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The Faculty warmly welcomes the announcement that Professor Bobby Reddy has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Prize in Law for 2026.The Leverhulme Prize is a national competition across a series of academic disciplines, comprising, in 2026, Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, and Sociology and…

Ever wanted to work in an institution that is home to one of the world's great collections of cultural treasures and research materials?Spanning thousands of years of human thought and discovery, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives house unique treasures and research materials made up of nearly ten million books, maps, manuscripts, photogra…

The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) is delighted to announce that, from October 2026, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP will be supporting its 3CL Lunchtime Seminar Series. The series will now be known as the 3CL Sullivan & Cromwell Lunchtime Seminar Series.The series brings together leading academics and distinguished practitioners from around…

The Faculty of Law is a world-leading institution for legal research and teaching. We are seeking to appoint a Deputy Faculty Manager with responsibility for finance, research operations and facilities management.This is a key member of the professional services team within a large and busy Faculty. The role holder manages the Faculty's professiona…

Dr Stefan Theil is looking for up a postdoctoral Research Associate for his AHRC funded project The legal impact of UK court decisions, parliamentary deliberations and administrative policymaking on outcomes at the European Court of Human Rights.The project aims to identify to what extent UK court decisions, parliamentary deliberations and administ…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the establishment of the BF & Co. Prize for International Investment Law, made possible through the generous support of BF & Co. The BF & Co. Prize for International Investment Law will be awarded annually to the top-performing student in the LLM paper in International Investment Law. The prize will honour acade…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 17 Numbers 5 & 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. These issues include the following articles: Rumiana Yotova: Global Corporations in International Biomedical Law (11/2026) Forthcoming in A Kulick, A Sanger and D Lustig (eds), Oxford Handbook on Global Corp…

Informa Law from Routledge has published Reinsurance Contracts: Principles of Construction by Dr Senara Eggleton.For readers with an insurance or commercial background, this book provides an accessible introduction to the rules that govern the legal relationship between the parties to reinsurance contracts while simultaneously presenting a concise,…

Hart Publishing has published the ninth edition of Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine by JJ Child, AP Simester, J Stanton-Ife, Findlay Stark, and Graham Virgo. This outstanding account of modern English criminal law combines detailed exposition and analysis of the law with a careful exploration of its theoretical underpinning…

This Festschrift contains a collection of essays in honour of Professor Christopher F Forsyth KC, emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law, sometime Professor of Private International Law, and Life Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge. The essays focus on Professor Forsyth’s contribution to the development of commercial pr…

Today, UNISON published a new study arguing that large employers should be required to check their pay structures every three years to ensure women are being treated fairly. 'Fixing Equal Pay Law: From Endless Litigation to Fair Pay by Design' was commissioned by UNISON and written by Professor Catherine Barnard, with Harry Armstrong and Oliver Fri…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Philippe Joseph Sands, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Sands was interviewed in person at his home in Hampstead on two occas…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the award of the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship to Dr Ernesto Vargas Weil (Selwyn). The award was announced last week at the annual conference of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) at the University of East Anglia. Ernesto, who is the Spencer Fairest Teaching Fellow in Law at Selwyn College, was the…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers. This innovative textbook offers students a relevant, contextual account of EU law. Under the experienced editorship of Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, the text draws together a range of expert contributors for a rich underst…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Graham Virgo. The sixth edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a distinctive, contextual, and critically engaged treatment of Equity and trusts, combining clear statements of doctrine with insightful commentary that places leading decisions …