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The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Federica Paddeu & Michael Waibel: The Final Act: Exploring the End of Pandemics (27/2020) This contribution considers how adjudicators could determine the end of the SARS…

The Faculty of Law has maintained successful pathways agreements with a number of leading Australian universities since 2014, and is very pleased to announce the conclusion of another such agreement with Stellenbosch University, commencing in 2021. This new '3.5+1' law pathways agreement allows students in the penultimate year of their LLB at Stell…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published Debt and Austerity: Implications of the Financial Crisis edited by Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray and Katharina Moser. This book explores the complex interactions between debt and austerity, analysing the social, economic, and legal implications of governments’ responses to the 2008 financial crisis. Demonstrating how…

The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our fifth Tax Policy Conference on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 July 2021. The topic of the conference is “Tax law in times of disruption and recovery”.  Possible areas of interest include, but are not restricted to the following: The rol…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that online access to Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine (7th edition, Hart Publishing) is now available to current University members via iDiscover. This leading textbook, written by Professors Simester, Spencer, Stark, Sullivan and Virgo, provides an outstanding account of moder…

Thanks to the continuing generosity of leading commercial barristers' chambers 3 Verulam Buildings, the Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a new scholarship for the Master of Law (LLM) course from 2021, which will cover the full course fees at the domestic rate. The 3 Verulam Buildings Scholarship will be awarded each year (for a period of thr…

In line with Government expectations, libraries in universities will continue to remain open where possible during the lockdown period, from 5 November - 2 December. This includes the Squire Law Library which, unless circumstances alter, will continue to provide the same opening hours as it has done since the start of Michaelmas Term and will offer…

Cambridge University Press has published Global Mandatory Fair Use: The Nature and Scope of the Right to Quote Copyright Works by Professor Lionel Bently and Professor Tanya Aplin. In a path-breaking work, Tanya Aplin and Lionel Bently make the case that the quotation exception in Article 10 of the Berne Convention constitutes a global, mandatory, …

Oxford University Press has published Exceptions in International Law edited by Dr Lorand Bartels and Dr Federica Paddeu. Many international obligations are subject to exceptions. These can be expressed in several ways: an obligation may be vitiated by the presence of one of its constitutive negative requirements, an obligation may be set aside by …

A new study has been published on the EU ban on general obligations and its implications for the upcoming Digital Services Act by CIPIL’s Dr Christina Angelopoulos and Professor Dr Martin Senftleben (Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. In the context of the current debate on the potential further harmonisation of the resp…

Thanks to the generosity and continuing support of the international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, the Faculty of Law is delighted to launch its new Herbert Smith Freehills Global Visitor Programme (which replaces the previous Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor Scheme). For the new Programme, the Faculty of Law has entered into reciprocal staff vi…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to confirm that online access to the Oxford Legal Research Library International Commercial Law collection is now available. This provides full-text, fully searchable, access to over 20 leading titles relating to commercial law. Current members of the University can log in to the Oxford Legal Research Library here …

Due to a failure in the air handling system for the David Williams Building, we regret that the David Williams Building, including the Squire Law Library, will be closed throughout today: Monday 19 October. Please do not visit the building as we are unable to admit library users. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. The cause of the system fa…

Earlier this week the Faculty's Professor Alison Young gave evidence before the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the subject of Judicial Review and enforcing human rights. Professor Young gave evidence alongside Alison Pickup (Legal Director, Public Law Project), Polly Glynn (Partner, Deighton Pierce Glynn), and The Rt Hon Lord Dyson. Professor Y…

The Cape Town Convention Academic Project is a joint undertaking between the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, under the auspices of the 3CL and UNIDROIT. Its ninth annual conference, which was due to take place in Cambridge for the first time, instead took place at the UNIDROIT Headquarters in Rome on 10 - 11 September 2020 due to the COVID-…