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We are delighted to announce that Professor
@DapoAkandeLaw
has been appointed Chichele Professor of Public International Law!
Professor Akande will take up the post in October 2023. Read more on our website ⬇️
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Today we celebrate the birthday of Cornelia Sorabji, the first woman to study law at Oxford
@SomervilleOx
and India's first female advocate. She was born 154 years ago but her pioneering legacy lives on.
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#HappyInternationalWomensDay
from Professor Anne Davies, the first female Dean of the Faculty of Law
@UniofOxford
#InternationalWomensDay
#BalanceforBetter
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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Mindy Chen-Wishart, Professor of the Law of Contract and a Fellow in Law
@MertonCollege
has been appointed the new Dean of the Faculty. She will take over from Anne Davies in October.
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🎉Many congratulations to Ndjodi Ndeunyema who has won the inaugural Dr Surya Subedi Prize for the DPhil in Law! 🎉🏆
Read all about Ndjodi winning the award on the
@OxfordLawFac
site.
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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of John Armour, Professor of Law and Finance, to the Deanship of the Faculty, with effect from Michaelmas Term 2023.
Read more ⬇️
#OxfordLaw
#LawNews
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👏
@ProfSChoudhry
, Professor at
@OxfordLawFac
and Hackney Fellow in Law at
@wadhamoxford
, has been nominated by the United Kingdom as a candidate for the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2025 to 2028.
➡️
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It should not have to be said, but abuse and harassment of our Russian students because of the acts of the Russian Government have no place in our community.
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The Oxford Law Faculty unequivocally condemns the racist abuse of our student Ndjodi Ndeunyema
@Ndjodi_ML
and stands in solidarity with him.
These sum up my last 30days. A viral LinkedIn post with ~a million views reflecting on finishing my DPhil. Then an avalanche of threats & vile abusive tweets after airing my views on
#RhodesMustFall
,
#BlackLivesMatter
& decolonial education. “Black man you’re on your own” - Biko
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Register by 5 July to join us this summer & deepen your understanding of English & Welsh law with Oxford University’s world famous Law Faculty.
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We’re delighted to announce that Prof Ian Loader
@LoaderIan
@OxfordCrim
has been elected as a Fellow of the
@BritishAcademy_
in recognition of his position as one of the leading criminologists in the English-speaking world.
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Congratulations to Timothy Endicott who has been elected to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law.
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What if your boss was an algorithm?
@ERC_Research
has awarded funding to
@JeremiasPrassl
to examine ‘Employment law for a world of algorithmic management’ with the aim of innovating legal frameworks for workplaces increasingly managed by algorithms.
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of Emeritus Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Joseph Raz. He was one of the last remaining giants of jurisprudence and philosophy, and will be fondly remembered by Faculty members and past students alike.
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😊Congratulations to
@El_Katsampouka
who has been awarded the 2020-21 Subedi Prize for best doctoral dissertation for her thesis 'Rethinking Punitive Damages'.
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🎉🎉🎉🙌Please join us in congratulating
@OxfordLawFac
alumni Dapo Akande (
@UKILCCampaign
),
@Phoebe_Okowa
and
@MPaparinskis
for being elected to the
@UN
international law commission last month!🙌🎉🎉🎉
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📢 The Dean of the Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Iyiola Solanke to the Jacques Delors Chair of EU Law following the retirement of Stephen Weatherill.
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The Faculty remembers the great Joseph Raz with reminiscences from former students and colleagues, a list of his publications, tributes published on other channels and some of his evocative photographs.
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A big warm
#WelcometoOxford
to everyone arriving for their first term
@UniofOxford
! We eagerly looking forward to seeing and meeting you all in the coming weeks.
#GoingtoOxford
#OxfordLaw
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On 15 May, international
#humanrights
lawyer, Amal Clooney, will be coming to give a lecture with Professor Philippa Webb.
Amal is an alum of BA Jurisprudence
@OxfordLawFac
and is coming to Oxford to inspire the next generation of human rights lawyers.
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This Summer deepen your understanding of English & Welsh law with Oxford University’s world-renowned Law Faculty.
Don't miss out! Early Bird offer closes *4th June*
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To mark
#BlackHistoryMonth
we interviewed students, academics and alumni about their backgrounds, experiences, challenges and goals. Take a look at the first profile - Dr Joel Modiri, the 2019
@Africa_Oxford
Law Fellow.
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🎉The Law Faculty is delighted to announce the winner of the Subedi Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the 2021/22 academic year to
@Jason_Brickhill
.
Read the full news article here➡️
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The
@OxfordLawFac
is hiring 4 Associate Profs! Info session, 2 March, to demystify our federal structure & tutorial system, w/ ViceDean
@tarunkhaitan
, Dr
@ImogenGoold
& others. Chaired by
@Eusebius
. Anonymous attendance OK. Women & minorities esp welcome.
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We are delighted to announce four new scholarships for UK Black or ethnic minority doctoral candidates in Law.
These needs-based scholarships will provide full Home fees and maintenance for three years.
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We are delighted that Professor Andrew Burrows, Professor of the Law of England, has been appointed to
@UKSupremeCourt
alongside a new President and three other new justices.
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It’s a pleasure to be joined by Amal Clooney and Philippa Webb this evening for a discussion, chaired by
@SandraFredman
, director of
@OxHRH
. The talk is held at
@StHughsCollege
. We will be live tweeting the talk in the form of a thread!
@ClooneyFDN
@BonaveroIHR
@KCL_Law
#PIL
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Kate O’Regan, Director of
@BonaveroIHR
has been appointed South Africa’s
#covid19
Designated Judge
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We are thrilled to hear that Prof Dapo Akande,
@UKILCCampaign
,
@BlavatnikSchool
is the first ever candidate to be nominated by both the UK & Nigeria for the International Law Commission.
Find out more 👉
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NEWS | Announcing the Faculty’s first Associate Professor of Asian Laws
@oxfordlawfac
is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ngoc Son Bui who will take up the role from August 2021
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We are thrilled that Oxford Law has been ranked
#2
in the QS World University Rankings
@worlduniranking
by subject for the second year running.
#QSWUR
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The invasion of Ukraine has shocked us all. Our Ukrainian students and their families have our support and solidarity at this dangerous and uncertain time.
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Our next
#spotlight
feature is Susan Bright, Professor of Land Law & McGregor Fellow
@OxfordLawFac
, who shows the impact of her research on issues that arose since the terrible fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017.
Read
@suejbright
whole interview here👉
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Congratulations to Judith Freedman who has been appointed Chair of the Tax Law Review Committee
@TheIFS
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📢 Special announcement! On 15 May,
@OxfordLawFac
will welcome Amal Clooney, Human Rights lawyer
@ClooneyFDN
, and Prof Philippa Webb,
@KCL_Law
, to
@StHughsCollege
where they will discuss ‘Waging Justice in an Age of Authoritarianism’ ⬇️
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We are delighted to be hosting an exhibition at the St Cross Building in collaboration with
@First100years
. 'A Hundred Years of Women in Law' celebrates the centenary of the the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act,
#first100years
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Congratulations to
@JeremiasPrassl
@OxfordLawFac
and
@abicadams
(Economics) who won the Wedderburn Prize
@ModernLRev
for their work on employment tribunal fees.
#employmentlaw
#Tribunal
#courtfees
#accesstojustice
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Congratulations to
@JeremiasPrassl
on being awarded the title of Professor of Law.
Congratulations to Magdalen Fellow Jeremias Adams-Prassl
@JeremiasPrassl
who has been awarded the title of Professor of Law in this year's University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction awards
@UniofOxford
@OxfordLawFac
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'I can tell you that choosing to study at Oxford was one of the best decisions of my life'
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"The cladding crisis' is now getting much-deserved media & political attention. It presents a major failing of our system of principle-based regulation." We put
@suejbright
& her important work for Housing After Grenfell in the spotlight 🔦
Learn more 👉
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“I am humbled to have been co-nominated by Nigeria for the International Law Commission, alongside the UK. This is a great honour."
Prof Dapo Akande,
@UKILCCampaign
,
@BlavatnikSchool
talks about being the first ever candidate nominated by both👉
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🥳 Huge congratulations to Andrew Higgins, Roderick Bagshaw and Ngoc Son Bui who have all been awarded the title of full Professor in this year's Recognition of Distinction exercise.
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📢 Apply now to study the part-time MSc in International Human Rights Law!
#Scholarships
are available, some aimed specifically at students from Asian and Africa.
More info on our website ⬇
#HumanRights
#lawtwitter
#Scholarships
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Congratulations to Dr Katie Johnston, our Law DPhil alumna, who has won the 2023 Nicolas Berggruen Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics
@UniofOxford
! Read more 👇
@LivUniSLSJ
#LawNews
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We welcome David Enoch who will be our new Professor of the Philosophy of Law from 1 Oct!
Prof. Enoch joins us from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he holds the Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law. Read more ⬇️
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We all wish you well and thank you for being a wonderful Dean.
The END of my Deanship
@OxfordLawFac
is also
the END of my almost 32 years
@UniofOxford
and
@MertonCollege
I will remain Emerita professor of both & Visiting prof
@OxfordLawFac
😭
I come almost full circle back to ASIA as
a Provost's Chair
@nus_law
the next adventure begins😊
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Two new additions to BCL/MJur options list: Philosophy, Law, and Politics and International Human Rights Law,
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, which made it possible for women to qualify as barristers or solicitors for the first time. Check out '100 years of Women in Law at Oxford' project to find out more.
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Congratulations to Professors Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Kristin Van Zwieten, Sandy Steel, Nicolaos Stavropoulos, Glen Loutzenhiser, Imogen Goold, Nazila Ghanea, Matthew Dyson & Sanja Bogojevic!
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The 2024
@UniofOxford
team ranked among the top 4 teams in the world in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2024. This matches the best result that
#Oxford
has previously achieved in the Competition, last attained in 2015.
➡️
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Congratulations to
@TiranaHassan
who has been named the next executive director of
@hrw
! Tirana is an alumna of
@UniofOxford
Master’s in International Human Rights Law which is now being administered by us
@OxfordLawFac
.
#OxfordAlumni
#HumanRights
#LawNews
@oxfordalumni
I’m incredibly proud to be appointed
@hrw
’s new Executive Director as we continue to press for
#humanrights
, dignity, and equality for all. It's a true privilege to work with my extraordinary colleagues & our partners to build a rights-respecting future.
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Proving academic research can
#impact
court decisions: Prof Dapo Akande and Judge Malcolm Wallis discuss the importance of Akande’s work in a South African Supreme Court ruling
#OxfordImpacts
#PIL
Watch full conversation:
@UniofOxford
@keitoxford
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Prof Jeremias Adams-Prassl comments in
@FinancialTimes
on how in times of the
#covid19
crisis, employment rights for gig economy workers are more important than ever.
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Series of Hague Academy lectures by
@LavanyaRajamani
on 'Innovation and Experimentation in the International Climate Change Regime' have just been published online as part of the Collected Courses of the The Hague Academy of International Law.
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In a "a quest for equality of opportunity for women" research by
@tarunkhaitan
&
@SandraFredman
was cited in the Indian Supreme Court in an indirect
#discrimination
case won by two female army officers.
Find out more about it from
@wadhamoxford
here👉
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Thank you to
@HabenGirma
for her wonderful talk last night.
Rahul Bajaj is a Rhodes Scholar here at Oxford. He’s a blind lawyer, too. We had a fantastic talk tonight at the Faculty of Law and tomorrow we’ll be doing an event at Rhodes House.
#JusticeIsBlind
@UniofOxford
@OxfordLawFac
@rhodes_trust
@Rahul400
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Equality is the responsibility of us all: Baroness Hale delivers the Inaugural Equality Lecture at the Faculty of Law.
#equality
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Congratulations to Victoria!
And just like that with no corrections she’s now Doctor .
@VictoriaDomitil
(DPhil) in Law .
@OxfordLawFac
Great work lady!
#mysister
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A new research project led by
@LindaMulcahy7
@OxfordCSLS
aims to examine the lack of diversity in the upper echelons of the UK legal professions and the relative invisibility of women lawyers in positions of power.
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We are delighted that a project led by Prof John Armour
@OxfordLawFac
has been awarded £1.2m to explore the potential & limitations of using artificial intelligence in support of
#LegalServices
#AI
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A huge congratulations to Leah Trueblood in the
@BonaveroIHR
and
@esposito_france
in
@OxfordCrim
who have both been awarded £10,000 by the
@BritishAcademy_
to further develop their research projects.
Find out more 👉
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Congratulations to Dapo!
We proudly announce that 'Human Rights and 21st Century Challenges' has just been published by
@OUPAcademic
! A huge congrats to co-eds Dapo Akande,
@KuosmaJ
, Helen McDermott &
@dominicroser
, as well as our contributors!
@BlavatnikSchool
@oxmartinschool
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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that seven Faculty members have received the title of full Professor in the University's Recognition of Distinction Awards.
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Tonight, join
@TsillyDagan
at 5pm in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre for her Professorial Inaugural Lecture, "Tax And Globalization: Towards A New Social Contract" ⬇️
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We are very proud to celebrate 2 years of
@BonaveroIHR
It’s our birthday!
Today marks 2 years since the Bonavero Institute was formally opened at
@MansfieldOxford
by the late Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General (1997-2006). You can watch the opening here:
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We are delighted to be hosting a panel discussion on Race Equality in Higher Education on 28 Oct featuring Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi
@BristolUni
Prof Iyiola Solanke
@Law_Leeds
& Dr Machilu Zimba
@UniofOxford
Register to join in online.
#BHM
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Congratulations to Professors
@JeremiasPrassl
and
@abicadams
of
@OxfordEconomics
on being shortlisted for an ESRC Impact in Public Policy prize for work that helped win the case against Employment Tribunal Fees last July!
#OxImpacts
@keitoxford
Thrilled to be shortlisted for an
@ESRC
Impact in Public Policy prize for work with
@JeremiasPrassl
on Access to justice & economic incentives to bring Tribunal claims! Fingers crossed for interview this week 😬
#whatEconomistsReallyDo
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Shreya Atrey has been appointed Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law
@OxfordConted
and the Faculty of Law, based
@BonaveroIHR
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Book launch! 📖
Dr
@naomiruthnr
will be holding a book launch on 15 June at 5.30pm for "The Right of the Child to Play"
@BonaveroIHR
. Professors
@jojohjhj
,
@lexpsy
and
@helenstalford
, and Law DPhil candidate
@chelseawallis_
are additional speakers ⬇️
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A big
#WelcometoOxford
to everyone arriving today for their first term
@UniofOxford
! We look forward to welcoming you all in the coming weeks.
#GoingtoOxford
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Join the us and the Oxford Law Black Alumni in marking
#StephenLawrenceDay2021
with a panel discussion on Institutional racism and the criminal justice system with
@mryderqc
&
@EddieBruceJones
chaired by
@sfiso_benard
one of our BCL students.
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Join
@MindyWishart
at one of her alumni webinars in the next few weeks when she will talk about
#RaceMeToo
and her vision for the future of
@OxfordLawFac
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'Loss of contact has negatively impacted children’s relationships with their imprisoned parents & their mental health... Children may not understand why contact has stopped & blame themselves.'
@ShonaMinson
on the devastating impact of
#Covid19
👉
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The Faculty is delighted to announce the endowment of the HLA Hart Visiting Fellowship - held at
@UnivOxford
and made possible by a transformative gift from Baron Mance.
Read the full news article ➡️
#Oxford
#Fellowship
#Philosophy
#Politics
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Have you spotted our brand-new door panel? 👀 Here's the before and after!
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👏🏽 100 years ago Ivy Williams became the first woman to be called to the bar of England and Wales. She paved the way for future generations of female legal professionals and teachers of law.
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The
@BonaveroIHR
is seeking to recruit an outstanding human rights scholar as a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research. The successful candidate will engage in their own research, lead their own research projects, and raise research funding ⬇️
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We look forward to welcoming you
@calibasak
I’m really looking forward to joining
@BonaveroIHR
as head of research and
@OxfordLawFac
as professor international law in the new year. Sad to be leaving great colleagues and the academic environment at
@HertieCFR
, but excited for the next step and the move back to the UK.
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"Unlocking the potential of Artificial Intelligence for English Law" webinar series starts September 8- Register now to explore how emerging technologies 🤖 are changing the world of Law!
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"I would be very worried if people said that using AI in recruitment only has benefits."
@BBCNews
interviews
@SandraWachter5
about AI bias & discrimination in hiring, from her latest paper , results of which
@amazon
implemented.
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Released today!
@OxfordLawFac
's Sandy Steel has co-edited "Private Law and Practical Reason: Essays on John Gardner's Private Law Theory" with Haris Psarras (
@UoSLawSchool
) in honour of the late Professor John Gardner. Read more ⬇️
@OUPLaw
#LawBooks
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⏰The deadline is fast approaching to apply for the 2-year MSc in International Human Rights Law. Scholarships are available to students from selected countries. Deadline 12:00 midday GMT 19 January!
#internationalhumanrights
#MScHumanRights
#oxfordlaw
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A lack of funding often prevents graduate offer holders from accepting their place at Oxford. The Dean's Scholars Fund was set up to provide meaningful support for these students. Find out how our BCL scholar, Niamh, benefitted from the fund ⬇️
'It was only the day that I got the scholarship that I was really able to celebrate being accepted onto the course.'
BCL scholar Niamh reflects on the support that allowed her to seize the life-changing opportunity to study
@OxfordLawFac
. Watch now ➡️
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Based
@MansfieldOxford
since 2017, the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights aims to use world-class research into
#humanrightslaw
to foster social engagement with
#humanrights
issues beyond the academy. To learn more, visit or follow
@BonaveroIHR
.
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Oxford Law Undergraduates: Passionate about
#equality
and
#diversity
reforms in law? Take part in our essay competition. More details at:
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What is the role of law in society? This is one of the questions that researchers
@OxfordCSLS
look at, across a range of different societies, combining multi-disciplinary expertise. See our website for more about the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
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Have (or about to have) a DPhil/PhD in Law? ✅
Passionate about human rights, democracy and the rule of law?✅
@BonaveroIHR
is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow! Closing date 19 Nov. Find out more here:
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What's on your head?
@OxfordLawFac
alum Alexandra Wilson (
@EssexBarrister
) shared with
@cbeebieshq
what her barrister wig means to her.
Watch the whole episode 👇
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Congratulations to our Faculty members who have received the title of full Professor in the
@UniofOxford
2020 Recognition of Distinction Awards. Congratulations!
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A team of Oxford Law Students wins the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition in Strasbourg.
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We're delighted to announce that Tarunabh Khaitan has been awarded the 2018 Letten Prize for his research on the root causes of inequality and injustice in today's society.
@tarunkhaitan
@lettenprize
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❓Do you want to learn about UK law?
Our 2 week online Introduction to Law programme features 8 core modules including EU law, criminal law and tort law. Plus you will experience Oxford-style tutorials with legal experts.
#oxfordlaw
#facultyoflaw
#summerprogramme
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Career tip from Anne Davies, Dean of the Law Faculty:
'Remember that you can grow into a role – you don’t have to know everything from day one.'
Join the conversation to mark International Womens Day with career tips from our Oxford Women in Law network.
#IWD2020
#OxWomeninLaw
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We are delighted to announce that Louise Gullifer has been elected as a Fellow of
@BritishAcademy_
in recognition of her achievements as one of the leading academic commercial lawyers in the UK.
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On 5 June we are hosting a webinar on the legal, policy and ethical challenges of
#COVID
ー19.
Legal scholars will explore the role and challenges for law as part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences.
Register now!
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The
@OxfordLawFac
is hiring 4 Associate Profs! Info session, 2 March, to demystify our federal structure & tutorial system, w/ ViceDean
@tarunkhaitan
, Dr
@ImogenGoold
& others. Chaired by
@Eusebius
. Anonymous attendance OK. Women & minorities esp welcome.
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First day of term
@UniofOxford
! We look forward to seeing you all in the coming weeks.
#GoingtoOxford
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To mark National
#StephenLawrenceDay
, the Faculty invited the Rt Hon David Lammy MP (
@DavidLammy
) to discuss institutional racism & the criminal justice system with two of our BCL students,
@samjabailey
&
@josiahsenu
.
Read👉
Watch👉
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