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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👩🔬☑️
@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👩🔬☑️
How medical evidence is shaping climate justice
Gaia Lisi is a University of Oxford DPhil student at the Faculty of Law and Green Templeton College 🏛️Her research looks at how medical and scientific evide...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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👩🔬☑️
@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
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
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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
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 🤖⚖️☑️
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 🤖⚖️☑️
How AI complicates legal approaches to equality
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December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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 🤖⚖️☑️
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! 🪙🌍🤖
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We look at firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, regulating AI training and much more! 🪙🌍🤖
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Firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, and regulating AI training
Lawyers’ client account interest could support free legal advice Research from the Nuffield Foundation–funded project ‘Creating a New Mixed Funding Model for Free Legal Advice’ underpins evidence subm...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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! 🪙🌍🤖
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We look at firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, regulating AI training and much more! 🪙🌍🤖
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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:
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🎧 Listen to the full episode here:
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Doing Research in Difficult Places: Prison - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Carolyn McKay about doing research in difficult places, such as prisons.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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...
🎧 Listen to the full episode here:
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/doing-resear...
In a world where AI systems increasingly make important decisions, Dr Margarita Amaxopoulou's research investigates a crucial issue 🌎👀
Who gets to shape AI rules? And what is the impact on our legal systems?👩⚖️
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Who gets to shape AI rules? And what is the impact on our legal systems?👩⚖️
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How AI is redefining who makes the rules
YouTube video by Oxford Law Faculty
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November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
In a world where AI systems increasingly make important decisions, Dr Margarita Amaxopoulou's research investigates a crucial issue 🌎👀
Who gets to shape AI rules? And what is the impact on our legal systems?👩⚖️
@ox.ac.uk
Who gets to shape AI rules? And what is the impact on our legal systems?👩⚖️
@ox.ac.uk
Watch the @ox.ac.uk climate conversation featuring Lavanya Rajamani (Professor of International Environmental Law) and Eleanor Hamilton-Clark (Co-President of Oxford Climate Society’s School of Climate Change) about climate responsibility and hope for our collective future 👀🌍 🌡️
Climate Conversations: Eleanor and Lavanya
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November 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Watch the @ox.ac.uk climate conversation featuring Lavanya Rajamani (Professor of International Environmental Law) and Eleanor Hamilton-Clark (Co-President of Oxford Climate Society’s School of Climate Change) about climate responsibility and hope for our collective future 👀🌍 🌡️
A common criticism of AI is that it’s difficult to understand how tools come to their decisions or outputs 💻🤔
Dr Fabricio Fortese explores this issue in legal decision-making, where transparency and reasoning are fundamental to fairness ⚖️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/ai-and-arbitration
Dr Fabricio Fortese explores this issue in legal decision-making, where transparency and reasoning are fundamental to fairness ⚖️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/ai-and-arbitration
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A common criticism of AI is that it’s difficult to understand how tools come to their decisions or outputs 💻🤔
Dr Fabricio Fortese explores this issue in legal decision-making, where transparency and reasoning are fundamental to fairness ⚖️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/ai-and-arbitration
Dr Fabricio Fortese explores this issue in legal decision-making, where transparency and reasoning are fundamental to fairness ⚖️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/ai-and-arbitration
Oxford Law academics Professor Lucia Zedner and Visiting Professor Murray Hunt have played a key role in the final report of the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, launched this month following three years of evidence-gathering 📄
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November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Oxford Law academics Professor Lucia Zedner and Visiting Professor Murray Hunt have played a key role in the final report of the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, launched this month following three years of evidence-gathering 📄
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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As AI systems take on complex roles in society, serious questions arise about how they align with human values 👤
Professor Ruth Chang is leading a new research project that addresses how machines handle difficult choices 👁️🗨️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/parity-model
Professor Ruth Chang is leading a new research project that addresses how machines handle difficult choices 👁️🗨️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/parity-model
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
As AI systems take on complex roles in society, serious questions arise about how they align with human values 👤
Professor Ruth Chang is leading a new research project that addresses how machines handle difficult choices 👁️🗨️
🔎
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/parity-model
Professor Ruth Chang is leading a new research project that addresses how machines handle difficult choices 👁️🗨️
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https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/parity-model
Zoya Yasmine is an DPhil student at the Faculty of Law and @somervillecollege.bsky.social looking into biases and legal issues in medical AI🩺
How can we protect people’s rights without stifling innovation❓
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How can we protect people’s rights without stifling innovation❓
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The legal tensions behind technological advances in healthcare
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November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Zoya Yasmine is an DPhil student at the Faculty of Law and @somervillecollege.bsky.social looking into biases and legal issues in medical AI🩺
How can we protect people’s rights without stifling innovation❓
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@ox.ac.uk
How can we protect people’s rights without stifling innovation❓
www.youtube.com/shorts/QK1VV...
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In her new @ox.ac.uk profile, Professor Rachel Condry who is Director of our Centre for Criminology, shares her unconventional path into academia, her pioneering research on adolescent-to-parent violence, and a new project exploring safer, fairer alternatives to prison 👇
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Professor Rachel Condry - Reframing crime through relationships
Rachel Condry, Professor of Criminology, talks about her career and research on filial violence and matricide.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
In her new @ox.ac.uk profile, Professor Rachel Condry who is Director of our Centre for Criminology, shares her unconventional path into academia, her pioneering research on adolescent-to-parent violence, and a new project exploring safer, fairer alternatives to prison 👇
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social
@oxfordcrim.bsky.social
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Crime is never just an isolated act. It ripples through families – through care, shame, stigma, and love.
Prof Rachel Condry’s research gives voice to those living with the aftermath of crime.
Now marking 15 years at Oxford, she becomes Director of the Centre for Criminology.
Prof Rachel Condry’s research gives voice to those living with the aftermath of crime.
Now marking 15 years at Oxford, she becomes Director of the Centre for Criminology.
Investigating Adolescent Violence towards Parents at the University of Oxford
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November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Crime is never just an isolated act. It ripples through families – through care, shame, stigma, and love.
Prof Rachel Condry’s research gives voice to those living with the aftermath of crime.
Now marking 15 years at Oxford, she becomes Director of the Centre for Criminology.
Prof Rachel Condry’s research gives voice to those living with the aftermath of crime.
Now marking 15 years at Oxford, she becomes Director of the Centre for Criminology.
We have become one of the first UK law schools to partner with Harvey 🏛️ 🤝
This law-specific AI platform is designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity 💻 ⚖️
The Faculty is providing academic staff with secure, free access for their legal research ☑️
Find out more 👇
shorturl.at/HYCJn
This law-specific AI platform is designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity 💻 ⚖️
The Faculty is providing academic staff with secure, free access for their legal research ☑️
Find out more 👇
shorturl.at/HYCJn
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We have become one of the first UK law schools to partner with Harvey 🏛️ 🤝
This law-specific AI platform is designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity 💻 ⚖️
The Faculty is providing academic staff with secure, free access for their legal research ☑️
Find out more 👇
shorturl.at/HYCJn
This law-specific AI platform is designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity 💻 ⚖️
The Faculty is providing academic staff with secure, free access for their legal research ☑️
Find out more 👇
shorturl.at/HYCJn
Congratulations to our alumna Professor Phoebe Okowa who has been elected to the International Court of Justice 🏛️ 🌍 👏
Read more about her appointment and career on the Faculty website 👇
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Read more about her appointment and career on the Faculty website 👇
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November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Congratulations to our alumna Professor Phoebe Okowa who has been elected to the International Court of Justice 🏛️ 🌍 👏
Read more about her appointment and career on the Faculty website 👇
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Read more about her appointment and career on the Faculty website 👇
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NEW: As world leaders meet at #COP30, Oxford research reveals which countries are turning climate promises into action and which aren’t. 🌍
The Climate Policy Monitor gives the clearest picture yet of how national laws stack up against global climate goals.
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The Climate Policy Monitor gives the clearest picture yet of how national laws stack up against global climate goals.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
NEW: As world leaders meet at #COP30, Oxford research reveals which countries are turning climate promises into action and which aren’t. 🌍
The Climate Policy Monitor gives the clearest picture yet of how national laws stack up against global climate goals.
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The Climate Policy Monitor gives the clearest picture yet of how national laws stack up against global climate goals.
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As world leaders meet at #COP30 in the Amazon, can climate policy stay on track amid pushback in the US & Europe? 🌍
A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇
https://ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇
https://ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
As world leaders meet at #COP30 in the Amazon, can climate policy stay on track amid pushback in the US & Europe? 🌍
A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇
https://ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇
https://ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
Oxford Law academics Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos and Dr Miles Jackson have acted as counsel for Malaysia and Namibia respectively in recent proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague 🏛️
Read more about their contributions👇
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Read more about their contributions👇
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November 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Oxford Law academics Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos and Dr Miles Jackson have acted as counsel for Malaysia and Namibia respectively in recent proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague 🏛️
Read more about their contributions👇
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Read more about their contributions👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Experts from @ox.ac.uk say that evidence demonstrating the human health consequences of climate change is likely to assume greater importance in lawsuits in national, regional and international forums going forward 📊🏭🌍🌡️
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www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Experts from @ox.ac.uk say that evidence demonstrating the human health consequences of climate change is likely to assume greater importance in lawsuits in national, regional and international forums going forward 📊🏭🌍🌡️
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The Clarendon Law Lecture series returns this November. Professor Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, will challenge us to rethink the role of law and science in shaping modern life ⚖️⚛️🌎
Register now 🔎 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/clarendon25
Register now 🔎 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/clarendon25
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Clarendon Law Lecture series returns this November. Professor Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, will challenge us to rethink the role of law and science in shaping modern life ⚖️⚛️🌎
Register now 🔎 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/clarendon25
Register now 🔎 https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/clarendon25
#JobOpportunity The Faculty of Law is looking to recruit a Research Facilitator and Grants Manager who will play a key role in regards to research funding applications and research awards administration 📄 🏛️
Find out more and apply before 19 November 👇
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Find out more and apply before 19 November 👇
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October 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#JobOpportunity The Faculty of Law is looking to recruit a Research Facilitator and Grants Manager who will play a key role in regards to research funding applications and research awards administration 📄 🏛️
Find out more and apply before 19 November 👇
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Find out more and apply before 19 November 👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-fac...
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Our next Criminology All Souls Seminar 30 October - in person only, sign up at www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our next Criminology All Souls Seminar 30 October - in person only, sign up at www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
#JobOpportunity We are seeking maternity cover for the role of Senior Administrator for the Masters in Law and Finance and Postgraduate Taught Courses 🏛️🎓
Apply before Tuesday 4 November 2025 👇
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Apply before Tuesday 4 November 2025 👇
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October 15, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#JobOpportunity We are seeking maternity cover for the role of Senior Administrator for the Masters in Law and Finance and Postgraduate Taught Courses 🏛️🎓
Apply before Tuesday 4 November 2025 👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/senior-admin...
Apply before Tuesday 4 November 2025 👇
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Barrister and lecturer Alex Benn shares how lived experience shapes their work – and their life at Oxford.
Watch the full Off the Beaten Track episode on YouTube ⬇️ @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
Watch the full Off the Beaten Track episode on YouTube ⬇️ @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Barrister and lecturer Alex Benn shares how lived experience shapes their work – and their life at Oxford.
Watch the full Off the Beaten Track episode on YouTube ⬇️ @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social
Watch the full Off the Beaten Track episode on YouTube ⬇️ @ndsurgicalsci.bsky.social