New Leverhulme Trust-funded research project on Tibetan law: the socio-historic exploration of a unique legal system

Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Professor Fernanda Pirie, uses anthropological and comparative methods to compare legal practices and texts from around the world, and has carried out ethnographic...

Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics 2025

This prestigious award, generously funded by Nicolas Berggruen of the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, recognises a doctoral dissertation that is both excellent and transformative, in theory or in practice....

Dapo Akande to be awarded honorary degree from Durham University

Dapo Akande, Chichele Professor of Public International Law, and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), will receive an honorary degree from Durham University this...

Tax Law Research Group Annual DPhil Research Workshop 2025

The Tax Law Research Group held its fourth annual DPhil Research Workshop on 19 June. The workshop gave our tax research students an opportunity to present and discuss their work...

Lavanya Rajamani co-authors article in ‘Science’ journal

Professor of International Environmental Law, Lavanya Rajamani, and co-author Joeri Rogelj, Professor of Climate Science and Policy at Imperial College London, argue in a recently published article in ‘Science’...

Winners of the 8th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize

We are proud to announce the winners of the eighth Border Criminologies Masters Dissertation/Thesis Prize, who will receive £200 and £100 worth of Routledge books. Border Criminologies seeks to support...

Professor Danny Busch elected member of Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences.

Subedi Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation 2023/24 awarded to Aiden Lerch

The Law Faculty is pleased to announce the recipient of the Subedi Prize for the best doctoral dissertation submitted during the 2023/24 academic year.Established in 2019 through the generous support...

Alumni appointed as Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal

We are delighted to congratulate the University of Oxford alumni who were appointed as Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal in June 2025.The alumni appointed to the Court of...

CSLS Hosts Law in Context Workshop Showcasing Emerging Global Socio-Legal Research

A particular feature of this year’s workshop was the number of papers focusing on socio-legal research in the global South. Topics ranged from transatlantic slavery and postcolonial legal consciousness in...

Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia - From Field Research To Action

Denis Shedov is one of the researchers on the Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia (HuRiEE) project. This ERC (UKRI) funded project breaks new ground in studying the unprecedented...