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The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Naomi Hart, PhD student at St John's College, on winning the inaugural Student Writing Competition held by the International Refugee Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL). Naomi's winning piece was entitled 'Transjudicial Dialogue and Complementary Protection: Global Best Pra…

The Faculty has published the third edition of 2014, Volume 6 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Erdos: From the Scylla of Restriction to the Charybdis of License? Exploring the Present and Future Scope of the ʻSpecial Purposesʼ Freedo…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow edited by Dr Mark Elliott and Hanna Wilberg. Responding to and building on the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this book brings together essays on two contrasting issues concerning the scope and intensity of substantive grounds of r…

A new book "Trinity Minds 1317-1945: An Intellectual Account of Trinity College Cambridge" has been authored by Professor PJ Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, and published by Cambridge Independent Press. A visitor to a Cambridge college sees a collection of buildings. The buildings obviously have some sort of coherence, as if…

The euro area sovereign debt crisis has been the greatest threat to the euro since its inception, but the consequences of the crisis go well beyond the realm of macroeconomics: the crisis has cast doubt on the viability of a mechanism of integration such as the one envisaged in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), and on the future of the Europea…

On 20 July 2015, 5-6.30pm the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London will host the launch of Matthew Dyson (ed) 'Comparing Tort and Crime'. This work analyses how the fields of Tort and Crime are connected in eight jurisdictions: England, France, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Scotland, the Netherlands and Australia. Each country…

The Faculty has published the third edition of 2014, Volume 6 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Erdos: Fundamentally Off Balance: European Union Data Protection Law and Media Expression (42/2014) The European Data Protection Directive…

The Squire Law Library has recently taken a subscription to Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL). This service provides full text access to reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press (OUP). Titles include Oppenheim’s International Law as well as many of the Oxford Handbooks (e.g. The Oxford Handbook of I…

The Squire Law Library welcomes the announcement that Professor Eyal Benvenisti has been elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law. He will join Cambridge's thriving international law community in January 2016. Eyal Benvenisti is currently the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. He has held visit…

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Law has again been assessed as the country's leading law school. Repeating its success in previous years it came first in the Guardian University Guide 2016 league table for Law. This matches its position as the UK's top-ranked law school in both the Complete University Guide and the QS World Rankings (in whi…

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Eyal Benvenisti has been elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law. He will join Cambridge's thriving international law community in January 2016. Eyal Benvenisti is currently the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. He has held visiting appointmen…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) First, what lies behind the desire of some politicians to secure the Human Rights Act’s repeal? Second, how might a British Bill of Rights differ from the present legislation? And, third, what constitutional obstacle…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published Interpreting Environmental Offences: The Need for Certainty by Dr Emma Lees. This book analyses the interpretation of environmental offences contained in the waste, contaminated land, and habitats’ protection regimes. It concludes that the current purposive approach to interpretation has produced an unacceptab…

Oxford University Press has published The Euro Area Crisis in Constitutional Perspective by Dr Alicia Hinarejos. The euro area sovereign debt crisis has been the greatest threat to the euro since its inception, but the consequences of the crisis go well beyond the realm of macroeconomics: the crisis has cast doubt on the viability of a mechanism of…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of Contract Law by Professor Neil Andrews. Significantly streamlined and updated, the second edition of Andrews' Contract Law now provides a clear and succinct examination of all of the topics in the contract law curriculum. Chapters direct students to the most important decisions in case …