Faculty of Law

The Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford is one of the largest in the United Kingdom. It is a federation of thirty law schools in the colleges of the University. Legal scholars in the colleges and University are members of the Faculty, which coordinates and supports the teaching and writing of one hundred fifty three academics. We admit and support and teach and examine a diverse and outstanding body of students from all parts of the British Isles and from all over the world. Our student-to-faculty ratio is approximately 7:1.

Faculty of Law

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Title	Description	People	Date
Moving Targets: Reputational Risk, Rights and Accountability in Punishment	Professor Kelly Hannah-Moffat, University of Toronto, gives a talk on human rights within the Canadian Prison system	Kelly Hannah-Moffat	4 June, 2014
The International Court of Justice's Approach to Injuries Suffered by Individuals	Judge Giorgio Gaja, International Court of Justice - 8 May 2014	Giorgio Gaja	21 May, 2014
The effect of investment treaty arbitration on WTO dispute settlement: Tobacco plain packaging disputes and beyond	Dr Anastasios Gourgourinis, University of Athens - 1 May 2014	Anastasios Gourgourinis	21 May, 2014
Lecture III: Law in Globalization	Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School - 13 May 2014	Harold Koh	21 May, 2014
Lecture II: Law of Globalization	Harold Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School - 8 May 2014	Harold Koh	21 May, 2014
Excision, Exclusion and Exile: Australia's Refugee Policy and Responsibility Shifting in the Asia-Pacific	Dr Michelle Foster, Melbourne Law School	Michelle Foster	16 May, 2014
Are Arbitrators Political?	Dr M Waibel, University of Cambridge	Michael Waibel	1 April, 2014
Whaling: the Gordian knot of animal rights and cultural diversity	Professor M Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London	Malgosia Fitzmaurice	1 April, 2014
Trashed, or treasured? Which will be the fate of international dispute resolution?	The Honorable Charles N Brower, 20 Essex Street	Charles N Brower	1 April, 2014
Culture Clashes in International Criminal Law	Professor E van Sliedregt, VU University of Amsterdam	E van Sliedregt	1 April, 2014
Do Dead Civilians have Human Rights? International Legal Obligations towards Civilian Casualties in Armed Conflict	Professor S Breau, University of Reading	S Breau	1 April, 2014
Women’s experiences of detention	Sarah Campbell (Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID), UK)	Sarah Campbell	31 March, 2014
So many ways to love you: Negotiating love in a prison	Rimple Metha (Jadavpur University, India)	Rimple Metha	31 March, 2014
A prison that isn't a prison: Globalization, mobility control, and state power	Thomas Ugelvik (University of Oslo, Norway)	Thomas Ugelvik	31 March, 2014
Time, space, and trust: Some methodological challenges of researching immigration detention	Sarah Turnbull (University of Oxford, UK)	Sarah Turnbull	31 March, 2014
Experiencing immigration detention	Kizza Musinguizi (London, UK)	Kizza Musinguizi	31 March, 2014
Prisons as places to negotiate ‘illegality’	Steven De Ridder (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)	Steven De Ridder	31 March, 2014
Borders: A view from ‘nowhere’	Rimple Metha (Jadavpur University, India)	Rimple Metha	31 March, 2014
From banlieue youth to undocumented migrant: Illegalized foreign-nationals in penal institutions and public space	Carolina Sanchez Boe (Aarhus University)	Carolina Sanchez Boe	31 March, 2014
Strengths and constraints of the prison life: Identity and sense of belonging of imprisoned maras in Honduras	Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera	Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera	31 March, 2014
Trajectories and identities of foreign national women: Rethinking prison through the lens of gender and citizenship	Raquel Matos (Catolica University)	Raquel Matos	31 March, 2014
The neocolonial prison and the ‘mark’ of whiteness in current Argentina: Race, gender and chronopolitics in media accounts of incarcerated immigrant population	Victoria Pereyra (Warwick University)	Victoria Pereyra	31 March, 2014
The End of Settler Societies and Why it Changes Immigration	Professor Catherine Dauvergne, University of British Columbia	Catherine Dauvergne	26 February, 2014
The End of Settler Societies and Why it Changes Immigration	Professor Catherine Dauvergne, University of British Columbia	Catherine Dauvergne	26 February, 2014
The Challenge of Adjudicating Social Democratic Values in a Capitalist Society	Judge Dhaya Pillay, Judge of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg and Durban	Dhaya Pillay	26 February, 2014
International Law and the Emergence of Mercantile Capitalism: Grotius to Smith	Professor M Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki	M Koskenniemi	11 February, 2014
International law and foreign policy: some practical questions	Mr Qudsi Rasheed, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)	Qudsi Rasheed	5 February, 2014
What is an International Crime?	Professor K J Heller, SOAS/ University of Melbourne	Kevin Heller	5 February, 2014
Behind Marx's "hidden abode": toward an expanded conception of capitalism	Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at The New School	Nancy Fraser	5 February, 2014
Child Soldiers - Protected beyond Gender? An International Criminal Law Perspective	Patricia Sellers, Special Adviser on International Criminal Law Prosecution Strategies and Visiting Fellow, Oxford University	Patricia Sellers	5 December, 2013
Drone Attacks: Promotion and Protection of Human Hights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism	Ben Emmerson QC, Matrix Chambers, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.	Ben Emmerson	14 November, 2013
Stigma and exclusion to rights and dignity: a human rights approach to poverty	Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights - 5 Nov 2013.	Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona	11 November, 2013
Democratic Statehood in International Law	Dr Jure Vidmar, University of Oxford - 2 May 2013.	Jure Vidmar	18 July, 2013
Why Sentencing Matters	Professor Andrew Ashworth - Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture Series - 23 May 2013.	Andrew Ashworth	29 May, 2013
South Africa's Constitutional Court: Battling populist political pressure	Hugh Corder, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town - 15 May 2013.	Hugh Corder	15 May, 2013
Responses to collective religious hatred: Elements of a human rights-based coping strategy	Professor Heiner Bielefeldt, Professor of Human Rights and Human Rights Policy, University of Erlangen and UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief - 26 April 2013.	Heiner Bielefeldt	2 May, 2013
Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime	Professor Payam Akhavan, McGill University - 21 February 2013.	Payam Akhavan	19 April, 2013
Religion, Equality and Discrimination	Aileen McColgan, King's College London and Matrix Chambers - 13 March 2013.	Aileen McColgan	19 April, 2013
Transnational Organized Crime at Sea	Dr Efthymios Papastavridis, Academy of Athens - 24 January 2013.	Efthymios Papastavridis	25 February, 2013
Placing Filipino Caregivers in Canadian Homes: Regulating Transnational Employment Agencies	Judy Fudge, Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, Canada; Visiting Senior Fellow at the European Institute in Florence and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Kent Law School - 20 February 2013.	Judy Fudge	20 February, 2013
The Investment Treaty System as Judicial Review: Some Remarks on its Nature, Scope and Standards	Dr Federico Ortino, King's College London - 7 February 2013.	Federico Ortino	20 February, 2013
Interpreting Human Rights in New Zealand and the UK: Expansive but Narrow, Narrow but Expansive	Kris Gledhill, University of Auckland - 17 January 2013.	Kris Gledhill	23 January, 2013
An Agenda for the Prevention of Human Trafficking: Non-Discrimination and Empowerment	Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - 20 November 2012.	Maria Grazia Giammarinaro	4 December, 2012
The relations between jus ad bellum and jus in bello: independence versus conflation	Dr V Koutroulis, Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law - 29 November 2012.	Vaios Koutroulis	4 December, 2012
Immunities and Extradition: The Curious Case of Khurts Bat	Dr R O'Keefe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge - 15 November 2012.	Roger O'Keefe	22 November, 2012
Is the Rome Statute Binding on Individuals?	Dr M Milanovic, Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham - 1 November 2012.	Marko Milanovic	9 November, 2012
Implications of America's Desegregation Landmark in the World	Martha Minnow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Dean of the Harvard Law School - 20 June 2012.	Martha Minnow	9 November, 2012
The Independence of Scotland	Professor J Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge - 25 October 2012.	James Crawford	30 October, 2012
Are investments still protected under Intra-EU BITs?	David Reed, Partner, International Arbitration Division, Arnold and Porter - 18 October 2012.	David Reed	30 October, 2012
Mr. Salomon and M. Diallo: Personality and Protection in International Law	Professor H Thirlway, Former Principal Legal Secretary, International Court of Justice - 11 October 2012.	Hugh Thirlway	30 October, 2012
Taking Direct Discrimination Cases out of the Straightjacket of Crude Comparator Analysis: A Shift to a Stronger Principle of Equality	Justice Kevin Bell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria - 16 October 2012.	Kevin Bell	26 October, 2012
The European Court of Justice's treatment of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights	Gráinne De Búrca, NYU School of Law - 8 October 2012.	Gráinne De Búrca	26 October, 2012
Allocating Risk Through Contract	Evidence from M and A.	John C Coates	12 June, 2012
The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank	Why Financial Reform tends to be Frustrated and Systemic risk perpetuated.	John C Coffee	12 June, 2012
How public international law has been made, found and proven from the 17th to the 21st century	2011 Youard Lecture in Legal History.	Stefan Talmon	1 June, 2011
Impact and Influence in Contemporary Criminology: The Question of Feminism	The 2011 Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture was delivered by Professor Frances Heidensohn of the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.	Frances Heidensohn	1 June, 2011
Valedictory Seminar by Andrew Bridges, Chief Inspector of Probation	On 16 May 2011, the Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, hosted Mr Andrew Bridges' valedictory lecture on the occasion of his retirement as Chief Inspector of Probation.	Andrew Bridges	19 May, 2011
Leverhulme Lecture 2010: The Future of Securitisation	Third and Final lecture in the 2010 Leverhulme Lecture series held in the Law Faculty, St Cross college in November 2010.	Steven Schwarcz	20 December, 2010
Leverhulme Lecture 2010: Regulating Complexity in Financial Markets	Second leverhulme lecture in the 2010 series held in the Law Faculty, St Cross College in November.	Steven Schwarcz	20 December, 2010
Leverhulme Lecture 2010: The Global Financial Crisis and Systematic Risk	First of the Leverhulme Lectures held in the Law Faculty of St Cross College November 2010.	Steven Schwarcz	20 December, 2010
13. How Statute Law is Made Lecture	Lecture by Stephen Laws, First Parliamentary Council, on the making of statutes. Given at the University of Oxford on 11 October 2010.	Stephen Laws	30 November, 2010
12. The Law Commissioner: The role of the Law Commission in the Legislative Process	Interview with Lord Justice Etherton, Chairman of the Law Commission 2006-2009, on the role of the Law Commission in the legislative process.	Lord Justice Etherton, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
11. The Legal Adviser: The Role of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the Legislative Process	Interview with Murray Hunt, Legal Adviser to Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on the role of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the legislative process.	Murray Hunt, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
10. Parliamentary Officials: The Parliamentary procedure for making an Act of Parliament	Interview with Parliamentary officials David Natzler from the Public Bill Office in the House of Commons and Sarah Jones from the House of Lords on The Parliamentary procedure for making an Act of Parliament.	David Natzler, Sarah Jones, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
09. The Drafter: Pre-legislative scrutiny of Bills and the role of Parliamentary Counsel as a Bill proceeds through Parliament	Interview with Stephen Laws, First Parliamentary Counsel, on pre-legislative scrutiny of Bills and the role of Parliamentary Counsel as a Bill proceeds through Parliament.	Stephen Laws, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
08. The Drafter: How Parliamentary Counsel sets about drafting an Act of Parliament	Interview with Stephen Laws, First Parliamentary Counsel, on how Parliamentary Counsel sets about drafting an Act of Parliament.	Stephen Laws, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
07. The Drafter: The role of Parliamentary Counsel at the planning stage for legislation	Interview with Stephen Laws, First Parliamentary Counsel on the role of Parliamentary Counsel at the planning stage for legislation.	Stephen Laws, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
06. The Departmental Lawyer: The role of officials in a department in handling the passage of a Bill through Parliament	Interview with Michelle Dyson, a Departmental Lawyer, on the role of officials in a department in handling the passage of a Bill through Parliament.	Michelle Dyson, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
05. The Departmental Lawyer: The detailed development by a Government Department of proposals for legislation	Interview with Michelle Dyson, Departmental Lawyer, on the detailed development by a Government Department of proposals for legislation.	Michelle Dyson, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
04. The Departmental Lawyer: The process within a Government Department for development of the policy ideas underlying legislative proposals	Interview with Michelle Dyson, Departmental Lawyer on the process within a Government Department for development of the policy ideas underlying legislative proposals.	Michelle Dyson, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
03. The Politician: A Minister's role in taking a Bill through Parliament	Interview with Lord Falconer on a minister's role in taking a Bill through Parliament.	Lord Falconer, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
02. The Politician: How a Government Minister gets proposals accepted for presentation as part of the Government's legislative programme	How a Government Minister gets proposals accepted for presentation as part of the Government's legislative programme. Interview with Lord Falconer of Thoroton, former Lord Chancellor.	Lord Falconer, Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
01. Introduction to Making Legislation series	Phillip Sales, High Court Judge and Statute Law Society member introduces the Making Legislation series which will look at how new laws are created.	Phillip Sales	30 November, 2010
Scandinavian Exceptionalism: Five Dangers Ahead	Nils Christie of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Oslo presented the 5th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture entitled, 'Scandinavian Exceptionalism: Five Dangers Ahead'.	Nils Christie	27 May, 2010
Mooting - A Short Introduction	This video includes footage taken at the 2009 Shearman and Sterling LLP University of Oxford Moot Competition and features short interviews with participants, who explain what mooting is and talk about their experiences mooting in Oxford.	Stefanie Wilkins, Emily Mackenzie, Tessa Khan, Stephen Kosmin, Hannah Noyce	8 June, 2009
Shearman and Sterling Moot Competition 2009 - semi-final	The Shearman and Sterling LLP University of Oxford Moot Competition has become established as the most prestigious mooting competition within the University. This video features one of the semi-final moots in the 2009 competition.	Hannah Noyce, Emily Mackenzie, Stephen Kosmin	8 June, 2009
Mock Law Interview	This video shows a mock interview for an undergraduate place to study law.	Ben McFarlane	10 March, 2009

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