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Dr Lorand Bartels has been appointed as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on International Trade.  The International Trade Committee was created by the House of Commons in October 2016 to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for International Trade and its associated public bodies. Special…

CIPIL’s Co-director, Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, joined a panel at the Symposium on Recent Developments in International Investment and Trade held at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law on 30 November. The panel consisted of: Speakers Professor Tania Voon (University of Melbourne) Professor Andrew Mitchell (University of Melbourne) Comm…

Can university departments authorise the creation of course packs consisting of photocopied excerpts from copyright-protected works? This question was recently considered by the Delhi High Court in The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Ors v Rameshwari Photocopy Services and Anr (16 Sep 2016). The court held that the …

The Honourable Justice Susan Kiefel AC has been named as the next Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. The Faculty of Law warmly congratulates Justice Kiefel on her appointment. A student at Wolfson College, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow, Justice Kiefel graduated from Cambridge with the LLM degree in 1985 and was awarded the Unive…

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Eilis Ferran: The UK as a Third Country Actor in EU Financial Services Regulation (47/2016) Unless it remains in the single market via membership of the EEA or is able ot…

The European Union finds itself at a historical crossroads. It currently faces a number of existential threats that need a common and unified response; yet such a common response is likely to require unprecedented pooling of sovereignty and sharing of financial burdens among the individual Member States. In other words, these challenges require a n…

Claire Hill joined the Centre on 23 November as our new administrator. For the past three years Claire has been working in Open Access scientific publishing, and before that completed her PhD in the Department of Zoology. She will be working Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Faculty of Law, office S12a. Do feel free to pop by and say hello.

The Cambridge Law Journal, the oldest law journal associated with the Cambridge Faculty of Law, is offering a Studentship, tenable for three years subject to satisfactory academic progress, for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in 2017/18. The value of the Studentship will be up to the value of the applicable fees for a Home …

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in company law or financial regulation in 2017/18. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of a studentship will be £12,000 …

These major appointments... continue the Faculty’s long tradition of representation at the highest levels of the judiciaryRichard Fentiman Three Cambridge graduates have been appointed to senior positions in the judiciary. The Rt Hon Lord Justice Vos has become Chancellor of the High Court and Head of the Chancery Division. Sir Geoffrey Vos, a gra…

On Wednesday 16 November, The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma GBM QC SC delivered the 2016 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "What Have Ships Ever Done for You? The Impact of Maritime Law". Geoffrey Ma used his lecture to explore the enormous influence that shipping law has had on general commercial jurispr…

The Centre has launched a fund-raising campaign to secure permanent accommodation two substantial and complementary libraries of English legal history, belonging to the late Professor SFC Milsom and Professor Sir John Baker, as the core of a research collection which will provide a vital resource for legal historians for generations to come. For fu…

A number of Faculty members today joined with colleagues from the University of Oxford to pen an open letter to The Times to express their concerns in the wake of the High Court decision in the case of (R) Miller and Dos Santos v. Secretary of State regarding the application of Article 50 and the UK's membership of the European Union. The letter re…

​Brexit promises to redefine the British constitutional landscape. In addition, the conservative government has indicated it intends to repeal the Human Rights Act and potentially withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights. The future of human rights protection in the UK is therefore more uncertain than ever before. What remains unclear …

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017. Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Professor Kenneth Armstrong has analysed the ruling, and written an article summarising the key points.  Co…