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Building on the success of the inaugural Public Law Conference that was held in 2014, the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Public Law will next year host the second in this series of biennial international conferences. The conference will take place in Cambridge from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 September 2016 under the theme: "The Unity of Public Law?" Co…

Hayk Kupelyants was awarded the prize of the Federalist Society's Faculty Division in response to a Call of Papers on Private International Law, Economics and Development. Hayk is a third year PhD student at the Faculty of Law working on sovereign debt litigation, supervised by Professor Richard Fentiman and Dr Michael Waibel. From October 2015, he…

Oxford University Press has published The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation edited by Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney, and Jennifer Payne. The financial system and its regulation have undergone exponential growth and dramatic reform over the last thirty years. This period has witnessed major developments in the nature and intensity of financial m…

Dr Matt Dyson, a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Trinity College was on sabbatical leave in Lent Term 2015. This leave was a chance to complete a number of ongoing projects, develop international contacts for projects being proposed and to do primary research towards a monograph. The largest single project while on leave was finishing work on…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 9 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Lorand Bartels: The Relationship between the WTO Agreement on Agriculture and the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (38/2015) Since the expiry of the ‘pea…

Brian Sloan discussing Guardianship for Minors in Europe at the University of Regensburg.   Dr Brian Sloan, a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, took research leave over Michaelmas Term 2014 and Lent Term 2015.  He was delighted to have the opportunity to expand his work on care for elderly and disabled adults following the p…

The Faculty is saddened to announce the death on Friday of Professor Sir Bob Hepple. Professor Hepple was Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Master of Clare College. In 2014 Professor Hepple was awarded the Order of Luthuli Gold Medal on South African Freedom Day, marking the 20th anniversary of the first democratic elections. Professor Hepple …

Cambridge University Press has published The Cambridge Companion to Public Law edited by Professor David Feldman and Dr Mark Elliott. The Cambridge Companion to Public Law examines key themes, debates and issues in contemporary public law. The book identifies and draws out five key themes: the notions of government and the state; the place of the s…

Cambridge University Press has published Transparency in International Investment Arbitration, edited by Dr Markus Gehring, Dimitrij Euler and Maxi Scherer. The topic of transparency in international investment arbitration is gaining increasing attention. This in-depth commentary analyses the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-…

Dr Matthew Dyson has also been elected to an Associate Membership of l'Académie internationale de droit comparé. The International Academy of Comparative Law was founded at The Hague on 13 September 1924. The date itself is significant because it coincides with the prodigious movement towards a renaissance of law which followed World War I. That …

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution by Professor Graham Virgo. The third edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution brings this widely cited and influential volume fully up to date. It has been substantially rewritten to reflect the significant changes in the law of restitutio…

The Chairmen of the Law Commissions in July 2015 cutting the celebratory cakes: The Scottish Commission Chairman, Lord Pentland [L], and the Chairman of the Law Commission of England and Wales, Sir David Lloyd Jones [R].   On 10-11 July, the Faculty of Law in collaboration with the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London held a confere…

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…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published Marriage Rites and Rights edited by Joanna Miles, Perveez Mody and Rebecca Probert. Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need to protect those who do not wish to marry from b…

On 16 July 2015, The Faculty of Law hosted the second 'Conference for Sixth Form Teachers and Advisers'. The aim of the event was to raise teachers' awareness on what studying Law at University is like, the benefits of undertaking a Law degree, and how to apply for Law at Cambridge. 15 teachers and advisers attended the event, from around the count…