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The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 16 September to Saturday 21 September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though Faculty members with swipe card access will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open 9am - 5pm during the week (though closed on Saturday 21 Sept…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for William Rodolph Cornish, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Bill Cornish was born in Adelaide in 1937, where he attended school and studied for his LLB at the University of Adelaide. He …

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is delighted to announce that Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Law has been elected to the Institute of International Law at its Hague Session of 2019. The Institute of International Law (Institut de Droit International) is an organization devoted to the study…

Necessary re-carpeting work will be taking place at the Squire Law Library from 27 August - 13 September. The areas being re-carpeted are at the end of each floor where the computer work stations are located (levels 1-3) and the reference area around the Enquiry Desk (level 1). The library will remain open while the work is being carried out. There…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. This authoritative text offers a unique balance of comprehensive, detailed coverage in a concise and readable style, providing a critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of th…

The Centre is delighted to recognise the award of two prizes in relation to the study of Family Law at the Faculty for the 2018/19 academic year. Amber Turner was the winner of the 2018/19 University of Cambridge John Hall Prize for the best paper in Family Law (Tripos). Reacting to the award of her prize, Amber said: "Choosing family law was a gre…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Joanna Miles, Rob George, and Sonia Harris-Short. Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive e…

Cambridge University Press has published Equity and Law: Fusion and Fission edited by John C. P. Goldberg, Henry E. Smith and Peter Turner. The fusion of law and equity in common law systems was a crucial moment in the development of the modern law. Common law and equity were historically the two principal sources of rules and remedies in the judge…

The Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 26 August. We will re-open on Tuesday 27 August at 9am.

It is with great sadness that the Faculty notes the death of Colin Turpin, Emeritus Reader in Constitutional Law, who died on 18 July aged 91. It is a notable coincidence that two other Fellows of Clare College are currently the same age. Colin Turpin (1928-2019) Colin Conyngham Turpin was born in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, in June 1928. In 19…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce an entry into the Eminent Scholars Archive for Professor Harold Hongju Koh. Professor Harold Hongju Koh was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic years 2018-19. He was interviewed in his rooms in Christ’s College on 28th May 2019. Professor Koh …

CELS warmly welcomes the announcement on 19 July that Ms Eleanor Sharpston QC had been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Academy. Eleanor has combined a career in practice at the Bar (specialising in European Union and ECHR Law) with an academic career first at UCL and then in Cambridge where she was a University Lecturer from 1992 t…

Claire Fenton-Glynn and Brian Sloan recently hosted a colloquium as part of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Implementation Project. Like its predecessors (held elsewhere), the colloquium was an invitation-only event bringing together international experts to analyse the implementation of a specific article of the United Nat…

Bloomsbury Professional has published A Practitioner’s Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts by Dr Elaine Freer. This is the only guide to the law, application and analysis relating to Ancillary Orders, available to criminal courts, helping practitioners to mitigate risk for their clients. A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Crimin…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Law Faculty Open Day on Wednesday 3 July or the University Open Days on Thursday 4 July and Friday 5 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their parents, guardians and teachers can take a self-guided tour and find out more about the library collections, which include over …