admin 28th January 2019
Jayna Kothari, an alumnus of Oxford University was recently designated as a Senior Advocate by the Karnataka High Court. She is the youngest woman to be designated Senior Advocate in India. Jayna has been appearing as a Counsel for the last 19 years in India primarily in the High Court of Karnataka, but also in […]
admin 25th January 2019
The University of Oxford is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, to commence from 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment is to a post held by the Department for Continuing Education, with membership of the Law Faculty, and based at the Bonavero Institute of Human […]
admin 21st January 2019
International human rights law is a discourse with a rich and nuanced connection to time. As with other areas of law, it does more than exist in time but, rather, can be understood to create complex times and temporalities through its everyday discourse and practices (see Greenhouse 1989; Grabham 2016). However, sustained attention by human […]
admin 17th January 2019
admin 17th January 2019
Job Title: Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor in International Human Rights Law Job Reference: REQ02147 Application closing date: 15/02/2019 Location: Colchester Salary Senior Lecturer and Reader: £51,630 to £58,090 per annum (pro-rata for part-time), Professor: On the Professorial scale, commensurate with experience and achievements Employment Type: Permanent, Full-time Job category/type: Academic Essex Law School Ranked […]
admin 9th January 2019
The Equal Rights Trust has launched A Past Still Present: Addressing Discrimination and Inequality in Egypt. Combining testimony from survivors of discrimination with extensive desk-based research. The report provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the rights to equality and non-discrimination in Egypt. The report, which is the latest in the Trust’s country report series, is the […]
admin 19th December 2018
Hugh Collins, Gillian Lester and Virginia Mantouvalou (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Labour Law (OUP, 2018) This new publication brings together leading scholars in law and philosophy from around the world to examine the philosophical foundations of labour law. It addresses the political and theoretical challenges posed by globalization, marketization, and technological disruption. The book explores […]
admin 14th December 2018
University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal (U OxHRH J) CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Special Issue: ‘New Beginnings: Indian Constitutional Rights Jurisprudence after Puttaswamy’ In August 2017, a nine-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court delivered a unanimous and wide-ranging opinion affirming that privacy was a fundamental right guaranteed by the Indian Constitution (Puttaswamy v Union of […]
Meghan Campbell 6th December 2018
The judges of the Moore Prize 2018 have announced that Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan is the winning book. A summary of the books by the Chairperson of the judging panel is supported by all of the judges. This year’s finalists for the Moore Prize are a diverse set of fictions that attest, individually and […]
admin 5th December 2018
OxHRH Director Sandra Fredman writes about her new book on the OUP Constitutional Law blog: “The need to study comparative human rights law is not just an academic one: budding lawyers who study the human rights judgements of other countries will be able to cite them in cases before courts in their own countries; judges […]
admin 22nd November 2018
The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law seeks applications for a residential fellowship beginning as early as February 1, 2019 and running through August 31, 2020. Applicants from all countries and relevant disciplines are welcome to apply. The Fellow, working closely with the […]
admin 16th November 2018
Join Whose Knowledge? and Wikimedia UK for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to hack gender bias on the world’s most visited website! When: Friday, November 23, 5-8 PM Where: Rhodes House, Oxford Register: Eventbrite Only around 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors self-identifies as female, and less than 25% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women.When women’s faces […]