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Oxford University Press has published the Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law edited by Professor Marc Weller, with Assistant Editors Jake William Rylatt and Alexia Solomou. The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century. The attempt to outlaw w…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video Dr Brian Sloan describes the reasoning behind the decision focusing on the limits of what has actually been decided by the Supreme Court. He also analyses the possible implications of the case for othe…

Dr Kathy Liddell and the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) successfully bid to host a Philomathia Research Fellow from 2015-18. The Research Fellow will develop a flagship research project titled Realising Genomic Medicine: Intellectual Property Issues. The project builds on the Faculty's interest and expertise in intellectual proper…

The Faculty of Law has announced the establishment of a new research centre: the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML). The Centre, led by Dr Kathleen Liddell (Director) and Dr Jeffrey Skopek (Deputy Director), will advance research and teaching on issues of law and ethics at the forefront of medicine and the life sciences. In addressing…

On Friday 27 March, a group of Japanese law professors from the Universities of Tokyo, and Kobe, visited the Law Faculty for a two-hour seminar with Professor John Spencer and Dr Findlay Stark, in order to discuss aspects of criminal procedure and evidence in the UK. The group was led by Professor Mashito Inouye, Emeritus Professor of Law at Tokyo,…

Joanna Miles provided advice as an academic consultant to the legal team representing the wife in the recent high-profile Supreme Court case Vince v Wyatt, which concerned the question whether the wife's claim for a financial remedy following divorce could properly be struck out where it was brought decades after the parties' separation and subsequ…

The 41st Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference was held at the Faculty of Law from 16-19 March. The aim of the Conference is "to give 250 year 12 students from all backgrounds the opportunity to accurately experience what studying law and studying Law at Cambridge is like". The Conference was a great success and the delegates had a fantastic experien…

Registration is open for the Future of Registered Partnerships conference, to be jointly hosted by the University of Cambridge and Durham University at the Faculty of Law and Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge on 10 and 11 July 2015. In many jurisdictions registered partnerships were introduced either as a functional equivalent to …

Professor Catherine Barnard and Dr Amy Ludlow have successfully bid to host one of the University's Philomathia workshops and participate in the Philomathia Forum. Together, they will host a one day workshop on 'Procurement and Precarity' on Wednesday 13 May 2015 in Trinity College. The overall aim of the workshop is to explore the ways in which p…

Registration is now open for the 4th annual conference of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) to be held at the St John's College Divinity School on 8 and 9 May 2015. The conference theme is 'Developing Democracy: Conversations on Democratic Governance in International, European and Comparative Law'. Conference highli…

On Saturday 14 March, Trinity College hosted a lecture by the President of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) Dean Spielmann entitled 'Opinion 2/13 and other matters'. In Opinion 2/13, decided just before Christmas, the Court of Justice (Luxembourg) controversially and unexpectedly ruled that the EU could not accede to the European Con…

Professor Simon Deakin led a research project with Sarah Braser Butlin (University of Cambridge), Colm McLaughlin (University College Dublin) and Aleksandra Polanska (University of Cambridge) which undertook a socio-legal case study of the recent equal pay litigation wave in Britain. The research finds that the increase in the number of equal pay c…

Dr Matthew Dyson has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Bonfield Fellowship in the University of Iowa Law Library. Dr Dyson is a Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Trinity College where he teaches and writes in the areas of tort, crime, comparative law, Roman law and legal history. Dr Dyson's current scholarship explores the borderline betwee…

The Nuffield Foundation has published the full report from a study examining public views of child support and how it should be calculated, conducted by a team including Joanna Miles. The study assessed whether the British public believes the government should require non-resident parents to pay child maintenance to support their children, and prov…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Past President of the International Court of Justice, has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Dame Rosalyn had a long and illustrious career in international law and human rights that spanned the early years of the United Nati…