Winners of the 5th Border Criminologies Dissertation Prize

We are proud to announce the winners of the fifth Border Criminologies Masters Dissertation/Thesis Prize, who will receive £200 and £100 worth of Routledge books. For the first time this...

The Australian Personal Property Security Act 2009: The Five Year Review

This lecture, the third in the Commercial Law Centre series was given on 27th May 2015 by Associate Professor David Brown of the University of Adelaide. The session was...

Bonavero Institute Call Announcement: Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations, funded by the Oak Foundation

The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights is delighted to announce a range of calls in relation to the project on Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations funded by the Oak...

Professor John Armour elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

The British Academy has today announced the election of 66 new Fellows, representing the very best of humanities and social sciences research, in the UK and globally. Hogan Lovells Professor...

DPhil student Václav Janeček awarded Bolzano Prize

Each year, the Bolzano Prize is awarded in three categories, and Václav received the prize for social sciences and humanities for his book 'Critique of Legal Responsibility'. Václav...

New publication on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (OUP)

 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law (Oxford University Press)
 Dr Gilles Giacca recently co-edited a book titled Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in International Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Oxford...

Oxford Pro Bono Publico - Call for Volunteers - Arbitrary Detention Research

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) is inviting volunteers to assist with research for the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary Detention. The research will relate to procedures and remedies available to...

Jamie Edelman receives Oxford Teaching Award

Professor Jamie Edelman has received an Oxford Teaching Award for introducing mooting into Oxford's undergraduate law degree. Professor Edelman is the Faculty Mooting Co-ordinator, and was given the award for...

Oxford hosts the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association

In September 2016, the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre hosted the Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association at Pembroke College. Video recordings of...

The Third Intellectual Property Conversazione

The Third Intellectual Property Conversazione was held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford on Friday 18 March, in conjunction with the Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot.
 Hosted by the Oxford Intellectual Property...

Online Markets and Offline Welfare Effects - The Internet, Competition, Society and Democracy

On 22 May 2017, the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy hosted an event on the digital economy. The event brought together more than...

Law and Computer Science Students Working Together, Again

For the second consecutive year, students from the Department of Computer Science and their peers from the Faculty of Law have formed interdisciplinary groups of six (three computer scientists and...

Associate Professorship of Taxation Law in association with Harris Manchester College

The appointed person will teach tax law at graduate level, especially on the part-time MSc in Taxation, and also at undergraduate level, they will engage in research at the highest...

Frederico Varese publishes British Journal of Criminology paper on Somali pirates

Frederico Varese has co-authored a paper in the British Journal of Criminology with Anja Shortland from King's College on the reasons why some Somali clans protect pirates, while others don't.
 
 Federico said: 'A puzzle...

Call for special issues: Canadian Journal of Law & Society

CJLS/RCDS is an interdisciplinary, peer­reviewed journal which produces research dealing with law and its social and cultural context. The annual thematic special issue,...

Professor Dapo Akande Appointed as Legal Adviser to Parliamentary Inquiry

Professor Dapo Akande has recently been appointed as a legal advisor to an Inquiry by the UK Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Drones into the emerging technologies of drones...

Nicholas Aroney: The Brexit Case

Speaking on 'The Brexit Case: An Outsider/Insider Perspective', Nicholas Aroney delivered a paper discussing the recent Supreme Court Miller judgment, on whether the government was allowed to trigger Article 50...

'A Sociology of Justice in Russia' edited by Marina Kurkchiyan and Agnieszka Kubal: now out with Cambridge University Press

Much of the media coverage and academic literature on Russia suggests that the justice system is unreliable, ineffective and corrupt. But what if we look beyond the stereotypes and preconceptions?...

Antonios Tzanakopoulos in groundbreaking diplomatic immunity case

An important decision was handed down today by the High Court of England and Wales: for the first time, the Court allowed an application to go forward which will determine...

The Putney Debates 2019

The Debaters examined the impact of the ‘Enemies of the People’ controversy and threats to the independence of the judiciary posed by populist movements in the UK...