News

On 2 November 2022 CELS member and Management Committee member Catherine Barnard (Trinity College) featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action presented by Joshua Rozenberg. The programme entitled "Scrapping European Law" considered the current government's commitment to remove large amounts of laws inherited from the EU as part of the Brex…

Holli delivers her paper at the SLS Conference   The Faculty is delighted to welcome the recent announcement by The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) that PhD candidate Holli Sargeant had been awarded the Best Doctoral Paper prize from the Annual SLS conference in September. The judging panel for the award commended Sargeant's analysis and strong su…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of Intellectual Property Law by Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman, Dev Gangjee, and Phillip Johnson. Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on this subject - an all-embracing and detailed guide to intellectual property law. It clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents,…

The Faculty welcomes the news that PhD student Maxence Rivoire has won first prize and best oralist in the prestigious 2022 Nappert Prize in International Arbitration. The Nappert Prize is a biennial essay competition in the field of international arbitration. Administered by McGill University, it was created in 2014 by Sophie Nappert, a noted arbi…

The Centre warmly welcomes the news that Dr Jamie Trinidad has been appointed a King’s Counsel in Gibraltar (KC) by the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir David Steel.   Jamie is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Wolfson College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research focuses on public international law…

Cambridge University Press has published The International Law of Energy by Jorge E. Viñuales. The world's energy structure underpins the global environmental crisis and changing it will require regulatory change at a massive level. Energy is highly regulated in international law, but the field has never been comprehensively mapped. The legal sourc…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that a bookable video conferencing acoustic booth is now available on level 2 of the library. The booth seats one person, and is available to book for telephone calls, video conferences, online supervisions and interviews.  Bookings can be made in one hour time slots between 09:00-20:00 (Monday-Friday, …

The Centre is delighted to share the news that English Heritage has installed a blue plaque for Sir Hersch Lauterpacht at his former home at 103 Walm Lane, Cricklewood, London.  The blue plaques scheme celebrates the links between notable historical figures and the buildings in which they lived and worked. Hersch, and his wife Rachel, lived at Walm…

The Faculties of Law of Stellenbosch University and the University of Cambridge have entered into a student exchange agreement. The agreement will allow up to two students to spend an academic year at the partner institution as a visiting student. At Cambridge, the visiting students will have the opportunity to choose any of the undergraduate law p…

Welcome to the Squire Law Library We hope the library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find books, journals and reports here to support your taught course, including a course reserve collection for MCL and LLM students, plus lots of space to study and IT facilities. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extensive…

We are immeasurably saddened by the news of the passing of our colleague and friend Karen Knop. Karen’s long association with Cambridge and the Lauterpacht Centre began with her doctoral work under the supervision of James Crawford. In May this year, Karen joined us in Cambridge for the memorial conference that marked one year of James’s own untime…

The election of Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, to a prestigious senior Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) - Academy of Social Sciences was announced this month. Nominated by their peers and institutions for thei…

On 16 and 17 September, Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec) hosted a conference named 'The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections upon the Work of TRS Allan', celebrating the work of Professor Trevor Allan. The conference was organised by Geneviève Cartier (UdeS) and Mark Walters (Queen’s University, Ontario) and included sessions entitled, on the…

The Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 12(1), to be published in June 2023. The Board welcomes articles and case notes that engage with current themes in international law, as well as book reviews on recently published works. Volume 12(1) will include a special section on 'Global Security Challeng…

The David Williams Building, including the Squire Law Library, will be closed on Monday 19 September, the date of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's State Funeral. The library will reopen at 09:00 on Tuesday 20 September.