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Oxford University Press has published The Law of Loyalty by Lionel Smith, which is currently available in the US and will follow elsewhere shortly. The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law a…

Welcome to the Squire Law Library We hope the library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find books, journals and reports here to support your taught course, including a course reserve collection for MCL and LLM students, plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extensive electronic collec…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that a bookable online meeting room is now available for current staff and student members to use. Located in Room F23 on level 1 of the library, the private meeting room seats one or two people and is available to book for video calls, online supervisions and interviews. Bookings can be made in one hou…

The Faculty is pleased to be launching a newly refreshed website for the unique Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL) programme. Originally launched in 2012, the MCL offers students the opportunity to engage in detailed study of the legal and regulatory framework within which companies are governed and financed. The course is taught by the Faculty'…

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Law is delighted by the announcement that it has been placed in top position for the study of Law in the prestigious Times University League Tables for 2024. This joins our third position in the international 2023 Times Higher Education table, ahead of Yale University and placed as the most highly ranked law s…

The Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law Alison Young (Robinson College) was yesterday made Honorary Doctor of Laws at the University of Worcester at a graduation ceremony in Worcester Cathedral. Professor Young's award was for recognition of her contribution to legal studies and, in particular, to legal education. The citation recognised tha…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 14 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Mark Elliott & Nicholas Kilford: Nothing To See Here? Allister in the Supreme Court (20/2023) In the Allister case, it was argued (among other things) that the Norther…

A new report from the Research for Health in Conflict Group led by academics from the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge and colleagues from King’s College London and the American University of Beirut presents stark insights into the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, especially their mental health. Lead in…

Sweet & Maxwell has published the fourth edition of Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies by Neil Andrews, Andrew Tettenborn, and Graham Virgo. Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies provides guidance from three leading contract academics on the duties at play in a contract that is in dispute: …

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Campbell McLachlan KC to the Professorship of Law (1973). Although one of the Faculty's newest statutory chairs, the 1973 Professorship has a highly distinguished history, having previously been held by Kurt Lipstein, SFC Milsom, Bill Cornish, Sir Bob Hepple and, most recently, John Bel…

Due to furniture moves and essential maintenance work taking place on the ground floor of the David Williams Building, some areas of the Squire Law Library are likely to be subject to noise disturbance throughout the day on Monday 14 August, Tuesday 15 August and Thursday 17 August.  Staff can provide guidance on quieter areas to work within the li…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Law Faculty Open Day on Wednesday 5 July or the University Open Days on Thursday 6 July and Friday 7 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour of the library and find out more about the law collections, which include over 180,000 bo…

In May 2023, Dr Maayan Menashe was invited by the Republic of Korea’s Economic, Social and Labor Council (ESLC) to share his experience and expertise in domestic and transnational labour law. The invitation was part of the Government of Korea’s current efforts to achieve major labour law reform, and, as part of this, the ESLC’s running of an expert…

On 22 June 2023, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Nigeria up to the end of 2014, as well as Tajikistan up to the end of 2019. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at t…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that its longstanding Patron and supporter, leading commercial set of barristers’ chambers One Essex Court, have generously committed to a further three years’ support for the One Essex Court Scholarship for students studying the Master of Law (LLM) course. This scholarship was first established by One Es…