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Oxford University Press has published the seventh edition of Intellectual Property Law by Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman, Dev Gangjee, and Phillip Johnson. Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on this subject - an all-embracing and detailed guide to intellectual property law. It clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patent…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 17 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Catherine Barnard & Fiona Costello: Life after Brexit, a Local view from EU Citizens and British Nationals Living in the East of England (8/2026) Ten years on from the …

There were many excellent applications for the Yorke Prize this year, and the Degree Committee decided to make 5 awards. Very many congratulations to all those who won a prize, and also to all those who successfully completed their PhD (a great achievement) even if they did not win a prize. The depth and quality of the field is testimony to our vib…

Cambridge University Press has published Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of International Law, entitled International Law in Asia, edited by Dr Maria Adele Carrai and Professor Surabhi Ranganathan (King's). Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law…

On 8–9 July the Faculty hosted a symposium on the Constitutional Architecture of EU Values. The symposium brought together leading scholars and practitioners from the Court of Justice of the European Union, University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Leiden University, Un…

"What keeps a judiciary resilient under pressure?" That question brought senior judges, legal scholars and political scientists together at King's College, Cambridge, on 6-7 July for a two-day workshop entitled 'The European Judiciary in Times of Crisis: Old and New Challenges'. Held under the Chatham House Rule, it examined how courts respond to d…

We are delighted to announce that the Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize was awarded to two Cambridge PhD students, Giorgia Bucaria (St John's) and Declan Noble (Sidney Sussex), at the British Legal History Conference 2026 at the University of Nottingham last week. Giorgia's paper discussed the English law of incorporeal rights in the thirteenth…

Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury) has published Reimagining Employment Dispute Resolution and Enforcement by Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European, and Sarah Fraser Butlin KC, Affiliated Lecturer. This major new open-access book offers a comprehensive blueprint to overhaul the UK’s creaking employment tribunal system, which cu…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 17 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Markus Gehring, Ted Gleason & Matheus Garcia: Climate and Investment Law Nexus Reimagined -Beyond ISDS, Obligations and Instruments to Av…

A team of students from the Faculty has been successful in winning the 18th Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court final on 12 June. The team in Frankfurt comprised Esmée Cadogan (Trinity), Nick Warrier (Churchill), and Harry Staddon (Corpus), and coach Jonathan Teo (Jesus). They were supported throughout their preparation by Wilfred Ong (St E…

We hear a lot about the horrors of the war in Ukraine but what does it mean for the day to day delivery of justice? Yevhen Synelnykov, a judge at the Ukrainian Supreme Court, was given permission to visit the UK (fighting age men are not generally allowed to leave the country) to talk to the judiciary in London. Clive Lewis LJ, judge at the court a…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the re-launch of its online course, Exploring Law: Studying Law at University. The course will re-start on 13 July 2026. Learners can register for the course immediately, and at any time before 24 August 2026. Over 15,000 learners have enrolled on the course since it was first launched in 2021. We look fo…

Dr Hend Hanafy, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty, led the coordination of the first official visit by a delegation from the Egyptian Court of Cassation - the highest court in Egypt - to the judiciary of England and Wales. The delegation, headed by Chief Justice Assem El-Gayish, President of the Court of Cassation and the Supreme J…

A radical blueprint to reform the UK's creaking employment tribunal system has been proposed by Faculty of Law researchers in collaboration with the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA), following evidence that some claimants face waits of up to five years for full hearings. The proposals are detailed in a major new report backed by the ELA titled …

Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; CERF Fellow; Fellow, Pembroke College) has been cited and quoted by the Financial Times [paywall link] in its piece "US bankruptcy fights are heading to London" for her paper 'The Global Law of Debt', co-authored with Professor Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School). The research project, 'The …