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The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Eilís Ferran has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Human Resources. She will take up position in October 2015, joining Professor Graham Virgo, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, who took up his post in October last year. The five Pro-Vice-Chancellors are responsible for taking forward the Uni…

The Faculty warmly congratulates the Cambridge alumni appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2015. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall on 16 February 2015. Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. The Cambridge g…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Ariadne Lyroudia as Development Associate for the Faculty of Law. Ariadne read Law at Trinity Hall and gained fundraising experience through her work as part of the Trinity Hall Development and Alumni Relations Office, which included three Annual Fund Fundraising Campaigns. In her current r…

Sophie Arkette, who has been awarded an artist-in-residence fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust to work at the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge. During her residency she will explore questions of how art is treated in British copyright law. Copyright law confers on authors and artists rights to restr…

The Second Edition of International Commercial Litigation by Professor Richard Fentiman has been published by Oxford University Press. International Commercial Litigation is a comprehensive account of the legal and practical issues arising from international commercial disputes in the English courts, with an emphasis on the legal and commercial ris…

The Faculty congratulates Philip Wood QC on his CBE for services to English and Financial Law. Philip is one of the world’s leading experts in comparative and cross-border financial law. He is one of a small number of outstanding individuals who have achieved exceptional distinction in both legal practice and in the academy. As a Yorke Distinguish…

The Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference is proud to announce the launch of a completely re-designed website to support the activities of the conference, at the new address www.cambridgesixthformlawconference.com. The new website includes a video giving a student's perspective of the Conference, filmed entirely by delegates at the 2014 Conference. T…

Cambridge Law Faculty ranked second in the UK for research quality The Cambridge Faculty of Law welcomes the strong recognition given to the quality of its research in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF). Our performance ranked second overall, whether our very high grade point average is assessed in the light of the absolute size of our…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 14 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sarah Nouwen and Wouter Werner: Monopolizing Global Justice: International Criminal Law as Challenge to Human Diversity (63/2014) Over the past two decades, international…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Tuesday 21 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9.00am on Friday 2 January 2015, and from 9am-1pm on Saturday 3 January. Normal opening hours will resume on Monday 5 January.

On Wednesday 17 December the House of Commons Justice Select Committee released their follow-up report into the doctrine of Joint Enterprise in criminal law (HC310). The evidence of Cambridge academics Dr Ben Crewe (Institute of Criminology), Dr Matthew Dyson and Professor Graham Virgo (Faculty of Law) is cited throughout the report, with Dr Crewe …

On 27 November the Ministry of Justice published the report of a major study of litigants in person in private family law cases. The project was conducted by a large team of researchers from several universities, including Joanna Miles. This study was designed to develop the evidence base on litigants in person in private family law cases, includin…

On 4-5 December 2014 a team from the University of Cambridge travelled to the University of Poitiers to discuss the legal implications of different forms of precariousness. The conference was titled 'Franco-British Perspectives on Precariousness Principle(s) - Law(s) - Practice(s) / Approches franco-britanniques de la précarité principe(s) – droit(…

On 8-9 December 2014 Professor Jorge E Vinuales addressed 157 States at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear Weapons. In the past few years, a growing number of states and many civil society actors have focused on the humanitarian consequences and risks associated with nuclear weapons through different national, regiona…

The 4th annual conference of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) will be held at the University of Cambridge on 8 and 9 May 2015. The conference theme is 'Developing Democracy: Conversations on Democratic Governance in International, European and Comparative Law'. Conference highlights include a keynote address by Dam…