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A new website for the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) has been released. This is a complete refresh of the site from the previous design. The CELS site provides details of the academics linked with the Centre and their relevant publications, information about the activities of the Centre including the extensive programme of public lecture…

Registration for the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) opened on 1 September 2005. If you are applying in the autumn 2005 admissions round for entry the Cambridge B.A. in Law then you will need to take the LNAT as part of your application. You must register for the test by 14 October and take it by 4 November. For more information see the Fac…

After an extended period of internal testing, the website for the Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law (CIPIL) has been launched to the public, replacing the website of the IP Unit from which the Centre was formed. The CIPIL website now contains many new categories of content, including information about the activities of the Centre…

The final draft of the Faculty timetable for the 2005 - 2006 academic year is now available on this website in the Document Repository. It is available in either PDF or Excel format and can be found at document numbers 2567 and 2566 respectively, or in the Current Staff & Students section.

On 29 June 2005, the AHRC awarded Professor Lionel Bently, along with Martin Kretschmer of Bournmouth 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…

There is a change in the venue for the Family Law Exam (Parts IB and II of the Law Tripos) which takes place this Saturday (4 June 2005) at 9am. According to the published Examinations timetable, the Family Law Exam was due to be sat in the Senate House. It will now take place in the Faculty of Law on the same day and at the same time. All candidat…

There will be a slight change this year to the procedure at the end of the time for sitting each examination paper. This has been introduced by the Board of Examinations as a result of concerns raised by students in the Law Faculty. The change in procedure is being introduced on a pilot basis. It only applies to examinations taking place in the La…

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is the leading centre in the United Kingdom in the field of international law and today it launched a brand new website to support its activities. The new site offers a rich multimedia experience, including a photo tour and other information about lectures, publications and research efforts. It can be f…

Over the holiday period ATHENS made an upgrade to their system. This has caused a number of accounts to expire earlier than they should, denying access to a number of student accounts. If you are having a problem accessing legal resources through Athens, please contact the University Athens Administrator Mr Michael Wilson (mlw1003@cus.cam.ac.uk). …

Please be aware that an essential webserver upgrade will be taking place on 16th December 2004. We estimate that the website will be down for approximately one day. Apoligies in advance for any inconvience that this may cause. If you have any questions please contact the computer office by emailing computer.office@law.cam.ac.uk.

The Form of Examination and Conduct notices for both the law Tripos and the LL.M. examinations for 2005 are now available as Adobe PDF files in the document repository. They can be accessed by searching/browsing, via the course pages, or by reference to the "Official Faculty Documents" section of the "Current Staff and Students" menu.

An almost full collection of past examination papers and examiners' reports for both LL.M. and Tripos are now available for this summer's (2004) examinations. You can easily access these documents by browsing, searching, or in relation to specific subjects via the subject pages. A small minority of reports are still outstanding.

Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty will give a paper on the topic of European Criminal law at 5:00pm on Tuesday 9 November at the Faculty of Law (in seminar room B16). All are welcome to attend. Professor of Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty is also a member of the College de France and of the French …

David Dyzenhaus is a Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work focuses on the rule of law and legal theory and he has written three books on this topic: "Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy" (OUP, 1991); "Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Carl…

McDermott Will & Emery and Baker & McKenzie, the international law firms, today announced their support of the first ever link-up between Cambridge Faculty of Law and Harvard Law School. Two Cambridge law students will spend one year at Harvard studying for the LLM - one of these students will be known as the Baker & McKenzie Scholar and the other …