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Oxford Law News Oxford Law News University of Oxford Issue 10, Winter 2005 In this issue... Message from the chair of the board elcome to this year’s issue of The Bodleian Oxford Law News. The following Law Library Wpages will hopefully give you a 40 years on taste of the many exciting events and developments that have taken place in Page 2 the life of the Faculty during the course of the 2004/5 academic year. While the newspapers seem to make much of the pressures (financial and otherwise) to which Universities are subject today (and these pressures are real), they appear Richard Youard to have rather less to say about the Lectures remarkable range of work that continues to be done within the Universities and Page 4 the achievements of members of the Faculty and our students. This issue will hopefully go some way towards rectifying that balance. The work of Faculty members has been recognised in prizes and awards; a number of successful conferences have been held; we have been fortunate to be able to make a Oxford vs Sydney number of excellent appointments and students have continued to represent Page 7 the Faculty successfully in mooting competitions. Photo Barry Roberts but at the same time we are an It is hard to believe that a year has gone by international law school and our research since our last issue. Last year Dr Michael and our teaching cannot be seen solely Spence announced that I would be acting in national terms. Our students are, as Chair of the Law Board while he was increasingly, drawn from all corners of the on sabbatical leave. The intention was world. We are in the process of raising Alumni Lectures that he would return to resume his role as funds for scholarships in order to ensure Chair of the Law Board in October 2005. that, as far as we can, we can continue Page 12 The intervening year has seen a change to recruit the best students from all parts of plan. Michael has been appointed as of the world, irrespective of their financial the Head of the Social Sciences Division means. Regular contact with alumni is for a 5 year period which began on 1 an important part of our work. In the October 2005. While his appointment last year we organised events for alumni is a considerable loss to the Faculty it is in Manchester, London, New York and fitting recognition of his leadership and Beijing. We will do the same in 2005/6 administrative skills. I have agreed to and are currently planning an event in continue as Chair until September 2007. Bodossaki Prize Australia in 2006. We hope to be able to The change in plans does not, however, meet you at one of these events. signify a change in the direction of the Page 17 Faculty. We remain committed to the Ewan McKendrick study of English law and its development Chair of the Law Board Contents Dame Deech News ....................................................2 Mooting........................................14 Lectures..........................................4 Honours & Awards..............................15 Page 19 Events.............................................7 Staff News..........................................20 Obituaries.......................................8 Publications..................................22 Centres.........................................10 Development News.............................23 Conferences..................................12 Forthcoming Events............ ...............24 News The Bodleian Law Library at 40 In October 2004, the St Cross Building and the Bodleian Law Library celebrated the 40th anniversary of the official opening of the building in 1964. Any former student who returns to Oxford 1980s and 1990s, to the spectacular growth and pops in to have look at the Law Library, of the world wide web, this has been without will be comforted to know that the interior is a doubt the most interesting, challenging and as warm and welcoming in its décor as ever. exciting time to be involved with libraries. The Reading Room provides a similar first Another key change is the increasing role impression to readers in 2004 as it did in 1964. of librarians in legal research teaching. The desks in the light-filled central space are Not only do we teach a compulsory Legal the same timber desks, with the brass light Research Skills Programme to the first year fittings that you may remember. The research undergraduates, we offer a wide range of desks around the window perimeter are still tutorials to undergraduate and postgraduate there, as are the timber door carrels. students alike. The content varies from Photo Barry Roberts specific resources available in certain subject However, despite the comforting familiarity areas, to research in foreign jurisdictions, weekend opening hours, the Norton Rose of the first impression, many changes have to the scope and contents of the numerous logo on the website promoting sponsored taken place over the years. Most noticeably, legal databases. databases and the Slaughter and May the collection has grown to more than fill logo on some of the research guides and the available shelving. There are 400,000 And a final aspect of change is the ever tutorial timetables. The Law Library in 2004 volumes held in the library now, nearing the decreasing funding which comes to the Law would not be able to provide a world class 450,000 capacity that was planned for with Library from central University funds. Whereas collection without the generosity of these such foresight back in the 1950s. Perhaps in the mid 1990s, the University was able to and other numerous donors, who provide the surprisingly to some, books continue to be provide the entire materials budget needed by extra funding needed for us to meet the ever a vitally important resource for our students the Law Library, it can now provide less than changing teaching and research needs of our and researchers. half of the funds needed simply to maintain student population the collection. High inflation, consolidation This brings me to the greatest research in the legal publishing industry, and the ever When you are next in Oxford, you would be resource change to the Law Library, which has expanding number of areas of legal subjects more than welcome to visit us in the Law been the development and ongoing increase have all contributed to the funding gap. Library, and see some of these changes in of a very wide range of legal databases which person. complement the book collection. From the Alumni could be surprised to see the ‘Baker introduction of personal computers in the & McKenzie Seminar Room’, the ‘Freshfields early 1980s, using home made databases, IT Training Room’, the Lovells brochure and Ruth Bird through the CDRom revolution of the late posters advertising their sponsorship of the Bodleian Law Librarian altered in order to bring it formally within project has been commissioned by the Pro bono work at the management of the Faculty. For International Criminal Tribunal for the this reason, OXPIL has recently been Former Yugoslavia. Oxford continues in reconstituted as Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP). Pro bono work at Oxford is OPBP’s highly motivated committee a new guise now directed by a committee consisting hopes not only to further the values of of both faculty members and graduate public interest law, but also to provide For many years now, Oxford graduate students; work is only undertaken in graduate students with a unique students and members of the Law conjunction with solicitors and barristers opportunity to hone their skills on Faculty have worked on pro bono who are themselves working pro bono; complex and fascinating legal issues, projects, involving themselves in some and all projects must be approved by the thereby enhancing the quality of the of the most significant and high-profile Chair of the Law Board. graduate experience at Oxford. Overall, legal issues of the day. The projects have OPBP hopes that it is contributing to ranged from drafting an expert opinion In its new incarnation, Oxford’s pro what will, one day, be seen as a proud on the legality of the Israeli security bono legal community has wasted no tradition of high-quality pro bono work barrier, supporting the work of defence time in attracting a host of diverse and amongst the dreaming spires. lawyers involved in the Guantanamo Bay exciting projects. For instance, an tribunals, and researching the treatment OPBP team is presently considering For more information, visit OPBP’s whether a campaign of mass evictions of homosexuals in the US military for website: www.law.ox.ac.uk/opbp litigation in the US Federal Court. carried out in Zimbabwe constitutes a crime against humanity, while another Previously, this work was done in the team is preparing an expert opinion for name of Oxford Public Interest Lawyers the Max Planck Institute for International (OXPIL). However, it was felt that, and Comparative Criminal Law on the given the significance of the work in individual responsibility of members which OXPIL was involving itself, the of criminal organisations under the structure of the organisation should be law of the United Kingdom. The latter 2 News CENTRE FOR McGRIGORSʼ CELEBRATION BUSINESS OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT TAXATION FELLOW IN TAX LAW The Law Faculty has been closely the UK Government, the European On 1 February 2005, McGrigors, a links with the academic side of involved with the establishment Commission and the OECD. leading UK law firm which has one the legal profession, something of the new Oxford University of the largest, specialist, dedicated that is set to continue given the Centre for Business Taxation, to Members of The Hundred Group tax litigation departments in ever-increasing complexity and be based at the Said Business are providing funding of £5 million the UK, hosted a reception at need for innovation in identifying School. The Centre will carry to support the work of the Centre Christ Church for the Career the best tax solutions”.
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