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In May last year the Faculty formed a partnership with The Law Corner under which students from the Faculty can apply for three month internships with The Law Corner between December and early March. After an extremely successful cohort of winter internships, the Faculty and The Law Corner have now agreed to double the number of places available in…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Sinéad Agnew was awarded Research Supervisor of the Year at the Cambridge Students Union Student-Led Teaching Awards ceremony in June. The SLT awards exist to reward outstanding teaching and student support across Cambridge. This year marked the tenth anniversary of the awards and the SU received over 60…

Oxford University Press has published The Principle of Systemic Integration in International Law by Campbell McLachlan. Systemic Integration examines the operation and health of a key part of international law’s general operating system by addressing the applicable law question: how can the constantly shifting web of States’ rights and obligations …

On 1 July 2024, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Cambodia up to the end of 2011, as well as Rwanda up to the end of 2015. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at the L…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Exploring Cambridge Law: Faculty of Law Open Day on Wednesday 3 July or the University of Cambridge Open Days on Thursday 4 July and Friday 5 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour of the library, which is located on the upper th…

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 15 July 2024. Learners can register for the course immediately, and at any time before 25 August 2024. Over 9,700 learners have enrolled on the course since it was first launched in 2021. We look for…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution by Graham Virgo. The fourth edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution brings this widely cited and influential volume fully up to date. Substantially rewritten to reflect significant changes in the law of restitution and the expansion in t…

Oxford University Press has published in May the eleventh edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan. OʼSullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract is the perfect student companion, providing a concise, clear overview of the fundamental principles of contract law. The 11th edition has been rigorously updated by Cambridge academic and teacher…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Wojtek Buczynski, Felix Steffek, Fabio Cuzzolin, Mateja Jamnik & Barbara J. Sahakian: Hard Law and Soft Law Regulations of Artificial Intelligence in Investment Managem…

The Squire and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Mrs Cherry Hopkins, OBE, LLB, Life Fellow at Girton College, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed in the Squire Law Library between 13 September 2023 and 14 February 2024. In addition to a short video excerpt and transcripts of the aud…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Contract Law : An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (4th edition), by John Cartwright (Hart Publishing, 2023) The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook …

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sarah Nouwen: “Law & Peace”: Law, in what sense? (9/2024) Literature on ‘law and peace’ has grown substantially. One of the explanations may be the flexible way in whic…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Narine Lalafaryan has been appointed to a Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance fellowship from Easter 2024. The Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) is as an independent research centre in the University of Cambridge. The formal objective of CERF is to promote research within the Uni…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2: Proposals and Critique edited by Dr Melissa Bone (Leicester), Professor J J Child (Birmingham), and Dr Jonathan Rogers. If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? Following the success of the 1st volume, the same question …

The Faculty warmly welcomes the news that Professor Bobby Reddy was awarded a J M Keynes Senior Fellowship in Financial Economics earlier this year. The holders of Fellowships are drawn from a wide range of experience and expertise, encompassing both researchers of exceptional promise and established scholars, creating an exciting and dynamic Fello…