Congratulations to Godfrey Olebogeng Radijenh on Being Appointed to the High Court of Botswana

We send warm congratulations to Godfrey Olebogeng Radijeng from Botswana who has been appointed Judge of the High Court of Botswana. Justice Radijeng has been an Acting...

The Oxford Hong Kong Mooting Competition 2013

The annual Oxford Hong Kong Mooting Competition took place on 7 September 2013. In its third year, the Competition attracted not only current Oxford students and alumni, but also observers...

University of Oxford Maitland Chambers Inter-Collegiate Mooting Competition 2018

The case concerned the reflective loss principle, and the mooters made innovative arguments challenging the distinction between contractual claims and tortious claims. As acknowledged by the bench,...

Students Reflect on OxHRH

On the fifth anniversary of the OxHRH current and former students reflect on what the Hub means to their own research and the importance of using technology to foster a...

Roxana Willis awarded funds to document human rights abuses in the Cameroon

Cameroon is in the midst of a civil conflict, which is worryingly under-investigated. This project 'Voices from Anglophone Cameroon: A socio-legal analysis of the ongoing civil conflict in Cameroon' will...

Professor Subedi awarded a higher doctorate degree by the University of Oxford

Professor Subedi obtained his DPhil in Law at Oxford in 1993, the first Nepali to obtain a DPhil from Oxford. His thesis was awarded the Dasturzada Pavry...

Václav Janeček wins the Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award

Václav Janeček (DPhil in Law, 2017) won the Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award for his research on data ownership.The Jacques Derrida CEFRES Platform Award annually rewards the...

Building project updates w/c 11 July

There are works planned on site for Saturday morning (9th July) - this will consist of medium to low noisy works. There are no works planned on site on Sunday...

Call for Papers: Deportations & Expulsions

In this issue, we invite contributions analysing, documenting and carrying out critiques of historical and contemporary practices of deportation and expulsion. We are interested in the political and legal scaffolding...

CSLS holds its first Annual Socio-Legal Lecture

Shari'a and Constitutionalism in Islamic Societies: Dialectics of Legality and Normativity, by Professor Abdullahi A. An-Na'im of Emory University, took place on Wednesday 20th May 2015. Please click here to...

Oxford wins prizes at Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot 2021

We are proud to announce that a team representing Oxford won two prizes at the Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot, the world’s top competition law moot hosted by King’s...

Drones, Armed Conflict and Lawful Killing: Is the US at war?

On 12 November, Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights, addressed the use of drones at a seminar hosted by the Oxford Martin Programme on Human...

New paper on coronavirus measures in private law by Johannes Ungerer

The Coronavirus pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to private legal relations. These challenges demand that States provide measures that go beyond traditional private law responses such as force majeure, material adverse...

Oxford team excels at the Fourth International Roman Law Moot

When the panel of five judges from Liège, Naples, Trier, Athens and Vienna awarded the Oxford and Cambridge teams equal ranking points in the Grand Final of the Fourth International...

Development Finance in Emerging Markets: Challenges, Innovations and Results

The conference considered many aspects relating to development finance in emerging markets, and speakers included representatives from international financial institutions, central banks and governments as well as leading legal academics...

Oxford Wins Fourteenth International Roman Law Moot Court Competition

The 14th International Roman Law Moot Court was held online from 7th - 9th April 2021. Hosted by the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, this year’s competition featured a problem question...

Dapo Akande appointed to African Group for Justice and Accountability

Professor Dapo Akande has been appointed as a member of the African Group for Justice and Accountability which is an independent Group of twelve senior African experts on international criminal...

Intérêt légitime as the Oxford French Law Moot becomes international

The Oxford French Law Moot , sponsored by French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel, was held in Oxford on 14th March 2011. In its fourth year, the competition has its...

Call for Papers: Experiencing (in)securities

This workshop builds from the premise that the experience of migration produces inherent vulnerabilities: from physically perilous journeys and exposure to exploitative criminality, to precarious living conditions and desperate survival...

Sanja Bogojević featured in Swedish children's book ‘Researchers’ Dreams’

Congratulations to Dr Sanja Bogojević who features in the children’s book Research Dreams (original title Forskardrömmar). The book tells the story of 60 leading Swedish (or Sweden-based)...

Global Reach of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog

When we launched the OxHRH Blog in June 2012, we had a clear aspiration: to offer an intellectual space that could be resourced and shaped by contributors...

Award for Joint Best Paper at the International PhD Colloquium on the Regulation of New Technologies

Congratulations Hannah!...

The 15th Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot 2017

The 15th annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot competition was held at the Faculty of Law and Pembroke College with 24 teams from across the world. The 2017 problem concerns...