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Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law" target="_blank">In December Cambridge University Press published Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law by Emilija Leinarte. This book provides a novel approach to the allo…

Koubundou Publishers (Tokyo) has published Legal Innovation: Technology, the Legal Profession and Industrial Change edited by Professor Mihoko Sumida (Hitotsubashi University) and Associate Professor Felix Steffek (University of Cambridge). The book brings together voices from academia, ministries, international organisations, regulators and practi…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Stephen Watterson has been awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Watterson is Professor of Private Law in the Faculty of Law; he teaches a range of Private Law subjects, including the Law of Restitution, Property Law and Banking Law, and publishes widely …

A selection of law ebook titles was purchased in February, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: "Beyond the Law": The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch (Temple University Press, 2021)  In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable …

Opening Times  Lent Term ends on Friday 18 March, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for most of the vacation. The library opening times will be:  Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 18:45 Saturday: 09:00 - 12:45 Sunday: Closed The Library will be closed for the Easter holiday weekend from Friday 15 April - Monday 18 Ap…

The Faculty is pleased to announce the new undergraduate student exchange partnership with the Law School of the University of Auckland/Te Wāhanga Ture o Tāmaki Makaurau. Staring from the next academic year, up to three Cambridge undergraduate law students will have the opportunity to spend their third year at the University of Auckland before retu…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Professor Weatherill explained that the EU law's application to sport is ad hoc, ex post facto and driven by competition law (and occasionally free movement law). He argued that something more systema…

A new international law resource published by BRILL, Commentaries on World Trade Law Online, is now available to access.  Commentaries on World Trade Law Online is a comprehensive, standard reference work on WTO Law. The Commentaries explain the provisions of the WTO Agreements article by article, setting out the interpretation of each article in t…

Cambridge University Press has published Contemporary French Administrative Law by John Bell and François Lichère (Université Lyon III). Bell and Lichère’s Contemporary French Administrative Law provides a short and systematic introduction to French administrative law. It presents French governmental institutions, fundamental principles of legality…

Cambridge University Press has published Fissures in EU Citizenship: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Legal Evolution of EU Citizenship by Dr Martin Steinfeld. This book argues that core concepts in EU citizenship law are riddled with latent fissures traceable back to the earliest case law on free movement of persons, and that later dev…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 edited by Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk and Rebecca Probert. The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law. Coming into force in 1971, it had a significant impact on legal practice and was followed by a drama…

On Wednesday, 16 February 2022, Dr Felix Steffek, Associate Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL), gave evidence to the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The Board focussed on corporate debt workouts in this session. The objective of the session was to examine practices, experiences and lessons from me…

A selection of law ebooks purchased in January, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Constitutions and Religion, edited by Susanna Mancini (Edward Elgar, 2020) Constitutions and Religion is the first major reference work in the emerging field of comparative constitutional law and rel…

Photo: Supreme Court, Open Government License v3.0   We are delighted to announce that Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill are joining the Faculty of Law as Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows. Baroness Hale of Richmond studied Law at Girton College, Cambridge, and went on to teach Law at the University of Manchester, beco…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Agency: Law and Principles by Dr Roderick Munday. Questions of agency regularly arise in the work of commercial practitioners. Agency: Law and Principles addresses these questions by offering clear and accessible analysis of the principles of agency law, as well as detailed explanation of …