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The Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 27 August. We will re-open on Tuesday 28 August at 9am.

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Valia Babis: The Single Rulebook and the European Banking Authority (45/2018) This chapter examines the EU Single Rulebook and the the European Banking Authority. The cha…

Join us for tours of the Squire Law Library, taking place as part of Open Cambridge 2018. The Squire Law Library maintains one of the largest legal collections in the UK and is an affiliated library of Cambridge University Library. Tour the unique library space, designed by Foster and Partners, and discover the history of the library from its found…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for ICJ Judge James Richard Crawford, Emeritus Whewell Professor of International Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Judge Crawford was interviewed at the Peace Palace in The Hague on two consecutive days in May 2018. In addition to transcripts of …

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published Dr Rumiana Yotova's report on 'The Regulation of Genome Editing and Human Reproduction under International Law, EU Law and Comparative Law'. Dr Yotova was commissioned to write the 25,000 word report by the Nuffield Council's Working Party on Genome Editing and Human Reproduction to help inform their …

The EU announced today that Dr Veronika Fikfak has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant with a value of €1.5m from the European Commission. Her project, entitled 'A Nudge in the Rights Direction? Redesigning the Architecture of Human Rights Remedies' seeks to understand how different remedies affect the way states comply wi…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The UK Constitution after Miller: Brexit and Beyond edited by Mark Elliott, Jack Williams (Monckton Chambers) and Alison L Young. The judgment of the UK Supreme Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union is of fundamental legal, constitutional and polit…

The Faculty welcomes the news that Professor Eilís Ferran has been reappointed as University Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations, for three years from 1 October 2018. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations, Professor Ferran is responsible for the University’s human resources policy and str…

In addition to Professor Brian Cheffins, the Faculty is also delighted to welcome the election of Professor Alison Liebling of the Institute of Criminology as a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the Director of the Institute’s Prisons Research Centre. Alison's work focuses on the…

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Brian Cheffins on his election as a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Cheffins is an expert in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance, with particular emphasis on economic and comparative dimensions. He has also written widely on the historical development of publicly traded corporation…

The Law Faculty, the University of Hong Kong, and Des Voeux Chambers (in Hong Kong) have established an annual one-month Visiting Fellowship at HKU’s Faculty of Law designed to promote and further Cambridge’s existing academic links with HKU. Dr Elizabeth Howell was selected as the holder of the Des Voeux Chambers Cambridge-HKU Visiting Fellowship …

The Faculty of Law hosted the 2018 Cambridge Law Open Day on 4 July, welcoming hundreds of prospective Law students and their parents to the Faculty. This annual event, always a cornerstone of the Faculty's outreach work, was bigger than ever this year, with all spaces allocated well in advance. This free event included a programme of talks explori…

Professor Richard Fentiman has appeared at a hearing of the JURI Committee of the European Parliament. He was invited to address the Committee on 10 July, and answer questions on the Parliament's proposal for an instrument on 'The Expedited Settlement of Commercial Disputes in the EU'. He did so with Professor Burkhard Hess, Director of the Max Pla…

Professor Marc Weller receiving the award on behalf of his team from Professor Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.   The first major repository of legal practices for mediators and conflict parties to draw on when negotiating peace, developed by a team from Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), has won the top…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 10 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Paul Daly: La bonne foi et la common law : L’arrêt Bhasin c. Hrynew (Good Faith and the Common Law: The Supreme Court of Canada's Decision in Bhasin v Hrynew) (39/2018) I…