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Dr Lorand Bartels was invited to give evidence to the House of Commons International Trade Committee, on Wednesday 14th October. The Committee is considering the UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA), which will administer the UK’s antidumping duties, countervailing (anti-subsidy) duties, and safeguard measures from the end of the UK-EU transitional …

Dr Jonathan Morgan was invited to give evidence to the House of Commons Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill Committee, on Tuesday 6th October. He gave evidence alongside Professor Richard Ekins (Oxford University) and John Larkin QC (Attorney-General of Northern Ireland 2010-20). The Committee is considering the Overseas Opera…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to report that Professor Sarah Worthington QC (Hon) FBA has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The honour was conferred for services to English Private Law. Dame Sarah is Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the Faculty of Law at the Univ…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to confirm access to the Oxford University Press (OUP) Law Trove collection for the 2020-2021 academic year. Law Trove provides electronic full text access to over one hundred law textbooks published by OUP. Current University members can access Law Trove here. If you are accessing the service from within the Unive…

It is with great sadness that we learned that Anne-Marie Hutchinson passed away on 2 October. Anne-Marie, a partner at the leading Family Law form Dawson Cornwell, was an inaugural member of CFL’s Advisory Board. Very few practitioners can claim to have had an influence on the development of family law as extensive as Anne-Marie’s. She was a true c…

It is just over a year since the publication of the Pension Advisory Group’s ground-breaking guidance on the treatment of pensions on divorce, to which Joanna Miles was a key contributor, and its impact to date has been far-reaching. The report has been featured in a wide range of general and specialist media, recently including the New Law Journal…

Two of Europe’s most dynamic and respected institutions for the study of law have forged a partnership to promote the exchange of ideas and to expand the national and disciplinary boundaries for legal research. The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge has concluded a new exchange agreement with Max Planck Law, the network of eleven law-ori…

Cambridge University Press has published Europe's Second Constitution: Crisis, Courts and Community by Dr Markus Gehring. The process of European constitutionalisation is met with extensive scepticism in current national legal and political spheres and in broader circles of public opinion across Europe. By shedding light on these concerns, this boo…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Nicky Padfield as the Faculty’s inaugural Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI). This new role has been created following the Faculty’s receipt, earlier this year, of an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, which recognised the Faculty’s commitment to addressing matters of gende…

The Chair of the Faculty Professor Mark Elliott was invited to give evidence before the House of Lords Constitution Committee on Wednesday 23 September. Professor Elliott gave evidence alongside Sir Stephen Laws QC (former First Parliamentary Counsel, Cabinet Office), and Sir Franklin Berman QC (former Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Of…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers. European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert in the field to pr…

It is with great sadness that the Faculty reports the death of Stuart Bridge. Stuart had a long association with law at Cambridge. He was first an undergraduate at Queens’, then a Fellow, and most recently a Life Fellow. He was a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law between 1990 and 2012, lecturing principally in Land Law and Family Law and se…

The Faculty is saddened to report the death of Len Sealy. Len’s association with the Faculty spanned well over half a century, beginning with his time as a PhD student at Gonville & Caius College in the late 1950s. After returning to New Zealand for a while, Len was elected a Fellow of Caius in 1959 and joined the Law Faculty, serving initially as …

Edward Elgar Publishing has published Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution edited by Professors Elise Bant, Kit Barker and Simone Degeling, and with contributions from several members of the Faculty of Law. This comprehensive yet accessible Research Handbook offers an expert guide to the key concepts, principles and debates in the…

Members of the Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) and Centre for Public Law (CPL) have prepared a response to the Ministry of Justice's Consultation on the Departure from Retained EU Case Law by UK Courts and Tribunals (July 2020).  The response was drafted following discussion at a webinar event on the 16th July 2020 organised by b…