News

The Faculty is pleased to congratulate the team representing Cambridge University at the 25th Willem C. Vis Moot International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition on reaching the final round and getting the 2nd best place among 362 participating teams. The team comprised Ian Cooper (LLM, Queens College) and Barnaby Lowe (LLM, Gonville and…

Cambridge Family Law is delighted to co-organise a Conference on the 'Law and Practice of Surrogacy' together with the Academy of European Law (ERA). The conference will take place on 25 and 26 June 2018 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. Please download the conference programme for more informati…

The David Williams Building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter weekend from Friday 30 March to Monday 2 April inclusive. The Facility will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 3 April.

CIPIL is pleased to congratulate Ng Yan Chuan (Tripos, Lucy Cavendish College), Julian Nino (LLM, St. Edmund's College), and Jackson Sirica (LLM, Girton College) on reaching the Grand Final of the 16th Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot 2018. Hosted by the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC), the Oxford IP Moot invites…

On Tuesday 13th March the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) and Emmanuel College hosted the 13th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture. The Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture series, established in 2006 from the Herchel Smith bequest to Emmanuel College is one of the premier events in the Brit…

Due to electrical testing in the David Williams Building (Faculty of Law) on Saturday 24 March, it is necessary to close the entire facility.  On this date, the Faculty and Squire Law Library will be closed. The facilities will re-open at 9am on Monday 26 March.  Apologies for any inconvenience.

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is hosting a one-day workshop, sponsored by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), on the topic of 'Complicity and Exclusion from Asylum' which is to be held on Friday 29 June 2018 from 9am. The aim of the workshop is to engage in a thorough discussion of this topic through a number of papers selected on the …

What role do reparations play in international law today? What is the theory behind reparations in different areas/systems of international law? Do reparations play a different role in different areas of international law (human rights, investment law)? How are reparations chosen by judges and arbitrators and how are damages calculated? What is the…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Professor Cohen began by explaining - from a technological perspective - the progress of human reproduction and what the future may hold. He covered topics including in vitro fertilisation, uterine transplantation, m…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eyal Benvenisti: Community Interests in International Adjudication (16/2018) This chapter develops the following propositions: All courts seek to be consistent to ensure e…

Brian Sloan has been invited to join the Advisory Group for the project on wills being conducted by the Law Commission for England & Wales. The Group, composed of academics, practitioners, members of the judiciary and others involved in this area, will work with the Law Commission team to provide expert advice and opinion on the policy and proposed…

Dr Stelios Tofaris has been awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching. The Pilkington Prize awards were inaugurated in 1994 and endowed by Sir Alastair Pilkington to acknowledge excellence in teaching. The prizes are awarded to individuals who make a substantial contribution to the teaching programme of a Department, Faculty or…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of International Law and the Use of Force by Christine Gray. This book explores the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law. It examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the increasing …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has just published New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, edited by Amy Goymour, Stephen Watterson and Martin Dixon. The book is the product of a collaboration which began in November 2014 with a conference at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, supported by the Cambrid…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Simon Deakin: The Use of Quantitative Methods in Labour Law Research: An Asssessment and Reformulation (11/2018) This paper considers the potential and limits of quantitat…