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The Faculty has distributed Volume 14 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Brian R. Cheffins: The Past, Present and Future of Corporate Purpose (15/2023) Corporate purpose is currently hotly debated amidst much speculation that American public…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Ms Eleanor Sharpston KC will serve as the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for the academic year 2023-24. Eleanor has combined a career in practice at the Bar (specialising in European Union and ECHR Law) with an academic career first at UCL and then in Cambridge where she was a Universit…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the re-launch of its online course, Exploring Law: Studying Law at University. The course will re-start on 17 July 2023. Learners can register for the course immediately via the Exploring Law course page. Over 6,000 learners have enrolled on the course since it was first launched in 2021. We look forward …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Key Ideas in Trusts Law written by Nicholas J McBride and Key Ideas in Commercial Law written by William Day. Key Ideas in Trusts Law provides an in-depth and easy to understand account of a subject that students often find dauntingly difficult to master. The opening chapter sets o…

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg are pleased to announce that the Max Planck – Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) has been awarded to Emily Crawford, Professor at University of Sydney Law School. The Prize was established in 2019 b…

Image: Andrés Franchi Ugart (Wikimedia)   The Faculties of Law of the University of the Republic, Montevideo (Universidad de la República), and the University of Cambridge have entered into an agreement for reciprocal visits by academic staff. The agreement facilitates visits of one member of academic staff from each institution to the other for o…

The Faculty's Dr Stevie Martin gave evidence last week before the parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights. The Committee were taking oral evidence Human rights and assisted dying. The Joint Committee on Human Rights consists of twelve members, appointed from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, to examine matters relating …

The Faculty has published Volume 14 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Chike Obianwu & Kenneth Okwor: Central Bank Digital Currencies: Analytical and Operational Primer on the eNaira (11/2023) This chapter provides an expository and teleolog…

The 2023 European Human Rights Law Conference is being held at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law from 28 September to 29 September 2023. The theme of the conference is 'Human Rights: Prospects, Possibilities, Fears and Limitations'. Keynotes include Judge Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, Professor Conor Gearty KC, Dr Elaine Webster and Lady Bre…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) A large body of private law can rightly be understood as a system of rules that regulates the interactions between atomistic subjects who are free to pursue their own interests so long as they do not infringe upon th…

On 3 March 2023, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht was honoured at a ceremony for the Day of the Righteous 2023 held in the Garden of the Righteous in Milan, Italy. Sir Hersch’s granddaughter, Mrs Gabriel Cox, accompanied by Mrs Emanuella Gillard – a former Research Fellow at the Centre and Research Assistant to Sir Eli Lauterpacht, were guests at the event o…

Gonville and Caius College Lecturer and Fellow in Law Dr Fotis Vergis was been awarded the runner's-up position in the prestigious European Trade Confederation Brian Bercusson Award at the ETUC Congress is on 23-26 May for the submission of his PhD thesis written studying at the Faculty. After having received a high-quality field of applications on…

CIPIL is extremely proud to report that its Deputy Director, Professor Lionel Bently KC (hon) has been selected from a long list of nominations received from the global IP community to be inducted in the IP Hall of Fame. In making its selection, the IP Hall of Fame Academy chooses the nominees "it considers to have made the most outstanding contrib…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers (University of Essex). European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction. Each chapter has been written and updated by an ex…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a new partnership with The Law Corner, a public interest and pro bono legal advice organisation based near Kings Cross, London. The Law Corner was founded by Cambridge Law alum, Nabil Khabirpour (Girton), in response to the reality that the administration of justice and the rule of law are severely compro…