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The Faculty is delighted to announce that it has again been awarded the Bronze Athena Swan Award following a re-application last year. The application was made through the hard work of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee with the support of Faculty professional services staff. The Faculty of Law is committed in its pursuit of academic exc…

Oxford University Press has published Race and Transitional Justice edited by Sarah M.H. Nouwen and Neha Jain (Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law). The discourse, scholarship, and practice of transitional justice have become pivotal to addressing historical systematic injustices. However, until recently, the field has largely o…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of Cambridge graduates as King's Counsel on Friday last week. These appointments are made by His Majesty The King on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, David Lammy MP, following consideration by the independent King’s Counsel (KC) Selection Panel. The Lord Chancellor will preside over th…

Hart Publishing has published Sovereignty Intact: The UK Parliament, Foreign Courts and Immigration by Dr Matilda Gillis. This book examines the relationship between the UK Parliament and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as well as the relationship Parliament previously held with the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). It scru…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that the University of Cambridge recently hosted the Cambridge Debt Roundtable on The Global Law of Debt. The event was organised by Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; Fellow of Pembroke College; Fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance) around a new research projec…

Dr Hend Hanafy, Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, has led the organisation of a roundtable discussion with the Egyptian Court of Cassation, held in cooperation with the Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt. The event, titled 'Sentencing in the Egyptian Legal System: A Comparative Approa…

The Law Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; Fellow, Pembroke College; CERF Fellow) has been extensively cited and quoted by the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee in its 2026 report, Private Markets: Unknown Unknowns. This follows Dr Lalafaryan's oral evidence to the …

Legal protection for UK workers will move closer to the OECD average, according to a new report coauthored by a team of Cambridge researchers, and published last week by the Department of Business and Trade. 'Assessing the legal and economic implications of the Employment Rights Act 2025' is co-authored by Christine Carter, Simon Deakin, and Kameli…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the election of Professor Paul Davies to the Downing Professorship of the Laws of England. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800 in pursuance of a bequest in the will of Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings,…

Bloomsbury Professional has published Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation: Law and Technology edited by Matthias Haentjens, Louise Gullifer and Ilya Kokorin. This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services. Directly applicable in all EU Me…

The Faculty has distributed Volume 16 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Raffael N Fasel: A Defence of the Species Membership Approach (18/2025) This article responds to challenges raised by John Olusegun Adenitire, Alasdair Cochrane, and Ma…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth 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, now in its fifth edition, addresses these questions by offering a clear and accessible analysis of the principles of agency law and the …

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the re-launch of its online course, Exploring Law: Studying Law at University. The course will re-start on 26 January 2026. Learners can register for the course immediately, and at any time before 9 March 2026. Over 11,000 learners have enrolled on the course since it was first launched in 2021. We look f…

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing either full-time or part-time doctoral research in 2026/27. The studentship is available to home and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. Preference will be given to prospective PhD students intending to un…

The Centre for Tax Law (CTL) is delighted to invite proposals to present papers at the Centre's 13th biennial Tax Law History Conference, to be held in Darwin College, Cambridge on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 July 2026. As usual, there is no particular academic theme for the conference, except that proposals should have a tax law and historical focus. V…