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It is with great sadness that the Faculty records the death of Lord Toulson, former Justice of the Supreme Court, on 27 June. Lord Toulson studied Law at Jesus College, of which he was an Honorary Fellow. He was due to serve as the Arthur Goodhart Professor of Law at Cambridge in the academic year 2018-2019. Lord Toulson was born in 1946 and was ca…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Paul Daly: Brexit: Legal and Political Fault Lines (25/2017) The argument I will advance in this extended note on the United Kingdom Supreme Court’s decision in R (Miller)…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In a new series of short video clips, leading academic commentators from the University of Cambridge highlight the issues facing the UK as it seeks to negotiate a Brexit agreement in the wake of the 'leave' result of…

On June 15, the University of Geneva hosted a conference entitled 'The Global Debate on Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Past, Present and Future'. The conference, organised by the University of Minnesota Law School and in cooperation with Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) was arranged in honour of influential IP le…

We would like to congratulate two CIPIL members: Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan and David Erdos, on their promotions, effective October 2017. Henning, Co-Director of the Centre, has been promoted to a University Readership. He has been with CIPIL since 2013. Henning’s research and teaching focuses on international intellectual property protection and dev…

The Centre is delighted to welcome Krzysztof Garstka who took up the position of Information Governance Research Associate in February 2017. He joined Dr David Erdos on the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology (HRBDT) project. Krzysztof's research interests lie primarily in the field of information technology law, with particular interest in online …

Squire Law Librarian Mr David Wills has been awarded the Life Membership award by the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) at the Association's annual conference dinner which took place at the Principal Manchester hotel on Friday. Life Membership is awarded to current members of BIALL who have had distinguished careers within law l…

Cambridge University Press has published Brexit Time by Professor of European Law and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies Professor Kenneth Armstrong. The result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationally. As the dust begins to settle, att…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Sir John Hamilton Baker, Emeritus Downing Professor of the Laws of England, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Baker was interviewed in the Squire Law Library on three occasions between February and March 2017, and in addition to transcrip…

Oxford University Press has published the ninth edition of Evidence by Dr Roderick Munday. Munday's Evidence provides students with a succinct yet critical introduction to the law of evidence. Vibrant and engaging, this invaluable text is the ideal guide to this challenging subject. A concise student companion, this book offers probing discussion…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth edition of Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Malcolm Clarke, Richard Hooley, Roderick Munday, Len Sealy, Andrew Tettenborn, and Peter Turner. Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and writings in this mos…

The third edition of Public Law, written by Mark Elliott, Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, and Robert Thomas, Professor of Public Law at the University of Manchester, has been published by Oxford University Press. Public Law is the UK's best-selling textbook in the field, and has been described by Professor Jeff King of UCL a…

In March 2017, Claire Fenton-Glynn joined Harcourt Chambers as an Associate Member. Harcourt Chambers is a leading family law set, awarded “Family Set of the Year” at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016 and recommended as a leading children law set by the Legal 500 (London and regional sections) and by the Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession. Hea…

Faculty PhD student Soterios Loizou has been awarded the first prize at the international student writing competition in international dispute resolution, which was organised in conjunction with the MU Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution (CSDR) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Dispute Resolution Interest Group works-in-pr…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of The Oxford Handbook of Criminology edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna, and Lesley McAra. The Oxford Handbook of Criminology provides an authoritative collection of chapters covering the core and emerging topics studied on criminology courses. With contributions from leading academics, …