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Friday 22 November, 13:00-15:00 Venue: SG1, The Alison Richard Building This session, led by library staff, will provide an opportunity to learn about the Official Publication (OP) collections available to students and researchers in Cambridge. The first part (13:00-14:00) will be an introductory talk on how to find government and official publicat…

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Law is delighted by the announcement that it has been placed second in the world for the study of Law in the prestigious Times Higher Education World Rankings for 2020. This moves the Faculty, which has overtaken several US competitors in recent years, ahead of Yale University. It also retains its place place …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Secured Transactions Law Reform in Africa by Marek Dubovec and Louise Gullifer. Over the last few decades, many countries have reformed their secured transactions law. One of the main reasons has been the clear link between reform and the availability of credit, and the drive to im…

The Faculty has published Volume 10 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Brian Sloan: The ‘Social Contract’, Care and Inheritance in England and Hong Kong (28/2019) In common with much of the world, the populations of both England and Hong Kon…

Dr Alicia Hinarejos has been appointed Joint Editor of the European Law Review. Published by Sweet & Maxwell, the ELR is one of the leading journals in the field of EU law. The European Law Review is the principal English-language journal covering the law relating to European integration and the Council of Europe. While preserving the highest acade…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Postgraduate Student Open Day on Friday 1 November we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour and find out more about the library collections, which include over 180,000 books, 40 legal databases and extensive electronic resources. Members…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Landmark Cases in Succession Law edited by Dr Brian Sloan. The Landmark Cases series highlights the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the leading cases in a discipline, and seeks to provide contexts in which to better understand how and why certain cases ca…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Lady Hale's lecture focused on three public law principles which illustrated different relationships between principle and pragmatism in English law. The first principle, deference, was an example where pragmatism wa…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Prathiba M Singh is an Indian alumna of the Faculty of Law. After completing her LLM in 1992 she returned to India to work in Intellectual Property. She became the managing partner of Singh & Singh Law Firm in New De…

Welcome to all new students. We hope the Squire Law Library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find reference books, journals and reports here to support your taught course (including a dedicated borrowing collection for MCL and LLM students) plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extens…

The Faculty has published Volume 10 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Martin Dixon: Playing A Round With Easements (22/2019) Analyses the Supreme Court decision in Regency Villas v Diamond Resorts on the modern definition of easements. In p…

On 27 September the Faculty officially launched a new initiative, Cambridge Women in Law (CWIL), to mark the contribution of women in Law and, in particular, to celebrate the contribution of Cambridge alumnae both to legal practice and the wider world. The launch event, which coincided with the Cambridge Alumni Festival, marked the centenary of the…

At the 2019 Annual Conference and General Assembly of the European Law Institute (ELI), Jens Scherpe was elected to serve on the Council of the European Law Institute. In the current challenging international environment, he hopes to ensure that the views of England & Wales are still heard in the major European projects undertaken by ELI. Scherpe w…

The Faculty now has a Director of International Strategy and Partnerships, with Professor Jens Scherpe taking up this important new role. Professor Scherpe, who has just been elected to the Council of the European Law Institute, is a highly distinguished comparative lawyer and family lawyer with extensive international links. The new role of Direct…

The Faculty has published Volume 10 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Michael Waibel: Financial Crises and International Law (18/2019) Ten years after the global financial crisis (“GFC”) that started in 2007, the time has come to take stock…