admin 31st January 2017
Associate Professor Nazila Ghanea participates in a BBC World Service Programme ‘Heart and Soul‘. The Bahá’i faith is one of the youngest of the world’s major religions. A faith without borders, most of the Bahá’is live outside of the birth place of the religion, Iran, where they are seen as heretics. After the Islamic revolution […]
admin 30th January 2017
On 24 January 2017, the UK Supreme Court ruled in the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. The Court decided that the Government does not have a prerogative power to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. Instead, an act of parliament will be needed to begin […]
admin 27th January 2017
A short reflection service to mark Holocaust Memorial Day will take place in Town Hall at 11am on Friday 27 January 2017. The public is invited to attend and arrive at 10.50am for a prompt start. The Lord Mayor of Oxford, Councillor Mohammed Altaf-Khan, said: “Holocaust Memorial Day is not only about commemorating past genocides […]
Meghan Campbell 25th January 2017
This conference is being held by the University of Essex.
admin 24th January 2017
The 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize is the first academic writing award to be established by the Oxford Faculty of Law which focuses on legal issues affecting persons with a disability. It has been established to draw attention to the professional challenges faced by legal practitioners and academics who work in fields in […]
admin 23rd January 2017
Does the morality of abortion depend on the moral status of the human fetus? Must the law of abortion presume an answer to the question of when personhood begins? Can a law which permits late abortion but not infanticide be morally justified? These are just some of the questions this book sets out to address. […]
admin 20th January 2017
The UK Supreme Court is expected to deliver a decision on the case Miller and Dos Santos vs. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on January 24th. The question before the Supreme Court is whether the Government or parliament has the power to invoke Article 50 and start the process of the UK […]
admin 19th January 2017
This is an interdisciplinary symposium at which lawyers, literary scholars, philosophers and others discuss the relationship between the novel and conceptions of ‘dignity’ in legal theory and practice. This term they will be discussing the work of the renowned Haitian-American novelist, Edwidge Danticat, examining law and aesthetics in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act and exploring comic […]
admin 18th January 2017
On 17 January 2017, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Belhaj v Jack Straw & Sir Mark Allen and Rahmatullah (No 1) v Ministry of Defence. The judgment made positive reference to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. which had worked closely with Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP) on the relevant point […]
admin 18th January 2017
Participation in these workshops is open to all members of the Berkeley Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law Virtual Study Group, a group of legal scholars and activists from around the globe. Persons interested in joining the study group should contact Professor David Oppenheimer at doppenheimer@law.berkeley.edu Tuesday January 31 at 8:00 am PST (16:00 GMT) […]
admin 17th January 2017
RightsUp #RightNow is a series of mini episodes in the RightsUp podcast series that explores current events dealing with human rights issues. On 11 January, members of a public bill committee in the UK parliament voted against an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill that would have made sex and relationship education compulsory […]
admin 16th January 2017
This seminar series aims to shed light on different aspects of the Syrian conflict in order to provide a better understanding of it. It also discusses the consequences of the situation in Syria for the international community, for humanitarian organisations, but also for the legal infrastructures put in place since the Second World War with regard […]