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The Faculty's Professor Alison Young was invited to give evidence before the Exiting the European Union Committee on Wednesday 6 March. Professor Young gave evidence alongside Swee Leng Harris (Head of Policy and Public Affairs, The Legal Education Foundation, and Senior Policy Adviser, The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law), and Dr Brigid Fowler …

The Squire would like to introduce, Sarah Hammond, our new Library Assistant with responsibility for cataloguing who started on Monday 4th March. Sarah joins us from the UL where she worked with the team processing material for the Library Storage Facility in Ely. Sarah has a bachelor’s in sociology and a master’s degree in social research. We very…

The Faculty is delighted to recognise the achievement of the Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) advocacy team, who represented the Faculty in the regional final of the BPP Advocate of the Year competition which took place on 24 November 2018 and won first place. The Cambridge team members who competed in the competition were: Lucy Pearce (St …

The Cambridge Jessup team has reached the final of the UK National Rounds of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, after wins in the quarter-finals (University of Bristol) and semi-finals (University of Nottingham) at Gray’s Inn from 15 to 17 February 2019. King’s College London, the winning team, and Cambridge will now go f…

The Faculty has published Volume 10 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Kenneth Armstrong: An 'Implementation Protocol' to Unblock the Brexit Process: A Proposal for a Legal Bridge between a Revised Political Declaration and the Withdrawal Ag…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In her lecture, Commissioner Vestager reflected on the explosion of personal data being produced by each citizen across social media, telecommunications, and the internet of things. She considered the regulation of t…

The 6th Cambridge Arbitration Day will be held at the Faculty on 15 and 16 March 2019, on the topic "The Social Aspects of Arbitration". Focusing on the ever-evolving interrelationship between international arbitration, sociology, and social media, the panels will address controversial issues such as arbitral appointments and challenges, evidence, …

The Faculty's Professor Alison Young was invited to give evidence before the Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) on Monday 29 January. Professor Young gave evidence alongside the Rt Hon The Lord Judge (former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales), Sir Stephen Laws QC (Former First Parliamentary Counse…

The Faculty's Dr Lorand Bartels was invited to give evidence before the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday 23 January. Dr Bartels gave evidence alongside Sam Fowles (Barrister at Cornerstone Barristers) and James Harrison (Associate Professor at University of Warwick), on the topic of human rights protections in inter…

The Faculty has published Volume 10 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Michael Dafel: The Constitutional Rebuilding of the South African Private Law: A Choice Between Judicial and Legislative Law-Making (1/2019) A tension arises whenever the…

Jens Scherpe was appointed as Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School for 2019. Together with Melbourne Professor Belinda Fehlberg, (who also is a corresponding member of Cambridge Family Law) he will teach an intensive course on 'Comparative Family Law' in July 2019 at Melbourne Law School.

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in any area of family law in 2019/20. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of a studentship will be £10,000 per annum and…

The 8th Annual Conference of the Cambridge International Law Journal will be held on 20 and 21 March 2019, with the title 'New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy in International Law'. In addition to plenary sessions, optional roundtables are available on the topics 'Global Governance in the Face of New Technologies', 'Democracy Under Attac…

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) expresses its condolences at the announcement of the death of Gil Carlos Rodriguez Iglesias who served as a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He delivered the inaugural CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture on 10 February 1997 and the text of the lecture – 'Reflections on the General Principle…

The Faculty and the Institute of Criminology were delighted to welcome the announcement in the New Year's Honours list published at the end of December which included several alumni. The New Year Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.  The following alumni were awarded honours: Pr…