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2016 OXFORD LAW NEWS No20 50 years of the Centre for Criminology Anne Davies, our new Dean Bonavero Institute of Human Rights announced FACULTY OF L AW Contents Keep in touch Editorial Committee: Anne Davies, Dean’s Letter 4 Judith Freedman, Maureen O’Neill Bonavero Institute of Human Rights 5 Alumni enquiries Centre for Criminology: 50th Anniversary 6 Editor: Kate Blanshard For further information on Oxford Law alumni events Faculty Profiles 8 Blogging 10 and to discuss ways to support Oxford Law please Copy Editor: Sophie Elkan contact the Faculty of Law’s Director of Development, Access 12 Maureen O’Neill: [email protected] Designed and produced by: Internships 16 windrushgroup.co.uk Graduate Students 18 Do you know of a great venue for an alumni event? Or News and Events 20 have an idea for something new to add to our calendar? 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I would also like ‘Under its aegis, the new to thank my predecessor as Acting Dean, Professor Hugh Collins, for keeping a steady hand on the tiller Institute will produce, and deploy during Timothy’s sabbatical. Although I have worked in Oxford for many years, I have had a lot to learn in my new role and I am grateful to the Associate Deans and the administrative staff in the Faculty in the field, academic research office for their support. of such calibre that the lives of men, women and children People often ask me to outline my ‘vision’ for the following the majority vote in favour of leaving the worldwide will be improved.’ Faculty. There is much to be proud of in Oxford Law: EU in the recent referendum. I know that students, both in terms of Faculty members’ research, ranging colleagues, alumni and supporters will have a range of Yves Bonavero widely across all aspects of the discipline; and in views on the outcome and on the next steps, and that terms of our outstanding and increasingly diverse we will see some lively debate over the coming months. cohorts of graduate and undergraduate students. From the Faculty’s perspective, the key message is But no institution can afford to rest on its laurels, that we strive to create a welcoming environment for The Bonavero Institute for Human Rights (BIHR) is and human rights and it was she who took the initiative particularly in the globally competitive higher education students and scholars of all nationalities here, and this a new specialist centre for human rights law within in raising funds for the Institute. The Institute is funded environment. Nevertheless, asking about my vision for is something we intend to maintain in the future. the Law Faculty. The Institute’s focus will be on the by a generous donation from the AB Charitable Trust, the Faculty is not to ask quite the right question. The One of the great privileges of my first few months as development of world-class research in human rights providing the Institute with an endowment to fund its Faculty is run by its members through the Law Faculty Dean has been the opportunity to meet the Faculty’s law, broadly defined, and on the facilitation of links Director and core staff. The Trust was founded by Yves Board and its committees, and so the role of the Dean many alumni and supporters around the world, and to between research and practice. This bridge-building Bonavero and his wife Anne, to defend and promote the is to help the Faculty to formulate and implement its hear about your memories of, and connections with, between scholarship and practice will be central to the cause of human dignity, and the Institute is named for own vision. I look forward to the particular challenges Oxford. I hope to get to know many more of you over Institute’s mission and will include helping our students the Bonavero family. The Institute is also supported by of this facilitative role. the coming months. to gain practical experience (for example, through donations from the A G Leventis Foundation, a personal At the time of writing there is much uncertainty Anne Davies internships) and helping practitioners learn about donation from Mr Harry Leventis, the Sir Joseph surrounding the UK’s future relationship with the EU, and draw on the outstanding research taking place in Hotung Charitable Settlement, Nest Investments, the Oxford. As articles elsewhere in this edition of Law David & Elaine Potter Foundation, the Garfield Weston News reveal, there is already a lot going on in human Foundation and Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing. The Profile of the Dean rights law within the Faculty, and we anticipate that Faculty is grateful to all of the Institute’s benefactors Professor Anne Davies started her tenure as Dean of the long had a reputation for her straightforward and decent the new Institute will build on existing strengths as well for their generosity towards, and enthusiasm for, the Law Faculty in October 2015. Anne is one of the leading approach to academic life – a trait that is fundamental in as developing new research programmes and practical project. projects. public law and labour law scholars of her generation. The the collaborative governance context of Oxford. The inaugural Director of the Institute will be Justice formal definition of ‘leading’ is obvious from her CV: she She is also very down to earth. Walk into Anne’s office and The Institute will open its doors in new, purpose-built Catherine (Kate) O’Regan, an internationally-renowned is a Martin Wronker Prize winner, was an All Souls Prize you will find a VW campervan that she has painstakingly premises designed by Rick Mather Architects at nearby figure in the field of human rights law. Fellow, a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose for over 14 years, made from LEGO. Some may think that law professors Mansfield College in October 2017. Spread over two and received the title of Professor of Law and Public are too grand for LEGO, but academic scholarship and floors, the Institute will include office space, a seminar Policy in 2010. She is the author of five books, numerous See page 68: Kate O’Regan – Arrivals leadership are really just more sophisticated forms of articles, and has taken on a variety of editorial roles room and a lecture auditorium to be shared with brick building: hands-on activities which require tenacity, including General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Mansfield. The rest of the building will house 74 of a commitment to rigour, pragmatism and - dare I say it - Human rights law addresses some of the most pressing Studies. Mansfield’s undergraduates. playfulness. So a LEGO VW van is a very fitting thing to challenges to the realisation of human dignity around But Anne is a ‘leading’ scholar in other senses. Much of her have in the Dean’s office, and it is particularly fitting that it The Institute has been made possible through the vision the world today, and the new Institute offers an scholarship has been about placing law on solid intellectual is in an office inhabited by Anne.