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On 12 April 2022, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Sri Lanka up to the end of 2014, as well as Zimbabwe up to the end of 2016. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at …

Professor Richard Fentiman, Professor of Private International Law, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Cyprus. He received the degree of Doctor honoris causa at a ceremony in Nicosia. The Resolution awarding the degree referred to his role in creating a new paradigm for private international law and his contribution to the sub…

Today, Cambridge Family Law released the results of its online survey, designed to shed light on the domestic and international surrogacy arena – why it is done, how it is done, and the issues that intended parents, surrogates, and governments alike must be aware of. The survey sought to understand the experiences of those who had become parents th…

The David Williams Building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter bank holiday weekend from Friday 15 April to Monday 18 April inclusive.  The library will re-open at 09:00 on Tuesday 19 April.

LexisNexis Butterworths has published the 20th edition of Underhill and Hayton Law of Trusts and Trustees by Paul Matthews, Charles Mitchell, Jonathan Harris, and Sinead Agnew. Underhill & Hayton Law of Trusts and Trustees is LexisNexis Butterworth's flagship Trusts title and is recognised as being the leading book in the market. Written by renown…

A selection of law ebook titles was purchased in March, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Blurry Boundaries of Public and Private International Law: Towards Convergence or Divergent Still?edited by Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit and Dharmita Prasad (Springer, 2022) This book examines …

Today, an international team of mediation experts based in the University of Cambridge and other major institutions launched a pathbreaking resource in support of a peace settlement for Ukraine. The Ukraine Peace Settlement Project web-resource is geared towards helping the sides in the conflict, and the present and future facilitators in negotiati…

The Faculty of Law and Squire Library are pleased to announce that an entry for the photo collection created by Professor Malcolm Clarke, which he and Mrs Eva Clarke have donated to the Faculty, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Clarke, a keen photographer, amassed a collection of photographs of Faculty personalities at vari…

The Faculty's Professor Alison Young gave evidence last week before the parliamentary EU Scrutiny Committee. The Committee were continuing examination of retained EU legislation. The European Scrutiny Committee assesses the legal and/or political importance of EU documents ‘deposited’ by the Government in Parliament. Since the end of the post-Brexi…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Helen Scott will join the Faculty of Law in October 2022 as the Regius Professor of Civil Law. The Regius Professorship of Civil Law was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 and was the University of Cambridge’s first Chair in Law. The Chair is currently held by Professor David Ibbetson, who will retire in Septe…

The Squire Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Sir Christopher John Greenwood GBE, CMG, QC, Emeritus Professor of Law LSE, former Judge at the International Court of Justice, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Sir Christopher was interviewed at his home in Girton and at the Master’s Lodge Magdalene …

Enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the Squire Law Library whenever you want, wherever you are, with our new virtual study session! This three hour on-demand study session video is available now via YouTube. Have the library all to yourself, with a view from the third floor. There's no soundtrack, just library silence to enjoy. 

Oxford University Press (OUP) has published the eleventh edition of Evidence (Core Texts Series) edited by Dr Roderick Munday. Munday's Evidence is a concise yet stimulating introduction to the key areas of the law of evidence. Vibrant and engaging, the book demystifies a traditionally intimidating subject. Careful analysis of the issues, both hist…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this Law in Focus video, Professor Catherine Barnard considers the legal implications, and the Brexit question. Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridg…

In the new, more "virtually-focussed" world ushered in by the pandemic, employers face a new challenge in how they vet future employees, says Trinity Hall Fellow Dr David Erdos. Employers have "always" snooped on their employees but social media gives them an even greater ability to see inside the personal lives of their staff and judge them accord…