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Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The Conference addressed the very timely theme of 'International Law and Global Risks: Current Challenges in Theory and Practice'. The Conference programme consisted of 13 webinars, each examining the conceptual or p…

Professor Rochelle C Dreyfuss was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic years 2019-20. She was interviewed by video from the Goodhart Lodge on 28 April 2020. Professor Dreyfuss has been the Pauline Newman Professor of Law and co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, both at the New York Un…

The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Martin Dixon: A Smorgasbord (12/2020) Reviews significant land law developments, including Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust v Millgate Developments Ltd (CA) on wh…

The Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge looks forward to welcoming as many students as possible to Cambridge for the start of the next academic year, guided always by public health advice from the University and the UK Government. The unique nature of legal education at the University of Cambridge springs from the close interaction of stu…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that it has received an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. The Athena SWAN Gender Charter scheme - which operates under the auspices of Advance HE, formerly the Equality Challenge Unit - was launched in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in STEM (science, technology, engin…

The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Martin Dixon: Williams v Hensman (1861) and the Law of Severance: Janus Personified (10/2020) An examination of the law of severance of joint-tenancies through the medium…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In its judgment pronounced on 5 May, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court granted several constitutional complaints directed against the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) of the European Centra…

The world faces a crisis on a scale not seen for generations, and in just a few weeks, the lives of millions of people have changed dramatically. In addition to the physical health risks for those infected, the outbreak of a pandemic has led to widespread feelings of stress, anxiety and uncertainty across populations. Separation from loved ones, lo…

Oxford University Press has published the ninth edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract provides students with a clear, straightforward, and comprehensive account of the core principles of contract law to enable a sound understanding of the subject. The new edition has been rigorously updated …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The World of Maritime and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Francis Rose edited by Charles Mitchell (UCL) and Stephen Watterson. This collection of 20 essays contains recent work by legal scholars, practitioners and judges, all internationally renowned for their expertise in the …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Common Law Constitutional Rights edited by Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes. There is a developing body of legal reasoning in the United Kingdom Supreme Court in which members of the senior judiciary have asserted the primary role of common law constitutional rights and critiqued leg…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Spaces of Care edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody, Brian Sloan. The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and pr…

The University of Western Cape (Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence) has appointed Jens Scherpe as Extraordinary Professor for an initial period of 1 April 2020 - 30 March 2023. Established in 1960 as 'University for Coloured People' and located in the Bellville suburb of Cape Town/South Africa, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has a…

Even though European data protection attempts to craft a harmonized approach to some of the pressing and unwieldy issues in contemporary digital reality, there is much more than is commonly recognised to learn from the different experiences of European countries not only currently but across the whole sweep of this framework’s history.  The transfo…

The Squire Law Library Team have been working remotely to provide an enquiry service since the temporary closure of the library on Wednesday 18 March. This enquiry service will be taking a break over the Easter weekend, from Friday 10 April - Monday 13 April inclusive. During this time you can still send enquiries via e-mail or leave a message via …