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A selection of law ebook titles purchased in August, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868-1968, by W. Lewis Burke (The University of Georgia Press, 2017) Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern ci…

The Faculty welcomes the news that Dr Dominic de Cogan has won second prize in the Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for 2022, awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). Dr De Cogan's prize was won for his book Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution, published by Hart Publishing in August 2020. Tax Law, State-Building …

A new international law resource published by BRILL, International Maritime Boundaries Online is now available for current staff and student members of the University of Cambridge to access. International Maritime Boundaries Online is a comprehensive reference for international state practice concerning maritime boundary delimitation. It provides h…

Cambridge Family Law is delighted to announce that Caitlin Jenkins has joined the Advisory Board of Cambridge Family Law. Caitlin is a Partner in Family Law at Mills & Reeve. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Law, and has been described in the Chambers UK High Net Worth Guide 2019 as "the best lawyer in Cambridge ... the all ro…

Jesus College Law student Georgia King has recently featured in an extended article by the University describing her pathway to studying at Cambridge. Georgia went to a large state school in the West Midlands and was the first person in her family to apply to university, after taking part in several widening participation schemes at Cambridge. Whil…

The Faculty has published Volume 13 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eilis Ferran: International Competitiveness and Financial Regulators’ Mandates: Coming Around Again (6/2022) Using post-Brexit regulatory freedom to strengthen the financ…

The Faculty has published Volume 13 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eilis Ferran: Shareholder Engagement and Custody Chains (1/2022) Shareholder engagement has come to be seen to be pivotal to good corporate governance. It is therefore m…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The Future of High-Cost Credit: Rethinking Payday Lending by Dr Jodi Gardner. The research leading to this book has featured in an extended article on the St John's College website, in which Dr Gardner was interviewed about the explosion in the number of people falling into a 'debt…

The Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 29 August. The Library will re-open at 09:00 on Tuesday 30 August. 

Oxford University Press has published the seventh edition of The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. This authoritative text offers a unique balance of comprehensive, detailed coverage in a concise and readable style, providing a critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of …

A selection of law ebook titles purchased in July, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19, by John Fabian Witt (Yale University Press, 2020) From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have p…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of International Human Rights Law, edited by Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah and Sandesh Sivakumaran. Written by leading experts in the field, the textbook explores the essentials of international human rights law, from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. A vari…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Christopher Forbes Forsyth, Emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public International Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Forsyth was interviewed in person at his home in the Hertfordshire countryside on four occasions during April…

For the past year, Claire Fenton-Glynn and Jens M. Scherpe of Cambridge Family Law have been undertaking a research project on the experiences of individuals involved in international surrogacy arrangements under a contract with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government. Fenton-Glynn and Scherpe have provided training on…

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 18 July 2022. Learners can register for the course immediately via the Exploring Law course page, and at any time before 28 August 2022. Over 2,600 learners enrolled on the course’s first run in the …