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2 Sep 2016, 2:18 am by Peter Groves
A person is (this from the Oxford Companion to Law) typically defined as "a being, entity or unit which can bear legal rights and duties". [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 9:08 pm
Jefferies (Univ. of Alberta - Law) has published Marine Mammal Conservation and the Law of the Sea (Oxford Univ. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 11:05 pm
European and Australian governments have also raised concerns over allegations of unfair trials, despite no European or Australian nationals being listed for execution.This demonstrates that their appeal to Indonesia to halt the execution is not a matter of defending their own nationals, but rather a matter of universal principle.A distinguished Islamic philosopher from Oxford University, Professor Tariq Ramadan, has also sent an open letter to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 9:10 am by Brian Leiter
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Epistemic Friction: An Essay on Knowledge, Truth, and Logic by Gila Sher (Oxford University Press, 2016). [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 7:26 am by Andrew Hamm
Briefly: In its latest newsletter, the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship reports that the late Justice Antonin Scalia and several other Justices were “Oxfordians” – that is, they believed that Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, was the “true author” of the works historically attributed to Shakespeare. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 4:00 am by Robert McKay
Their loss is undoubtedly Oxford University Press’s gain. [read post]
28 Aug 2016, 12:33 pm by David Markus
Reza Sheikholeslami, emeritus professor of Persian studies at Oxford, is to lead a traditional Persian ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.Ms. [read post]
27 Aug 2016, 7:00 am by Mitra Sharafi
Full details hereCFP: A conference on "Cultural Expertise in socio-legal studies and history" will be held in Oxford, Dec.15-16, 2016. [read post]
26 Aug 2016, 4:30 pm by Karen Hoffmann
She has an LL.M. in International Labor and Social Security Law from Tilburg University, an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, a Certificate in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University and a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 9:08 pm
Keith, reviewing The Oxford Handbook of the Law of the Sea, edited by Donald R. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 12:08 am
On September 1-2, 2016, the European University Institute will host the Seventh Annual Conference of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 9:06 pm
Joyner (Univ. of Alabama - Law) has published Iran's Nuclear Program and International Law: From Confrontation to Accord (Oxford Univ. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 12:17 am
 Developed out Riordan's doctoral dissertation at Oxford, this book will appeal to academics and practitioners alike.Also thanks to its rational and clear structure, the author has succeeded in a fairly challenging task (that few so far have completed successfully), ie explaining the law of ISP liability by showing also a thorough understanding of the functioning and ongoing development of underlying technologies.Following an inquiry into relevant legal principles, the book also… [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 7:52 am by Brian Leiter
He posted the following earlier today: After considerable deliberation and reflection I've decided that it's time to go to Oxford. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 6:49 am by Brian Leiter
Les Green (Oxford) skewers a fake apology by an anti-gay bigot. [read post]
21 Aug 2016, 4:28 pm by INFORRM
  Hayek again: ‘it is sensible temporarily to sacrifice freedom in order to make it more secure in the future; but the same cannot be said for a system proposed to be a permanent arrangement’(p 213 The prevent duty exposes, at least to my mind, a particular difficulty with the definition of terrorism which is defined, in the Terrorism Act 2000, through some unhelpful prolixity, in more or less the same terms as the Oxford English Dictionary: the unlawful use of violence or… [read post]
20 Aug 2016, 10:51 pm by Mark Summerfield
  Oxford University, through its commercialisation arm Isis Innovation (now renamed as Oxford Innovation, for sadly obvious reasons), licensed the technology exclusively to US company Sequenom, Inc.Last year, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) found the US patent to be invalid on the basis that the claimed invention was essentially the discovery of the pre-existing, but hitherto unknown, natural phenomenon of cffDNA being present in maternal blood: Ariosa… [read post]
20 Aug 2016, 12:19 pm
Cécile Fabre (Univ. of Oxford - Philosophy) has published Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford Univ. [read post]