corkery QC Criminal Law Moot

5 Paper Buildings runs the Michael Corkery QC Criminal Law Moot Competition, which provides students with an opportunity to apply criminal law in a mooting context.The competition...

Achieving copyright balance through the structure of tangible property

Under current copyright law, a user may lawfully use a copyright work if she has a licence or if the user’s actions are covered by statutory limitations and exceptions to...

Legal Research and Mooting Skills Programme

This online tutorial provides an introduction to the structure of primary and secondary legal materials and how to find them efficiently. It was designed to support the Research & Mooting...

Children's Consent: Philosophy and Law in Conversation

This workshop brings together academics working in philosophy and law to explore children's consent to medical treatment in addition to a range of closely related issues, including...

The Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal

Welcome to the Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal (OUULJ), Oxford's sole publication dedicated to undergraduate legal writing, edited and staffed entirely by students. The OUULJ operates independently of...

Oxford Legal History Forum

The Oxford Legal History Forum runs a lively programme of talks and lectures in every kind of legal history, across the academic year. In any one term...

Amplifying Inclusion: living disability narratives and law for the next generation

In the context of Brexit, people with disabilities face huge social, legal and cultural change – from their access to the rest of Europe through the use of their Blue...

Racialised discretion and policing migration in the UK: An interview with Dr Alpa Parmar

In this conversation Dr Parmar discusses key findings from her multi-year ongoing research into policing migration in Britain. Through the notion of ‘racialised discretion’ she talks about some of...

PIL Discussion Group

Image Credit: United Nations Photo via Flickr Creative CommonsWelcome to the Public International Law Discussion GroupThe PIL Discussion Group at the University of Oxford is a key focal point...

Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

The Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot aims to foster the study of international commercial law and arbitration and provide practical training to students for resolving international business disputes....

United Kingdom

Time for Change: On the need for safe and legal pathways to the UK Summary: For too long, the UK’s border control policies restricting access to...

Human Rights and Human Rights Budgeting Policy

Traditionally human rights have had a marginal role in state budgeting. We consider this to be an important deficiency that needs urgent addressing. As budgets have a central role in...

The Nature and Role of Will-Substitutes

In the course of the past decades, an increasing amount of wealth has been passed on death in ways other than by will or intestacy rules, that is to say...

Comparative Analysis of the Reform of Personal Property Security Law in Australia and the United Kingdom

This project aims to assess the divergent approaches towards the regulation of personal property securities in the two jurisdictions, with a view to seeing what benefits a PPSA-type reform could...

International Network Addressing Filial Violence

The International Network Addressing Filial Violence brings together international experts to investigate the commission of violence by children against their parents across the life course. The Network draws together groundbreaking,...

The Pivot of Positive Intervention: Local Authority Inclusion Services and School Exclusion

Exclusion from schools has many long-term negative consequences including mental health issues and involvement in the youth justice system. This makes understanding how and when it should be used...

Best Practices in the Field of Electronic Registry Design and Operation

Electronic registries have emerged as a main element of systems that collect, store, disseminate, and establish rights in data or property represented by that data. The Cape Town Convention sets out...

Institute of European and Comparative Law

Comparative Law Discussion Group

The Comparative Law Discussion Group meets at lunchtimes during Michaelmas and Hilary terms to hear and discuss a presentation of research carried out by senior members or graduate students...

Jurisprudence Discussion Group