Victim Participation in International Criminal Justice

Last week, the Centre for Criminology held a seminar titled 'Victim Participation in International Criminal Justice: Real Power or Empty Rhetoric?'. Victim participation is an innovation in the realm of...

Book Launch: The Law of State Immunity

The Law Faculty, together with the Oxford PIL Discussion Group, celebrated the launch of the third edition of The Law of State Immunity  (OUP, 2013) on 11 November 2013. The authors, Lady...

Lavanya Rajamani's lectures published by the Hague Academy

Lavanya Rajamani's Hague Academy lectures have just been published online as part of the "Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law" / Receuil des Cours.The course “Innovation and...

Inaugural Annual Bonavero Human Rights Lecture

On 20 February 2020, the Inaugural Annual Bonavero Human Rights Lecture took place at the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn in London. The lecture titled 'The Democratic Virtues of Human Rights:...

Oxford team wins Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The Oxonian team comprising Ms Gayathree Devi Kalliyat Thazhathuveetil (BCL, Somerville) and Ms Ayushi Agarwal (BCL, Exeter) have won the 11th edition of the Nelson Mandela World...

High-level Meeting: Responsibility to Protect and Human Rights


 The HRFG hosted a High-level experts meeting with the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh.The meeting involved approximately 22 participants, including prominent legal...

OPBP's latest report on the "Regulation of Digital Media and Intermediaries" is published

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) partnered with the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a non-profit digital rights organisation operating in India, to produce a report on the regulation of social media...

Intermediation and Beyond Book Launch

After an introduction by Andrew Shutter from Cleary Gottlieb, the book was introduced by various participants. Professor Louise Gullifer, University of Oxford, described the genesis of the...

Justice Sir Robert Chambers

We are greatly saddened to record the death of Justice Sir Robert Chambers who died on 21 May 2013 at the age of 59. Justice Chambers graduated from The University...

[The IPKat] A Brave New World: EU Trade Mark Reform: AIPPI Event

A copy of the report can be found here....

Peter Mirfield is appointed as Editor of the Law Quarterly Review


 It has been announced that Peter Mirfield, Sir David Lewis Tutor and Fellow in Law at Jesus College and C.U.F. Lecturer in Law will become the editor of the Law...

Professor Hodges speaks at a meeting to discuss the advantages of new technologies for delivering collective redress

Professor Hodges spoke on New Technologies for Delivery Collective Redress at a seminar organised by the Swiss Embassy and EJF in Berlin on 26 June 2018, where...

Article co-authored by Tarun Khaitan receives special mention in 2020 I•CON Prize

The I•CON Prize is awarded for the most outstanding article published in volume 17 of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. This year the Editors decided to make Special Mention...

Landmark discrimination case cites research by Faculty members

In the case of Fraser v. Canada, the Supreme Court ruled that The Royal Canadian Mounted Police pension plan discriminates against women.Citations were taken from work by Tarun Khaitan and...

New publication: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in the Member States

Based on a conference organised under the joint auspices of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the Institute of European and Comparative Law, this volume brings...

Joseph Raz awarded prestigious Tang Prize

He is one of the foremost legal philosophers of our time, and was awarded the prize for:his path-breaking contributions to the rule of law, and for deepening our understanding of...

An evening in conversation with Master Victoria McCloud

The Industrial Law Society is delighted to announce an evening in conversation with Master Victoria McCloud, Master of the Senior Courts, Queen’s Bench Division on Wednesday 2 December 5.45pm. ...

Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis Prize 2019

Border Criminologies seeks to support early career researchers working on the intersections between border control and criminal justice. As part of this goal, we have established a Border Criminologies Masters’...

Start of the OxHRH Michaelmas Seminar Series

The Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH) started its Michaelmas Term seminar series with two excellent seminars on Monday. 
 
 Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at NYU...

What has the European Union ever done for Women? Thursday 6th March

You are warmly invited to a lecture by Professor Simonetta Manfredi of Oxford Brookes Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice.The lecture will consider the influence of female academics, politicians...

The DPP's Saul Lehrfreund interviewed in The Jewish Chronicle

On 29 July, The Jewish Chronicle published an interview with Saul Lehrfreund, Co-Executive Director of the DPRU’s partner organisation The Death Penalty Project (DPP).The interview covers Saul's history of fighting...

Call for Papers: Cultures, Hopes and Conflicts. The Mediterranean between Land and Sea

The Mediterranean between Land and Sea, jointly organized by the ICSR Mediterranean Knowledge and the Consortium Mediterranean Worlds, aims to collect contributions that address the most important questions related to...

ICJ Traineeship Programme – Emma Dunlop

In May 2013 Emma Dunlop (St Anne's College) completed a nine month traineeship in the International Court of Justice as the University of Oxford candidate under the Court’s Traineeship Programme.
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Article co-authored by Jonathan Herring on the "rough sex defence" to murder

An article written by Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law, and Hannah Bows (Durham University) for the Journal of Criminal Law explores several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual...