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Oxford University Press has published the second edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers. European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction to EU law. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert in the …

On 9 July 2017, CIPIL’s Krzysztof Garstka participated in a pioneering workshop at the University of Haifa, focused on exploring the possibilities of implementing the doctrine of fair use within the field of online copyright enforcement, through the adequate development and use of algorithms. The international, multidisciplinary group of participan…

Oxford University Press has published The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime by Jonathan Bonnitcha, Lauge Poulsen and Michael Waibel. Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is growing and some develo…

David Erdos, a member and incoming Deputy Director of CIPIL, has been engaged in a variety of activities during 2016-17 which have been aimed at ensuring that all types of academic research are effectively safeguarded when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018.  Much of this work has focused on the governanc…

The Faculty welcomes with great pleasure the appointment of four Cambridge graduates to the Court of Appeal. The Queen has approved the appointment to the Court of Sir Rabinder Singh, Dame Sarah Asplin, Sir Guy Newey, and Sir George Leggatt. Sir Rabinder Singh (Trinity 1982) currently sits in the Queens’ Bench Division of the High Court. Dame Sarah…

Photograph courtesy of UK Supreme Court   The Faculty of Law warmly congratulates Lady Hale on her appointment as President of the Supreme Court and Sir David Lloyd Jones on his appointment as one of the Court's three new Justices. Lady Hale read Law at Girton College, of which she is an Honorary Fellow. She was appointed to the High Court followi…

The team receive the 'Coolest Tech' award from Lord Thomas   A team of Cambridge University students participated in the "Online Courts Hackathon" which was held over a 24 hour period on 1-2 July. Over 200 participants from law firms, universities and technology companies formed teams, including lawyers/law students, coders and designers from the …

Intermediary and Citizen Publication in European Data Protection:  An Update on CIPIL’s 2016-17 Activities CIPIL’s new Deputy Director, David Erdos, gives an update on CIPIL’s information law work The relationship between ʻintermediaryʼ publishers, citizen publishers and the data protection framework has become an even more topical issue in the wak…

On July 11/12 2017, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan took part in a 'Patent Declaration Workshop' at the Humboldt University Berlin.  Henning gave a talk on 'Patent Declaration on Regulatory Sovereignty under TRIPS'. Henning's slides can be downloaded (PDF) More information on the Declaration (PDF)

The School of the Humanities and Social Sciences has awarded Dr Sarah Nouwen and Dr Adam Branch (POLIS) crucial seed funding for Rethinking Transitional Justice from African Perspectives, a multidisciplinary, international, collaborative research and advocacy programme that seeks to establish a new foundation for transitional justice in Africa. Thi…

Hart Publishing has published The Work of the British Law Commissions: Law Reform... Now? by Dr Shona Wilson Stark. The Law Commission (of England and Wales) and the Scottish Law Commission were both established in 1965 to promote the reform of the laws of their respective jurisdictions. Since then, they have each produced hundreds of reports acros…

On 30 June 2017, CIPIL’s Dr Christina Angelopoulos published a reaction to the CJEU’s Ziggo decision on the Kluwer Copyright Blog. The decision considers whether The Pirate Bay, an indexer of BitTorrent files, can be considered to be communicating to the public the works shared online by its end-users. 

On June 22, Dr Jennifer Davis gave the Keynote Lecture at the conference: "Moralising Commerce in a Globalising World. Multidisciplinary Approaches to a History of Economic Conscience, 1600-1900" at the German Historical Institute London. The conference set out to ask: "How and when does (and did) awareness of one’s material stake in an aspect of g…

Dr David Erdos, who from October 2017 will be a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty, has been appointed Deputy Director of CIPIL. David is a specialist in the law of data protection and leads the information law work of the Centre. David is CIPIL's link with many scholars throughout the University with an interest in information ethics, including the st…

On 19 May 2017, CIPIL’s Christina Angelopoulos took part in a panel on ‘Copyright lawmaking in the EU’ at the TILTing Perspectives conference organised by Tilburg University. The panel’s chair was Ana Ramalho of the Maastricht University. The session began with some background information on the panel’s topic provided by Ana. This focussed inter al…