Wadham College launches its Law and Justice Research Hub

Wadham’s Law and Justice Research Hub launched with its inaugural event, ‘Surviving Violence: from Coping to Thriving’, funded by the British Academy.

Through the Law and Justice Research Hub, established by Shazia Choudhry, Fellow and Professor of Law, and Sandy Steel, Lee Shau Kee’s Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow, Tutor and Professor of Law and Philosophy of Law, Wadham will facilitate, and present to a wider audience, the research activities of its academics working in Law.

The keynote lecture can be watched above and you can click here for further pictures and information from the event.

In addition to the launch event, our Fellows have convened and participated in conferences on legal philosophy, foundational issues in private law, the use of statistical evidence to prove causality in civil litigation, human rights litigation concerning violence against women and girls in Latin America, and the Wadham in the World 'Women & The Law' event with the Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond. Our Fellows are engaged in research that has a theoretical dimension, as well as being rooted in current issues faced by legal systems in the UK and internationally.

The Research Hub aims to:

• Provide a dedicated research space for the Law Fellows and Lecturers to actively facilitate research collaborations, conferences and workshops.
• Strengthen links between the College and the Law Faculty and foster intellectual exchanges between Wadham’s Law Fellows and Lecturers and the scholarly and legal-professional community within and beyond Oxford.
• Engage legal practitioners on current legal issues as well as foundational questions that permeate the law.
• Enrich further the research environment in Law in College by enabling students to engage with the wider legal research community and contribute to its activities.
• Bring the legal research taking place in Wadham to a wider audience.
• Provide a mechanism for our Early Career Fellows to develop and showcase their research to the wider research community.

We plan to host a programme of Law and Justice Research Hub activities. These will include an annual research-focused event on a specific legal theme, with input from leading practitioners/alumni. Further outputs will include publication of short blogs on recent cases or current issues of interest on law and policy.