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The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew H. Kramer: On the Properties of Quietism and Robustness (7/2020) This paper will appear under the rubric of “Quietism” in the OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MORAL REALISM, y…

It is with great sadness that the Faculty records the death of Sir John Laws on 5 April 2020. Sir John was born in 1945 and attended Durham School before reading ‘Greats’ (Classics) at Exeter College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1970 and was one of the foremost judges of his generation, serving with great distinction in the High Court from …

Nineteen books in the Westlaw student textbook series have been made available by Thomson Reuters free of charge to University of Cambridge members. These additional titles are available via Westlaw for the next two months, to assist students and researchers who are working remotely. To access the titles, please log in to Westlaw using Raven authen…

The UK in a Changing Europe has published a report entitled 'Parliament and Brexit' which draws on the expertise of some of the leading scholars in the field, who have been asked to explore the role that Parliament has played to date on Brexit, as well as the challenges and opportunities that Parliament is likely to face during phase two of the UK-…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of International Commercial Tax by Professor Peter Harris. International Commercial Tax, 2nd edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. With more than sixty percent new material, the book considers the outcomes of the OECD's BEPS project and the substantial c…

The David Williams Building, including the Squire Law Library, is closed until further notice owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We apologise for the inconvenience this causes. The Squire Law Library team will be operating an enquiry service remotely, and will continue to make resources available where possible. The enquiry service is st…

Cambridge University Press has announced that all of their 700 textbooks have been available in HTML format on Cambridge Core until the end of May, to support our global community of teachers, researchers and learners during the coronavirus pandemic. These e-book titles will not automatically appear on iDiscover so please search on Cambridge Core t…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the third edition of Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy by Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne. The third edition of this acclaimed book continues to provide a discussion of key theoretical and policy issues in corporate finance law. It has been fully updated to reflect de…

Oxford University Press has published The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law edited by Kevin Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin, and Darryl Robinson. In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe th…

The Scottish Law Commission has published a new Discussion Paper on Cohabitation (DP 170), considering the financial remedies available between cohabitants on separation in Scots law as part of its Family Law reform agenda. The paper draws extensively on earlier empirical work by Joanna Miles, undertaken with Fran Wasoff and Enid Mordaunt in 2009-1…

The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Kathleen Liddell, John Liddicoat & Matthew Jordan: IP Policies for Large Bioresources: The Fiction, Fantasy and Future of Openness (2/2020) Much research in synthetic bio…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for David Eryl Corbet Yale has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. David Yale was born in Southsea, near Portsmouth in 1928, where his father was stationed as an army officer. David spent much of his childhood at Porthmadog, where he attended primary school,…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Professor Craig explained his preliminary investigation into the formal and substantive dimensions of EU membership.  In doing so, Professor Craig reviewed the experience of the processes of accession…

Dr David Erdos took part in Al Jazeera Inside Story this week which looked at the future regulation of social media.  This is becoming a key question internationally as witnessed by legislation in Australia and Germany, as well as policy initiatives in many other countries and the EU.  The topic rose to particular prominence this week as a result o…

From January 2020, Professor Jens Scherpe has become the editor of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (IJLPF), published by OUP. Having previously been assistant editor, he takes over from Mr John Eekelaar (Oxford) and Professor Robert Dingwall (Nottingham Trent University) who have been the editors of the journal since its inc…