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Faculty doctoral student Shubham Jain was invited by Sky Sports News to offer a human rights law lens as part of the coverage of Afghanistan's matches in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025 (Men's Cricket) in Pakistan. Afghan Women's Team has not been able to play international cricket due to the Taliban's ban on women's participation in sport. H…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover. Recent publications include: China's Free Trade Agreement Strategies: Securing the Chinese Developmental State and Socialist Market Economy, by Francine Hug (Springer, 2024) This book delves into the …

Bloomsbury Professional has recently published Tax, Public Finance, and the Rule of Law edited by Dominic de Cogan, Alexis Brassey and May Hen. This book offers a key point of reference for reflective and thoughtful examinations of the rule of law in tax and related disciplines. It features a stellar cast of established and early-career researcher…

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The Faculty has distributed Volume 16 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Lorand Bartels & Tibisay Morgandi: International Investment Law and State Human Rights Obligations (37/2024) This chapter addresses the different relationships that exi…

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Societal Change by Felix Steffek and Mihoko Sumida, (Hitotsubashi University). Legal Innovation explores the impact of technology on the legal profession and societal change. Reflecting contributions from an international group of exp…

In addition to the appointment of new King's Counsel last week, the Ministry of Justice also announced the award of nine new Honorary King’s Counsel (KC Honoris Causa) which included Professor Martin Dixon (Queens' College), Professor of the Law of Real Property and Head of the Department of Land Economy. Honorary KC is awarded to those who have co…

Throughout 2024-25, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) is marking twenty years of activity. In essence, CIPIL is a community of scholars - academics, post-docs, and research students - who work in all of the principal areas of intellectual property and information law.  Directed until 2016 by Lionel Bently, the Herchel…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of Cambridge graduates as King's Counsel last week. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall in March 2025. Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. …

We are delighted to announce that Professor Catherine Barnard has been appointed to the Professorship in European Law. The Professorship of European Law was established in 1994 and has been held by Professor Sir Alan Dashwood KC and Professor Kenneth Armstrong. Professor Barnard, FBA, FLSW, FRSA, has been an academic in the Cambridge Law Faculty fo…

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Rights and Moral Rights in the Elements in Philosophy of Law series, by Matthew Kramer. In a short span, this Element will delineate the general nature of legal and moral rights and the general nature of the holding of rights, and it will also sketch the justificatory foundations of rights. Hence, the …

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg are pleased to announce that the Max Planck – Cambridge Prize for International Law (MaxCamPIL) has been awarded to Eliav Lieblich, Professor at Tel Aviv University.  The Prize was established in 2019 by the Max P…

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is pleased to invite applications for the Brandon Research Fellowship 2025-2026, funded by generous gifts from Mr Michael Brandon MA, LLB, LLM (Cantab), MA (Yale) (1923–2012) and Mr Christopher Brandon. The Lauterpacht Centre provides a base for research in Cambridge for legal practitioners and academics…

CELS is delighted to report that Eleanor Sharpston KC, FBA (Hon) has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in this year's New Year Honours Overseas and International List. The honour was conferred for services to Justice and to the Education of Law in the UK and Europe. Dame Eleanor has had a distinguished career as a …

The University of Michigan Press has published Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts (Law and Society in the Ancient World) by Peter Candy. Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts studies the first millennium of the standard form contracts at the heart of ancient long-distance trade, from the fifth century BCE to Justinian. Maritime loan contracts recorded the t…