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The Faculty is delighted to have been awarded the Bronze level NUS Green Impact Award 2017-18. The award was received by Felicity Eves-Rey and Antonia Gray on behalf of the Law Faculty's Green Impact Team (Felicity Eves-Rey, Shaun Fry, Antonia Gray, Sally Lanham and Helen Waring) at an awards ceremony held on the 21 June at the Centre for Mathemati…

On 27 June Dr Lorand Bartels joined other experts before the European Scrutiny Committee to consider issues arising in relation to the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the context of the EU exit negotiations. The experts were: Dr Lorand Bartels, Reader in International Law, Cambridge University; Professor David C…

Oxford University Press recently published the eighth edition of The Law of Contract by Dr Janet O'Sullivan. The Core Text Series takes the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing an invaluable and reliable guide for students of law at all levels. Written by leading academics and renowned for their clarity, these concise texts explai…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Law Faculty Open Day on Wednesday 4 July or the University Open Days on Thursday 5 July and Friday 6 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 …

The Faculty welcomes with great pleasure the news that five of the seven new judges appointed to the Court of Appeal are Cambridge University graduates. The Queen has approved the appointment to the Court of Sir Jonathan Baker (St John’s), Sir Charles Haddon Cave (Pembroke), Sir Stephen Males (St John’s), Dame Vivien Rose (Newnham), and Dame Ingrid…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 9 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Zoe Adams, Louise Bishop, Simon Deakin, Colin Fenwick, Sara Martinsson Garzelli & Giudy Rusconi: The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Di…

The Faculty was delighted to hear that each of the newly appointed Justices of the United Kingdom Supreme Court is a Cambridge Law graduate. We warmly congratulate Sir David Kitchin, Dame Mary Arden and Sir Philip Sales on their appointments. All three currently sit in the Court of Appeal. Dame Mary Arden read law at Girton College. When appointed …

​CIPIL is pleased to congratulate Chrysi Raftogianni (LLM, Clare Hall) and Dimitra Louzidi (LLM, Wolfson College) on their successful applications submitted through the Pan-European Seal Programme. The Pan-European Seal Professional Traineeship Programme gives high-achieving young university graduates the opportunity to gain over one year paid inte…

The Faculty is delighted that Sir Christopher Greenwood, alumnus, former lecturer, and Honorary Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, has received an Ordinary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) for his services to international justice in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2018. The annual list recognises t…

Jens Scherpe has been awarded an Honorary Professorship by the University of Aalborg (Denmark) for five years commencing 1 April 2018. This title (which in Danish reads 'adjungeret professor') can be conferred by institutions under the Danish University Act for a maximum of five years 'on persons of a high professional standing, whom the institutio…

Joanna Miles and Jens Scherpe gave presentations at a roundtable meeting in Parliament in early June chaired by Lord Marks QC, coordinated by Miles together with Professor Gillian Douglas (KCL) and Liz Trinder (Exeter). The principal aim of the event was to disseminate research regarding the reality of divorcing parties’ financial outcomes, to prov…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: P G Turner: Lex Sequitur Equitatem: Fusion and the Penalty Doctrine (31/2018) Since an early article of Professor Brian Simpson’s, the opinion of historians and lawyers ha…

Last week, CIPIL associate and former doctoral student, Dr Sean Bottomley was awarded the Selden Society’s David Yale prize his for book 'The British Patent System during the Industrial Revolution 1700–1852'. The prize is awarded for an outstanding contribution to the history of the laws of England and Wales, from scholars who have been engaged in …

Professor Richard Fentiman has received an honorary degree from the University of Athens. He was awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa at a ceremony on 4 May. He was presented at the ceremony in the University’s Great Hall by Professor Haris Pamboukis, representing the School of Law, who delivered the laudatio describing his contribution to sch…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Stephen Smith is internationally renowned for his work in private law. He is the James McGill Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, and teaches and researches common law and civil law obligations and legal th…