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The Ministry of Justice today announced the appointment of 113 new Queen's Counsel and 5 Honorary Queen's Counsel, which included Professor Graham Virgo. Professor Virgo is a Fellow of Downing College, Professor of English Private Law, and a barrister and Academic Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and has made a major contribution to English law in the gro…

The Selden Society, founded in 1887 by F.W. Maitland and others to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English law, offers a Milsom Studentship (named in honour of the late Professor S.F.C. Milsom, sometime Literary Director and President of the Society) for a person commencing research in English legal history leading t…

Oxford University Press has published the fifth edition of Administrative Law Text and Materials by Mark Elliott and Jason Varuhas. Administrative Law Text and Materials combines carefully selected extracts from key cases, articles, and other sources with detailed commentary. Aimed at undergraduates studying administrative law, it provides comprehe…

Due to essential maintenance work to the mains water feed to the Sidgwick Site which is taking place this Saturday (7 January), the Faculty of Law and the Squire Law Library will need to be closed on that day. The building opens again for normal hours on Monday 9 January.

It was announced in the New Year's Honours List that Professor John Spencer, Professor Emeritus of Law, has been appointed CBE. The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Spencer on this great honour, which recognises his many contributions to legal scholarship and law reform, and in particular his role in reforming the law relating to child witnes…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Friday 23 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 3 January 2017.

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 14 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Richard Hooley: Contractual Estoppel and the Misrepresentation Act 1967 (57/2016) Contractual estoppel has been developed in the context of the exclusion of liability for…

In October 2016, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) requested responses to draft legislation published by the European Commission with the aim of modernising the European copyright framework. Professor Lionel Bently led a group of 37 academics from a variety of UK institutions, including Bill Cornish and Henning Grosse-Ruse Khan from Cambridge,…

On 1 December, Dr Jaani Riordan, barrister at 8 New Square, hosted a CIPIL seminar critically evaluating recent case law concerning internet copyright infringement and online intermediaries. Following Jaani’s talk, a fruitful and intense discussion on the role of copyright in the digital, online environment ensued. Earlier seminars this term includ…

The Law of Unjust Enrichment 9th edition Sweet & Maxwell has published the ninth edition of Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment edited by Professor Charles Mitchell (UCL), Professor Paul Mitchell (UCL) and Dr Stephen Watterson. Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. The first edition appeared fifty years ago, in 19…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Emeritus Professor Cheryl Saunders has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Saunders was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2005-06. She was visiting the Faculty to attend the recent 2016 Public Law Con…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video, Bobby Reddy discusses the government's ambitious green paper. In particular, Bobby casts a critical eye over the proposals revolving around executive pay and employee representatives on boards of liste…

The research team for the Legal Tools for Peace-Making Project – Professor Marc Weller, Dr Tiina Pajuste, Dr Mark Retter, Jake Rylatt, and Andrea Varga – launched the Language of Peace database at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 6 December 2016. The event was hosted by the Swiss Permanent Mission to the United Nations. It included a …

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 13 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Stefan Theil: Introducing the Environmental Minimum (53/2016) This paper will present the core argument in favour of establishing the environmental minimum as a framework…

On Friday, 18 November 2016, the Centre for English Legal History at the University of Cambridge hosted a symposium to commemorate the life and works of Professor SFC Milsom QC FBA (1923–2016), whose writings revolutionised legal historical scholarship. Papers on medieval legal history were presented by Professors George Garnett (Oxford), Hector Ma…