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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@ox.ac.uk's new MSc in Law, Governance and Artificial Intelligence will bring together law, politics, governance and computational understanding for people who want to help shape AI responsibly ⚖️🏛️💻 Register your interest for updates 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/lgai @politicsoxford.bsky.social
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Join us for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's Annual Roger Hood Lecture featuring Professor Shadd Maruna from @liverpooluni.bsky.social on 'Desistance Futures: Making Amends for the Past' 🏛️👇 Attendees are invited to join us for a drinks reception following the lecture 💺🍸 shorturl.at/o94MU
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Join in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Andrea Kretschmann from Leuphana University on 'Riot cities: On theater, play and affect in protest policing training' 🏛️💻 Register for this event👇 shorturl.at/OlR17
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's  upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Pete Fussey from the @unisouthampton.bsky.social on 'Surveillance, Suspicion and Citizenship in the Age of AI' 🏛️💻 Register for this event👇 shorturl.at/ttyYB
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
📖 New book: Michael Foran, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Fellow of @kebleoxford.bsky.social, publishes 'Sex, Gender Identity and the Law' (@universitypress.cambridge.org) on 7 May 📆 📹 In this video, Michael discusses how "sex" is defined in UK law. www.youtube.com/shorts/hE9aW...
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How is "sex" defined in UK law?
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Professor Rachel Condry's pioneering research on adolescent-to-parent violence and matricide draws attention to women often left out of view 👀 Read about her unconventional academic journey and the real-world impact of her investigations on @ox.ac.uk's Pulse 👇 shorturl.at/PYCOA
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Illan Wall from @uniofgalway.bsky.social  on 'Managing the Populace: Community tension and Public Order' 🏛️💻 👇 shorturl.at/jN1yZ
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
#JobOpportunity We are looking for a part time Administrative Assistant to support the work of our Research Support Team 👀 This role is part time (0.4 FTE) and fixed term to 31 December 2028. The Faculty supports hybrid working 🏛️💻 Apply before 13 March 2026 📆 www.law.ox.ac.uk/administrati...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 16/02/2026
Frances Hand from @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social reflects on the campaign by TV star Louise Thompson to appoint a UK Maternity Commissioner and what this could mean for the thousands of women who give birth in the NHS every year. Find out more⬇️
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What Louise Thompson’s campaign tells us about the national maternity
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring Silvia Gomes from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'Re-entry in Portugal: From Lived Experiences to Abolitionist Reimaginations' 🏛️💻 👇 shorturl.at/GdAeM
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The Faculty of Law  will be flying the LGBTQ+ flags outside the St Cross Building @ox.ac.uk in celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month this February 🏳️‍🌈
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Read the latest Oxford Law Research Newsletter covering the Faculty's research outputs on hot topics and important issues 👀⬇️ shorturl.at/OVsZN
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Join us in-person or online for @oxfordcrim.bsky.social 's upcoming All Souls Seminar featuring David Sklansky from @stanford.edu on 'Coercion, Control, and Complexity: Aiding and Abetting in the Context of Domestic Violence' 🏛️💻 👇 shorturl.at/vAyve
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In this latest Conversations on Consent episode Professor Victor Tadros from the University of Warwick discusses the values of the sexual revolution and its impact on the ethics of consent and the moral quality of consent that is caused by unjust circumstances 🤔❔ www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Ec...
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Victor Tadros: Consent and the Sexual Revolution
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Last term we were honoured to have Professor Sheila Jasanoff from Harvard Kennedy School as our speaker for the Clarendon Lecture Series 🗣️⚛️🤖🧠 Recordings of the lectures and an interview with the Oxford Undergraduate Law Podcast are available on YouTube 📽️💻👇
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This UNIQ+ paid summer internship would be based here @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social working with our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social. please share with eligible UK undergraduates
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
AI systems let companies draw accurate conclusions about people that can be harmful and most of those fall outside of legal protections 🤖 ⚖️  Research from Ignacio Cofone @ox.ac.uk highlights a need to change our data protection frameworks 🗣️💻
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How AI reshapes the meaning of personal information
Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, working at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Institute for Ethics in AI.One of his areas...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🎉 Congratulations to Dr Brooke Marshall, Associate Professor of Law, who has been awarded the New Author Prize in this year's Inner Temple Book Prize competition for her book Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses 📘 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news... Image credit: Inner Temple / Miranda Parry Photography
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
With generative AI we face a new kind of risk. It is easy to forget we’re interacting with software – and that’s where hidden harms creep in 🤖❗ Professor Ignacio Cofone from @ox.ac.uk explores how chatbots can be useful without posing as a friend 💻💬
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Why generative AI creates new design responsibilities
Ignacio Cofone is Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, working at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Institute for Ethics in AI.One of his areas...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law, has been quoted extensively in The Times, providing expert commentary on a high-profile employment tribunal case in Scotland 🗣️📰 www.thetimes.com/article/4f61...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Read the winner of the 2024 Oxford Undergraduate Law Journal Annual Essay Competition📝☑️ It argues that while GenAI poses new challenges, existing frameworks of negligence and product liability law are sufficiently robust to adapt and provide remedies 👁️‍🗨️⚖️ 👀 shorturl.at/DCAYD
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A portrait of Anne Davies, Professor of Law and Public Policy, features in the Bodleian Libraries’ new Catalysts series celebrating researchers @ox.ac.uk whose work is having global impact 🌏 Her portrait will enter the permanent collection at the Weston Library in 2026 📸🏛️👩‍🎓 shorturl.at/HdHpA
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
#JobOpportunity 📣 The Oxford Sustainable Law Programme @ox.ac.uk is inviting applications for the position of Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainable Business Law 🏛️ Closing date for applications is 12 January ⏳ www.law.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Bonavero Institute of Human Rights @bonavero.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today we celebrate #HumanRightsDay and mark 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. In our latest report, we have examined 10 reasons to stay in the ECHR, addressing a debate often dominated by widespread misunderstandings of what the ECHR does. 🔗 Read the full report: bit.ly/4a5bA7S
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This year's Human Rights Day theme is 'Our Everyday Essentials', which aims to show how human rights shape our daily lives ⚖️ Follow the Oxford Human Rights Hub to engage with blogs, journal articles, and podcasts from across the globe 💻🎙️ 🌍 🔎 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Universities are paying to use big tech AI tools 🏛️ 💻 Professor Horst Eidenmüller argues that this is the wrong way round: 🗣️ "Prestigious institutions are not just customers buying software. They are providing reputation, legitimacy and an extraordinarily rich testbed." 👇 shorturl.at/H2vf2
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Wrong Way Round: Why Big AI Should Be Paying Universities
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#WeAreHiring 📣 The Faculty of Law invites applications for the post of Associate Professor of Taxation Law to commence on 1 September 2026 🏛️ The position is full-time and permanent after a successful review ☑️ The closing date for applications is 6 January 2026 📆 🔎 shorturl.at/hsowV
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The use of automated systems to hire, supervise and dismiss workers is transforming how organisations operate 📈💼 Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl's project, iManage, explores how employment law can adapt to this. 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/algorit…
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Millions of people suffer from diseases caused by polluted air 😮‍💨🌆🏥 @gaialisi.bsky.social, a @ox.ac.uk DPhil student at @greentempleton.bsky.social, looks at how medical and scientific evidence can help to hold governments and corporations responsible👩‍🔬☑️
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How medical evidence is shaping climate justice
Gaia Lisi is a University of Oxford DPhil student at the Faculty of Law and Green Templeton College 🏛️Her research looks at how medical and scientific evide...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Professor Rebecca Williams 💬 “None of the challenges presented by new technologies can be answered by one discipline alone” Find out how the Faculty of Law is creating ‘bilingual’ thinkers in a tech-driven world 🧠💻 Read more👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/creatin…
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
AI systems can generate discriminatory outcomes💻⚠️ This can happen in areas like justice, hiring, loans and university admissions 🏛️💷💼🎓 Through his research Professor Ignacio Cofone from @ox.ac.uk aims to give courts a way to evaluate AI discrimination claims and push for fair outcomes 🤖⚖️☑️
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How AI complicates legal approaches to equality
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Read our December newsletter for updates on legal findings and publications from @ox.ac.uk 👀🏛️⚖️ We look at firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, regulating AI training and much more! 🪙🌍🤖 www.linkedin.com/pulse/firms-...
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Firms funding free legal advice, how to enforce climate court rulings, and regulating AI training
Lawyers’ client account interest could support free legal advice Research from the Nuffield Foundation–funded project ‘Creating a New Mixed Funding Model for Free Legal Advice’ underpins evidence subm...
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oxfordcsls.bsky.social @oxfordcsls.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In this week's #Frontiers 🎙️ Talking about Methods podcast, Linda Mulcahy talks to Carolyn McKay about her work on the challenges of conducting fieldwork inside institutions, like prisons, that are deliberately hard to access. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/doing-resear...
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Doing Research in Difficult Places: Prison - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Carolyn McKay about doing research in difficult places, such as prisons.
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
In a world where AI systems increasingly make important decisions, Dr Margarita Amaxopoulou's research investigates a crucial issue 🌎👀 Who gets to shape AI rules? And what is the impact on our legal systems?👩‍⚖️ @ox.ac.uk
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How AI is redefining who makes the rules
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Watch the @ox.ac.uk climate conversation featuring Lavanya Rajamani (Professor of International Environmental Law) and Eleanor Hamilton-Clark (Co-President of Oxford Climate Society’s School of Climate Change) about climate responsibility and hope for our collective future 👀🌍 🌡️
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Climate Conversations: Eleanor and Lavanya
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A common criticism of AI is that it’s difficult to understand how tools come to their decisions or outputs 💻🤔   Dr Fabricio Fortese explores this issue in legal decision-making, where transparency and reasoning are fundamental to fairness ⚖️ 🔎 www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/ai-and-…
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Oxford Law academics Professor Lucia Zedner and Visiting Professor Murray Hunt have played a key role in the final report of the Independent Commission on Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice, launched this month following three years of evidence-gathering 📄 Read more 👇 shorturl.at/Fgjlu
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
As AI systems take on complex roles in society, serious questions arise about how they align with human values 👤 Professor Ruth Chang is leading a new research project that addresses how machines handle difficult choices 👁️‍🗨️ 🔎 www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-ai/parity-…
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Zoya Yasmine is an DPhil student at the Faculty of Law and @somervillecollege.bsky.social looking into biases and legal issues in medical AI🩺 How can we protect people’s rights without stifling innovation❓ www.youtube.com/shorts/QK1VV... @ox.ac.uk
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The legal tensions behind technological advances in healthcare
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In her new @ox.ac.uk profile, Professor Rachel Condry who is Director of our Centre for Criminology, shares her unconventional path into academia, her pioneering research on adolescent-to-parent violence, and a new project exploring safer, fairer alternatives to prison 👇 @oxfordcrim.bsky.social
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Professor Rachel Condry - Reframing crime through relationships
Rachel Condry, Professor of Criminology, talks about her career and research on filial violence and matricide.
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 14/11/2025
Crime is never just an isolated act. It ripples through families – through care, shame, stigma, and love. Prof Rachel Condry’s research gives voice to those living with the aftermath of crime. Now marking 15 years at Oxford, she becomes Director of the Centre for Criminology.
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Investigating Adolescent Violence towards Parents at the University of Oxford
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We have become one of the first UK law schools to partner with Harvey 🏛️ 🤝 This law-specific AI platform is designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity 💻 ⚖️ The Faculty is providing academic staff with secure, free access for their legal research ☑️ Find out more 👇 shorturl.at/HYCJn
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Congratulations to our alumna Professor Phoebe Okowa who has been elected to the International Court of Justice 🏛️ 🌍 👏 Read more about her appointment and career on the Faculty website 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 07/11/2025
NEW: As world leaders meet at #COP30, Oxford research reveals which countries are turning climate promises into action and which aren’t. 🌍 The Climate Policy Monitor gives the clearest picture yet of how national laws stack up against global climate goals. 🧵 [1/10]
Aerial view of dense green forest partially affected by deforestation. The image is used to illustrate a news article about global climate policy, with a headline stating "Climate policy strengthens globally, despite unprecedented contestation in the US and Europe". The source of the article is University of Oxford, as indicated in the footer.
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Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
As world leaders meet at #COP30 in the Amazon, can climate policy stay on track amid pushback in the US & Europe? 🌍 A new Oxford Climate Policy Monitor study – from the School & the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme – shows how nations’ laws align with climate goals. 👇 ow.ly/48Qi50XnUSY
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Oxford Law academics Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos and Dr Miles Jackson have acted as counsel for Malaysia and Namibia respectively in recent proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague 🏛️ Read more about their contributions👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Experts from @ox.ac.uk say that evidence demonstrating the human health consequences of climate change is likely to assume greater importance in lawsuits in national, regional and international forums going forward 📊🏭🌍🌡️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Clarendon Law Lecture series returns this November. Professor Sheila Jasanoff of Harvard University, winner of the 2022 Holberg Prize, will challenge us to rethink the role of law and science in shaping modern life ⚖️⚛️🌎 Register now 🔎 www.law.ox.ac.uk/clarendon25
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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#JobOpportunity The Faculty of Law is looking to recruit a Research Facilitator and Grants Manager who will play a key role in regards to research funding applications and research awards administration 📄 🏛️ Find out more and apply before 19 November 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-fac...
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