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Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Parliament’s Secret War by Veronika Fikfak and Hayley Hooper. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the Coalition Government's failure to win parliamentary approval for armed intervention in Syria in 2013, mark a period of increased scrutiny of the process by which the UK engages in ar…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The announcement of the decision caused much public unrest, and led to scrutiny of the Parole Board’s decision and suggestions that it should be subject to judicial review. In this video, Professor Christopher Forsyt…

The Cambridge International Law Journal (CJIL) is pleased to open the registration for the 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference. The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on the 3rd and 4th of April 2018. This year's theme is 'Non-State Actors and International Law' and will feature a broad range of pa…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sarah Worthington: Revolutions in Personal Property: Redrawing the Common Law's Conceptual Map (8/2018) It is suggested here that the core of English property law is not c…

Oxford University Press has published Sovereign Defaults by Domestic Courts by Dr Hayk Kupelyants. The book examines sovereign debt litigation before the English and New York courts. The book offers an exhaustive account of litigation tactics available to bondholders and sovereign debtors alike.The monograph examines issues of jurisdiction and choi…

Intersentia has published The Future of Registered Partnerships: Family Recognition Beyond Marriage? edited by Jens M Scherpe and Andy Hayward. A book series dedicated to the harmonisation and unification of family and succession law in Europe. The series includes comparative legal studies and materials as well as studies on the effects of internat…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) has signed a ground-breaking collaboration agreement with the University of Copenhagen to address challenges in biomedical innovation law. The collaboration is generously supported by a £4m grant awarded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation to Professor Timo Minssen, Director of the University of Copen…

Cambridge University's Dr Amy Ludlow, having been nominated by the Institute of Criminology, is one of six individuals shortlisted for the title 'OUP Law Teacher of the Year 2018', sponsored by Oxford University Press. The award will be made at this year’s Celebrating Excellence in Law Teaching conference, which will be held at the end of June and …

Jens M. Scherpe and Peter Dunne (University of Bristol) have submitted a joint consultation response to the Hong Kong Inter-departmental Working Group on Gender Recognition (IWGGR). The submission was based on their joint chapter (The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons – Comparative Analysis and Recommendations) published in Jens M…

During December and January, Dr Lorand Bartels was questioned by a number of Parliamentary Committees to offer expert assistance on international trade issues. On 13 December the International Trade Committee examined the implications of the Northern Irish border on future trade policy, and considered how suggested solutions for the border interact…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Mark Elliott: Through the Looking-Glass? Ouster Clauses, Statutory Interpretation and the British Constitution (4/2018) This purpose of this paper is to examine the way in…

Trial access is now enabled to the full text version of EBSCO Criminal Justice Abstracts on or off campus.  The trial runs until Friday 16th February 2018.  Criminal Justice Abstracts with full text contains more than 560,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than 320 f…

Cambridge University Press has published Justification and Excuse in International Law: Concept and Theory of General Defences by Dr Federica Paddeu as part of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law series. The defences available to an agent accused of wrongdoing can be considered as justifications (which render acts lawful) or …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Revolution and Evolution in Private Law edited by Sarah Worthington, Andrew Robertson and Graham Virgo. The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginal…

The Faculty has published Volume 9 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Johnathon E Liddicoat, Jeffrey M Skopek, Kathleen Liddell: Precision Medicine: Legal and Ethical Challenges (64/2017) On 7 and 8 April 2016, the Centre for Medical Ethics …