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 ...
Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus Island

Six months later: a reflection on what has changed since the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ordered an end to detention on Manus Island

On 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) ruled that the detention of asylum seeker and ...
Queen’s University Belfast Conference: Intersectionality in Law, Policy and Society

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

Ahmed v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights Still Skirting Around Jury Bias

Ahmed v United Kingdom: European Court of Human Rights Still Skirting Around Jury Bias

The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) recently handed down its long-awaited admissibility decision in Ahmed ...
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 ...
Ending the Perverse Culture of  Mob Justice in Nigeria

Ending the Perverse Culture of Mob Justice in Nigeria

The failure of Nigerian criminal justice institutions and agencies to prevent mob justice or punish those who ...
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 ...
Law of Peace(making) and the Promise of a New Beginning for Children

Law of Peace(making) and the Promise of a New Beginning for Children

The act of peacemaking may be viewed as the promise of a new beginning. It is latent within the sui generis legal ...
The Human Rights Council – Highlighted Outcomes of the 33rd Session

The Human Rights Council – Highlighted Outcomes of the 33rd Session

The three intensive weeks of the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) concluded on 30 September 2016. ...
European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to Education

European Court of Human Rights to Consider Right to Education

James Rooney is one of the Oxford Human Rights Hub/Rhodes University Travelling Fellows. The Fellowship is a ...
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 ...
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 ...