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Now available on this website is the provisional list of papers to be offered by the Faculty of Law for the B.A. Tripos and LL.M. courses in 2008 - 2009 academical year. These documents are available by browsing in the Document Repository under the 'Miscellaneous Documents' category, or you can access them via the following links: Tripos 45k PD…

The Faculty was delighted to host the conference of Law Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from US and UK Law Schools on 8-10 November. The conference is an annual meeting of this international interest group, and comprised two days of meetings before closing with a dinner at Peterhouse College. In partnership with Oxford University, a trip was als…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that the 'Squire Archive' is now live on the University of Cambridge Janus repository. This project represents the Squire Library's first foray into the art of electronic archiving. The Janus-based Squire Archive (Reference GBR/3207/SQL) provides a catalogue of the papers of the late Professor Kurt Li…

The Squire Library is pleased to note the publication of transcripts of the interviews with Professor Kurt Lipstein and an accompanying commentary in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Legal Information (35(1) International Journal of Legal Information 93-133 (Spring 2007)). This publication represents a small subset of the gr…

Videos, audio recordings and transcripts from the Law Faculty Open Day held on 4th 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, s…

The Law Faculty has finalised the list of courses to be offered on the LL.M. course in the academic year 2008-08.  They are available in the Document Repository in Word (37k) or PDF (167k) format. More detailed information about applying for or studying the LL.M. is available in the LL.M. Course Section.

Catch up sessions for the Freshfields Research Skills Course are available at the end of this week. Any students who have missed sessions should make every effort to make up those modules this week, including finalists, but also any earlier years who are missing sessions. These sessions are available as follows: Thursday 14 June: 2:00 - Westl…

The Faculty has produced a document outlining some potential sources of funding which can be obtained by prospective graduate research students at the Faculty of Law for 2007-2008. This document is available in either Word (58k) or PDF (108k) formats.

Prospective LL.M. students for the academical year 2007-08 who wish to apply for funding from the Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (AHRC) should complete the application form available to download from the AHRC website (www.ahrc.ac.uk) and send it to Suzanne Wade (shw27@cam.ac.uk) at the Faculty of Law by Friday 30 March 2007.

Current Cards For the last few years it has been possible to access the building with the following types of card that ALL make use of a magnetic strip at the bottom of the card. These cards are 'swiped' through the lock mechanism to gain entry through doors. NONE of these cards will work once the door access system is upgraded (currently due to ta…

A new website for the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) has been launched. This is a refresh of the site from the previous design. The LCIL site provides comprehensive information about the academics linked with the Centre and their relevant publications, information about the activities of the Centre including the extensive programm…

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Professor Kurt Lipstein at 11:15pm on Saturday 2nd December 2006. We invite colleagues and friends of Kurt's to express their thoughts and condolences on his passing on our website and we will preserve your messages as part of this archive. We have recently created an Eminent Scholars Archive as …

The Form of Examination and Conduct of Examination notices for both the LL.M. and Tripos examinations for 2005-06 have now been uploaded to the Faculty website. The documents are available as Adobe PDF files by searching in the Document Repository, via the Subject Pages, or via the "Current Staff and Students" Official Faculty Documents page.

On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. A video and audio recording of the lecture is available.

On Thursday 16th November 2006 the Centre for Public Law held the sixth in the series of lectures in honour of Sir David Williams. The lecture, entitled "The Rule of Law" was given by The Rt. Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG, House of Lords. A large audience heard Lord Bingham posit, and then analyse, eight sub-rules comprising the Rule of Law. Fu…