Centre for Socio-Legal Studies - Oxford Talks

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies part of: Faculty of Law

Monday 13 October 2025

11:30 - Populist Lawmaking in Indonesia
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Adriaan Bedner (Universiteit Leiden)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 16 October 2025

12:00 - Is the European Media Freedom Act Necessary? A Comparison of its Article 4 to Existing EU Regulation on Surveillance, Privacy, and Media Freedom
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Sheila B. Lalwani (The University of Texas at Austin)
Socio-Legal Discussion Group

Thursday 23 October 2025

12:00 - Deep Trust, Political Hope, and the Future of Democracy – Professor Michele Moody-Adams, Astor Visiting Lecturer 2025
In-person participants will be able to take part in the discussion and Q&A following the lecture and are warmly invited to stay for lunch in the Common Room at the Manor Road Building afterwards.
Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Monday 27 October 2025

11:30 - Evidence based climate law? The case of new climate mitigation technology
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Bettina Lange (University of Oxford)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 30 October 2025

12:00 - Protests and Precedent: How Nepal’s Supreme Court Interprets Equality
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Sachin Siwakoti (CSLS)
Socio-Legal Discussion Group

Monday 3 November 2025

11:30 - Legal Mythologies and Competing Narratives of Sovereignty in Contemporary Britain
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Francesca Uberti (University of Oxford)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Monday 10 November 2025

11:30 - Searching for Universals in Law
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Carlton Patrick (University of Central Florida)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 13 November 2025

12:00 - Restorative Justice as Governance: Tracing Trajectories of Penal Politics in the UK
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Ethan Ostrow (CSLS)
Socio-Legal Discussion Group

Monday 17 November 2025

11:30 - The Justice Trap: the politics of war crimes accountability in Uganda’s modern authoritarian regime
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Anna Macdonald (University of East Anglia)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Monday 24 November 2025

11:30 - Seeking justice back home: new technologies and dispute resolution among Johannesburg’s migrant communities
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Nicole Stremlau (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Monday 1 December 2025

11:30 - Book Launch: Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia by Dominik Krell
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Dominik Krell (CSLS)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

12:00 - Algorithmic Systems and Public Banking: Curse or Blessing for Fundamental Rights and Financial Inclusion?
Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
Laurenz Döring (University of Münster)
Socio-Legal Discussion Group

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