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Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the seventh edition of Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law edited by David Howarth, Martin Matthews, Jonathan Morgan, Janet O'Sullivan, Stelios Tofaris, and Associate Editor: Bob Hepple. New to Hart Publishing, this is the seventh edition of the classic casebook on tort, the first of its kind in the UK, and for many…

Dr Veronika Fikfak has been awarded a Future Research Leaders grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her project, entitled 'What Price for Human Rights: Compensating human rights violations', will seek to understand how the European Court of Human Rights determines compensation in human rights claims. The project will use quant…

In his annual speech marking the beginning of the new academic year, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, spoke about the importance of partnerships for the success of the University, highlighting the establishment of the innovative and multi-faceted Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. Profes…

The Maitland Legal History Room, which was originally established in 2000, has been expanded and refurbished. The room is named after Frederic William Maitland FBA, the Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1888 until 1906, who is regarded as the 'father' of English legal history. The room offers a focal point for the study and research of …

The Squire, in conjunction with the University Library, has now purchased The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, a database of GALE Cengage Learning, which provides scholars and students with a digital collection covering the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The database is a comprehensiv…

Cambridge has been ranked once again as the UK's leading law school by both The Times and The Sunday Times. The Faculty has already been placed first in the country in the latest tables published by The Guardian and the Complete University Guide, and first in Europe in this year's QS University Rankings, in which it was second only to Harvard Law S…

The Faculty of Law is offering two studentships for new PhD students commencing full-time doctoral research in 2016/17. The studentships are available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and are each renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of a studentship will be the full annual University Composition …

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 7 edited by Professor Peter Harris and Dr Dominic de Cogan. These are the papers from the 2014 Cambridge Tax Law History Conference revised and reviewed for publication. The papers fall within six basic themes. Two papers focus on colonialism and empire dealing with ea…

The crisis - and the EU’s response to it - have posed a major challenge to the European social model. Trade unions have obviously been highly critical of what the EU has done but concerns have been expressed by a number of other key players, not least Jean-Claude Juncker, the new President of the Commission. In his opening speech to the European Pa…

To coincide with the two day conference on the European Social Union that is being hosted by Catherine Barnard, the Centre for European Legal Studies has published a virtual special issue edited by Catherine Barnard and Amy Ludlow. The special issue celebrates the wealth of excellent material in the Yearbook’s archive in the field of EU social poli…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Christopher Kuner: Extraterritoriality and Regulation of International Data Transfers in EU Data Protection Law (49/2015) Use of the term “extraterritorial” to describe t…

Early career scholars in international law and neighbouring disciplines are invited to apply for a place in a British Academy-funded workshop on Empirical International Law. This project brings together young scholars and established researchers who share a common interest in studying international law using qualitative and quantitative methods. Th…

On Tuesday 8 September Dr Amy Ludlow and colleagues from the Prisons Research Centre in Cambridge hosted an event that brought together practitioners and academics to explore how more more prison suicides might be prevented. The event was attended by more than 80 prison and probation staff and managers, coroners, academics and representatives from …

Springer has published Fair Reflection of Society in Judicial Systems - A Comparative Study edited by Dr Sophie Turenne. 'Fair Reflection of Society in Judicial Systems - A Comparative Study' draws together for the first time a range of perspectives on the thorny relationship between the principle of judicial independence and the idea of democratic…

Between 3 and 5 September the Faculty hosted the 2015 Conference of the Journal of Private International Law. The Journal's biennial conference, which this year marked the Journal's 10th anniversary, is the principal international meeting for scholars and practitioners in the field. Organized by Richard Fentiman, Pippa Rogerson and Louise Merrett, …