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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) The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned f…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Slaughter and May have agreed to join the new Access and Widening Participation Scheme as Supporters. The support of generous donations from the Access and Widening Participation Supporters will help the Faculty as it seeks to enhance the access of the brightest students, irrespective of background, to its …

The Faculty has published Volume 12 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Steve A. Bank and Brian R. Cheffins: Corporate Law’s Critical Junctures (25/2021) What accounts for substantial legal change? With corporate law, many think a stock mark…

A selection of law ebooks were purchased in October, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are alll available through iDiscover, and include:  Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (7th edition), by Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard, Simon Deakin and Sarah Fraser Butlin (Hart Publishing, 2021) Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as author…

The Cambridge Alumni Festival ran from 24-28 September, and the Faculty was involved in a number of events, many of which were recorded and are now available to watch online:   Constitutional Law Matters: The UK constitution: fit for purpose? In this event on 27 September, Professor Alison Young and Professor Mark Elliott engaged in discussion with…

Cambridge University Press has published Founders without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium Tier of the London Stock Exchange by Dr Bobby Reddy. Big Tech has flourished on the US public markets in recent years with numerous blue-chip IPOs, from Google and Facebook, to new kids on the block such as Snap, Zoom, and Airbnb. A key trend is the b…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the new undergraduate student exchange partnership with the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore ("NUS Law"). Starting from the next academic year, we expect to be able to offer up to three places in this exchange programme. Participating Cambridge law students will spend their third year at NUS…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The event was presented by Faculty Chair Professor Mark Elliott and Cambridge University Vice Chancellor Stephen Toope, and featured previous and current winners of the scholarship. The guest of honour Mr Fali S. Nar…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the announcement that PhD candidate Narine Lalafaryan has won the prestigious 2021 Best Paper Prize award of the Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference, for her working paper 'Orchestrating Finance with Material Adverse Changes'. Narine (Sidney Sussex College) is a PhD candidate in financial law, a Hogan Lovells Sc…

The Faculty's Professor David Feldman and Dr Jonathan Morgan gave evidence on Tuesday to the Public Bill Committee on the Judicial Review and Courts Bill currently before the House of Commons. The Bill seeks to reform the rules around Judicial Review and facilitate a number of procedural improvements across the court system. Professor Feldman is Em…

The Faculty's Professor Alison Young gave evidence last week before the parliamentary Committee of Privileges. The Committee were discussing proposals of a Draft Bill creating a new criminal offence for those who refused to comply with a summons to attend a Committee meeting to give evidence or to provide evidence without reasonable excuse. The Com…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that two Cambridge Law students, Jason Mbuku (St Catharine’s College) and Diallo Williams (King’s College), have been awarded scholarships on the Freshfields Stephen Lawrence Scholarship Scheme. The scheme, established by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2013 with support from Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence…

Professor of International Law Lorand Bartels has been appointed Chair of a new strengthened Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC), as part of the Government’s response to the previous Commission’s recommendations. The new TAC will provide expert scrutiny of new trade deals once they reach the signature stage, helping ensure world-leading British …

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a new research collaboration with Melbourne Law School. The purpose of this partnership is to increase collaboration by stimulating new and exciting research relationships between the two institutions, specifically by providing funding for a series of workshops, initially one per calendar year. These work…

The European Commission’s Study on the Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations was published at the beginning of October. The study reviews the operation and interpretation of Rome II during the first ten years of its application and includes national reports from experts in each of the Member States of the EU and th…