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CIPIL's Spring Conference 2024 on Data Protection Reform   As with a number of other Research Centres in Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) is well known for the individual scholarship of its academics, their and its support of excellent research students and research visitors and the organ…

Bristol University Press has published Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello and Sarah Fraser Butlin. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK following Brexit and COVID-19. Drawing on a longitudinal study, the book delves into the legal proble…

23 April - 13 June 2024 The Squire Law Library exists primarily to support the research and educational needs of Cambridge University Law Faculty staff and students, and secondarily, the needs of the wider Cambridge University community. During the Easter Term revision and exam period (Tuesday 23 April – Thursday 13 June inclusive) the first floor …

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Carême v France Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 Others Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland In this video, Dr Stefan Theil discusses the extent to which the ECHR is prepared to dic…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Bobby V. Reddy: Getting in a Bind - Comparing Executive Compensation Regulations in the US and the UK (5/2024) Executive compensation is a topical issue on both sides o…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Law at the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honour of Sarah Worthington edited by Dr Sinéad Agnew and Sir Marcus Smith (Justice of the High Court and President of the Competition Appeals Tribunal). This collection celebrates the immense contribution of Sarah Worthington to the field of priv…

The Faculty has learned with sadness of the death of Professor Malcolm A Clarke (Emeritus Fellow, St John's College) last week. Malcolm was Professor Emeritus of Commercial Contract Law. He began his academic career in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College 1966-68, and then took up his university post in 1970 after two years teachin…

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS) was founded by Alan Dashwood and Angela Ward to provide a space for reflection and conversation about the challenges facing Europe and the diverse legal contexts in which those challenges are addressed. To mark this milestone and demonstrate the continuing commitment to European legal scholar…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of Corporate Tax Law: Structure, Policy and Practice by Professor Peter Harris. This new edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. It considers the Trump US tax reforms of late 2017 and then the Biden reforms of 2022. It recognises the economic rise of China…

Congratulations to the Cambridge team: Wanting Guo (Queens’), Zofia Halbersztat (Trinity), Zheng Yu Chow (Emmanuel), Ben Mays (Trinity), Julian Poon (Wolfson), Sarah Hair (Christ's), Sam Pearce (Churchill), Jonathan Saunders (Selwyn) for their achievements in the Vis Moot International Commercial Arbitration Competition, one of the most prestigious…

Dr Mohamed Moussa, Lecturer in Law at Murray Edwards College Cambridge, has been selected for the CRASSH Early Career Fellowship Lent 2025. During the fellowship, Dr Moussa will finalise a monograph investigating the distribution of powers within federal and supranational constitutional systems. In particular, he will look at how different division…

Oxford University Press has published More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals by Raffael Fasel. Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the rights that have so far been reserved to human beings. This development has raised fu…

Image: Eugene Shevchuk   Last week, the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (PEPP) visited the Faculty of Law. Twenty-three PhD students came to Cambridge from our partner universities in Genoa, Hamburg, Katowice, Leuven, Maribor, Münster, Valencia and Zagreb to discuss their research, attend lectures and seminars and engage in a m…

Cambridge's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) is particularly well known for the scholarship of its individual members, for its annual conference and for its year-round seminars. It also has a significant track-record in developing online resources which are designed to facilitate research and investigation of information…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eyal Benvenisti: When Solange I Met Neubauer: National Courts Protecting Global Interests When Reviewing Decisions of International Organizations (31/2023) What is the …