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The Squire Library has recently taken a subscription to the French Database Doctrinal Plus. This service provides access to a wide range of primary and secondary materials, mainly in the French language, with the help files solely in French. Content includes: French legislation – Journal Officiel, the Codes; French Jurisprudence – Decisions from i…

On 13 July 2015 the Centre for English Legal History hosted a workshop at the Faculty of Law entitled Landmark Cases in Criminal Law. During the workshop 14 papers were presented on leading precedents in the criminal law from 1473 to 2005, from various analytical and historical perspectives. The contributors were from Australia, Canada, the U.S., a…

In the week beginning 13 July 2015, the Faculty of Law hosted the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for thirty sixth-former students from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility, and to give the students the experience of a …

The Faculty was delighted to welcome lawyers from global law firm Clifford Chance to the Faculty for the inaugural Clifford Chance Workshop, held on Wednesday 15 July. The workshop was intended to give members of the Faculty and the firm the opportunity to discuss together some of the current research being undertaken in the Faculty, and to celebra…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew Dyson: Bases and Baselessness in Secondary Liability (31/2015) This paper demonstrates that parasitic accessorial liability (sometimes known as “joint enterprise”)…

On 9 and 10 July the Cambridge Private Law Centre hosted a conference at Trinity College entitled Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies. During the conference 23 papers were presented on different contemporary controversies relating to the award of commercial remedies. The contributors were from Cambridge, Oxford and London. Generously suppo…

A senior member of the Faculty of Law has been appointed to an important parliamentary Select Committee. The House of Lords recently appointed Dr Mark Elliott a legal advisor to the Select Committee on the Constitution. Dr Elliott, who in October becomes Professor of Public Law in the Faculty, is one of the country's leading public law scholars. As…

On Tuesday 30 June, lawyers from leading law firm Slaughter and May joined members of the Faculty for the inaugural Slaughter and May Workshop. Organised as part of the long-standing relationship between the firm and the Faculty, and chaired by newly-appointed Pro-Vice Chancellor, Professor Eilís Ferran, the workshop was the first of a series which…

The second Cambridge in London seminar took place on Monday 6 July 2015, kindly hosted by Herbert Smith Freehills at their offices. This event was an opportunity for some of the Faculty's alumni and friends to meet current staff and hear presentations about the Faculty's ongoing work. Chair of the Faculty Board Professor Richard Fentiman outlined t…

Cambridge University Press has published Comparing Tort and Crime edited by Dr Matthew Dyson. The fields of tort and crime have much in common in practice, particularly in how they both try to respond to wrongs and regulate future behaviour. Despite this commonality in fact, fascinating difficulties have hitherto not been resolved about how legal s…

Self-Inflicted Deaths in Custody amongst 18-24 year olds: Staff Experience, Knowledge and Views To inform Lord Harris's Review into Self-inflicted Deaths (SID) amongst 18-24 year olds held in National Offender Management Service custody, researchers from the Faculty of Law and the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, in partnersh…

Dr Amy Ludlow was interviewed recently for the Public Procurement Podcast (PPP) to discuss her new book Privatising Public Prisons: Labour Law and the Public Procurement Process. In the interview, Dr Ludlow discusses her experiences of research into public procurement at Birmingham Prison, and the empirical and cross-disciplinary approach that was …

Bruylant has published Introduction au droit international de l'environnement by Professor Jorge E. Viñuales and Pierre-Marie Dupuy. This new version of Professors Pierre-Marie Dupuy and Jorge E. Vinuales textbook on international environmental law will provide students, researchers and practitioners working in French-speaking countries a facilitat…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Joanna Miles, Sonia Harris-Short, and Rob George. Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive ex…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Simon Deakin et al: Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law (26/2015) Social scientists have paid insufficient attention to the role of law in …