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Although approximately half the world now has data protection laws, Europe continues to be a crucial trend-setter in this area and in the associated one of electronic privacy.  Indeed, the European Union is a dominant policy actor within this space and the Council of Europe also continues to play an important role including through sponsoring the D…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution by Dominic de Cogan. This monograph looks at how tax is intertwined with constitutional law and the state in the UK. It looks at a variety of topics including tax devolution, scrutiny and reform of tax legislation, the protection of taxp…

The Pathfinders for Justice present the second briefing in their 'Justice in a Pandemic' series: 'Justice for All and the Economic Crisis'. In this briefing, the Pathfinders explore the justice implications of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic and analyse common justice problems that have an economic dimension. The report ide…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by David Fox, Roderick Munday, Baris Soyer, Andrew Tettenborn, and Peter Turner. Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and w…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Public Law by Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas. The UK’s best-selling textbook in its field, Public Law is aimed at undergraduate students studying public law, constitutional law and administrative law. The fresh, direct and clear writing style enables students to understand the fundamentals…

Sweet & Maxwell has published the third edition of Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies by Neil Andrews, Andrew Tettenborn, and Graham Virgo. Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies provides guidance from three leading contract academics on the duties at play in a contract that is in dispute: i…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Graham Virgo. The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to deliver an engaging, …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms edited by Magda Raczynska and Paul S Davies, and with contributions from several faculty members. Freedom of contract is a great strength of English law: indeed it is a key reason why English law is often the law of choice.…

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Catherine Barnard on her election as a Fellow of the British Academy. Catherine joins seven other Cambridge academics who have been elected to fellowships this year. Professor Barnard has been elected to the fellowship in recognition of her work on European Union law, especially the single market; Brexit a…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) This Report is based on material the authors submitted to the House of Commons Women and Equality Committee inquiries on the unequal impact of Covid-19 and the Coronavirus Act 2020 on People with protected characteri…

The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Mark Elliott: The United Kingdom’s Constitution and Brexit: A ‘Constitutional Moment’? (22/2020) The United Kingdom’s constitution is, by any reasonable standard, an unus…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The Constitution of Social Democracy: Essays in Honour of Keith Ewing edited by Alan Bogg, Jacob Rowbottom, Alison L Young. This book is based upon the papers written by a group of leading international scholars on the 'constitution of social democracy', delivered at a conference t…

The Squire is essentially a reference library: however, a dedicated borrowing collection is available for LLM and MCL students. We hope that the information below will be of use to library users who have books out on loan from the Squire, which need to be returned. If you are currently in Cambridge: There are two book drop return boxes located on t…

Lesley Dingle interviewing the late R.W.M. ‘Mickey’ Dias in 2007   Many congratulations to Lesley Dingle of the Squire Law Library who has received well-deserved recognition for her extensive work relating to the Eminent Scholars Archive (ESA). The Wallace Breem Memorial Award is a biennial award that is traditionally presented at the time of the …

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Borkowski's Law of Succession by Brian Sloan. Presented and written in a friendly and engaging style, Dr Brian Sloan continues to update Borkowski's classic textbook which is perfectly pitched for today's undergraduate students. Considerable attention is given to the area's rich and evolvi…