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A new research centre in the Faculty, the Cambridge Family Law Centre, was launched at the beginning of this academic year. Cambridge Family Law is a centre of excellence for research and teaching in all aspects of family law and policy, domestic, comparative and international in the Faculty of Law. It offers a unique combination of academic, polic…

Informa Law from Routledge has published Air Cargo Insurance by Professor Malcolm Clarke and George Leloudas (Swansea University). Approximately 40 per cent of value of international trade comes from goods carried by air, and the consequences of goods being damaged, destroyed or delayed can be serious, substantial, and perhaps unforeseen. This boo…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that a further entry for Professor A. T. H. "Tony" Smith has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2015-16. He is currently Professor of Law at Victoria University in Wellingto…

The Law Commission of England and Wales is currently undertaking consultations with regard to its 13th Programme of Law Reform, seeking suggestions concerning which areas of law would benefit from reform. One of the areas identified by the Law Commission was a review of the law surrounding surrogacy arrangements, where concerns have been expressed …

The Cambridge Law Faculty has again been named best in the country in both The Times and Sunday Times University Good University Guide, and the Complete University Guide. This follows the Faculty’s success in this year's Guardian tables in which it also took first place, and represents five years of holding the top position in the Complete Universi…

Brian Sloan has been invited to join the International Advisory Board of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ), the leading German family law journal. This prestigious position is only offered to selected individuals, and usually there will only be one member of the Advisory Board for each European jurisdiction. Brian will represent…

International surrogacy has been the subject of increasing scrutiny over the past 10 years, both by the media, as numerous scandals hit the headlines, and by politicians, where laws have struggled to keep up with advances in artificial reproductive techniques and rapid social changes. This conference, organised by Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. Scher…

Cambridge University Press has published Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in the Criminal Law by Dr Findlay Stark. The question of when a person is culpable for taking an unjustified risk of harm has long been controversial in Anglo-American criminal law doctrine and theory. This survey of the approaches adopted in England and Wal…

The building of the Faculty of Law has become the David Williams Building. To commemorate the naming of the building in honour of the late Professor Sir David Williams a plaque was unveiled by Lady Williams at a ceremony on 15th October. The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, presided at the ceremony, which was attended by members of the Will…

Edward Elgar publishing has published the second edition EU Intellectual Property Law and Policy by the late Dr Catherine Seville. Intellectual property remains not just economically significant, but also of daily importance to most businesses and individuals. The digital age brings many opportunities, but also presents continuing challenges to IP …

The Faculty of Law is offering a studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in 2017/18. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and it is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of the studentship will be the full annual University Composition Fee t…

The 2016 volume of the British Yearbook of International Law will feature a symposium examining the systemic issues that arise from the Iraq Inquiry Report on questions of international law, government and military decision-making, responsibility and accountability and the conduct of British foreign relations. Abstracts of 500–1000 words are to be …

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the sixth edition of Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine by Professor Andrew Simester, Professor John Spencer, Dr Findlay Stark, Professor Robert Sullivan and Professor Graham Virgo. This is the new edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Simester and Sullivan, now co-written w…

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Jacob Eisler: McDonnell and Anti-Corruption's Last Stand (41/2016) In McDonnell v. United States, the Supreme Court constrained the reach of federal anti-corruption law, …

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of Agency - Law and Principles by Dr Roderick Munday. The most up-to-date guide to the English law of agency, covering the wide scope of recent case law decisions. Illustrates fundamental principles using contemporary authorities and materials. Combines comprehensive and scholarly analysis wi…