Amanda Clift-Matthews named as The Times ‘Lawyer of the Week’

On 7 November 2024, barrister and DPRU DPhil candidate Amanda Clift-Matthews was named as ‘Lawyer of the Week’ by The Times newspaper. Amanda was recognised for her role in an...

Carolyn Hoyle writes on Texas death penalty case for Unherd

On 19 October 2024, DPRU Director Carolyn Hoyle published an opinion piece on the news website Unherd, discussing the case of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson. Titled ‘Robert Roberson...

Matthew Goldberg holds international lecture series

In September and October 2024, DPRU DPhil student Matthew Goldberg held the first two in a series of three international lectures reflecting on the process of universal abolition of the...

DPRU and DPP host ‘The Death Penalty: The Next 10 Years’ roundtable

On 15 November 2024, the DPRU and our partner organisation the Death Penalty Project (DPP) hosted a one-day roundtable meeting on the future of the death penalty at the DPP’s...

New DPRU research on drug policy in Indonesia

In September 2024, Carolyn Hoyle and DPRU Research Associate Dr Lucy Harry published a new research article on drug policy in Indonesia in the journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. The...

Human Rights Day 2024: 10 for the 10th

The 10th of December is Human Rights Day. It marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on 10th December 1948....

The Faculty launches its Advanced Programme on Competition Law and the Digital Economy

Applications now open: Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship Scheme 2025

Alexandra Wilson to deliver Oxford Law's Annual Equality and Diversity Lecture 2024-25

CSLS launches new executive education course: InfoLead

For five days during the first week of December 2024, CSLS members brought together a group of twenty policymakers, legal practitioners, and judges for a new executive education course. InfoLead...

Report on the conditions in Pre-Removal Detention Centres in Greece: Joint Submission by Mobile Info Team, Border Criminologies and the Border Violence Monitoring Network

Reports from civil society actors in Greece have consistently documented the systemic nature of abuses in Greece’s Pre-Removal Detention Centres. Research by the Border Violence Monitoring Network has uncovered rampant...