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The Director of Centre for Public Law (CPL) Professor Alison Young has been elected to the Ganshof van der Meersch Visiting Chair at the Université Libre de Bruxelles for 2019-2020. This is funded by the Fondation Philippe Wiener – Maurice Anspach. Professor Young will give a public lecture on 13 February, then take part in a conference the day aft…

Oxford University Press has published The Foundations and Future of Public Law: Essays in Honour of Paul Craig edited (and contributed to) by Professor Elizabeth Fisher, Professor Jeff King and Professor Alison Young. Public law in the UK and EU has undergone seismic changes over the last forty years: development and membership of the EU, the Human…

On 30 January Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and the University of Cambridge announced that they will jointly conduct research on Legal systems and Artificial Intelligence. The Japanese Principal Investigator is Professor Mihoko Sumida of Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of Law, and the British Principal Investigator is Professor Simon De…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Maitland Chambers have agreed to join the new Access and Widening Participation Scheme as Supporters. The support of generous donations from the Access and Widening Participation Supporters will help the Faculty as it seeks to enhance the access of the brightest students, irrespective of background, to its …

The Faculty welcomes the appointment of Professor Jane Stapleton as a Queen’s Counsel honoris causa. The names of this year’s new honorary and practising QCs were announced by the Ministry of Justice on 16 January 2020. Professor Stapleton is a member of the Faculty of Law, and Master of Christ's College. Her work has largely focussed on private la…

The Faculty has published Volume 11 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: John Liddicoat, Kathleen Liddell & Mateo Aboy: The Effects of Myriad and Mayo on Molecular Test Development in the US and Europe: Interviews from the Frontline (33/2019) …

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) is delighted to announce that Centre Director Professor Catherine Barnard has been elected as the JC Smith Fellow for 2019-2020 by the University of Nottingham. The JC Smith Fellowship recognises and celebrates the contribution of distinguished scholars from around the world and this is an extremely impr…

The Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law will close early at 17:00 on Wednesday 18 December.  The Library will re-open at 09:00 on Thursday 19 December and then remains on vacation hours until 12:00 on Monday 23 December.     

Oxford University Press has published European Data Protection Regulation, Journalism, and Traditional Publishers: Balancing on a Tightrope? by Dr David Erdos. The tension between freedom of expression and European personal data protection regulation is unmistakable. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its interface with professional journalism a…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce an entry into the Eminent Scholars Archive for Mr Colin Conyngham Turpin, who died on 18th July 2019. This entry represents a new venture for ESA, being a posthumous tribute to a scholar whom we did not have the opportunity of interviewing. His demise predated a meeting that had …

The Faculty of Law acknowledges with great sorrow the deaths of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt. Saskia and Jack died near London Bridge on Friday 29 November while taking part in an event organised by the Institute of Criminology as part of its Learning Together programme. Writing about the events of 29 November, Professor Stephen J Toope, the Vice-…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the launch of its new Access and Widening Participation Partner Scheme. With the support of generous donations from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hogan Lovells, the Faculty will be seeking to enhance the access of the brightest students, irrespective of background, to its outstanding programmes of legal stu…

Louise Gullifer signing the Final Act of the Diplomatic Conference   The University of Cambridge Faculty of Law (Cambridge), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and the Aviation Working Group (AWG) are pleased to announce their agreement to continue the work of the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP…

Dr Oke Odudu will be presenting a paper at a round table event held by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on 3 December. The event on "Hub-and-spoke arrangements in competition" will be held in Paris. Hub-and-spoke arrangements are horizontal restrictions on the supplier or retailer level (the “spokes”), which are imp…

Opening Times Michaelmas Term ends on Friday 6 December, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the vacation. The library opening times will be: Saturday 7 December - Thursday 12 December inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:50 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:50 Sunday: Closed Friday 13 December - Monday 23 De…