Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford is one of the largest in the United Kingdom. It is a federation of thirty law schools in the colleges of the University. Legal scholars in the colleges and University are members of the Faculty, which coordinates and supports the teaching and writing of one hundred fifty three academics. We admit and support and teach and examine a diverse and outstanding body of students from all parts of the British Isles and from all over the world. Our student-to-faculty ratio is approximately 7:1.
Series associated with Faculty of Law
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
Border Criminologies
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Criminology
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
ICT for Development Seminar Series
Law Faculty Podcasts
Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) conference podcasts
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Conference - Justice and Self-Determination in West Papua
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Public International Law Discussion Group (Part I) and Annual Global Justice Lectures
Public International Law Discussion Group (Part II)
Public International Law Part III
RightsUp - Global perspectives on human rights law
Statute Law: Making Legislation
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| 662 | Creative Commons | A Weapon Is No Subordinate. Autonomous Weapons and the Scope of Superior Responsibility | Dr. Alessandra Spadaro of Utrecht University outlines several challenges to the applicability of the doctrine of superior responsibility in the context of the use of autonomous weapons systems. | Alessandra Spadaro | 24 Feb 2023 |
| 661 | Creative Commons | One Hundred Years of International Administrative Law: Is the Employment Law at International Organizations Working? | Peter Quayle argues employment law of international organizations tends towards incoherence, however, mapping international administrative law onto a larger framework of international organizations law can realize a more workable version of the law. | Peter Quayle | 24 Feb 2023 |
| 660 | Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea: Informal Lawmaking in Action? | Natalie Klein, Professor at UNSW Sydney, presents on the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea, adopted in March 2022 as an initiative of UK charity Human Rights at Sea, and on the Declaration's lawmaking potential. | Natalie Klein | 20 Jan 2023 | |
| 659 | Violent environments? Towards a political ecology of international law | Dr Eliana Cusato, postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, presents an overview of the key arguments in her book, 'The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law'. | Eliana Cusato | 20 Jan 2023 | |
| 658 | Creative Commons | Climate Litigation in International Organs and Courts: The Torres Strait Islanders case | Monica Feria-Tinta discusses a landmark 2022 decision of the UN Human Rights Committee which found that Australia failed to protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change, in breach of human rights law. | Monica Feria-Tinta | 20 Jan 2023 |
| 657 | Creative Commons | Complicity in a War of Aggression | Dr Nikola Hajdin outlines an analytical framework for criminal complicity in a war of aggression | Nikola Hajdin | 20 Jan 2023 |
| 656 | Law of the Sea in the ‘Plasticene’ | Professor Karen Scott of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, gives a presentation exploring the current regime complex for ocean plastics and considering how the law of the sea is likely to interact with a newly proposed plastics treaty. | Karen N. Scott | 04 May 2022 | |
| 655 | Creative Commons | Revisiting Sovereignty and Recognition of Oppressive Governments; A focus on Myanmar | Professor Errol P. Mendes of the University of Ottawa gives a presentation calling for a revisiting of the origins of the concept of sovereignty in Public International Law. | Errol P Mendes | 08 Apr 2022 |
| 654 | Creative Commons | ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’: Recent developments regarding the immunities of heads of state and government | Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, gives a presentation on recent developments in English law in cases against current and former heads of state. | Philippa Webb | 01 Mar 2022 |
| 653 | Creative Commons | State Consent between Regionalism and Universalism: Particular Customary International Law before the International Court of Justice | Freya Baetens, Professor of Public International Law at Oslo University, gives a presentation on how the International Court of Justice has addressed claims based on ‘regional’ customary international law. | Freya Baetens | 01 Mar 2022 |
| 652 | Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters | Nicolas Lamp, Queen’s University, Canada gives a presentation to the Public International Law Discussion Group. | Nicolas Lamp | 24 Jan 2022 | |
| 651 | A Behavioral Analysis of Humanitarian Negotiations | Professor Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series (11/11/2021). | Anne van Aaken | 17 Jan 2022 | |
| 650 | 'The Function of Equity in International Law | Professor Catharine Titi, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)-CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. (4/11/2021) | Catharine Titi | 17 Jan 2022 | |
| 649 | Tactical Admissions in International Litigation | A presentation by Professor Stefan Talmon on Tactical Admissions in International Litigation, delivered to the Public International Law Discussion Group. | Stefan Talmon | 17 Jan 2022 | |
| 648 | Strasbourg on Compulsory Vaccination | Professor Paul Gragl, European Law at the University of Graz, Austria, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | Paul Gragl | 25 Oct 2021 | |
| 647 | Diversity Issues in International Legal Acadmia and Practice | Julia Emtseva, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | Julia Emtseva | 25 Oct 2021 | |
| 646 | International Law and the Practice of Legality: stability and change | Professor Jutta Brunnée, University of Toronto, gives a talk for the seminar series on 6th May 2021. | Jutta Brunnée | 29 Jul 2021 | |
| 645 | Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Diverging Jurisprudence at the ECtHR and the UN | Dr Lea Raible University of Glasgow; 2020/21 re:constitution Fellow, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group on 20th May 2021. | Lea Raible | 24 May 2021 | |
| 644 | The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Standard-setting or International Law-making? | Ignacio de Casas, Austral University, Argentina, gives a seminar for the PIL discussion group. | Ignacio de Casas | 18 May 2021 | |
| 643 | Hart and Kelsen on International Law | Professor David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto, currently a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | David Dyzenhaus | 05 May 2021 | |
| 642 | How International is the International Court of Justice? | Professor James T. Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, gives a talk for the Oxford Public International Law seminar series. | James T Gathii | 30 Mar 2021 | |
| 641 | The Laws of War in International Thought | Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. | Pablo Kalmanovitz | 29 Mar 2021 | |
| 640 | Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019 | Kumaravadivel Guruparan gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Kumaravadivel Guruparan | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 639 | Kashmir and the State of Exception | Habeel Iqbal gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Habeel Iqbal | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 638 | Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility | Douglas Guilfoyle gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Douglas Guilfoyle | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 637 | The Recognition of a Right to be Rescued at Sea | Professor Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht University, gives a talk for the Public International Law discussion group series. | Seline Trevisanut | 26 Feb 2021 | |
| 636 | Two Visions of the International Rule of Law | Professor Monica Hakimi, University of Michigan, gives a talk for the PIL discussion series. | Monica Hakimi | 22 Feb 2021 | |
| 635 | The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Craig Jones | 19 Feb 2021 | |
| 634 | Climate Change and Human Rights Litigation: A Proposed New Line of Argument | Professor Martin Scheinin, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, gives a talk for the Public International Law series. | Martin Scheinin | 19 Feb 2021 | |
| 633 | Transitional Justice Through the Lens of Art | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. This panel discussion explores the role of art in transitional justice and the depiction of transitional justice through art. | Leslie Thomas, Bernadette Vivuya, Nadia Siddiqui | 18 Feb 2021 | |
| 632 | The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Art is a radical form of political participation in times of transition. | Eliza Garnsey | 18 Feb 2021 | |
| 631 | Dangerous proportions: Means and Ends in Non-Finite War | Professor Nehal Bhuta, University of Edinburgh and Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, University of Amsterdam, give a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | Nehal Bhuta, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi | 17 Feb 2021 | |
| 630 | The Concept of Race in International Criminal Law - and Beyond | Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | Carola Lingaas | 17 Feb 2021 | |
| 629 | Creative Commons | More than a Morbid Quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible college of international lawyers | Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Sheffield, and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series. | Luíza Leão Soares Pereira | 05 Feb 2021 |
| 628 | Political Crimes and Amnesties: Scope and Limitations to Transitions to Democracy | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Renata Barbosa | 26 Jan 2021 | |
| 627 | Binding and Non-binding International Agreements (as explored by the OAS Juridical Committee) | Professor Duncan Hollis, Temple University, gives a talk for the Public International Law seminar series on 21st January 2021. | Duncan Hollis | 25 Jan 2021 | |
| 626 | Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict | Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement | Nobuo Hayashi | 06 Nov 2020 | |
| 625 | The International Law of Mega-Awards | Public international law’s turn to judicialisation in the last three decades has led to more attention paid to remedies including of monetary character, in inter-State dispute settlement as well as in tribunals open to non-State actors. | Martins Paparinskis | 25 Aug 2020 | |
| 624 | The Effect of jus cogens and the Individuation of Norms | International law ascribes to the conferral of a jus cogens status on a norm a particular legal significance. | Ulf Linderfalk | 06 Mar 2020 | |
| 623 | International Judicial Speech Acts | Domestic and international judges speak separately from their courts' institutional voice in myriad ways. | Neha Jain | 21 Feb 2020 | |
| 622 | The Duty to Prevent Atrocity Crimes: Operationalising State Obligations | From the instant that a State receives an early warning that mass atrocities are likely to occur, what, precisely, is it required to do in response? | Shannon Raj Singh | 19 Feb 2020 | |
| 621 | The Interplay between Maritime Security and the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? | The concept of maritime security and its interplay with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. | Sofia Galani | 12 Feb 2020 | |
| 620 | All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations | All Souls Seminar Series: The Contribution of Forensic or other Expert Evidence to Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Data and Experiences from the National Registry of Exonerations | Simon Cole | 10 Feb 2020 | |
| 619 | Creative Commons | All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights | All Souls Seminar - Structural Racism and Deaths in Police Custody in Europe: At the Crossroads of Criminal Law and Human Rights | Eddie Bruce-Jones | 02 Jan 2020 |
| 618 | UK Supreme Court: R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22 | Session 3 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 | Nick Barber, Richard Ekins, Jeff King, Helen Mountfield | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 617 | Kenyan Supreme Court: Raila Odinga and Another v IEBC and Others, 2017 | Session 2 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 | Anne Makena, John Ambani, Nic Cheeseman, Luis Franceschi | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 616 | International Criminal Court: Appeal against the decision under article 87(7)of the Rome Statute on the non-compliance by Jordan with the request by the Court for the arrest and surrender of Omar Al-Bashir (ICC- 02/05-01/09 OA2) 6 May 2019 | Session 1 of the Law and Politics in Three Courts conference Friday 8th November 2019 | Catherine O’Regan, Dapo Akande, Evelyne Asaala, Dire Tladi | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 615 | How effective can litigation be in foreseeing and preventing human rights abuse? | Alejandra Ancheita delivers the keynote address at the Justice for Transnational Human Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship Conference June 2019 | Alejandra Ancheita | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| 614 | All Souls Seminar Series - Rethinking "Smuggling" in Libya | All Souls Seminar Series - Rethinking "Smuggling" in Libya | Gabriella Sanchez | 26 Nov 2019 | |
| 613 | Creative Commons | Adam Smith as Jurist | John Cairns and Scott Peterson discuss Adam Smith's lost work on jurisprudence, examining his influence on the Scottish legal profession and religious freedoms | John W Cairns, Scot Peterson | 19 Nov 2019 |
| 612 | Creative Commons | Adam Smith as Jurist | Senior Research Fellow in Politics Professor Iain McLean unearths the secrets of Adam Smith's lost work on jurisprudence, and posits a connection between smith's jurisprudence and the framers of the US Declaration of Independence and Constitution | Iain McLean | 19 Nov 2019 |
| 611 | Creative Commons | Between Optimism and Pessimism: prospects for the conclusion of a new treaty on marine biodiversity on the high seas | The United Nations is currently undertaking negotiations with a view to concluding an international legally binding instrument for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (the BBNJ Treaty). | Joanna Mossop | 18 Nov 2019 |
| 610 | Creative Commons | ILC’s Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms of General International Law | Dire Tladi is a Professor of international law at the University of Pretoria and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. | Dire Tladi | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 609 | Creative Commons | Crimmigration and Refugees in Australia: Visa Cancellation on Criminality Grounds and 'Living in the Community' as Punishment and Deterrence | Crimmigration and Refugees in Australia: Visa Cancellation on Criminality Grounds and 'Living in the Community' as Punishment and Deterrence | Anthea Vogl | 12 Nov 2019 |
| 608 | Creative Commons | All Souls Seminar Series: Democracy and the Mafia. | Democracy and the Mafia. | Federico Varese | 12 Nov 2019 |
| 607 | Creative Commons | Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Sareta Ashraph | 11 Nov 2019 |
| 606 | Creative Commons | Measuring Peace: Local Participation and Perspectives in Peacebuilding | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Anupah Makoond | 11 Nov 2019 |
| 605 | Creative Commons | Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Are There Reasons for Hope? | This talk was the keynote seminar given as part of the Oxford Translational Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series | Julieta Lemaitre | 11 Nov 2019 |
| 604 | Litigating Rights : The Right to Health | Litigating Rights : The Right to Health – Mark Heywood and Maya Foa in Conversation | Mark Heywood, Maya Foa | 08 Nov 2019 | |
| 603 | Historian of Protest Katrina Navickas discusses Mike Leigh's film Peterloo | Historian of Protest Katrina Navickas discusses her involvement in Mike Leigh's film Peterloo, and its political and contemporary resonances | Katrina Navickas | 04 Nov 2019 | |
| 602 | The Legal Evolution of the Climate Change Regime: Past, Present, and Future | What have been the key themes in the legal evolution of the UN climate regime? | Daniel Bodansky | 31 Oct 2019 | |
| 601 | Creative Commons | The Role of Domestic Law in the International Legal Validity of Treaty Withdrawal | If a state withdraws from a treaty in a manner that violates its own domestic law, will this withdrawal take effect in international law? | Hannah Woolaver | 25 Oct 2019 |
| 600 | Litigating Rights - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation | Litigating Rights Series - Wolfgang Kaleck in Conversation | Wolfgang Kaleck, Ben Wizner, Annelen Micus | 24 Oct 2019 | |
| 599 | Climate Change and the Rule of Law | Despite three decades of legal development, existing systems of law fail to provide effective foundations for limiting climate change. | Cinnamon Carlarne | 18 Oct 2019 | |
| 598 | Creative Commons | But what about men?: Gender Discomfort in International Criminal Justice | Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) has become 'hyper-visible' in international criminal justice, yet scholars disagree whether this is a good thing for feminism or not. | Leila Ullrich | 07 Oct 2019 |
| 597 | (De)constructing the crimmigrant other: migration, citizenship, and penal power | Annual Roger Hood Lecture: Professor Katja Franko University of Oslo | Katja Franko | 16 Jul 2019 | |
| 596 | Creative Commons | The Shamima Begum case: Citizenship Stripping and Belonging in Britain | All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Devyani Prabhat, University of Bristol | Devyani Prabhat | 16 Jul 2019 |
| 595 | Creative Commons | "Doing Civilization's Heavy Lifting": The State of Injustice in the United States | All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Dr Tony Platt, University of California, Berkeley | Tony Platt | 16 Jul 2019 |
| 594 | Creative Commons | Historicising American Exceptionalism in Crime, Punishment and Inequality | All Souls Criminology Seminar Series - Prof. Niki Lacey | Niki Lacey | 16 Jul 2019 |
| 593 | Creative Commons | Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) | Book Launch: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (Oxford University Press, 2019) | Carolyn Hoyle, Respondent Hannah Quirk | 03 Jul 2019 |
| 592 | Creative Commons | Responses to the Government White Paper on Online Harms and the ‘right to be forgotten’ | LSE media expert and government adviser Damian Tambini and Roxana Radu from Oxford Law Faculty respond to the UK government’s White Paper on Online Harms and assess the implications of the new rights of the digital age such as the ‘right to be forgotten’. | Damian Tambini, Roxana Radu | 03 Jul 2019 |
| 591 | Governance of Public Opinion in the Age of Platforms: A Study of China | Jufang Wang, former news editor in China, and Ralph Schroeder of the Oxford Internet Institute, assess the Communist Party’s efforts to control public opinion in China by regulation of social media platforms and the controversial ‘social credit system’. | Jufang Wang, Ralph Schroeder | 03 Jul 2019 | |
| 590 | Creative Commons | Current Challenges to International Justice: Lean in or Leave? | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Laila Sadat | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 589 | Book Launch: The Trial of the Kaiser | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | William Schabas | 25 Jun 2019 | |
| 588 | Creative Commons | Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of 'Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice' | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Marcos Zunino | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 587 | Creative Commons | Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Sasa Rajsic | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 586 | Creative Commons | Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Kiran Grewal, Farzana Haniffa, Gehan Gunatilleke, Dharsha Jegatheswaran | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 585 | Creative Commons | Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Nigel Eltringham | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 584 | Creative Commons | The Journalist Perspective: Low Expectations and Promising Trends in Transitional Justice | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Thierry Cruvellier | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 583 | Creative Commons | Book Launch 'When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence' | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Fanie du Toit, Kate O'Regan | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 582 | Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Elena Butti | 25 Jun 2019 | |
| 581 | Creative Commons | The Arrest of a Head of State Pursuant to an ICC Warrant. The Al-Bashir Case | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Flavia Lattanzi | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 580 | Creative Commons | The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine? | This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. | Payam Akhavan | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 579 | Creative Commons | International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens | Dr Nicola Palmer analyzes the role that international criminal law in the extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution of Rwandan nationals. | Nicola Palmer | 25 Jun 2019 |
| 578 | State Capture: What It Is and What It Means for the Constitutional Order | Legal researchers Katarina Sipulova and Nick Friedman describe corruption in politics and the judiciary in the post-transitional states of Eastern Europe and South Africa | Katarína Šipulová, Nicholas Friedman | 18 Jun 2019 | |
| 577 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 6: The Way Forward | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Thandabantu Nhlapo, Geoff Budlender, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi | 18 Jun 2019 | |
| 576 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 5: The Scope of Chiefly Power | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Jason Brickhill, Janine Ubink, Michael Mbikiwa, Monica De Souza Louw | 18 Jun 2019 | |
| 575 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 4: Traditional Leaders and Communities, Money and Accountability | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Jonny Steinberg, Sonwabile Mnwana, Wilmien Wicomb; | 17 Jun 2019 | |
| 574 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 3: Mining and Resources: issues arising from recent litigation | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Nolundi Luwaya, Johan Lorenzen, Michael Bishop, William Beinart | 17 Jun 2019 | |
| 573 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 2: What is Living Customary Law? And how should the courts identify it and apply it? | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Nick Barber, Thandabantu Nhlapo, Nolundi Luwaya, Kate O'Regan | 17 Jun 2019 | |
| 572 | Citizenship and Accountability Conference Session 1: Where are we now? The Constitution, Traditional Leaders and Customary Law | It is twenty-five years since the transition to democracy in South Africa. Some of the most enduring challenges have concerned the role of customary law and traditional leadership in the new democratic state. | Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, Peter Delius, Aninka Claassens | 17 Jun 2019 | |
| 571 | Creative Commons | The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Rethinking Key Moments | What explains the rise of investor-state arbitration? To the extent that investor-state arbitration had founding fathers, what were their motivations, what constraints did they have, what was their thinking? | Taylor St John | 31 May 2019 |
| 570 | Populism in the Age of Brexit | Constitutional expert Prof Neil Walker tackles the thorny issue of issues of Brexit and the problems caused by populist politics | Denis Galligan, Neil Walker | 14 May 2019 | |
| 569 | Creative Commons | Sir Tim Hitchens and Tony Rayns on Hirokazu Kore-eda's film The Third Murder and the death penalty in Japan | Former UK Ambassador to Tokyo Sir Tim Hitchens and East Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns introduce a FLJS Films screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 film The Third Murder | Tim Hitchens, Tony Rayns | 08 May 2019 |
| 568 | The Internalisation of Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise | Investment treaties are often said to have two principal effects for the states that enter into them. First, it is asserted that investment treaties act to increase levels of foreign investment in host states. | Jansen Calamita | 07 May 2019 | |
| 567 | Due Diligence: An Obligation under International Law | This talk will examine the legal nature of due diligence, namely whether it is a free-standing obligation under customary international law or a standard by which compliance with specific obligations may be assessed. | Vladyslav Lanovoy | 07 May 2019 | |
| 566 | The Post-Populist Constitution: Reassessing the Place of the People | Professor Denis Galligan, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, delivers the 2018 Max Watson Annual Lecture at Wolfson College, on the constitutional consequences of the rise in populist movements around the world. | Denis Galligan | 30 Apr 2019 | |
| 565 | Creative Commons | All Souls Seminar Series: The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse | The Sexual Politics of Anti-Trafficking Discourse | Prabha Kotiswaran | 13 Mar 2019 |
| 564 | Interpretation of Security Council Resolutions and the Status of Explanation of Votes | Even though UN Security Council resolutions may have major consequences for the disputes and states concerned, some of the resolutions are ambiguous in their meaning. | Mark Klamberg | 05 Mar 2019 | |
| 563 | The Alseran Ruling One Year On; Session 2: A Critical Assessment of Recent Investigations and Prevention Efforts | On the first anniversary of the Alseran ruling, where it was found that detainees in British military custody in Iraq had suffered inhuman and degrading treatment, and had been unlawfully detained. | Thomas Obel Hansen, Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, Dapo Akande | 25 Feb 2019 |
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