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The Faculty is proud to announce the success of two of our academics who were awarded prizes in the Cambridge Students Union Student-Led Teaching Awards at a ceremony on Tuesday, with Professor Catherine Barnard and Professor Simon Deakin both receiving awards. Catherine receiving her award The SLT awards exist to reward outstanding teaching and…

Faculty research student Andreas Samartzis has been given special recognition by the jury in the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism 2023: 'Federalism: What Makes it Work (or not!)' at McGill University, which was awarded at a symposium on 5 May. His entry was on the topic 'Judicial Supremacy in the European Federal Union'. Created in 2016, the…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Landmark Cases in Private International Law edited by William Day and Louise Merrett. This collection of essays contains in-depth analyses of eighteen landmark cases in private international law, from Penn v Lord Baltimore in 1750 to Brownlie v FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC in 2021. Th…

The Faculty has published Volume 14 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Nicholas McBride: Two Recent Cases on Liability for Omissions in Negligence (6/2023) This short note summarises and criticises two recent English Court of Appeal cases on…

Intersentia has published Surrogacy in Latin America edited by Nicolás Espejo-Yaksic (Researcher at the Centre for Constitutional Studies (CEC) of the Supreme Court of Mexico), Professor Jens Scherpe (Director of the Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law, University of Aalborg) and Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn. The transnatio…

The Faculty is delighted to announce appointments to twelve academic posts as part of a major recruitment exercise. Seven of the posts are entirely new, representing a substantial expansion of the Faculty’s breadth and depth across its research activities and teaching programmes; in particular, the new posts will support the Faculty’s curriculum di…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In her lecture, Professor O'Regan outlined how courts in many parts of the world now play an expanded role in adjudicating how a society is governed. How courts play the expanded constitutional roles conferred upon t…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Graham Virgo. The Principles of Equity & Trusts brings an engaging, contextual approach to the subject in this best-selling textbook. Graham Virgo explains the complex issues of trusts and equity with unparalleled clarity, offering a rigorous and insight…

The Centre is delighted to announce that Tor Krever, currently Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Warwick, will be joining the Lauterpacht Centre as a Fellow from immediate effect. He will be joining the Faculty of Law in October 2023 as Assistant Professor in International Law.    Tor’s work is focused on the history and theor…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published the Research Handbook on Adoption Law edited by Professor Nigel Lowe (Cardiff University) and Professor Claire Fenton-Glynn. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this fascinating and timely Research Handbook provides diverse perspectives on the law and practice of adoption. It examines h…

24 April – 15 June 2023 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 (Monday 24 April – Thursday 15 June inclusive) the first floor a…

The Faculty has published Volume 14 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Erdos: An Accurate Thumbnail of European Data Protection and Search Engine Indexing? Exploring C-460/20 TU, RE v Google LLC (2022) (3/2023) Whilst the Google Spain …

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased in March and April, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot, by Marsha Garrison (Routledge, 2023)  Family Life, Family Law, and Family Justice: Tying the Knot combines history, so…

Photo: Supreme Court, Open Gov License v3.0   We are delighted to announce that Lady Arden of Heswall is joining the Faculty of Law as Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow for three years from the Easter Term. Lady Arden grew up in Liverpool and read law at Girton College (matriculating in 1965, and completing her LLM in 1985) and Harvard Law Schoo…

The Faculty has published Volume 14 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Erdos: The Court of Justice’s Data Protection Case Law Deepens: Exploring Digi on Purpose and Storage Limitation and Koalitsia on the Scope of the GDPR and DPA Powe…