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The Historical Roots of the Equality Clause in the South African Constitution-Prof Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand)

The Historical Roots of the Equality Clause in the South African Constitution-Prof Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand)

South Africa has taken centre stage in most accounts of the synergistic potential of law and politics: it is seen as a case which demonstrates that human rights can be made real, with the favourable combination of institutional and ...
Invitation to Attend the Herb Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Moot

Invitation to Attend the Herb Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Moot

You are invited to attend the Grand Final and Conversazione of the Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship, which will take place from 3pm on Saturday 5th November 2016, at the historic University Church of St ...
University of Malta: Migration, Mobility and Human Right Conference

University of Malta: Migration, Mobility and Human Right Conference

The deadline for abstracts has been extended to October 30.
Oxford Lawyers Against Poverty: Brexit-Legal Challenges and Opportunities

Oxford Lawyers Against Poverty: Brexit-Legal Challenges and Opportunities

Oxford Lawyers Against Poverty is an initiative set up by Legal Professionals and Students interested in the link between the rule of law and poverty in the developing world and how lawyers can make a positive contribution to the ...
Queen’s University Belfast Conference: Intersectionality in Law, Policy and Society

Queen’s University Belfast Conference: Intersectionality in Law, Policy and Society

Amicus-US Death Penalty Training Session

Amicus-US Death Penalty Training Session

The sessions will include: powerful talks by exonerees who have each spent several years on death row; lectures by academics and capital defence experts, including current US practitioners, about the history and current use of ...
Law and Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

Law and Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

The TORCH Fiction and Human Rights network are hosting, along with the Medical Law and Ethics Discussion Group (Faculty of Law) 'Law and Ethics in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005)'. Introductory presentations by Michelle Kelly ...
Call for Applications-Herbet Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting

Call for Applications-Herbet Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting

Call for Applications – Herbert Smith Freehills Oxford Disability Mooting Championship 2016 is now open! Please Note – There has been a change to the eligibility rules. The competition is now open to both matriculated students of ...
UN Rights Experts Warn Against the Grave Threat of Unsafe Abortions

UN Rights Experts Warn Against the Grave Threat of Unsafe Abortions

A group of United Nations human rights experts have called on States to repeal restrictive abortion laws and policies; dismantle discriminatory barriers to access to safe reproductive health services; decriminalise abortion; and ...
OxHRH Submission to the JCHR Now Published

OxHRH Submission to the JCHR Now Published

Under the auspicies of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, Professor Sandra Fredman, Director of the OxHRH and Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA; Professor  Alan Bogg, Professor Labour Law; Alison Young, ...
OxHRH and OxHRH Associate Recognized as Top 50 Human Rights Tweeters

OxHRH and OxHRH Associate Recognized as Top 50 Human Rights Tweeters

The OxHRH and OxHRH Associate Dr Liora Lazarus (Univeristy of Oxford) have both been recognized by RightsInfo at top human rights tweeters. RightsInfo recently complied a list of their favourite human rights commentators on social ...
Recruiting for the Oxford Pro Bono Publico Executive Committee

Recruiting for the Oxford Pro Bono Publico Executive Committee

Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP), the Oxford Law Faculty’s award-winning pro bono research organisation, is looking for graduate students with a passion for pro bono law to join the Executive Committee in the 2016-2017 academic ...