Happy Fifth Anniversary to the Oxford Human Rights Hub

In 2012 the Oxford Human Rights Hub was established under the auspices of Professor Sandra Fredman. Its founding mission was to bring together academics, practitioners, and policy-makers from across the...

Sandy Fredman leads new research project to develop a human rights approach to sexual and reproductive health

A project led by Sandra Fredman, Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, has been awarded over £49,000 by Oxford's GCR (Global Challenges Research) Fund.In partnership with the World Health...

Oxford places seventh at the European Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot 2021

Oxford’s team comprising of Ayban Elliot-Renhard (MPhil in Law, St Antony’s) and David Horvath-Franco (BCL, Linacre) finished seventh in Europe in the 2021 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition....

'Comparative Human Rights Law' by Sandra Fredman

'Comparative Human Rights Law' by Sandra Fredman has been published by OUP.The books sets out cross-cutting themes which shape the ways judges respond to challenging human rights...

Michael Morrison publishes new paper on regulation of stem cell therapies

Michael Morrison has recently published a paper in Stem Cell Reports on the regulation of stem cell therapies in Japan, with colleagues from the University of Kyoto...

New OxHRH Podcast out! “I Can Hear Another Ambulance”: The Rise of Exponential Inequalities During COVID-19 (Episode 1)

Human rights experts tell stories of inequalities from around the world, revealing how these inequalities have been exacerbated during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This is Episode One of a...

Kalisher Trust-Wadham Student Scholarship - MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice

The Centre for Criminology is offering a scholarship for UK residents applying for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice degree commencing in October 2017. The award will be to the...

Call for Abstracts: International Law - Postgraduate Colloquium Oxford/Cambridge/UCL - deadline 30 April 2014

The deadline on the attached the Call for Abstracts for the Oxford/Cambridge/UCL Colloquium on Current Problems in International Law has been extended to Sunday 11 May 2014. We encourage the...

Oxford team wins the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition 2022

The University of Oxford’s team won the Grand Final of the 10th edition of the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition (formerly known as the ELSA Human Rights Law Moot) held...

The common law and finance: perspectives from the bench

This academic year the Oxford Law Faculty will be hosting lectures by leading appellate judges from four common law jurisdictions (USA, Hong Kong, Australia, and the UK) who have contributed...

Shreya Atrey writes in the Guardian about the limits of online teaching

Shreya's article 'Universities beware: shifting classes online so quickly is a double-edged sword' suggests that universities have done well to adapt to lockdown, but that there are questions over privacy,...

Supreme Court cites Dr E Bjorge

This morning the Supreme Court handed down a judgment in which, at paragraph 212 Lord Carnwath cited an article by Dr Eirik Bjorge (Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow, Jesus College)...

Launch of the OxHRH Documentary on Universal Health Care in Kenya During Pandemic

A right to health requires that everyone have access to good quality health care regardless of their ability to pay. Prior to the pandemic, Kenya piloted...

International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) training day in Oxford - 8 October 2013

International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA) is a group, organised in the main by city law firms in London,  which organises a three month training programme, for young African lawyers (see http://www.ilfa.org.uk/).
 In...

Building project updates w/c 27th June

Beard are now planning to do some works on site on Saturday 25th June until approx 1pm. This will involve the external hoarding being altered, the carpenters continuing with internal...

Guest Twitter Project 2017-2018

Last year Border Criminologies launched its Guest Twitter project, which aimed to give the floor to emerging scholars, researchers, and practitioners from around the world to share their work, ideas,...

Festschrift for Professor Andrew Ashworth

Over a hundred colleagues and students came together in November in a celebration for Professor Andrew Ashworth CBE QC FBA, Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College and...

Trinity Term update from OxHRH

The OxHRH has had an exciting and active Trinity Term. On 18 and 19 May, we hosted an international conference on A Better Future for Women at...

MLF students take initiative and form the Oxford Sustainable Finance Students’ Society

Aware of the urgent need to achieve a fair and orderly transition to a Net Zero economy, MLF students Gabriel Acuña and Stepanyda Badovska decided to form...

Oxford Law Faculty team enters the Tour de France...

Well, almost... In fact, on 4 July Ian Loader and Guy Goodwin-Gill, both of All Souls College, will be riding Stage 1 of the Tour, 191 km from Leeds to...

2nd Annual Oxford-UNSW Copyright Scholars Roundtable

A roundtable organised by Emily Hudson and Michael Handler took place in Sydney on 15 December 2014 which brought together copyright scholars in informal workshop sessions to discuss a number...

Jurisprudence in Oxford Hosts Visiting Professor

Jurisprudence in Oxford would like to welcome Yushuang Zheng, who will be a Visitor at University College until the end of the academic year. Zheng has a...