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Free practice questions, preparation advice, and expert insights for Law interviews at Oxford.
Real Law interview questions in the style Oxford asks. Try answering each one aloud before you reveal the hint.
What does it mean, in law-like terms, to 'take' another person's car?
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If you sit inside an unlocked parked car for shelter during a rainstorm without driving it away, have you 'taken' it?
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If someone did not intend to commit a crime but their actions resulted in one, how should responsibility be assessed?
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A gives B money believing it is a loan; B accepts it believing it is a gift. Should B have to return it?
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What should count as a 'reasonable belief' in law?
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Tutorial-style interviews with subject-specific problems, often involving unfamiliar material.
Oxford interviews typically take place at the college you applied to. You will usually have two or three interviews of around 20-30 minutes each, sometimes at different colleges if you are pooled. The atmosphere is meant to resemble a tutorial: the interviewer gives you a problem and watches how you reason through it.
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Interview Invitation
Late Nov
Arrival to Interview
Early Dec
Technical Question
Mid Dec
Decision
Early Jan
What is the legal difference between intending a result and foreseeing that it might happen?
How would you define being 'at fault'?
Can a school uniform rule be framed as a breach of human rights?
What arguments can be made for and against legally requiring bicycle helmets?
Should it remain unlawful to cross a red traffic light late at night when the road appears empty?
Is a written constitution preferable to an uncodified constitutional arrangement?
Can law be separated from morality, or do legal rules inevitably depend on moral judgments?
Should every adult be eligible to serve on a jury?
Would your answer about framing an innocent person change if revealing the real killer would probably trigger a feud causing several deaths?
Would your answer about false evidence change if the framed person was guilty of an unrelated murder elsewhere?
Would you agree to exchange your scarf for my bike if you did not know the bike's condition, or even whether I owned one?
Could an artificial intelligence system ever have a conscience relevant to legal responsibility?
Could a society function without laws?
What are traffic lights for, beyond simply telling drivers when to stop and go?
If an extreme penalty stopped everyone parking illegally, would that make the law effective, just, both or neither?
A frontier sheriff can frame an innocent outsider to prevent mob violence after a murder. Should the sheriff do it?
If reliable evidence of guilt is excluded by an evidence rule, is inventing admissible evidence ever justified?
When, if ever, may the state intrude into personal privacy?
What recent news story has made you think about international law, and why?
Where might international law be in fifty years, and what would drive that change?
Why do you want to study Law rather than another essay-based subject?
Choose one legal idea from your personal statement and explain how a tutor might challenge it.
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