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John Collier in 2001 Photograph by Malcolm Clarke.   John Collier, MA, LLB, a leading figure in the Faculty of Law for many years, died on 18th June. Invariably 'JC' to his students and colleagues, he was a University Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, lecturing and supervising principally in the Conflict of Laws until his retirement in…

On 15th June the Vote Leave campaign published a 'roadmap' on the steps that it believes would need to be taken following a referendum vote on 23 June to leave the European Union. In an analysis published on 16th June, the Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, Professor Kenneth Armstrong has provided the first …

Photograph courtesy of Corpus Christi College.   The Queen has approved the appointment of The Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton as the next Master of the Rolls. A Cambridge graduate, Sir Terence studied history and law at Corpus Christi College, of which he is an Honorary Fellow. Sir Terence was Chairman of the Law Commission and a Lord Justice of Appe…

Faculty PhD student Soterios Loizou has been awarded the prestigious Colin B. Picker Prize for the most meritorious paper submitted by a graduate student at the recent American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) Young Comparativists Committee (YCC) Fifth Annual Global Conference. His paper entitled 'Deconstructing Second Parallel Legal Regimes: The …

The Faculty of Law has again been recognised as the country's leading law school. It was once again placed first in the recently published Guardian University Guide 2017. This year the Faculty has already been ranked first in the UK in both the Complete University Guide and The Times University Guide. The Guardian table is compiled by independent c…

Cambridge University Press has today published Equity and Administration a collection of essays edited by Dr Peter Turner. Each generation of lawyers in common law systems faces an important question: what is the nature of equity as developed in English law and inherited by other common law jurisdictions? While some traditional explanations of equi…

Intersentia has published Contract Rules - Decoding English Law by Professor Neil Andrews. Contract Rules – Decoding English Law encapsulates the general part of the English contract system. For the first time this complex body of law is presented in an accessible and structured form.  Marshalling the legal sources, it arranges the law into 22 part…

The Faculty and the Centre for Tax Law (CTL) are delighted that first prize in the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Tax Faculty essay competition has been awarded to Clavance Lim, a Part II Law student at Homerton College, and participant on the Tax Law and Policy (Seminar) course. Clavance's essay, which won a cash p…

On 23 April the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held a conference entitled "Copyright, related rights and the news in the EU: Assessing potential new laws" at the University of Amsterdam. The difficulties of commercial journalism Like music and other branches of publishing, commercial news journalism has faced radical c…

Oxford University Press has published the second edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Professor Graham Virgo. The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to present an engaging, contextual account of the subject that lay…

Prisoner and prison officer, HMP Grendon. Credit: Learning Together Programme/HMP Grendon.   The wealth of untapped academic talent inside the criminal justice system has been illuminated by a ground-breaking project in which people in prison studied in equal partnership with Cambridge students. To date, 22 prisoners have participated in the Learn…

The Faculty of Law has retained its No. 1 ranking amongst UK law schools in the independent Complete University Guide league table. The table, compiled by Mayfield University Consultants, rank universities based on the ten quality factors considered most important to students. Information is compiled from data from a broad range of sources includin…

  Professor Sir David Williams   Following a substantial benefaction from Sir David Li, the Li family, Robinson College and other anonymous donors, the Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the creation of a Professorship in Public Law in honour of the late Professor Sir David Williams. In further recognition of the unique contribution made by…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an interview with Professor ATH 'Tony' Smith has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Smith is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2015-16. He is currently Professor of Law at Victoria University, New Zealand, having…

Gareth Jones, who died on 2 April at the age of 85, was one of the foremost legal academics of his generation. His wide range of interests included legal history, contract, property and trusts. On the first he wrote his History of the Law of Charity 1532-1827 in 1969 and on the second, with William Goodhart, Specific Performance in 1986. But it is …