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The Faculty of Law warmly congratulates Professor Sarah Worthington on her appointment as a Deputy High Court Judge. The appointment was made by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd. Professor Worthington is Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre. She is a specialist in the areas of comm…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the announcement that Dr Pippa Rogerson will be the next Master of Gonville & Caius College. Dr Rogerson, a Fellow of Caius since 1989 and a member of the University Council, will succeed Professor Sir Alan Fersht when he retires from the post at the end of September 2018. Dr Rogerson will make history as the first woman…

Oxford University Press has published the Liberalism with Excellence by Professor Matthew H. Kramer. During the past several decades, political philosophers have frequently clashed with one another over the question whether governments are morally required to remain neutral among reasonable conceptions of excellence and human flourishing. Whereas t…

What is striking about our success in such league tables is that they are based on what matters most to our students.Professor Richard Fentiman The Faculty of Law has again been recognised as the country's leading law school, retaining its first place in the Guardian University Guide. This follows the Faculty's success this year in both the Comple…

On Friday 5 May, the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) hosted a special one-day conference on 'Teaching Deals in the Classroom', featuring a number of eminent speakers from both academia and legal practice. The event was organised with the generous support of Travers Smith, a leading London-based law firm with significant expertise in c…

In April 2017, the School of Law of the University of Padua invited Jens Scherpe to teach on the course ‘Istituzioni di diritto privato 2’ of Prof. Matilde Girolami on the ‘Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza’. Scherpe taught ‘Gender and Law’ and ‘Legal Recognition of Adult Relationships’, both of which were of particular interest to Itali…

Cambridge University experienced great success at this year's 24th Willem C. Vis Moot International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition. The team, comprising of Luke Tattersall (Wolfson College) and Andrea Chong (Downing College) speaking on behalf of the Claimants, and Chee Ching Sik (Trinity Hall) and Azfer A. Khan (Magdalene College) o…

The Public Law Conference series is the pre-eminent regular forum for the discussion of public law matters in the common law world. The first two conferences in the Public Law series were held in Cambridge in 2014 and 2016. From 11 to 13 July 2018, Melbourne Law School will host the Third Biennial Public Law Conference, co-organised by the Universi…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sarah Nouwen: The International Criminal Court and Conflict Prevention in Africa (20/2017) Forthcoming in Tony Karbo and Kudrat Virk (eds.), Towards a New Pax Africana: Ma…

Dr Christina Angelopoulos was awarded Proxime Accessit in the ELFA Award 2016 for her thesis on 'European Intermediary Liability in Copyright'. The award is organised annually by the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA) and is dedicated to theses in European law (including comparative law). The winners of the ELFA Award 2016 were announced and…

From the 15th March 2017 to the 18th March 2017, the University of Cambridge team travelled to Pembroke College, Oxford, to compete in the 15th Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot. This year’s moot problem concerned a patented glass bottle shape with internal dimples in which a sparkling wine called ‘Erewine’ was sold. The dimples enhan…

The Faculty of Law has once again been placed first amongst UK law schools in the latest table published by the Complete University Guide. The table, compiled by Mayfield University Consultants, ranks universities based on the quality factors considered most important to students. It uses data from a broad range of sources including the Higher Educ…

For the first time, the Squire Law Library will be opening on Sundays during this Easter Term. On these days the opening hours will be from 11am until 5pm starting this Sunday (30th April) and continuing until, and including, Sunday (11th June). This is a pilot initiative to assess how useful these extended hours are during the revision and examina…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Will the new French President be hamstrung in power if she or he does not obtain a majority in the parliamentary elections of June 2017? Does the French Constitution enable a government to govern without its policies…

On Wednesday 19 April, Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, unveiled at the UN the launch of an international inquiry - the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict. Building on the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, the Inquiry will consider the adequacy and effectiveness …