📖 New book: Michael Foran, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Fellow of @kebleoxford.bsky.social, publishes 'Sex, Gender Identity and the Law' (@universitypress.cambridge.org) on 7 May 📆
📹 In this video, Michael discusses how "sex" is defined in UK law.
www.youtube.com/shorts/hE9aW...
Professor Rachel Condry's pioneering research on adolescent-to-parent violence and matricide draws attention to women often left out of view 👀
Read about her unconventional academic journey and the real-world impact of her investigations on @ox.ac.uk's Pulse 👇
https://shorturl.at/PYCOA
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Illan Wall from @uniofgalway.bsky.social on 'Managing the Populace: Community tension and Public Order' 🏛️💻
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https://shorturl.at/jN1yZ
#JobOpportunity We are looking for a part time Administrative Assistant to support the work of our Research Support Team 👀
This role is part time (0.4 FTE) and fixed term to 31 December 2028. The Faculty supports hybrid working 🏛️💻
Apply before 13 March 2026 📆
www.law.ox.ac.uk/administrati...
Frances Hand from @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social reflects on the campaign by TV star Louise Thompson to appoint a UK Maternity Commissioner and what this could mean for the thousands of women who give birth in the NHS every year.
Find out more⬇️
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Silvia Gomes from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'Re-entry in Portugal: From Lived Experiences to Abolitionist Reimaginations' 🏛️💻
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https://shorturl.at/GdAeM
The Faculty of Law will be flying the LGBTQ+ flags outside the St Cross Building @ox.ac.uk in celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month this February 🏳️🌈
Read the latest Oxford Law Research Newsletter covering the Faculty's research outputs on hot topics and important issues 👀⬇️
https://shorturl.at/OVsZN
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social 's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring David Sklansky from @stanford.edu on 'Coercion, Control, and Complexity: Aiding and Abetting in the Context of Domestic Violence' 🏛️💻
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https://shorturl.at/vAyve
The Conversations on Consent video series, led by Kate Greasley who is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, brings together policy-makers, legal practitioners and academics to consider what role legal reform may play in promoting better sexual behaviour 🗣️💬
In this latest Conversations on Consent episode Professor Victor Tadros from the University of Warwick discusses the values of the sexual revolution and its impact on the ethics of consent and the moral quality of consent that is caused by unjust circumstances 🤔❔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Ec...
Last term we were honoured to have Professor Sheila Jasanoff from Harvard Kennedy School as our speaker for the Clarendon Lecture Series 🗣️⚛️🤖🧠
Recordings of the lectures and an interview with the Oxford Undergraduate Law Podcast are available on YouTube 📽️💻👇
This UNIQ+ paid summer internship would be based here @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social working with our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social. please share with eligible UK undergraduates
AI systems let companies draw accurate conclusions about people that can be harmful and most of those fall outside of legal protections 🤖 ⚖️
Research from Ignacio Cofone @ox.ac.uk highlights a need to change our data protection frameworks 🗣️💻
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Brooke Marshall, Associate Professor of Law, who has been awarded the New Author Prize in this year's Inner Temple Book Prize competition for her book Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses 📘
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
Image credit: Inner Temple / Miranda Parry Photography
With generative AI we face a new kind of risk. It is easy to forget we’re interacting with software – and that’s where hidden harms creep in 🤖❗
Professor Ignacio Cofone from @ox.ac.uk explores how chatbots can be useful without posing as a friend 💻💬
Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law, has been quoted extensively in The Times, providing expert commentary on a high-profile employment tribunal case in Scotland 🗣️📰
www.thetimes.com/article/4f61...
Read the winner of the 2024 Oxford Undergraduate Law Journal Annual Essay Competition📝☑️
It argues that while GenAI poses new challenges, existing frameworks of negligence and product liability law are sufficiently robust to adapt and provide remedies 👁️🗨️⚖️
👀 https://shorturl.at/DCAYD
A portrait of Anne Davies, Professor of Law and Public Policy, features in the Bodleian Libraries’ new Catalysts series celebrating researchers @ox.ac.uk whose work is having global impact 🌏 Her portrait will enter the permanent collection at the Weston Library in 2026 📸🏛️👩🎓
https://shorturl.at/HdHpA
#JobOpportunity 📣 The Oxford Sustainable Law Programme @ox.ac.uk is inviting applications for the position of Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Business Law 🏛️
Closing date for applications is 12 January ⏳
www.law.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
Today we celebrate #HumanRightsDay and mark 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. In our latest report, we have examined 10 reasons to stay in the ECHR, addressing a debate often dominated by widespread misunderstandings of what the ECHR does.
🔗 Read the full report: bit.ly/4a5bA7S
This year's Human Rights Day theme is 'Our Everyday Essentials', which aims to show how human rights shape our daily lives ⚖️
Follow the Oxford Human Rights Hub to engage with blogs, journal articles, and podcasts from across the globe 💻🎙️ 🌍
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www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
Universities are paying to use big tech AI tools 🏛️ 💻 Professor Horst Eidenmüller argues that this is the wrong way round:
🗣️ "Prestigious institutions are not just customers buying software. They are providing reputation, legitimacy and an extraordinarily rich testbed."
👇 shorturl.at/H2vf2
#WeAreHiring 📣 The Faculty of Law invites applications for the post of Associate Professor of Taxation Law to commence on 1 September 2026 🏛️
The position is full-time and permanent after a successful review ☑️
The closing date for applications is 6 January 2026 📆
🔎 shorturl.at/hsowV
The use of automated systems to hire, supervise and dismiss workers is transforming how organisations operate 📈💼
Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl's project, iManage, explores how employment law can adapt to this.
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/algorithmic-boss
Millions of people suffer from diseases caused by polluted air 😮💨🌆🏥
@gaialisi.bsky.social, a @ox.ac.uk DPhil student at @greentempleton.bsky.social, looks at how medical and scientific evidence can help to hold governments and corporations responsible👩🔬☑️
Professor Rebecca Williams 💬 “None of the challenges presented by new technologies can be answered by one discipline alone”
Find out how the Faculty of Law is creating ‘bilingual’ thinkers in a tech-driven world 🧠💻
Read more👇
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/creating-bilingual-thinkers
AI systems can generate discriminatory outcomes💻⚠️ This can happen in areas like justice, hiring, loans and university admissions 🏛️💷💼🎓
Through his research Professor Ignacio Cofone from @ox.ac.uk aims to give courts a way to evaluate AI discrimination claims and push for fair outcomes 🤖⚖️☑️
Read our December newsletter for updates on legal findings and publications from @ox.ac.uk 👀🏛️⚖️
We look at firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, regulating AI training and much more! 🪙🌍🤖
www.linkedin.com/pulse/firms-...
In this week's #Frontiers 🎙️ Talking about Methods podcast, Linda Mulcahy talks to Carolyn McKay about her work on the challenges of conducting fieldwork inside institutions, like prisons, that are deliberately hard to access.
🎧 Listen to the full episode here:
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/doing-resear...
