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On the 19th of December 2017, Dr Krzysztof Garstka and Dr David Erdos presented their paper "Hiding in Plain Sight: Right to Be Forgotten and Search Engines in the Context of International Data Protection Frameworks", during the UN’s Internet Governance Forum in Geneva. The two members of CIPIL and the HRBDT project conveyed the argument that the c…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Brexit and Financial Services: Law and Policy by Kern Alexander, Catherine Barnard, Eilís Ferran, Andrew Lang and Niamh Moloney. This timely book examines the legal and regulatory implications of Brexit for financial services. The UK's withdrawal from the EU is likely to have signi…

In addition to Professor Nicola Padfield's appointment as a QC Honoris Causa, the Faculty also warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of its graduates as Queen's Counsel. We congratulate Dr Charles Harpum on becoming a Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa. Nominated by the Chancery Bar Association, Dr Harpum was formerly a University Lecturer i…

On 21 December 2017 the Ministry of Justice announced the appointment of 119 new Queen's Counsel and 7 Honorary Queen's Counsel, which included Professor Nicola Padfield. Nicky is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. In addition to her academic work, she sat as a Recorder from 2002-2014. She is a Bencher of the Mi…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 15 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matteo Mantovani: When Does the Carrying Out of Transactions for Consideration Give Rise to an Economic Activity Relevant for VAT Purposes? An Insight into the Relationsh…

A year following their visit to New Zealand in late 2016, Miles and Scherpe are continuing to engage with the development of relationship property law in New Zealand. They have recently been consulted again by the team at the NZ Law Commission that is conducting its wide-ranging project surveying that area of law, whose 900 page long Issues Paper (…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 14 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Brian Sloan: Testamentary Freedom Reaffirmed in the Supreme Court (54/2017) The case now known as Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 was the first time that the Inher…

Professor Kenneth Armstrong (Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS)) has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled: 'The Brexit Effect: Convergence, Divergence and Variation in UK Regulatory Policy'.  The award is for 36 months, commencing from 1 September 2018. …

The Faculty of Law's Centre for European Legal Studies and Centre for Public Law have published a second Brexit briefing paper on 'Brexit and EU Nationals: Options for Implementation in UK Law'. The first paper in the series - 'Implementing Transition – How Would it Work' - has been downloaded more than 600 times since it was released in October. A…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 13 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Kenneth Armstrong: Implementing Transition: Legal and Political Limits (50/2017) The United Kingdom Government is looking to negotiate an interim framework for cooperatio…

The President of the Family Division announced at the start of December plans to pilot proposals first made by family law judge HHJ Edward Hess and Joanna Miles (in (2016) Family Law 1335 and then with HHJ Martin O’Dwyer of the Central Family Court in (2017) Family Law 625) for the creation of a network of specialist Financial Remedies Courts acros…

The Squire Law Library winter vacation opening hours will be as follows: 1-5 December Monday - Friday: 9am - 9pm Saturday: 9am - 6pm Sunday: Closed 6-20 December Monday - Friday: 9am - 7pm Saturday: 9am - 1pm Sunday: Closed 21 December Thursday 21 December: 9am - 5pm 22 December Friday 22 December: 9-12noon 23 December - 1 January The Squi…

The Faculty of Law is offering one Studentship, tenable for three years subject to satisfactory academic progress, for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research on an aspect of English private law in 2018/19. The value of the Studentship will be up to the value of the applicable fees for a Home UK/EU or Overseas student, plus the app…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce a further entry to the Eminent Scholars Archive: Sir John Laws. Sir John Grant Laws was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2016-17. He was interviewed on 15 June 2017 at the Goodhart Lodge on Trumpington Road. Sir John came to Cambridge …

On Wednesday 8 November, Professor Simon Deakin delivered the 2017 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The evolution of vicarious liability". The common law of vicarious liability has evolved rapidly in the past two decades as a result of a greater use by appellate courts across several jurisdictions of functiona…