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Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video, Professor Mark Elliott considers the extent to which the Bill could be considered to be proposing a breach of international law. Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law …

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that online access to the Edward Elgar Essentials in Environmental Law collection is now available. This provides full-text access to 58 leading titles, published by Edward Elgar, focusing on environmental law and related subjects including international energy law, climate change, international water l…

Oxford University Press (OUP) has published Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki. Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time - even if the label 'legal philosopher' does not do justice to the breadth of his work. This collec…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a transformational programme of investment in postgraduate teaching that will also bring benefits to its undergraduate and doctoral degree programmes and to its research capacity. The Faculty already offers world-leading taught postgraduate degrees in the form of our flagship Master of Law (LLM) and our s…

Bath Publishing has published the fourth edition of A Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use, a detailed guide to the rights to change the use of land and buildings under the General Permitted Development Order. The first three editions having been authored by Martin Goodall, this fourth edition has been updated by Martin Goodall, Alistair Mil…

The Faculty’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) Committee today launched its Diversifying the Law: Postgraduates in Profile exhibition. A poster exhibition funded by the University’s Diversity Fund, the aim of the project is to highlight and to encourage reflection on diversity and its relationship to the law—not only as academic subject ma…

A selection of law ebook titles purchased in April, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: A Treatise on Dharma, by Yajnavalkya; edited and translated by Patrick Olivelle (Harvard University Press, 2019) A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest exampl…

The Faculty is proud to announce the success of two of our academics who were awarded prizes in the Cambridge Students Union Student-Led Teaching Awards at a ceremony on Wednesday, with Dr Jodi Gardner and Dr Andrew Sanger both receiving awards. Yi Kang Choo and Jodi   The SLT awards exist to reward outstanding teaching and student support acros…

The Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology are pleased to announce the results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, which are published today. Reflecting our collective size and outstanding research strength across all fields of legal and criminological inquiry, 225 individual pieces of scholarship – submitted by over 100 colleague…

Dr Jamie Trinidad, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, has been awarded the prestigious Round Table Peter Lyon prize for his article, “Self-determination and contested peoplehood in Gibraltar: separating the law from the rhetoric”, published in the June 2021 issue of The Round T…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this lecture, Professor David Feldman argues that "constitutional politics are loose on a rough sea, with little navigational help". He set out several factors contributing to these turbulent waters: challenges to…

Oxford University Press has published the tenth edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract provides students with a clear, straightforward, and comprehensive account of the core principles of contract law to enable a sound understanding of the subject. The new edition has been rigorously updated …

Law undergraduate Amelia Quince has been awarded the Access to Justice Foundation Award at the LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards 2022. The ceremony was held on Wednesday 4 May at the House of Lords. Amelia is currently a Part 1B Tripos Student at Churchill College and the Head of CULS (Cambridge University Law Society) Pro Bono.…

The Faculty welcomes the news that Dr Eleni Katsampouka (PhD, Mansfield College, and now Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Christ's College) has been awarded the Oxford Law Faculty Subedi Prize for best doctoral dissertation in the 2020-21 academic year. The Subedi Prize which was established in 2019 is awarded to the thesis that, in the opinion of the j…

The Faculty's Professor Lorand Bartels gave evidence last week before the before the House of Commons International Trade Committee as Chair of the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission, presenting the Commission’s advice on the recently signed UK-Australia free trade agreement. This advice is required to be laid before Parliament prior to the ratifi…