Legal History

Mr Buckley recently offered a significant gift in support of legal history. This donation was of great benefit to the Library as it provided funds to allow the cataloguing of many antiquarian law books which are now housed in the Maitland Legal History Room. Moreover, the gift will allow for the acquisition of digital copies of manuscript law reports not currently available to scholars in Cambridge; a further enhancement to the Squire's historic collections. See:

Squire Appeal:

Mr Buckley has also made generous contributions towards the Squire Law Library Centenary Appeal. Read the article in Lawlink Issue 6, page 6.

Student bursaries:

Clifford Chance funds, via the Newton Trust, a series of undergraduate bursaries for financially disadvantaged students reading law.

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Double Maîtrise

Clifford Chance also support Cambridge's Double Maîtrise programme, funding a lectureship and student bursaries.

Erasmus - Socrates Scheme

Clifford Chance fund bursaries enabling students to study abroad under this exchange scheme with the universities of Poitiers (France), Regensburg (Germany), Utrecht (the Netherlands) and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain).

Neil Allam Lectureship

Clifford Chance are sponsoring a dedicated lecturer who is responsible for tuition in French Law. The current holder of the post is Dr Sophie Turenne.

Research Centres

Clifford Chance also funds Visiting Professor programmes for the Centre for Public Law and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law.

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The Cambridge Alumni members of Essex Court Chambers have generously contributed to the Squire Law Library Centenary Appeal.

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are generously funding the Freshfields Legal Research Skills Course.

The course is designed to satisfy the requirements of the Law Society and the Bar Council by teaching students the skills to conduct legal research using both the traditional printed sources as well as the various electronic legal databases and web services. For more information see the Freshfields Course webpage.

The support provided by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has allowed the Faculty to create, equip and maintain, a dedicated Legal I.T. Centre on the second floor of the Squire Law Library that is used for both teaching and research purposes. The donation has also enabled the appointment of a lecturer, the Freshfields Legal I.T. Teaching and Development Officer, together with a Freshfields I.T. Support Officer. In addition the funding has also supported web-page development for both the Faculty and the Squire and contributed to the subscription costs of some electronic legal services.

Also see articles from Lawlink Issue 1 and Lawlink Issue 2.

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Herbert Smith Visitor Scheme

Herbert Smith have supported this important Visitor Scheme since 2002, enabling distinguished academics and practitioners from around the world to carry out research, either individually or in collaboration with Faculty members, in Cambridge.

Read the article in Lawlink Issue 4, page 2.

Squire Centenary Appeal

Members of the firm have generously supported the Squire Law Library Centenary Appeal, whilst the firm also funds an undergraduate essay prize.

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Hogan Lovells Lecturer in Commercial Law

Hogan Lovells currently funds a University Lectureship in Law. The post is held by Ms Louise Merrett.

Students Support

The firm also supports 14 bursaries for financially disadvantaged Law students via the Newton Trust.

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Slaughter and May are supporting undergraduate teaching by funding a Teaching Fellow in Law, a concurrent appointment with a Lectureship at Selwyn College.

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The William Charnley Law Bursaries at Hughes Hall

Mr Charnley, Fellow of Hughes Hall and Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, is kindly helping to fund two law students per year for five years at Hughes Hall from October 2008. The bursaries are intended for LL.M and PhD students and preference will be given to students in the UK who are intending to practice in the legal profession in this country.

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The William Charnley Law Bursaries at Pembroke College

Mr Charnley is also sponsoring two bursaries at Pembroke College for undergraduates reading Law. These will be awarded over the next five years, beginning in 2009, and are open to all eligible undergraduates, with a preference for those from maintained-sector schools in the north-west of England.

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The Mayer Brown Research Fellowship in Public International Law

Thanks to the good offices of William Charnley, partner of Mayer Brown LLP, a Research Fellowship in Public International Law has been established in conjunction with the Lauterpacht Centre. The first Mayer Brown Fellow will take up post in October 2009. For more information, please contact Matthew Mellor, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF, 01223 339079.

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Weil Gotshal & Manges are generously supporting the Squire Law Library and undergraduate teaching at Cambridge by funding the purchase of copies of teaching materials such as textbooks, monographs, statute books, and standard legal reference works. In addition, the donation is contributing to the funding of subscriptions to law reports and legal journals and certain electronic services that are heavily used by the undergraduate students.

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