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The Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP) has created the Cape Town Convention (CTC) international moot court programme (CTC moot court). The purpose of the CTC moot court programme is to familiarise students and judges with the CTC in the context of complex hypothetical fact patterns and to provide students with educational exercises invol…

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 23 January 2023. Learners can register for the course immediately via the Exploring Law course page, and at any time before 6 March 2023. Over 4,100 learners enrolled on the course during the academi…

We are sorry to announce the death of Gaenor Moore. Gaenor had served as Senior Secretary and Administrator at CIPIL from March 2007-May 2009 (when she was also the Editorial Assistant of The Cambridge Law Journal) and from August 2011-August 2014 (when she also was Examinations Administrator for the Faculty of Law). As CIPIL administrator, Gaenor …

Sweet & Maxwell has published the 10th edition of Goff & Jones on Unjust Enrichment edited by Professor Charles Mitchell, Professor Paul Mitchell, and Professor Stephen Watterson. Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. Successive editions have played a major role in establishing the central importance of the subject for p…

Oxford University Press has published Occupation in International Law by Eliav Lieblich and Eyal Benvenisti. The international law of occupation is the body of law, under international humanitarian law, that regulates the actions of states that gain effective control over territory during armed conflict. This body of law seeks to balance between se…

Professor Lorand Bartels MBE was invited to give evidence to the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee, on Wednesday 30 November. The Committee is considering regulation after Brexit, and specifically the question 'How do post-Brexit trade deals impact the UK's ability to regulate freely?'. Professor Bartels was joined as a witness by Shanke…

The Convenors of the 12th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal are pleased to announce that the Conference will take place in person at the Faculty of Law from 24 to 25 April 2023 and will address the theme of Language in International Law. Papers potentially may address, for example, any of the following indicative themes: …

The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our fifth Tax Policy Conference on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 July 2023. The topic of the conference is ‘Tax, public finance and the rule of law’. We have prepared a brief paper explaining this theme and setting out possible areas in whi…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this short video Professor Alison Young explains the backdrop to the case, sets out how the Supreme court decided the case, and explores possible future paths to Scottish independence. Alison Young is the Sir Davi…

Opening Times Michaelmas Term ends on Friday 2 December, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the winter vacation. The library opening times for the vacation will be: Saturday 3 December - Thursday 8 December inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:45 Saturday: 09:00- 17:45 Sunday: Closed Friday 9 De…

Congratulations to Dr Maayan Menashe, Fellow of the Centre, whose doctoral thesis has been awarded the Yorke prize by the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. The Yorke Prize is awarded annually ‘in recognition of the exceptional quality’ of the doctoral thesis, ‘which makes a substantial contribution to its field of legal knowledge’. The thesi…

A selection of law ebook titles purchased in October, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law 2022, edited by Manjiao Chi, Marc Bungenberg and Andrea K. Bjorklund (Springer, 2022) The Asian Yearbook of International Economic Law (AYIEL) is de…

The Faculty's Professor Alison Young and Professor Catherine Barnard gave evidence on Tuesday before the Public Bill Committee discussing the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform Bill). A Public Bill Committee is a committee set up by the House of Commons to examine the details of a particular Bill.  The Bill will provide that provisions of EU la…

The Faculty will shortly commence a major programme of recruitment to 12 academic posts. Nine tenure-track Assistant Professorships will be advertised in the coming weeks and months, along with a Professorship, a Statutory Professorship and a fixed-term Assistant Professorship. Seven of the Assistant Professorships are entirely new, representing an…

Image credit: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor (CC BY-NC 2.0)   Public Information Online is an web-based archive of searchable Parliamentary and Official documents, enabling users to view many Parliamentary publications in one place as PDFs. It includes publications from the Westminster Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Wels…