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Project Andrew Burrows Appointed to the Supreme Court 'Remembering Rwanda' Wins Award New Law and Technology Course Reproductive Health and Human Rights 2020 No 23 The 'Future of Plastics' Project Andrew Burrows appointed to the Supreme Court 'Remembering Rwanda' wins award New Law and Technology Course Reproductive Health and Human Rights FACULTY OF L AW Editor: Clare Oxenbury-Palmer Designed by: windrushgroup.co.uk Printed by: Oxford University Press The Oxford Law News is published annually Dean’s Letter CONTENTS by the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford This will be my last Dean’s Dean’s Letter 3 Cover photos: Plastic pollution in ocean environmental Letter in the Law News 4-8 problem. Turtles can eat plastic bags News, because Student News 9 mistaking them for jellyfish by Richard Carey on Adobe Stock my term of office Water efficiency in the public sector 10-11 Andrew Burrows comes to an end Can the law help us to relate to each other better? 12-13 Data – Law and Technology in September of ‘Remembering Rwanda’ Team at the Oxford Human Rights Hub: ‘Shaping the Future’ 14-15 VCPER awards Bayush and her friends this year. Law Faculty Blogs 16-18 in Ethiopia Photographer Jessica Lea Department for Photo: Piranha Photography Erasmus+ and the Oxford Law Faculty 19 International Development Access & Outreach 20-21 New Faculty members 22-23 I always expected the job to be challenging, and so both those who read law at Oxford and those who did it has proved, but no-one could have foreseen the something else and ended up pursuing a career in law. Farewell 24 turmoil of the past few weeks, as we have confronted I have loved hearing your stories about Oxford – your the Coronavirus pandemic. Of course, my first thought memories of tutorials with demanding tutors, essay Research News 25-29 is for the wellbeing of colleagues, students and alumni crises, and (for those of a certain age) climbing back New Modern Slavery Centre 30-31 and their families and friends, and it is my sincere hope into your college late at night after the gate was locked that all of you have been able to stay safe and well – and hearing how your Oxford education helped to The Death Penalty Research Initiative 32-33 Keep in touch during these difficult times. shape your career. Your loyalty to, and support of, our Law Faculty has been a constant in changing times The Future of Plastics 34-35 Alumni enquiries: As I write, we have moved to online teaching and Maureen O’Neill and you are our very best and most enthusiastic assessment for the remainder of this academic year, Business Law and Human Rights 36-37 [email protected] ambassadors. I am sorry that I have not been able to in order to enable our wonderful students to complete Editorial enquiries: thank you for this support in person this year, but I do Events 38-39 their courses. Both academic and administrative staff Clare Oxenbury-Palmer so now, from the bottom of my heart. in the Faculty have shown great tenacity and ingenuity [email protected] Alumni News and Events 40-43 in solving the unprecedented challenges we have I will be staying at Oxford as a professorial fellow of Oxford Law News Alumni profiles –Stefanie Wilkins & Wande McCunn 44-45 faced. Our aim is to continue to provide a great Oxford Brasenose College and I am looking forward to having Faculty of Law educational experience, albeit with a rather different more time for research and teaching. It has been a St Cross Building Honours 46-48 look and feel, and to return to normal as soon as it is great privilege to be Dean of the best law school in St Cross Road safe to do so. Many colleagues have started to blog the world and I am delighted to be handing over to The Origin of the Martin Wronker Price 49 Oxford or write about the various legal issues arising out of Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart, of Merton College. I OX1 3UL Scholarships and Prizes 50-51 Coronavirus, and you can follow their work on the know that Mindy will do an excellent job, and I wish her Connect with us Faculty’s website. every success. Books 52-53 @OxfordLawFac Until the pandemic put a stop to all travel, one of the Anne Davies DPhil Student profiles 54-55 most enjoyable elements of my role as Dean was the facebook.com/OxfordLawFaculty April 2020 opportunity to meet with alumni around the world, Mooting 56-58 bit.ly/oxunilawyers Oxford Faculty of Law News 3 News FBA, DCL, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Professor Andrew Temple is Professor of the Law of England and a Fellow at All Souls. He was a Law Commissioner for England Faculty launches new option in Burrows appointed and Wales (1994-1999) and President of the Society to the Supreme of Legal Scholars (2015-16). Law and Computer Science Court A new option in Law and Computer Science is being Such interdisciplinary understanding requires both offered to BCL, MJur and MSc in Law and Finance lawyers and computer scientists to develop an Her Majesty The Queen has made four new students from this year. This is the first truly appreciation of the way in which they typically appointments to the Supreme Court, including interdisciplinary option and will be jointly offered by approach problems, with very different analytic appointing a new President, on the advice of the the Law Faculty and the Department of Computer tools. A key pedagogical strategy for the course Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor and following Science. is to teach law and computer science students the recommendations of independent selection together, and in particular for them to collaborate As AI and digital technology permeate more of commissions. Professor Andrew Burrows will join on a groupwork practical exercise. the Supreme Court on 2 June 2020 along with Lord our lives, they increasingly becomes the source of Justice Hamblen and Lord Justice Leggatt. legally significant events. This means that those The course will be led by Professor Rebecca Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), who study and/or practice law increasingly need to Williams of the Law Faculty and Professor Tom understand the digital context. At the same time, Melham from the Computer Science Department. those who study computer science and/or develop Professor Williams is a co-Investigator on the AI for software increasingly need to understand potential English Law project. legal consequences of design choices. across the University, and indeed the discipline itself, is The course will take 12 students from each Centre for Criminology This course will introduce students from both still not sufficiently diverse, despite some recent efforts discipline and is full this year, demonstrating the backgrounds to the terrain at the boundaries of at improvement. As a teaching group committed to demand for knowledge in this area. launches new scholarship their two disciplines. The overarching theme is training the next generation of scholars, we hope this understanding law and computer science at their for BME students studentship will have an impact on the nature of the intersection. discipline more widely.’ The Centre for Criminology in association with Brasenose College has launched a new scholarship for UK BME The scholarship is one of several initiatives that the students. The scholarship will provide full fees and University is undertaking as part of its Race Equality maintenance support for a maximum of four years. Charter, and is a positive action measure under s.158 of the Equality Act 2010. It is also one of many offered by The Centre for Criminology is committed to attracting the University to students who have been accepted onto the very best candidates for research degrees, programmes at the Centre for Criminology. irrespective of their background or ability to pay. Highly qualified students from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds who are ordinarily resident in the UK have been under-represented in the doctoral programme in recent years. It is hoped that the graduate scholarship will encourage more students from these backgrounds to apply for the DPhil in Criminology. Mary Bosworth, Director of the Centre for Criminology, said ‘I’m delighted that we have been able to create the first BME DPhil studentship in the Law Faculty, with support from Brasenose college. In creating this funding opportunity, we acknowledge that the student body 4 Oxford Faculty of Law News Oxford Faculty of Law News 5 News King and Wood Mallesons of China-related initiatives including a three- Associate Professorship in year Career Development Fellowship in Chinese Centre for Health, Law and Commercial Law (funded by Fangda Partners) and Asian Law a new Chinese Law Discussion Group for graduate Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) students (funded by Skadden). We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with King and Wood Mallesons (KWM), a leading global With the generous support of KWM, this new post In 2019 the Law Faculty welcomed the Centre for translational outcomes. It investigates areas where law firm headquartered in Asia. KWM will be funding will take our Asia initiatives to an exciting new phase Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) new technologies are having a significant impact, the inaugural Associate Professorship in Asian Law at of growth. The post-holder will play a leading role in to its portfolio of research programmes. HeLEX such as the use of next generation sequencing the Law Faculty (with affiliation to St Hugh’s College) growing Oxford’s research and teaching capacities in transferred to Law from the Nuffield Department technologies in the clinic and big data approaches from July 2020. This new post is one of the most Chinese law and laws of other jurisdictions in Asia.
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