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Call for Papers: International Conference on State Boundary Affairs

Call for Papers: International Conference on State Boundary Affairs

Livestream: Prosecuting and Punishing the Crimes Against Humanity or Even Possible Genocide Committed by Daesh

Livestream: Prosecuting and Punishing the Crimes Against Humanity or Even Possible Genocide Committed by Daesh

Tomorrow, 25 April 2017, a hearing on genocide perpetrated by ISIS against religious minorities will take place at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The event, a joint hearing of the Assembly’s Political ...
RightsUp #RightNow Podcast-A Precarious Future? Examining the UK Human Rights Act

RightsUp #RightNow Podcast-A Precarious Future? Examining the UK Human Rights Act

The Human Rights Act incorporated the rights guaranteed in the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. In this episode, we look at the Human Rights Act in a past interview with Sir Keir Starmer, MP for Holborn and St. ...
OxHRH Trinity Term Card

OxHRH Trinity Term Card

The OxHRH Seminars discuss the latest developments in human rights including the protect of official data, human rights review in India and the UK and the challenges of business and human rights. There is no need to sign up and the ...
Invitation to Tender: Reproting on Ireland’s Compliance with UNCAT in Places of Penal Detention in Ireland

Invitation to Tender: Reproting on Ireland’s Compliance with UNCAT in Places of Penal Detention in Ireland

About IPRT and our Work The Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) is Ireland's leading non-governmental organisation campaigning for the rights of people in prison and the progressive reform of Irish penal policy. Established in 1994, ...
Balanced Constitutionalism-Chintan Chandrachud (Quinn Emanuel)

Balanced Constitutionalism-Chintan Chandrachud (Quinn Emanuel)

"Balanced Constitutionalism" examines the promise of the "new model" of judicial review against its performance in practice - by comparing judicial review under the Human Rights Act, 1998 (UK) to an exemplar of the old model of ...
Filming for the Online Course on Strategic Litigation and the Right to Education

Filming for the Online Course on Strategic Litigation and the Right to Education

The OxHRH is hard at working doing the filming for our upcoming online course on the strategic litigation and the right to education. The course examines the extent to which courts and international human rights bodies can be ...
OPBP Submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights

OPBP Submission to Joint Committee on Human Rights

OPBP has recently made a submission to the UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. The JCHR is scrutinising the Government’s proposed presumed derogation from the ECHR in times of armed conflict. The Government stated that ...
Call for Papers: Our Responsibility to the Global Poor

Call for Papers: Our Responsibility to the Global Poor

XXVIII World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy “Peace Based on Human Rights” 16-21 July 2017 Lisbon Special Workshop Title: Our Responsibility to the Global Poor  Chair: Dr. ...
Call for Applications- Project Manager: Unacceptable Forms of Work

Call for Applications- Project Manager: Unacceptable Forms of Work

Reference Number: 005392 Post: Project Manager Department: Durham Law School Location: Durham City Contract Type: Part Time, Fixed Term until 31 December 2017 Grade: Grade 7 (£32,004 - £38,183) pro-rata Opening Date: ...
New Publication: The New Zealand Project

New Publication: The New Zealand Project

OxHRH Associate and Examination Fellow, All Souls, University of Oxford, Max Harris has just published an exciting new book: The New Zealand Project.  By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. ...
RightsUp #RightNow Podcast-We Are Never Out of the Hands of Men: The Contagious Diseases Act

RightsUp #RightNow Podcast-We Are Never Out of the Hands of Men: The Contagious Diseases Act

In the 19th century, the Contagious Diseases Acts were passed in the UK and Ireland to curtail the spread of venereal disease among military personnel in certain cities. In this episode, we talk to Dr Anne Hanley, a Junior Research ...