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The eighth Obligations Conference was held at Downing College Cambridge from 19 to 22 July 2016. Organised jointly by the Cambridge Private Law Centre and Melbourne Law School, the Conference provided an opportunity for over 170 academics, judges, practitioners and graduate students from around the world to come together to discuss issues relating …

Sweet & Maxwell has published the 10th edition of Gower: Principles of Modern Company Law edited by Professor Paul Davies and Professor Sarah Worthington. Gower is the clearest and most reliable text available to cover the increasingly complex subject of company law. Students, as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis, can turn…

Oxford University Press has published the 11th edition of Sealy & Worthington's Text, Cases, and Materials in Company Law by Professor Sarah Worthington. Sealy & Worthington's Text, Cases, & Materials in Company Law clearly explains the fundamental structure of company law and provides a concise exploration of each different aspect of the subject. …

King’s College invites applications from individuals who are completing or have completed a relevant doctorate for one or more four-year Junior Research Fellowship/s in interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Candidates may come from any disciplinary background but will be expected to propose future projects that engage with issues of gender in ways that…

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Gregory Shaffer & Michael Waibel: The Rise and Fall of Trade and Monetary Legal Orders: From the Interwar Period to Today’s Global Imbalances (28/2016) This book chapter c…

The University of Cambridge is proud to be hosting the first Cambridge Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 2 November 2016. This unique event is organised by the Graduate Admissions Office in conjunction with the University's Departments and the Colleges. The day is open to all undergraduate students and graduates who are considering applying in Sep…

Oxford University Press has published Equity & Trusts Text, Cases, and Materials 2nd edition edited by Paul S. Davies and Professor Graham Virgo. An expertly selected range of legal extracts is complemented by authoritative author commentary, providing clear explanation and analysis of the legal principles behind key decisions in a single volume …

Scherpe and Fenton-Glynn together with Terry Kaan will be hosting a major international and comparative conference on surrogacy in Hong Kong on 9 and 10 September. With the advances in artificial reproductive techniques, and an increasingly globalised world, surrogacy has gone from a niche practice to a global market, raising questions of parenthoo…

Oxford University Press has published The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law by Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan. The first book to comprehensively analyse intellectual property (IP) protection in the wider context of international law. Analytical structure builds on several methodological frameworks to conceptualise norm relation…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World by Professor Phillip J Allott. There is a vacuum of philosophy to make sense of a world dominated by a disorderly global economy, by science and engineering, by ideologies, and by popular culture. There is a vacuum of law to bring order to relations betwe…

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Brian Sloan: The 'Disinherited' Daughter and the Disapproving Mother (24/2016) This paper is a case note on Ilott v Mitson [2015] EWCA Civ 797. The judgment concerns the a…

Brian Sloan has published "Reversing Testamentary Dispositions in Favour of Informal Carers" in Current Issues in Succession Law. The book, edited by Dr Birke Häcker and Professor Charles Mitchell and published by Hart, contains papers presented at a conference that took place at All Souls College, Oxford in July 2015. Brian’s chapter links togethe…

On 20 July a nine-panel Supreme Court handed down judgment in Patel v Mirza, concerning illegality in private law. Professor Graham Virgo, Professor of English Private Law advised the Respondent in this case whom the Justices unanimously decided should recover money he had paid, even though he had participated in a criminal conspiracy involving ins…

On 13 July, Dr Lorand Bartels presented his study entitled "Human rights provisions in EPAs in light of the expiry of the Cotonou Agreement" to the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament. The study considered the meaning of certain provisions in the EU's Economic Partnership Agreements with African, Caribbean and Pacific countr…

The 16th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) entitled 'Family Law and Family Realities' will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 25 July to 29 July 2017 at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. The Conference will be dedicated to the subject whether existing national family laws adequately reflect the rapidly…