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Joanna Miles was one of two academic members on the Family Justice Council's Financial Needs Working Group, chaired by Mrs Justice Roberts, to take forward a recommendation made by the Law Commission in its report on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, published in February 2014, aimed to promote greater transparency and consistency in the …

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in any area of family law 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 £10,000 per annum and…

​Nari Lee is visiting CIPIL from 1 July to 31 August 2016. During her visit, she will work on her project entitled ‘The Invention of Meanings at the age of 3D printing’, exploring the challenges of disruptive innovation on the evolution of patent law. Using 3D printing technology as a case study, the project will explore various changing meanings o…

On Friday 8 July, Lionel Bently was a commentator at the 8th Annual ISHTIP (International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property) workshop held at the University of Glasgow: http://www.ishtip.org/?p=752. He commented on a paper by Professor Michael Birnhack on the history of trade mark law in Mandate Palestine (1917-47). Lionel…

The Faculty has published Volume 7 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Lorand Bartels: Policy Coherence for Development Under Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union - Towards a Complaints Mechanism (18/2016) This p…

Following on from the 2013 International Conference on the Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons, and the recent publication by Intersentia of The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons (edited by Dr Jens Scherpe) – which was referred to by Lord Wilson in recent proceedings before the UK Supreme Court (see linked footage …

The 35th Annual ATRIP Congress, Intellectual Property as Functional Pluralism: The Parameters, Challenges and Opportunities of Variation took place on 26-29 June in Kraków, Poland. Professor Lionel Bently presented on What became of Mandatory, Global, Fair Use? A presentation from the session is available to download. Dr Jennifer Davis presented o…

The third Cambridge in London seminar took place on Monday 4 July 2016, kindly hosted by Hogan Lovells at their offices. This event was an opportunity for some of the Faculty's alumni and friends to meet current staff and hear presentations about the Faculty's ongoing work. After an introduction by Mr David Moss, Partner and Training Principal at H…

The legal implications of the EU referendum could not be more profound. Fundamental questions arise concerning the constitution of the United Kingdom and few areas of English law will be untouched. As the legal landscape changes the immediate challenges facing UK law schools are immense. Difficult questions arise concerning staff recruitment, fees …

Several Faculty members have recently published articles as part of a special issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL), which was guest edited by Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan. The authors Michael Waibel, Kathy Liddell, Eva Nanopoulos, Rumi Yatova and Jorge E. Viñuales wrote on issues such as the protection of intellectual property a…

On Tuesday, the German Constitutional Court delivered its much-awaited decision on the legality of the European Central Bank’s Outright Monetary Transactions Programme. The Court relied on the work of Faculty member Dr Alicia Hinarejos, cited approvingly in the main decision. The German Constitutional Court considered the Outright Monetary Transact…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video, Mark Elliott assess the immediate impact of the result. Professor Mark Elliott is a Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. His main research inte…

Drs Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong have received an award from the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in recognition of their excellent work in public engagement.  The University inaugural Public Engagement with Research Awards were set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Using criminological,…

Professor Lawrence Sherman, Director of Law Faculty’s Institute of Criminology, was Knighted by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden for his services to Sweden and its Ministry of Justice. Appointed "Commander of the Order of the Polar Star (KNO)", he joins an order whose first civilian member was the 18th Century botanist Carl Linneaus. The appointment,…

Professor Per-Olof Wikström of the Law Faculty’s Institute of Criminology received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology from the Swedish Minister of Justice at the Nobel Prize Banquet Hall of the Stockholm Stadthus on Wednesday, 15 June. Professor Wikström was honoured by an international jury for the development and testing of his Situational Action…