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Macmillan International Higher Education has published Tort Law by Jodi Gardner and Sarah Green (Law Commission). Written by leading academics, this exciting new student-focused textbook offers readers a comprehensive understanding of Tort Law and enables them to become confident critical thinkers. Accessible and thought-provoking, Tort Law combin…

The Squire Law Library has subscribed to The Competition Law Journal, via Elgaronline. The Competition Law Journal's primary focus is on all aspects of UK competition law, from legal, economic and policy perspectives. It also addresses important developments in EU and international competition law.  University of Cambridge staff and students can no…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the announcement that Cambridge alumna Lady Justice Rose will join the Supreme Court as a Justice on 13 April. Dame Vivien Rose replaces Lady Black, who retired in January, and is the fourth woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception. Dame Vivien read Law as an undergraduate at Newnham College…

The Independent Human Rights Act Review has been tasked with reviewing the Human Rights Act 1998. It asked for evidence on two main themes: the relationship between domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights and the impact of the Human Rights Act on the relationship between Parliament, the Government and the courts. In our submission, w…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On edited by Catherine Barnard, Albertina Albors-Llorens and Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth). Why is the 1979 the Court of Justice judgment in Cassis de Dijon so famous and so significant in the evolution of EU trade law? As this landmark judgme…

The Squire Library has recently taken a subscription to ICC Digital Library Dispute Resolution. ICC Digital Library is a valuable resource for international arbitration research. Content on this databse includes: ICC Bulletin; ICC Arbitral Awards; Various ICC publications. The service is accessible by passwords from the Legal Databases page. The …

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Clifford Chance has become a Partner in the Faculty’s Access and Widening Participation scheme. The scheme aims to enhance the access of the brightest students to the Faculty’s outstanding programmes of legal study and, more broadly, to the legal profession. In particular, the scheme seeks to encourage brig…

Claire Fenton-Flynn and Jens M. Scherpe of Cambridge Family Law are undertaking a research project on the experiences of individuals involved in international surrogacy arrangements under a contract with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government. For this an online survey has been devised and currently is available on th…

The Cambridge Family Law (CFL) centre (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) and the Center for Constitutional Studies (CEC) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to promote and further the links between the two institutions. The first project will be a major comparative resea…

In addition to Professor Chrisopher Forsyth's appointment as a QC Honoris Causa, the Faculty also warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of Cambridge graduates as Queen's Counsel. The awards ceremony presided over by the Lord Chancellor would usually take place in March 2021, but given the current global pandemic the ceremony will take p…

Professor Jens Scherpe, Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty and Director of Cambridge Family Law, was elected as Member of the German Society of International Law by the society’s Council at their last meeting. The German Society of International Law is devoted to the promotion of Public International Law, Private International Law and othe…

The Faculty has published Volume 12 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eyal Benvenisti & Doreen Lustig: Revisiting the Memory of Solferino: Knowledge Production and the Laws of War (1/2021) During the course of the second half of the ninetee…

On 19 January Dr David Erdos, Deputy Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, spoke at an evidence session of the House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee on the future of freedom of expression online.  The session was part of the Committee’s current Inquiry on this subject and took place in the co…

The launch of the Survival guide to pensions on divorce on 20 January will be a welcome step towards the demystification of the tricky topic of pensions on divorce. The new guide is a key publication in the work of the Pension Advisory Group, led by Cambridge Family Law’s Hilary Woodward with Joanna Miles also a member of the core team. It is a cle…

The Faculty has published Volume 12 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Federica Paddeu: Military Assistance on Request and General Reasons Against Force: Consent as a Justification for the Use of Force (28/2020) Is consent a defence or part …