In this week's #Frontiers, 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Ellie Whittingdale about complex consent issues. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/complex-cons...

In this week's #Frontiers, Methodological Musings section, Alexandra Molitorisová (University of Bayreuth) shares reflections on litigating for access to empirical data for her research.  📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/how-far-woul...

In this week's #Frontiers 🌍 Borderlands section, Fernanda Pirie and Francesca Uberti reflect upon a panel discussion exploring the place and role of the lawgiver in historical, religious, and contemporary settings. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/who-are-the-...

In this week's #Frontiers, 📚A Good Read section, Dr. Urania Chiu reviews Cressida Auckland’s monograph, Values and Disorder in Mental Capacity Law (Oxford University Press, 2024). Read the full post here: 
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/values-in-me...

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In this week’s #Frontiers Methodological Musings section, Seita Vesa and Kaisa Huhta reflect on teaching theories and methods to research students with a focus on the methodological struggles students face. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/from-struggl...

Proud to see Dr Natalie Kyneswood’s ESRC-funded research cited extensively in the Law Commission’s final report on evidence in sexual offences prosecutions. #SocioLegalStudies #CriminalJustice #LawReform

Proud to see Dr Natalie Kyneswood’s ESRC-funded research cited extensively in the Law Commission’s final report on evidence in sexual offences prosecutions. #SocioLegalStudies #CriminalJustice #LawReform

En este artículo para 🌎 #Frontiers Borderlands, Sebastián Hernández (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) explora los debates en torno a los requisitos constitucionales de edad mínima para el liderazgo político. frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/desafiando-l...

In this week’s #Frontiers 🌎 Borderlands section, Sebastián Hernández (Universidad de Concepción, Chillán, Chile) explores the debates surrounding constitutional minimum age requirements for political leadership. 📖 Read the full post in English here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/challenging-...

In this week’s #Frontiers 📚A Good Read section, Dr Ellie Whittingdale reviews Lynette J. Chua and Mark Fathi Massoud's edited collection, Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society (Cambridge University Press 2024). Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/power-pain-p...

Splendid surroundings to hear the AG reaffirm the UK’s commitment to the rule of law and Venice Commission. And glad to be able to offer socio-legal and historical perspective. @oxfordcsls.bsky.social

In this week’s #Frontiers 🎙️Talking about Methods Podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Karen Schucan Bird about doing systematic reviews in the social sciences. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/systematic-r...

In this week’s #Frontiers, Methodological Musings section, Hussain Bari explores the challenges of postcolonial penal reform in Bangladesh through the unique lens of a judge-turned-researcher. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/understandin...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌍 Borderlands section, Jessie Waldman (Cape Town) explores the competing pressures of curiosity and closure in the South African inquest process. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/curiosity-v-...

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In this week’s #Frontiers, 📚 A Good Read section, Dr. Jess Connolly-Smith (Lincoln) reviews Conor Heaney's new book, Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/rhythm-as-me...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Daniel Monk about researching sexuality and inheritance. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/looking-for-...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌍 Borderlands section, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌏Borderlands section, Ananya Bhargava reflects upon West Bengal's Aparajita Bill as an expression of governance and carceral feminism. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/punishment-o...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 📚A Good Read section, Dr. Senthorun Raj reviews Claerwen O’Hara and Tamsin Paige's new collections, Queer Encounters with International Law and Queer Engagements with International Law (Routledge). 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/queerying-in...

In this week’s #Frontiers 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast🎙️Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia about doing participatory research from an anti-colonial perspective. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/participator...

In this week’s #Frontiers, Methodological Musings section, Jacqueline Nakaiza reflects on her research on the lived experience of Somali women through the rivers of life methodology. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/exploring-th...

In this week’s #Frontiers, Borderlands section, Bev Clough (Manchester Metropolitan) and Anna Nelson (Manchester) introduce a new research network which seeks to explore novel dynamics in - and approaches to - medical law. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/shifting-dyn...

In this week’s #Frontiers A Good Read section 📚 Francesca Barp (Hamburg) reviews Zoe Adams' book, The Legal Concept of Work (Oxford University Press, 2022). 📖 Read the full post here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/laws-making-...

In this week’s #Frontiers ‘Talking about Methods’ podcast 🎙️ Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Karen Nokes (UCL) about quasi-experimental methods beyond the lab and how they can be used in Socio-Legal research. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/quasi-experi...

In this week’s #Frontiers Methodological Musings section Marianne González Le Saux (University of Chile) reflects on aversion and empathy in research. Read the full post in English here (also published in Spanish - see 🧵 post below)   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/writing-abou...

Celebrating the launch of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies bi-annual report 23-24! This report is a testament to the dedication of our 29 research staff and 41 research students, whose work spans five continents.

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌍Borderlands section, Antonella Patteri (Warsaw) considers the pressing issue of 'Return Hubs' and their implication both for migrants and for EU Law. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/eu-return-hu...

Really delighted that the Leverhulme Trust has agreed to fund my new project on historic Tibetan law at @oxfordcsls.bsky.social It will follow my start-up project with the John Fell Fund: www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-historic...

In this week’s #Frontiers 📚 A Good Read section 📚 Viktoriia Hamaiunova reviews Jaime Lindsey’s book, Reimagining the Court of Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2022). 📖 Read the full post here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/unheard-voic...

In this week’s #Frontiers’ 🎙️Talking About Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Chris Graham who is the CEO at Picker (an international charity working across health and social care) about Survey Psychology. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here:    frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/survey-psych...

We’re hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher for the HuRiEE Project at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford! A fantastic opportunity for researchers with expertise in quantitative methods, human rights, and socio-legal studies. 🧵⬇️

In this week’s #Frontiers Methodological Musings section, Mini Saxena (SOAS) reflects on her research on conditional consent in the Global South. 📖Read the full post here:  frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/translating-...

In this special #Frontiers' Borderlands post to mark International Women’s Day 2025, Anna Ratecka (Södertörn) and Agnieszka Kubal (CSLS, Oxford) reflect upon the connection of reproductive rights and the Rule of Law. Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/reproductive...

In this special podcast to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025, for #Frontiers’ 🎙️ Talking About Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Molly Ackhurst (Greenwich) about sticky emotions in feminist research. Listen to the full podcast here: 🎧 frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/sticky-emoti...

This is bound to be thought provoking. He gave us a taste of it at @oxfordcsls.bsky.social

In this week’s #Frontiers, as part of the blog’s Borderland section, Victor Onyilor Achem (University of Ibadan) reflects upon gendered land rights in the context of conflict and displacement. Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/economic-emp...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 📚 A Good Read section 📚, Dr. Minou Arjomand reviews Agata Fijalkowski’s book, ‘Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial’ (Routledge, 2023). Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/show-trials/

📖 Book Discussion: ‘The Rule of Laws’ Join us for a lively discussion on 'The Rule of Laws' with author Fernanda Pirie (CSLS, Oxford) and discussants Baudouin Dupret & Sophie Demare-Lafont, convened by Soazick Kerneis. 📅 Friday, March 7th ⏰ 4 PM 📍 Maison Française, Oxford

📢 Book Launch: Keepers of the Common Good by D.J. Galligan 📢 Join us as Prof. Denis Galligan explores the social foundations of constitutional authority from the people’s perspective, featuring insights from Hume, Smith & Bourdieu. 🏛📖 🧵 (1/4)

In this week’s #Frontiers 🎙️ Talking About Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Bettina Lange (Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) about discourse analysis in Socio-Legal research. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/discourse-an...

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In this week’s #Frontiers, 🎙️Talking about Methods podcast, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Maureen Freed (University of Oxford) about vicarious trauma through research. 🎧 Listen to the full podcast here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/vicarious-tr...

Excited to be convening this term's seminars at the @oxfordcsls.bsky.social in conjunction with the Oxford Legal History Forum. We have an excellent line-up of speakers, starting today.

We are thrilled to announce that our Annual Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, one of the world’s leading scholars of international law. 🌍 👉 Register now and secure your spot: lnkd.in/d7yjvdNY 🔗 Read more: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

In this week’s #Frontiers, A Good Read section, Dr Isobel Roele reviews Valérie Hayaert’s new book, Lady Justice: An Anatomy of an Allegory (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). 📖 Read the full post here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/encounters-w...

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In this week’s #Frontiers, Borderlands section, Dr Conor Heaney (Kent) @conorhean considers the Safer Phones Bill through the frame of rhythmanalysis. 📖 Read the full post here:   frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/attentional-...