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On 6 May, students taking the Advanced Property and Trusts paper on the LLM spent the afternoon presenting their work to Lord Robert Carnwath, former justice of the UK Supreme Court and Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow. The programme for the afternoon involved each student presenting on a key case in property or trusts law, and discussing its si…

The publication in paperback of Pursuit of Legal Harmony in a Turbulent Europe: Essays in Honour of Eleanor Sharpston, edited by Catherine Barnard, Adam Lazowski and Daniel Sarmiento, marks a comprehensive celebration of the legacy of one of the most influential Advocates General to serve the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Published…

This new book edited by Dr Brian Sloan, Assistant Professor in Property Law and Fellow of Robinson College, has been published by Edward Elgar. A Research Agenda for Succession Law brings together an international group of leading scholars to map out the future of legal research in the field of inheritance and estates. The book arises from papers f…

A new book by Dr Mohamed Moussa, Assistant Professor in EU Law at the Faculty of Law, has been published by Hart Publishing. Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US explores how federalism emerged as a constitutional remedy to the ‘lethal disease’ of polarisation - a force capable of destabilising constitutional system…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 17 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Timo Minssen, Mateo Aboy & Effy Vayena: Navigating the EU AI Act: Implications for Regulated Digital Medical Products (25/2025) The newly adopted EU AI Act represents …

The annual Exploring Law Conference (ELC) was held again this year at the Faculty between 30 March and 2 April. The four-day residential experience provides 250 Year 12 (Y13 NI/S5 Scotland) students the opportunity to gain a balanced view of Law as an academic subject as well as a profession and offer a deep insight into life as a Cambridge undergr…

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Law is delighted to celebrate the outstanding success of the Cambridge University Arbitration Society's (CUArb) 2026 Vis Moot team comprising Tripos students Dawn Chow (Newnham), Sam Moore (Trinity Hall), Ewan Crease (Fitzwilliam) and Thomas Loke (Trinity), who recently reached the final of the prestigious int…

In March a Cambridge University team comprising Amia Guha (lead counsel) (Trinity), Sherelle Lim (Magdalene), and Leonard Krych (Corpus Christi), travelled to Madrid to compete in the Mitchell L. McLean Trial Competition. The competition is the only American law moot held in Spain, hosted by the European Law Students' Association at IE University i…

Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law (Trinity College) and Senior Fellor of UK in a Changing Europe, appeared before the House of Lords European Affairs Committee earlier this week to provide expert testimony on the legal implications of dynamic alignment between UK and EU law. The evidence session on Tues…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 17 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Jared A. Ellias & Narine Lalafaryan: The Global Law of Debt (21/2025) Corporate debt financing and the restructuring of large corporations are now governed by what thi…

Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury) has published Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline, edited by Lorren Eldridge (Queens' College), Emily Ireland (University of Liverpool) and Caroline Derry (The Open University). This book champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the disci…

Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury) has published Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans, edited by John Adenitire (Queen Mary University) and Raffael Fasel (Jesus College). Can animals, artificial intelligences (AI), and nature have fundamental rights? Do they have fundamental rights? And if they do, how do their rights relate to human rights? I…

Hart Publishing (an imprint of Bloomsbury) has published Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law, edited by Katy Barnett (Professor in Law at the University of Melbourne), William Day (Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge and a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings), Jonathan Morgan (Professor of English Law and Fellow of Corpus Chris…

Hart Publishing has published The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 at 25 edited by Janet O'Sullivan, Louise Merrett and William Day (Fellow in Law, Downing College). In this book, practitioners, judges and academics provide a comprehensive assessment of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, a legislative cornerstone of Engli…

The University has announced the award of three honorary degrees in law to recognise the outstanding achievements of the nominees. The former Federal Chancellor of Germany, Dr Angela Merkel, was nominated in recognition of her leadership and contribution to international relations. The first woman to hold the Chancellorship of a reunited Germany, D…