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Bail for Immigration Detainees launches legal action to ensure the government holds G4S to account

Bail for Immigration Detainees launches legal action to ensure the government holds G4S to account

Formal legal action has today been launched against the UK government in an attempt to force it to designate security company G4S a ‘High Risk’ strategic supplier in the wake of a number of catastrophic failings. Lawyers from Leigh ...
The Continuing Impact of Brexit on Equality Rights

The Continuing Impact of Brexit on Equality Rights

The government has expressed its commitment to maintain equalities legislation post Brexit. The exclusion of the EU Charter from the UK law after exit day has raised many challenging question on the future of equality law. The ...
Launch of The UK Supreme Court Yearbook-Firing the Brexit Bullet

Launch of The UK Supreme Court Yearbook-Firing the Brexit Bullet

The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 8: 2016-2017 Legal Year The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 8 44 contributions 684 pages Hardbound Edited by Dr Daniel Clarry Published by Appellate Press Available to order ...
Young Lives Report Now Available: “Responding to Children’s Work”

Young Lives Report Now Available: “Responding to Children’s Work”

We are delighted to announce the publication of Responding to children’s work: Evidence from the Young Lives study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, the latest in our summative series drawing on our research from the past 15 ...
Friday in Focus: Fadzai Madzingira

Friday in Focus: Fadzai Madzingira

I am currently a Content Policy Associate for Facebook. The Content Policy team writes and interprets the policies governing what content people can share on Facebook. The team addresses many issues, ranging from freedom of ...
A4ID’s annual Law and International Development Training Programme

A4ID’s annual Law and International Development Training Programme

The only course of its kind in the UK, A4ID’s annual Law and International Development training programme explores the crucial role that law plays in underpinning the international development agenda and in promoting responsible ...
Refugee Studies Centre Seminar: Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law

Refugee Studies Centre Seminar: Of rights and borders: human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery in European law

Dr Vladislava Stoyanova (Lund University) 5:00-6:30pm, Wednesday 14 February Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB Seminar series convenor: Dr Lilian Tsourdi About ...
Call for Papers: The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe

Call for Papers: The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe

Human Rights Seminars at LSE

Human Rights Seminars at LSE

On the 7th of February, LSE Human Rights and LSE Law will be co-hosting a lecture on 'Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom', given byProfessor Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Yale University, and chaired ...
New Publication: Foundations of Indirect Discrimination (Hart, 2018)

New Publication: Foundations of Indirect Discrimination (Hart, 2018)

Indirect discrimination (or disparate impact) concerns the application of the same rule to everyone, even though that rule significantly disadvantages one particular group in society. Ever since its recognition by the Supreme Court of ...
Strategic Litigation in Practice: Workshop

Strategic Litigation in Practice: Workshop

This conference is being organised by Oxfam together with the University of Oxford Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and the Oxford Human Rights Hub and will bring together academics, legal practitioners, NGOs, community activists ...
Learning Lessons from Litigators: Module 4-International Human Rights Law

Learning Lessons from Litigators: Module 4-International Human Rights Law

Strategic litigation has predominantly focused on domestic legal processes. By ratifying treaties and conventions that protect the right to education, many states have agreed to be held accountable on the international plane. The UN ...