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The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Krzysztof Kornel Garstka & David Erdos: Hiding in Plain Sight? The 'Right to Be Forgotten' and Search Engines in the Context of International Data Protection Frameworks (…

Current and former law students of the University of Cambridge organised a week-long competition to directly pit lawyers against artificial intelligence. CaseCrunch, an AI startup founded by Rebecca Agliolo, Ludwig Bull and Jozef Maruscak, won the competition. With an accuracy of 86.6%, compared to the lawyers’ accuracy of 62.3%, CaseCrunch emerged…

The Cambridge International Law Journal Seventh Annual Conference: 'Non-State Actors and International Law' Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 3rd & 4th April 2018 The Editors of the Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) and the Conference Convenors welcome submissions for the Cambridge International Law Conference 2018, which will be he…

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in any area of family law in 2018/19. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of a studentship will be £10,000 per annum and…

In 2016/17 several prizes were awarded in relation to the study of Family Law at the Faculty. Sylvie Armstrong was the winner of the 2016/2017 University of Cambridge’s John Hall Prize for the best paper in Family Law (Tripos). She was also awarded a studentship by the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL); you can read her report on her t…

On 31 October Dr Kirsty Hughes was called before the EU Justice Sub-Committee to give evidence to the Brexit: citizens' rights inquiry. The EU Justice Sub-Committee agreed to re-visit the important question of citizens' rights after Brexit following on from its inquiry Brexit: acquired rights in 2016. The Sub-Committee held a one off evidence sessi…

​Scherpe's work on legal gender and non-binaries identities was included in the Cambridge University publication 'Research Horizons' as one of the University’s projects of general interest. The article was featured on the University's Research pages, and can be accessed in the complete publication (on pages 10-11). The short article draws on Scherp…

The University of Cambridge secured top ranking for the fifth consecutive year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018 league tables, and the Faculty of Law was ranked No. 1 for Law. The awards rank institutions with reference to a wide variety of criteria, including UCAS tariff points, completion rates, facilities spend, academic …

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that access is now available to the Private International Law (PRIL) ebook module on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform. The module brings together key reference works in private international law and is an valuable resource for practitioners and scholars researching in the field. It contains 18…

Hart Publishing has published Key Ideas in Tort Law by Professor Peter Cane. This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the politica…

Hart Publishing has published Key Ideas in Contract Law by Nicolas McBride. This book introduces the reader to a number of ideas and issues that underlie the English law of contract-an area of law that is often regarded as forbiddingly dry and technical but which is here made easy to understand and full of interest. Taking as its starting point th…

Front L-R: Eric Nestler, Douglas Diamond, Donna Haraway, Lawrence Sherman Back: L-R: Peter Salovey, Lynn Cooley, Andrew Richter. Photo by Tony Fiorini.   Professor Lawrence Sherman was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal by Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in a ceremony on 24 October.  The Wilbur Cross Medal is Yale Graduate School of Arts and…

On 19 and 20 October the Faculty played host to a conference of the international Law CIO Group, which was established at the University of Georgetown in 2001 and meets annually. The event marked the tenth anniversary of the previous time the conference visited the Faculty. The group consists of Chief Information Officers (and equivalents) from the…

In June, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI) commissioned a Study on two of the proposed topics in the Commission’s proposal for a directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. CIPIL, which is a partner with Technopolis, an Austrian think-tank, won the tender. Over the summer, Lionel Bently and Martin Kretschmer (CR…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Markus Gehring & Freedom-Kai Phillips: Intersections of the Paris Agreement and Carbon Offsetting: Legal and Functional Considerations (42/2017) As the global community d…