Researchers at the Centre for Criminology shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2025

The shortlist for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2025 has been announced, and the Faculty is delighted to share that it features ‘Helping to end the death penalty in Africa’ - a...

Bonavero Institute Co-Hosts a Consultation and a Public Seminar on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence through Human Rights Law

On Wednesday 5th March, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights hosted a collaborative event with the Institute for Ethics in AI, which consisted of an academic consultation bringing together...

DPRU and DPP host UN Human Rights Council event

On 25 February 2025, the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) and the Death Penalty Project (DPP) hosted a side event on the death penalty at the United Nations in Geneva,...

Medical Humanities Research Hub, with Imogen Goold as law representative, shortlisted for Vice-Chancellor’s award

The shortlist for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2025 has been announced, and the Faculty is delighted to share that TORCH Medical Humanities Research Hub has been shortlisted in the Research Culture...

Multi-university study into the protection of public facing professionals wins Home Office Academic Innovation Award for Security and Policing

The multi-university research project 'Protecting public-facing professionals and their dependents online' (3PO) for which Katrin Mueller-Johnson is the Oxford research lead, has won the Home Office Academic Innovation Award for...

Border Criminologies Project Highly Commended in Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025

The Faculty is delighted to share that the project Documenting human rights violations inside immigration detention settings, led by Andriani Fili, Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for...

iManage Team Project, led by Jeremias Adams-Prassl and Six Silberman, Highly Commended in Social Sciences Impact Awards 2025

The Faculty is delighted to share that the iManage team project Regulating AI at work: protecting workers against digital surveillance and control, led by Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor of Law, and...

Bonavero Institute Publishes its Second Report of 2025: International Human Rights Obligations in relation to Climate Change

Fernanda Pirie awarded Leverhulme Trust project funding for research on historic Tibetan law

Ariel Ezrachi Discusses the Advanced Programme on Competition Law and the Digital Economy in Quad interview

Ariel Ezrachi was recently interviewed for Oxford University's alumni magazine 'Quad' about the new Advanced Programme on Competition Law in the Digital Economy which is being hosted by the...

OPBP's latest report on "Mapping the Interactions of Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” is published

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) partnered with Prof. Nazila Ghanea, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, to produce a report that informed her last thematic report to...

Project Launch: Mixed funding models for free and early legal advice

Professor Linda Mulcahy, the PI on the project said on the launch of the project on 1st April 2025: This project is an important collaboration between the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,...

Report of the Oxford Conference on "Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws"

On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws” was convened at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Under the auspices of the Institute of European and Comparative...