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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir David Williams, who passed away on 6 September. Professor Sir David was a life and honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University (1989-96), President of Wolfson College, and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, and will be very deeply missed as a lo…

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir David Williams, who passed away on 6 September. Sir David was enormously supportive of the Squire Law Library throughout his life. He chaired the Law Library Sub-Syndicate from 1982 - 1988 and became the Chairman of the Squire Appeal that was launched to coincide with the centenary …

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir David Williams, who passed away on 6 September. Sir David was enormously supportive of the Squire Law Library throughout his life. He chaired the Law Library Sub-Syndicate from 1982 - 1988 and became the Chairman of the Squire Appeal that was launched to coincide with the centenary …

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir David Williams, who passed away on 6 September. Professor Sir David was a life and honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University (1989-96), President of Wolfson College, and Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, and will be very deeply missed as a lo…

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place on 14th-19th September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed. The library will re-open at 9:00am on Monday 21st September.

A prize has been established by the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) and Cambridge University Press for the best essay submitted on any topic in any field of international economic law. The competition is open to all current undergraduate and graduate students and those who have graduated no earlier than five years before the submission…

In December 2008, Professor Martti Koskenniemi from the University of Helsinki was interviewed for the Squire Eminent Scholars Archive regarding his thoughts upon taking up the seat of the Goodhart Visiting Professorhip for Legal Science. Having completed his year in the position, Professor Koskenniemi was interviewed again by Lesley Dingle, and of…

Almost all of the issues which we have been experiencing with accessing legal resources off-campus have now been resolved. All services except Lawtel are now functioning correctly when accessed with Raven from outside the University network.  All services work from within the network. For quick links, access the Faculty's Legal Resources page, and …

There are currently problems authenticating to a number of our online resources if you are accessing from outside the University network. This includes Lexis Library, Westlaw and Justis, and possibly a number of smaller services as well. The issues seem to stem from changes to the Raven/Athens authentication to implement the final closure of Athen…

In the week beginning 27th July 2009, the Law Faculty hosted the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for twenty four sixth formers from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility. The week culminated in a mock trial featuring the…

Videos, audio recordings and transcripts from the Law Faculty Open Day held on 1st July are now available on a dedicated Open Day Microsite: openday.law.cam.ac.uk Potential applicants who could not attend, or wish to remind themselves of any of the details of the day can watch, listen to, or read, presentations about applying to the University and …

The Squire Law Library welcomes those students attending the Annual Summer School in English Legal Methods which is organised by the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. The course runs from 6th to 31st July 2009. For further information see the Institute website.

Timetables for the introductory lecture programmes for Law Tripos Part IB and LL.M. students (1-3 October 2009) and Tripos Part IA students (8-10 October 2009) are now available for download in the Document Repository.

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Derek Bowett, who passed away on 23rd May 2009. Professor Sir Derek is one of the Faculty Members for whom we had previously compiled a tribute in the Eminent Scholars Archive. Readers may find a full account of Sir Derek's illustrious career in the archive.

The Faculty of Law has today published further information on the Cambridge Law Test – the admissions test which will be introduced later this year in Cambridge in place of the LNAT. Details of the new test, including specimen questions, can be found in the Cambridge Law Test section of the admissions pages.