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The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr William Thong as Development Associate for the Faculty of Law. William read Law at Magdalene College. In this role, William will be working closely with the Chair of the Faculty, the Faculty Development Committee and Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations, so as to articulate…

The Faculty warmly congratulates the Cambridge alumni appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2016. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall on 22 February 2016. Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. The Cambridge gr…

The Faculty has published the first edition of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN: Volume 7 Number 1. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew Dyson: Hancock and Shankland [1986] AC 455 (59/2015) During the miner’s strike of 1984-5, two miners dropped concrete objects onto the path of …

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) has published through Cambridge University Press an archive issue of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies in honour of Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston to mark 10 years of her service at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). "On 11 January 2006, Eleanor Sharpston became the fourth Advocate G…

Dr Jens Scherpe has been appointed as the Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong for the period of 1 November 2015 – 31 October 2018. Jens will be teaching courses on Comparative Family Law in Hong Kong. He has previously taught this course in Cambridge and the University of Hong Kong as well as at the University of …

Intersentia has published The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons by Jens M Scherpe. The need to allow a change of legal sex/gender in certain cases is no longer disputed in most jurisdictions. The question has therefore shifted to what the requirements for such a change of the legal sex/gender should be. This book examines these th…

In March 2015, the Centre for European Legal Studies organized an international one-day conference exploring the implications for the future of internet regulation of C-131/12 Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González, the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case. This …

Professor Brian Cheffins has been awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to work on a project entitled Transformation of the Public Company.  For the purposes of his project, Professor Cheffins will analyze how and why the U.S. public company, which has dominated the American economy since the beginning of the 20th century, has been transfo…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Oliver Butler: The Expanding Scope of the Data Protection Directive: The Exception for a 'Purely Personal or Household Activity (54/2015) This case note comments on the j…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video Professor Christopher Forsyth reflects on his previous comments about the original conviction, and describes how the Supreme Court of Appeal interpreted the South African law on intent to kill.  Althoug…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Wednesday 23 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9am on Monday 4 January 2016.

University Lecturer and Faculty Access Officer Claire Fenton-Glynn has been awarded the 2015 Inner Temple New Author's Prize for her book Children’s Rights in Intercountry Adoption (Intersentia 2014). The Faculty's Professor Neil Andrews also came runner-up in the Main Book Prize competition for his work Andrews on Civil Processes, also published b…

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group has published the fifth edition of Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process by Nicola Padfield and Dr Jonathan Bild. Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the…

On Tuesday 24 November 2015, Lord (Tony) Grabiner QC delivered the 2015 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "Public Policy, Illegality and Contracts". Lord Grabiner focused on the illegality defence. The scope of this defence is now so uncertain that the Supreme Court has suggested that it needs the urgent attenti…

The website for the Eighth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations has been launched. The conference on the theme 'Revolutions in Private Law' will be held at the University of Cambridge from 19-22 July 2016. The conference will be hosted by the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and Melbourne Law School. The conveners are Professor Sarah…