Rereading Classic Texts in Tax Law and Policy

Elective The Rereading Classic Texts in Tax Law & Policy course will explore issues of topical importance in the field of taxation. The content will vary from year-to-year, and the course...

First Principles of Financial Economics

This class builds the conceptual foundation required for the economic analysis of corporate financial policy, competitive asset markets and the regulation of both corporations and financial markets. The course's lectures...

Constitutionalism in Asia

This course is the study of constitutionalism in Asia from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It has three features:First, the course examines a variety of constitutionalism in Asia: liberal (e.g.,...

Advanced Criminal Law

Advanced Criminal Law provides students with an opportunity to return to and learn more about the criminal law that they studied for Mods. The idea behind this course is that...

Qualitative Methods

Prof Mary Bosworth and Dr Estelle ZinsstagThis course introduces students to different methods of qualitative inquiry, data gathering, analysis and reporting. We will consider when the use of qualitative...

Advanced Property and Trusts

The course explores the foundations of property and trusts. It also explores practical developments in property and trusts law going beyond the topics typically explored in core or undergraduate courses....

Core Course I - Criminological Theories

Prof Rachel CondryThis compulsory course taught in Michaelmas Term seeks to develop understanding of the organizing categories and central claims of a range of modern criminological perspectives of crime and...

International Environmental Law

This course introduces students to the fundamental pillars of International environmental law, and international climate change law, in particular. The 2015 Paris Agreement, the result of the most significant,...

Feminist Perspectives in Law

The course is defined by a specific critical perspective on the law – a feminist one. It cuts across standard legal areas and methodologies: it covers topics from private and...

Human Rights at Work

This is a course in advanced employment and labour law, with a particular focus on the human rights dimensions of the subject. The course examines how the idea of human...

Taxation of Corporate Finance

ElectiveThe Taxation of Corporate Finance course focuses on the tax treatment of debt, equity and derivative contracts, but also includes other financing structures such as repo transactions and equity finance....

Human Rights Law

The objective of the course is to provide a thorough grounding in the law of human rights which applies in the United Kingdom. The primary aim is to introduce students...

Corporate Tax Law and Policy

Are multi-national companies escaping taxation through artificial tax planning, transfer mis-pricing and profit shifting? Where should they be paying tax and on what basis? Should we abolish corporation tax altogether...

Tax Treaties

Elective The Tax Treaties course focuses on the operation of double taxation conventions (more colloquially referred to as “tax treaties” and often abbreviated as “DTCs”). The emphasis is on the interpretation...

Contract

The syllabus comprises the general principles of the law governing enforceable agreements. It is not concerned with special rules governing specific types of contracts, such as sale, carriage or employment,...

Corporate Valuation

Managers of firms have many responsibilities. A critical one is to ensure that the firm makes appropriate investment and financial decisions. This course focuses on how to make good decisions....

International Economic Law

International Economic Law has been taught on the BCL/MJur in Oxford since 2003. The course introduces students to the principles and institutions of international economic law and focuses primarily on...

Medical Law and Ethics (FHS)

This course covers selected legal, ethical and medical issues arising in medical practice and research. It focuses on issues of consent, autonomy and best interests of the patient and other...

Private Law and Fundamental Rights

The enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the adoption of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU as a binding treaty has provoked new questions about the...

Criminal Justice, Security and Human Rights

This course adopts a comparative and normative approach to human rights, criminal justice and security. It covers the development of human rights principles in relation to the criminal justice system...

Law and Economics of Corporate Transactions (LECT)

The Law and Economics of Corporate Transactions (LECT) course is the interdisciplinary course that acts as the fulcrum for the entire MLF degree. LECT uses the tools of conventional microeconomic...

Theorising Punishment

Profs Mary Bosworth, Ian Loader and Lucia ZednerThis course examines key texts on punishment, each of which takes a different approach to the role, nature and effect of punishment. ...

Death Penalty

Prof Carolyn Hoyle This course provides students with a good understanding of the scope and practice of capital punishment and the movement - backed by international organizations and human rights...

Current Issues in Taxation

ElectiveThe Current Issues in Taxation course will explore issues of topical importance in the field of taxation. The content will vary from year-to-year, and the course will be taught primarily...

Trusts

The institution of the Trust is one of the most important ideas in English law. Its very definition is heavily contested, but most would agree that a trust arises where...