Oxford Law Faculty to help train future world leaders in the skills and responsibilities of government

The Blavatnik School of Government, Europe’s first major school of government, launched in September 2010 to train graduates from across the world in the skills and responsibilities of government....

New ESRC Research Award

Ian Loader has been awarded a research grant from the Economic and Social Research Council for a study entitled ‘Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life: A contemporary study of...

Rebecca Williams Delivers Future of Legal Education Keynote

In her keynote talk for The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2020 (LegalEdCon London, organised by Legal Cheek), Professor Rebecca Williams has announced the first findings of the...

British Academy Workshop: Protecting Rights – Engaging Parliament

On October 16 2015, Dr Aileen Kavanagh organised a one-day workshop at St John’s College entitled ‘Protecting Rights – Engaging Parliament’. The aim of the workshop...

Camilla Barker (DPhil - PIL) works with UN Mission in Liberia to combat child abuse in peacekeeping

Thanks to generous funding from the British Academy, Camilla Barker (DPhil in Law) has been working with child safeguarding organisation, Keeping Children Safe, and the School of Law, University of...

University College London wins Oxford French Law Moot 2013

The 6th annual Oxford French Law Moot took place on Monday 11 March 2013. 12 teams competed for the shield and the final saw the victory of the University College...

*NEW* OxHRH Podcast Episode: The Transformative Possibilities of a Constitution (with Joel Modiri and Gautam Bhatia)

Constitutions are the legal bedrock of many countries, but they're also political, and are produced within a specific socio-historical context, much like any text. As much as Constitutions are there...

The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions

On 25-26 May, the authors of an upcoming volume on The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions convened to Oxford for a workshop on the topic....

Graeme Dinwoodie made advisor to the American Law Institute Copyright Restatement Project

Professor Graeme Dinwoodie has been appointed as an advisor to the American Law Institute's new project to produce a Restatement of the Law of Copyright; he is the only member...

MAC Protocol international consultation

The consultation event brought together 35 Governmental representatives and legal experts from 21 countries, including the Ambassador of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic his excellency Mr Sayakane...

Law Faculty alumnus elected Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights

Robert achieved an MJur with distinction in European and Comparative law (University College) in 2000. He won the Clifford Chance Prize (proxime accessit) and the Civil...

The Unitary (EU) Patent System Conference 2013


 On 4 and 5 October 2013, Oxford’s Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL), in collaboration with the University of East Anglia's ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, hosted a two-day conference...

Call for Papers: Exploring the everyday of immigration detention: Materiality, temporality and administrative power

Immigration detention is one of the measures increasingly used by states in order to control, confine, and exclude unwanted migrants from their territories. Permitted by art. 5 of the ECHR,...

Professor Sandra Fredman Gives Evidence to the Women and Equalities Commission

On Wednesday 16 November 2016, OxHRH Director, Professor Sandra Fredman along with Dr Panos Kapotas (University of Portsmouth), Karon Monaghan QC (Discrimination Law Association) and Professor Satvinder Juss (King’s College...

A level results

The Oxford Faculty of Law wishes to extend congratulations to all of those who have received their results this week (or earlier for those taking the IB...

III Oxford Symposium on Comparative International Commercial Arbitration

Once again the conference welcomed a particularly strong set of speakers. After the welcome address delivered by Professor Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) (Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, University...

Kate Jones examines how human rights frameworks should guide regulation of digital political campaigning

'Online Disinformation and Political Discourse: Applying a Human Rights Framework' outlines the ways in which digital technology is increasingly being used to further political aims which can then distort our...

Oxford Human Rights Hub contributes to independent review of the Human Rights Act

The Oxford Human Rights Hub has made a submission to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act. In the submission, they argue that the Human Rights...

Richard Ekins among Orwell Prize judges for 2021

The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for political writing. Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to...

Bonavero Institute - Calls for Applications and Papers

The Bonavero Institute has annouced a range of calls for the coming term, including the Africa Research Visitorship funded by the Open Society Foundation (OSF) South Africa and based at...

Funding awarded for new Criminology research project


 Dr Mary Bosworth has been awarded a €1.2 million Starter Grant from the European Research Council to conduct a five-year project on “Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a...

Bonavero Institute Building Update

The Bonavero Institute building project is now focussing on the external works. At the rear of the building (running adjacent to 'Love Lane') backfilling, casting the retaining walls, and installing...