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Public and Private Power The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law will hold its Fifth Annual Conference on 8th and 9th April 2016 at the Faculty of Law on the theme of "Public and Private Power", followed by a conference dinner at Emmanuel College. Key note speeches will be given by Professor Muir Watt of Sciences-Po and Judge Dea…

The Leiden Journal of International Law has awarded Dr Sarah Nouwen with the prize for the best article published in the journal over the past three years. Her piece '"As You Set out for Ithaka": Practical, Epistemological, Ethical, and Existential Questions about Socio-Legal Empirical Research in Conflict', (2014) 27 LJIL 227 was chosen as "an out…

A longstanding member of the Faculty of Law, Professor SFC "Toby" Milsom, died last week. He was a dominant voice in English legal historiography through the second half of the twentieth century, and has been described as the greatest legal historian of our time. While not a prolific writer, practically everything he published had a major influence…

The American Law Institute has appointed Professor Sarah Worthington and Dr Peter Turner as members of the International Advisory Panel for the ALI’s Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property. The fourth Restatement will be more comprehensive than the third in addressing neglected but important areas of personal property law and greater coverage of t…

On 28 January 2016, Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan was appointed as the Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Hanken School of Economics for 2016. As Senior Fellow, Henning is involved in teaching international and comparative intellectual property law at Hanken, engages in research collaboration with Hanken academics (such as Professor Nari Lee who will…

Dr Matthew Dyson has won a grant of £24,000 from the Cambridge Humanities Research Grant Scheme and the Hollond Fund, Trinity College, for a project entitled "Regulating Risk through Private Law". The project will operate under the aegis of the Cambridge Private Law Centre which will also be the hub for similar centres around the world as a first e…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video Dr Matthew Dyson, who advised the appellant's counsel in the case considers the law of complicity, what the case changed, and its implications. Dr Matthew Dyson is Fellow in Law and Director of Studies …

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture James Badenoch outlined the state of the law before the decision in Montgomery and the numerous ways in which it had failed to pay attention to the key distinction, recognised by the Supreme Court in M…

The Faculty has published the third edition of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN: Volume 7 Number 3. This issue includes the following articles: Kathleen Liddell & Michael Waibel: Fair and Equitable Treatment and Judicial Patent Decisions (4/2016) This article focuses on the increased scope for t…

In September 2014, the Faculty of Law, under the auspices of its Centre for Public Law, hosted the first in a series of major international conferences on public law. Edited by John Bell, Mark Elliott, Jason NE Varuhas and Philip Murray, Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems: Process and Substance is a collection of essays based on a select…

Following the tragic news of the death of our friend and colleague, Dr Catherine Seville on February 4, 2016, we received a flood of messages of condolence and tributes to Catherine. After careful thought, we have concluded that it would be appropriate to honour her by publishing these words of appreciation (with the consent of their authors). Thes…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published the four-volume set European Family Law comprising three edited books and one monograph by Jens M Scherpe. This four-volume set maps the emerging European family law. It is intended to serve as a resource for anyone interested in this area of law, as well as a basis for teaching on comparative and international…

On 21 December 2015 Professor Christopher Forsyth gave evidence in Parliament to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill on the "double lock" and the "principles of judicial review". His evidence can be found on the Judicial Power Project website. On 25 January Professor Forsyth also gave evidence to the Independent…

Professor Catherine Barnard has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Senior Fellowship as part of the UK in a Changing Europe project. Throughout 2016 Catherine will work together with Dr Amy Ludlow to gather empirical evidence about the experiences of EU migrants living and working in the UK and to explore whether the UK benefit system is acting as a p…

The Faculty has published the second edition of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN: Volume 7 Number 2. This issue includes the following articles: Nicholas McBride: The Humanity of Private Law - An Introduction (63/2015) This is a draft of the introduction to a book I am working on called The Hum…