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We are delighted to announce a major conference, generously sponsored by Slaughter and May, and in conjunction with the Cambridge Private Law Centre, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. The event will take place on 19th and 20th September 2024 at Selwyn College, Cambridge. The conference will explore th…

The Cambridge International Law Journal ('CILJ') is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts of papers to be considered for presentations at the 13th Annual Conference of the CILJ. The Conference will take place at the Faculty on 8–9 April 2024. The topic of the Conference is 'The Intersection of Peace and Sustainability in International Law'. Th…

Opening Times Michaelmas Term ends on Friday 1 December but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the winter vacation. The library opening times will be: Saturday 2 December - Wednesday 6 December inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:45 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:45 Sunday: Closed Thursday 7 December - Frida…

Notice is hereby given that the 12th biennial Tax Law History Conference organised by the Centre for Tax Law, University of Cambridge will take place in the Law Faculty on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July 2024. While Centre for Tax Law conferences of the past two years have been predominantly attended in person, for additional flexibility a hybrid forma…

The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) has recently welcomed two new Faculty members with research interests in legal history: Dr Joe Sampson, University Assistant Professor in Legal History, and Dr Fleur Stolker, Herchell Smith Teaching/Research Fellow at Emmanuel College. Publications In 2023 the Selden Society published volumes 3 to 5 of Pr…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action and Activism, by Sophie Williams (Amistad, an imprint of Harper Collins, 2020) This pocket-sized guide is filled with practical insights from o…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this short video Dr Kirsty Hughes explains the Court's reasoning, and considers the Government's response and possible next steps. Kirsty Hughes is an Associate Professor specialising in Human Rights Law. She is j…

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a five-year grant of up to DKK 50 million to be shared between a consortium including Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) at the University of Cambridge, CeBIL at the University of Copenhagen, the Petrie Flom Centre at Harvard, and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The partners will deli…

The Faculty is proud to announce that Professor Alison Young (Robinson College) will be taking up an appointment as a Law Commissioner for Public Law and the Law in Wales from March 2024 for five years. While we are very sorry that this means Professor Young will be taking leave from her Faculty post to enable her to serve as a Law Commissioner, we…

Dr Francesca Farrington and Dr Narine Lalafaryan have been awarded the prestigious Yorke Prize from the University of Cambridge for their PhD theses. The Yorke Prize, endowed in 1873 by Edmund Yorke, is awarded annually by the Faculty for doctoral theses of "exceptional quality... which make a substantial contribution to a field of legal knowledge"…

The Centre is delighted to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2023. The Research Centre for International Law was founded in 1983 by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht. Clive Parry, Robert Jennings and Derek Bowett all played a part in the creation of the Centre, which was set up with very little funding, to provide institutional protection for various academic …

On 6 October 2023, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Peru up to the end of 2012, as well as South Africa up to the end of 2016. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at …

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of Principles of Corporate Finance Law by Eilís Ferran, Elizabeth Howell (LSE), and Felix Steffek. Corporate finance theory seeks to understand how incorporated firms address the financial constraints that affect their investment decisions. This is achieved by using varied financial instrument…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the announcement that Cambridge alumna Dame Ingrid Simler, Lady Justice of Appeal will join the Supreme Court as a Justice on 14 November. Lady Justice Simler replaces Lord Kitchin, who retired in September. Dame Ingrid read Law as an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College, matriculating in 1982, followed by a po…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased in September and October, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Article 31(3)(c) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the Principle of Systemic Integration in International Investment Law and Arbitration, by Daniel Rosentr…