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Children's Evidence in Legal Proceedings - An International Perspective is a collection of papers from an International conference held at Selwyn College, Cambridge, on 26-28 June 1989. The book, edited by JR Spencer, G Nicholson, R Flin and R Bull is out of print and difficult to locate, but a version is now available to download from this site c…

Patricia Akester was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to carry out research in the field of technological measures for protection of copyright. The project is cross-disciplinary, resorting to copyright law, information technology and human rights concepts. Methodologically, the study will utilise combine legal analysis with an empirical approach…

The web pages relating to the Cambridge Law LL.M. have been completely redesigned.  The new layout and content provides clearer access to the information necessary to apply to study the LL.M. including a new FAQ (frequently asked questions) and resources for each individual subject.  You can find these pages at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/courses/llm/…

In the week beginning 24th July, the Law Faculty hosted the Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for nineteen sixth formers from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to encourage students, whose schools and families have had little experience of higher education, to consider applying to the University. The week culminated in a mock trial with s…

The website supporting the AHRC-sponsored Primary Sources on Copyright History (1450-1900) project has gone live.  The site can be found at www.copyrighthistory.org.

Now available on this website are the provisional lists of papers to be offered by the Faculty of Law for the B.A. Tripos and the LL.M. courses in 2005 - 2006 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: B.A. Trip…

A new section has now been added to this website to showcase personal and professional profiles of the postgraduate Ph.D. research students undertaking their thesis' through the Faculty. This section is available through 'Courses > Ph.D. > Students' Research Topics »' and each individual profile is managed by the student. To view the profiles direc…

The first CELS/Shearman & Sterling Negotiation Competition was held in the Faculty of Law on Saturday, 4 February 2006.  Twenty-four second-year students entered. Shearman & Sterling are pleased to announce that the winners of the Negotiation Competition are as follows: First place: Stephanie Tang (Christ's College) & Yvonne Tew (Fitzwilliam Colleg…

CELS is pleased to announce the launch of a new Negotiation Game for law students in their second undergraduate year, which is being sponsored, organised and judged by Shearman and Sterling LLP, to be held on 4 February 2006 at the Faculty of Law. The Negotiation Game will be an excellent opportunity for law students to develop key legal skills in…

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 29 June 2005, the AHRC awarded Professor Lionel Bently, along with Martin Kretschmer of Bournemouth University, a resource enhancement grant worth £292, 909. The award will fund a two-year project to create a database of historical materials from five jurisdictions (the UK, US, France, German and Italy). With the help of an advisory committee, n…

On 29 June 2005, the AHRC awarded Professor Lionel Bently, along with Martin Kretschmer of Bournemouth University, a resource enhancement grant worth £292, 909. The award will fund a two-year project to create a database of historical materials from five jurisdictions (the UK, US, France, German and Italy). With the help of an advisory committee, n…

Now available on this website is the provisional list of papers to be offered by the Faculty of Law for the Tripos courses in 2006 - 2007 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: 22 Kb Word document…

The University of Cambridge is delighted to announce the support of international law firm Lovells in funding a lectureship at the University’s Faculty of Law - the Lovells Lectureship in Law. The firm is also funding 14 student bursaries for law undergraduates. The initiatives are part of Lovells' commitment to ensuring that high calibre talent co…

Now available on this website is the provisional list of papers to be offered by the Faculty of Law for the LL.M. courses in 2006 - 2007 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: LL.M. : 21 Kb Word document; …