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Following the nomination in January, Professor Okeoghene Odudu's article on 'Do competition agencies harm welfare?' has won 'Best Antitrust Business Article' in the 2023 Antitrust Writing Awards, jointly organized by Concurrences and George Washington University. The aim of the Antitrust Writing Awards is to promote competition scholarship and cont…

We are pleased to announce that a collection of 15 new Springer Link law ebook titles has been purchased by the Squire Law Library, in co-ordination with the ebooks@cambridge team. The collection includes the European Yearbook of International Economic Law - Studies in European and International Economic Law series and a range of titles relating to…

The Tax Research Network (TRN) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge from 5-7 September 2023 and will run as an in-person conference with some virtual provision for those who are unable to travel to Cambridge. As usual, the first two days will be research focused, while the Tax Education Day will run on the 7th September. Further d…

Language in International Law The Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 12(2), to be published in December 2023 on the theme 'Language in International Law'. The Board welcomes articles (6,000–12,000 words, inclusive of footnotes) and case notes that engage with current themes in international law, a…

Professor Lorand Bartels MBE, Professor of International Law, Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, has been appointed by the Minister of State for Trade to a government body that promotes responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises abroad. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D…

Professor Lorand Bartels MBE, Professor of International Law and Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, has been appointed by the Minister of State for Trade to a government body that promotes responsible business conduct by multinational enterprises abroad. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has, for two dec…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Lord Sales explored how the common law of obligations has always encoded constitutional values for the protection of the rights and freedoms of subjects. An illustration is that many important constit…

Staff and student members of the University of Cambridge can now access the Hart Publishing 2023 collection of ebooks via the Bloomsbury Collections platform.  The collection currently provides access to 29 titles published in 2023 by Hart including Landmark Cases in Privacy Law edited by Paul Wragg and Peter Coe, and Agency, Morality and Law by Jo…

Opening Times Lent Term ends on Friday 17 March, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the vacation. The library opening times for the vacation will be: Saturday 18 March - Thursday 23 March inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:45 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:45 Sunday: Closed Friday 24 March - Thursday 6 …

Congratulations to Lauterpacht Centre Affiliated Fellow Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger who commences her new visiting chair in sustainable development law and policy at the University of Cambridge.  As visiting chair, Professor Cordonier Segger, together with Cambridge PhD Candidate Tejas Rao as Research Coordinator and Assistant Editor, a…

Image credit: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor (CC BY-NC 2.0)   Following a successful trial in 2022, Public Information Online is now available to current Cambridge University staff and student members.  Public Information Online is a complete collection of parliamentary papers from Westminster, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh P…

The Republic of Vanuatu has secured the co-sponsorship of no less than 105 States for the submission to vote by the UN General Assembly of a Draft Resolution requesting the International Court of Justice, dubbed the 'World Court', to provide an advisory opinion on climate change under international law. Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and …

Amicus was founded in 1992 in memory of Andrew Lee Jones. Despite a lack of scientific evidence linking him to the crime, Andrew was charged with murder and executed in Louisiana in 1991. Details of his mental illness were withheld by the prosecution, vital mitigation was not presented and he was represented by an inexperienced lawyer who had never…

Mooting at Cambridge has a long and illustrious past, which continues today in with a team from Cambridge competing in preparation for the regular Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The Willem C. Vis Moot Competition is an annual international commercial arbitration competition hosted every spring in Vienna, Austria. In recent…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Animal Rights Law by Raffael Fasel and Sean Butler. Do animals have legal rights? This pioneering book tells readers everything they need to know about animal rights law. Using straightforward examples from over 30 legal systems from both the civil and common law traditions, and b…