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Call for papers Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 5th Annual Conference - "Public and Private Power" University of Cambridge, 8-9 April 2016 The editors of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) welcome submissions for the CJICL 5th Annual Conference to be held at the University of Cambridge on 8-9 A…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Dr Veronika Fikfak and Dr Hayley J Hooper discuss the questionable international legality of military action, the strategic use of parliament and its potential impact upon the emerging Consultation Convention, and th…

The Faculty welcomes the award to Matthew Dyson, Kourosh Saeb-Parsy (of Addenbrooke's Hospital and Fitzwilliam College) and Kathy Liddell, of a Philomathia Forum award to continue their work on how to regulate organ transplants which transmit disease. A shortage of suitable organs and the growing number of patients dying on transplant waiting lists…

Professor Jane Ginsburg from Columbia University (NYC) is currently visiting the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) as the inaugural CIPIL Herchel Smith Visiting Fellow. In that capacity, Jane is teaching on the International IP LLM course and has given a joint talk together with Lionel Bently on 'Fair Quotation and Fair U…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Professor Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law. She has written extensively on EU Law and Labour Law, and has been involved in advising the UK Government as part of its balance o…

The Faculty welcomes the award to John Liddicoat and Dr Kathy Liddell at the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) of a Philomathia Forum award to continue their work on the intellectual property issues surrounding the realization of genomic medicine. This award will support a workshop in July 2016 that will interrogate more deeply: 1. H…

The Squire Library is delighted to have agreed a new subscription agreement with Westlaw UK which includes electronic access to a fuller range of books and loose-leaf material that are published by the company Thomson Reuters, a large part of which is Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. The listing of publications runs into some 200 titles, amongst them are Archb…

The Managers of the F.W. Maitland Memorial Fund are able to offer one maintenance-only Studentship for Home/EU, or Overseas/Islands students applying to undertake doctoral research in legal history at the University of Cambridge, starting in October 2016. Studentships are tenable in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of History, or the Faculty of Engl…

Cambridge University Press has published the seventeenth volume of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies edited by Kenneth Armstrong, Albertina Albors-Llorens, Alicia Hinarejos, Amy Ludlow, Eva Nanopoulos, Oke Odudu and Sophie Turenne. The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS) offers authors and readers a space for sustained r…

On Tuesday 10 November Ruth Armstrong and Amy Ludlow hosted a roundtable at the Faculty that was attended by approximately 50 prison practitioners and academics from universities across the UK. The aim of the event was to explore how universities and prisons might connect to reap the transformative potential of education through Learning Together; …

Due to the generosity of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, the Law Faculty is delighted to announce a generous bursary for the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) from which African and Asian applicants can benefit. The MCL Admissions Committee will, once the making of offers to join the MCL have been finalised, consider afresh the academic results …

The Centre for Tax Law (CTL) has announced a Call for Papers for the upcoming Tax Law History Conference VII, to be held on 11 and 12 July 2016. The biennial Tax Law History Conference brings together experts from academia, regulatory bodies and practitioners, to discuss tax matters. The Call for Papers is on the Conference pages section of the CTL…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that a further entry for Professor David Dyzenhaus has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Dyzenhaus is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2014-15. He is currently Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of To…

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Ali Lyons has been appointed as the first ever Schools Liaison Co-ordinator, working jointly with the Department of Land Economy. Ali will work to dispel the myths that turn some students away from Law at Cambridge, and to ensure that any bright, motivated student has the tools they need to access higher educ…

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 2016/17. 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…