Lavanya Rajamani Delivers the 2022 Heilbron Lecture at the Old Bailey

The Heilbron Lectures were founded in 2020 by The Next 100 Years Project, a group dedicated to supporting and celebrating women in law in the second century...

Mary Adeyemo receives Oxford University Student Union's Increasing Access Award

Mary founded CareerCarrierz, a non-profit organisation with the mission of promoting education amongst low income families from Ikorodu. They volunteer as a graduate moot mentor for the...

Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis Prize 2021

Border Criminologies seeks to support early career researchers working on citizenship, migration and the intersections between border controls and criminal justice. As part of this goal, we have established a...

Recognition of Distinction exercise 2022 - Congratulations to our three new Professors!

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that three Faculty members have received the title of full Professor in the University's 2022 Recognition of Distinction exercise. Congratulations to: Ngoc Son Bui...

Personalised Law / Law by Algorithm: Oxford Business Law Blog Annual Conference 2022

This year’s conference was organised as a response to two recent books: ‘Personalised Law’ (OUP) by Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat, and ‘Law by Algorithm’ (Mohr Siebeck) by Horst Eidenmüller...

Law and Computer Science Course shortlisted for Vice -Chancellors Education Award

Law and Computer Science is ​a unique and groundbreaking course, offered as an option in postgraduate master's degrees in both the Law Faculty and the Department of...

Watch Professor Ben McFarlane's Inaugural Lecture in Law

The title of the lecture is “The Persistence of Equity: Lessons from the Trust”. It has two points of departure. First, the view that English law is...

Judge Meron CMG appointed as Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Judge Meron, a leading authority on International Humanitarian Law, human rights and international criminal law, is Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Visiting Fellow of Mansfield College, and...

The Faculty welcomes Justice Majiedt of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

Justice Majiedt is a current Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. He was appointed in 2019, leaving his seat at the Supreme Court...

Professor Ulf Bernitz (1936-2022)

The Institute of European and Comparative Law and its members mourn the passing of Professor Ulf Bernitz in July 2022, a longstanding member of the Institute and founding father...

New Faculty blog site

Blogging has increasingly become an important and valuable part of the Faculty’s activities. Our blogs showcase research from within the Faculty, create platforms for the sharing...

Pavlos Eleftheriadis writes on the refugee crisis in Greek waters

In the opinion piece 'The rule of law is sinking in Greek waters' Pavlos argues that the Greek government must investigate claims that refugees were pushed back from the coast...

CSLS student wins Bonavero Institute's artwork competition

The Centre for Socio-legal Studies is delighted to announce that one of our research students, Aastha Prasad has won the Bonavero Institute’s artwork competition. Aastha’s work will now...

Andreas Televantos wins a Teaching Excellence Award

Andreas saidIt’s an honour to have been given a Teaching Excellence Award. Oxford really is a great place, and it’s a privilege to teach such bright students...

Thom Wetzer appointed to ESMA’s Sustainable Finance Expert Group

ESMA is one of three European Supervisory Authorities in the European Union (EU) and has a remit to improve the functioning of EU financial markets, enhance investor...

Athena Swan Bronze Award Renewed

The Faculty is delighted to announce that our Athena Swan Bronze Certificate has been renewed by Advance HE. The Faculty of Law was one of the first law faculties in the...

Kenya: New opinion piece: 'As Africa rapidly turns away from capital punishment, is it time for Kenya to abolish this relic of a colonial past?'

On Monday 13 June 2022, Professor Carolyn Hoyle, Parvais Jabbar of The Death Penalty Project and Samson Omondi of the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights published the below op-ed...

New OxHRH RightsUp! A Historic Moment: The Drafting of the New Chilean Constitution

In this episode of RightsUp, Gautam Bhatia, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Humboldt, interviews Professor Roberto Gargarella, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Senior Researcher at...

MSc in Taxation Alumni Symposium and Summer Event

The first MSc in Taxation Alumni Symposium and Summer Event was held on Saturday 2 July 2022. The day started off with a Symposium at the H B Allen Centre, Keble...

New OxHRH Podcast out! “That’s the Key Question": Institutional Responsibility for Inequality (Episode 4)

Human rights experts reveal how we could reform equality law to make sure it protects the most vulnerable in times of crisis.This is Episode Three of a...