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Dr David Erdos has taken up a new role as co-director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL). David was previously the Deputy Director of the Centre, a position he has held since 2017. He will be working alongside Professor Henning Grosse-Ruse Kahn as Co-Director and Professor Lionel Bently who remains a lynchpin of the…

The 10th Annual Cape Town Convention Academic Project Conference took place at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and on Zoom on 29-30 September 2021. The Conference was organised by the Cape Town Convention Academic Project, which is a partnership between UNIDROIT and the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, under the auspices of the Ce…

A selection of law ebooks were purchased this September, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Class Actions in Europe: Holy Grail or a Wrong Trail?, edited by Alan Uzelac, Stefaan Voet (Springer, 2021) This book investigates whether class actions in Europe are indeed a Holy Grail or …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the third edition of What About Law? by Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo. Law is one of the few subjects that the school leaver, choosing a degree course, will have very little real understanding of. This book comes to the rescue by clearly setting out what a pr…

Brill has published Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities: Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child edited by Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn and Dr Brian Sloan. This book arises out of a CRC Implementation Project colloquium on Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 5 protec…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the launch of a major new outreach initiative, Exploring Law: Studying Law at University. Exploring Law is an innovative, open-access online course, designed primarily for 16 to 18-year-olds who are considering whether to study law at a university in the UK. It is free for anyone to access and complete. T…

Pre-booking no longer required As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually eased, and as the new academic year approaches, some of the limitations for using the Squire Law Library have been relaxed. However, the overall approach to using the library will continue to be in line with that of using the David Williams Building as a whole. Further details ca…

The unequal distribution of pension wealth puts women at greater risk of poverty in later life, especially after a relationship ends Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Important work in relation to pensions on divorce continues in the wake of the pub…

Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Director of the Institute of Criminology and also the Director of the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice (based in the Institute), and Director of the Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership across the social sciences has been awarded the prestigious 2021 European Society of Criminology Lifetime Achie…

The Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 30 August. The library will re-open on Tuesday 31 August from 09:00.

A selection of law e-books were purchased between 15 July - 15 August, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Comparative Corporate Governance, edited by Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter (Edward Elgar, 2021) This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corpor…

It is with deep sadness that the Faculty reports the death of Professor Hugh Bevan on 15 July 2021 at the age of 98. He was an immensely distinguished scholar in the field of Family Law. In particular, he has been described as ‘a pioneer of the study of child law in England and Wales’. Educated at Neath Grammar School and the University of College …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the seventh edition of Deakin and Morris Labour Law by Dr Zoe Adams, Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor Simon Deakin, and Ms Sarah Fraser Butlin. Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a com…

A selection of law e-books were purchased between 15 June - 15 July, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: If You're a Classical Liberal, How Come You're Also an Egalitarian? : A Theory of Rule Egalitarianism, by Åsbjørn Melkevik (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Classical liberalism has wr…

European data protection legislation and freedom of expression have been recognised as having a tense and difficult interaction for a long time.  However, both the nature of, and debates about, that interaction have frequently been conceived narrowly as concerned only with journalism.  Understandings of this area have often also been shrouded in co…