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The Faculty of Law's Centre for European Legal Studies and Centre for Public Law have today published a Brexit briefing paper on 'Implementing Transition'. Following the Prime Minister's speech in Florence on 22 September 2017, there is growing, albeit not universal, political consensus around the notion of a transitional - or 'implementation' - pe…

Thanks to the generosity of the leading set of commercial barristers' chambers One Essex Court, the Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a new scholarship for the Master of Law (LLM) course. The scholarship will be awarded each year to candidates intending to practise at the commercial bar who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement a…

With Brexit negotiations now underway, the Child & Family Law Quarterly has published its special issue containing several of the academic papers from the joint CFLQ/Cambridge Family Law conference in Cambridge back in March this year.  The article titles and authors are available at this table of contents. Those wishing to subscribe to the full jo…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that the Faculty Board has elected Professor Mark Elliott as the next Chair of the Faculty. Professor Elliott will begin his three-year term on 1 April 2018, when the tenure of the current holder of the post, Professor Richard Fentiman, comes to an end. Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law at the Facul…

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) is delighted to announce that Nature Biotechnology has accepted for publication a second article from an LML Research Group concerning the impacts of the US Supreme Court's decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics on patent practice. The article, co-authored by Dr Mateo A…

Cambridge Family Law hosted an invitation-only event on financial remedies in England & Wales and Australia in Trinity College in September. The event, conceived in part as a belated sequel to a similar event that had been held in Oxford in 2004, was convened by Jo Miles and Belinda Fehlberg, visitor at the Centre for the Long Vacation 2017.  It wa…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 10 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Rumiana Yotova: Challenges in the Identification of the ‘General Principles of Law Recognized by Civilized Nations’: The Approach of the International Court (38/2017) Thi…

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 11th to Saturday 16th September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though readers with swipe card access and those researchers with special permission to use the library will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open from 9am …

Cambridge University Press has published Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies edited by Professor Graham Virgo and Professor Sarah Worthington. Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies is the product of a workshop run by the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC) and a number of members of the Faculty have made contributions. The law of co…

Palgrave has published Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory by Marc Moore and Martin Petrin (UCL). This book is the first ever academic text on UK corporate governance written from a dedicated legal perspective. It offers a clear, concise and accessible analysis of the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance in the UK. In…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 9 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Jacob Eisler: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back in Product Liability: The Search for Clarity in the Identification of Defects (32/2017) Product liability law has struggl…

Dr Christina Angelopoulos’s book European Intermediary Liability in Copyright: A Tort-Based Analysis (Wolters Kluwer Alphen aan den Rijn 2017) has been shortlisted for the Peter Birks Book Prize 2017. The prize is offered by the Society of Legal Scholars for outstanding published books by scholars in their early careers.  The book explores the Euro…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Jacob Eisler: Partisan Gerrymandering and the Illusion of Unfairness (29/2017) Partisan gerrymandering is frequently condemned for distorting democracy and causing unfair …

We are pleased to announce our recent electronic subscription to Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch [BGB]. In the past, the Squire has held the print version.  This major commentary provides scholarly interpretation and analysis of the German Civil Code. The service is available to users on the University network by IP address. Access …

Jens Scherpe and Jo Miles have been representing Cambridge Family Law in Amsterdam this week at the triennial conference of the International Society of Family Law. The conference provides a unique opportunity for family law scholars and judges from all over the world to convene and share both comparative law knowledge about each other's jurisdicti…