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On Friday 27 February 2015 Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders of the University of Melbourne delivered the 2015 CPL Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Professor Saunders considered the progress of devolution in the United Kingdom, exploring …

Oxford University Press has published Interpretation in International Law, edited by Daniel Peat, Matthew Windsor, and Andrea Bianchi (The Graduate Institute, Geneva). Other contributors to the volume from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law include Philip Allott and Michael Waibel. The preface is written by James Crawford. International law…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that the following content has been added to the Justis subscription service.   State Trials Aspinall's Maritime Law Cases Bermuda Law Reports Chinese Commercial and Maritime Law Reports Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Extradition Law Reports Justis Irish Cases & Legislation Justis Jamaican Cases Menta…

Hart Publishing has published Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit edited by Murray Hunt, Hayley Hooper, Paul Yowell. In many countries today there is a growing and genuinely held concern that the institutional arrangements for the protection of human rights suffer from a 'democratic deficit'. Yet at the same time there a…

Oxford University Press has published the Oxford Commentary on the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development edited by Jorge E. Viñuales. The international community has long grappled with the issue of protecting the environment while encouraging social and economic development, often with limited results. The 1992 Rio Declaration on Environme…

The Faculty has published second edition of 2015, Volume 6 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Fox: Case Study: The Case of Mixt Monies (70/2014) This chapter considers the intellectual pedigree of the decision of the English Privy Coun…

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Sidney Sussex Law Fellow Fernando Lusa Bordin on his success in being awarded the 2014 ICLQ Young Scholar of the Year prize for his article 'Reflections of Customary International Law: The Authority of Codification Conventions and ILC Draft Articles in International Law'. Dr Bordin will be awarded his pri…

On the weekend of 13-15 February 2015, a Colloquium was held in memory of Emile Perreau-Saussine and Amanda Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra. The theme was 'Catholic and Secular' and speakers included Joshua Getzler, Raymond Geuss, Jim Murphy, Onora O'Neill, and Nigel Simmonds. Topics ranged from St. Augustine to Albert Camus, from Maimonides to Gerard …

The Faculty has published first edition of 2015, Volume 6 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Matthew H. Kramer: Moral Conflicts, the 'Ought'-Implies-'Can' Principle, and Moral Demandingness (67/2014) Among the complaints often voiced by phil…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Professor David Dyzenhaus has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Dyzenhaus is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2014-15. He is currently Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, …

Dr Mark Elliott has given oral evidence to two parliamentary select committees on the constitutional implications of the proposed Scotland Bill. The proposed legislation has been drafted in order to implement the recommendations of the Smith Commission, made in the aftermath of the "no" vote in the Scottish independence referendum. As well as provi…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published Privatising Public Prisons by Dr Amy Ludlow. Successive UK Governments have pursued ambitious programmes of private sector competition in public services that they promise will deliver cheaper, higher quality services, but not at the expense of public sector workers. The public procurement rules (most signific…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, incl…

On Thursday 29 January 2015 Anthony Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union delivered the 2015 CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture entitled "Facing Legal Challenges in US - EU Relations" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In his lecture, Ambassador Gardner focused his remarks on two substantive areas where legal challenges to US-EU rela…

The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp aroused worldwide media interest. From the beginning Pistorius claimed that he had no intent to kill Reeva because when he fired the fatal shots her he thought he was firing at an intruder. And so whether he had the necessary intent to kill became a crucial issue in his t…