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On Friday 19 October 2018, The Rt Hon. Beverley McLachlin delivered the 2018 CPL Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Where Are We Going? Reflections on the Rule of Law in a Dangerous World" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Former Chief Justice McLachlin's lecture drew on two common themes found in the work of Sir David Williams, the…

The Cambridge Law Faculty is delighted to once again receive recognition as the top academic law school in the UK, having been ranked third in the world - and first outside the USA - in the Times Higher World University Rankings by subject.  This position saw the Faculty rise above several other US competitors from last year. This also follows the …

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Clare Gordon as Development Associate for the Faculty of Law. Clare has been a practising barrister since 1995, specialising in crime. She remains as a door tenant at 25 Bedford Row. She is looking forward to maintaining and developing the Faculty’s relationships with its benefactors, alumn…

We're pleased to announce that a new browser extension is now available for all members of the University, thanks to an initiative of Cambridge University Library Digital Services. The extension is called Lean Library and is designed for highly mobile researchers. Lean removes the need to enter passwords for access to each individual article when o…

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) has been elected to the Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law. Professor Gullifer is currently Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Harris Manchester College.  She will be joining the Faculty in October 2019, and will be t…

This year, I was lucky enough to be selected as the winner of the 2018 International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) Studentship, which led to a wonderful three weeks in Victoria, Canada. I chose to undertake my placement in Canada because whilst studying family law, I did a lot of research into Canadian law, as family law there is considerably mo…

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 courses (including dedicated short loan collections for MCL and LLM students) plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extens…

Oxford University Press has published The Public Company Transformed by Professor Brian Cheffins. For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public company has changed considerably. The transformation has been a fascinating one, marked by scandals, poli…

The Squire Law Library opened its doors to the public for Open Cambridge on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th September. Over 80 people came for a tour of the library, led by David Wills, and to view a specially curated exhibition Lawmakers and Groundbreakers: Cambridge Women and the Law. Material on display included items from the 17th floor of the Un…

Cambridge University Press have just published Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image by Dr Elena Cooper, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at CREATe and CIPIL Associate. The book is the first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the ma…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth edition of Intellectual Property Law by Lionel Bently, Brad Sherman, Dev Gangjee, and Phillip Johnson. Intellectual Property Law is the definitive textbook on this subject - an all-embracing and detailed guide to intellectual property law. It clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents,…

John Hopkins with his wife Cherry at his 80th Birthday event. Photograph courtesy of Downing College   It is with great sadness that the Faculty reports the death of John Hopkins. John was proud of his Yorkshire roots, and was a student of Queens' College and was the Whewell Scholar in 1961. In that year, he was elected to a Fellowship of Downing …

Cambridge Family Law Centre member Brian Sloan hosted a small conference on Landmark Cases in Succession Law at Robinson College on 11 and 12 September 2018. The conference brought together leading international scholars to analyse 19 fundamental decided cases on Succession Law, dating from 1720 to 2017, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topic…

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 17th to Saturday 22nd September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though library users with swipe card access will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open from 9am until 5pm during the week (though closed on Saturday 22nd).…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: John W.F. Allison: Minimising Magna Carta and Modernising Exposition of the Rule of Law in the English Historical Constitution (48/2018) Dicey’s view of the English const…