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​Scherpe was invited to teach at the Global College of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain/Belgium in March 2017 as a visiting professor by the by the Family Law Centre (Cefap) and by the Centre for International and European Law (Cedie). While in Louvain-la-Neuve, he taught three seminars on various family law topics at the Global College …

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Julia Powles et al: Boundaries of Law: Exploring Transparency, Accountability, and Oversight of Government Surveillance Regimes (16/2017) Modern information technologies h…

Hart Publishing has published Landmark Cases in Criminal Law edited by Henry Mares, Phil Handler, and Ian Williams. The volume contains chapters by many Faculty members (Professor Sir John Baker, Professor David Ibbetson, Professor John Spencer, Dr Findlay Stark, and Henry Mares) and former members (Professor Matt Dyson (now Oxford) and Dr Ian Will…

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday from Friday, 14 April to Monday 17 April inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday 18 April at 9am.

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that it has taken out a twelve month trial subscription to Bloomsbury Professional Online. The service includes access to practitioner ebooks on family law, banking and finance law, charities, criminal negligence, company and commercial law, employment law, environmental law, insolvency law, local gover…

Sweet & Maxwell has published the second edition of Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies by Professor Andrew Tettenborn, Professor Malcolm Clarke, Professor Neil Andrews and Professor Graham Virgo. Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies provides guidance from four leading contract academics on…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Mr Parry addressed the potential challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities which might materialise as the United Kingdom navigates its way towards an exit from the European Union following the referendum on membership …

A study of a deal which has allowed Google DeepMind access to millions of healthcare records argues that more needs to be done to regulate such agreements between public sector bodies and private technology firms. This new study entitled 'Google DeepMind and Healthcare in an Age of Algorithms' co-authored by Dr Julia Powles, who is associated with …

Cambridge Family Law was delighted to host this joint event, generously supported by the CFLQ’s publisher, LexisNexis, at Trinity College in March 2017. Quite fortuitously, the conference happened to fall between two important events: the publication just days earlier of key Parliamentary committee reports on the implications of Brexit for transnat…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video, Brian Sloan considers the outcome of the case, which raised fundamental principles of succession law, and its broader implications. Brian Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, Universit…

On March 17, Paris Diderot University hosted a conference on "Copying and Copyright in 19th-Century Newspapers and Periodicals". Talks included “Debating Copyright for News in Nineteenth-Century Britain” by Will Slauter (Université Paris Diderot) and “Authors, Owners and the Dissemination of Knowledge: Copyright and Periodicals in the Nineteenth Ce…

The Faculty has published Volume 8 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew H. Kramer: The Illusion of Neutrality: Abortion and the Foundations of Justice (9/2017) This article will assail one of the central aspirations of Rawlsians and ot…

At its fourteenth meeting, in March 2017, the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE Protocol on Water and Health elected Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, as its Chairman for the next triennium. The Protocol was …

Photograph: Paul Clarke, Butler Trust   The pioneering work done by Drs Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong with their 'Learning Together' project has been recognised with an Award from the Butler Trust. Learning Together brings together prisoners, university students and academics, to learn with and from one another. The design and delivery of Learning…

On Friday 24 February 2017, The Honourable Mr Justice Singh delivered the 2017 CPL Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For his lecture, Sir Rabinder Singh adopted a comparative perspective. Befitting a lawyer educa…