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The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 13 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Nicholas McBride: Private Law at the Crossroads: Is There a Right Way Forward? (56/2014) This paper forms the third part of a loose 'trilogy' of papers presented at succe…

In September 2014, the Faculty of Law, under the auspices of its Centre for Public Law, hosted a major international conference on public law. Videos of the plenary sessions can now be viewed online via the University of Cambridge's Streaming Media service, iTunes U and YouTube. The following sessions are available to view: Professor David Feldman…

In September 2014, the Faculty of Law, under the auspices of its Centre for Public Law, hosted a major international conference on public law. Videos of the plenary sessions can now be viewed online via the University of Cambridge's Streaming Media service, iTunes U and YouTube. The following sessions are available to view: Professor David Feldman…

On 27 November 2014, Dr Marc Moore (3CL Director and Reader in Corporate Law) delivered a prestigious Current Legal Problems lecture at University College London on the topic of 'Pay (In)Equity and Agent (Dis)Incentives'. The lecture was chaired by Professor Charlotte Villiers from the University of Bristol. Moore's lecture recorded how recent deca…

The Squire Law Library has recently subscribed to EBSCO Legal Source. This indexing service provides content to more than 880 scholarly full-text journals. Coverage is from 1912.   For detailed information on the sources included, please refer to the database coverage list. To access the source, please see the Legal Databases page.

This year is the Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference's 40th year. To celebrate reaching such a milestone, the current committee organised an alumni dinner, where over 30 previous committee members going back as far as the early 90s attended. The event was also attended by Professor Graham Virgo and Ms Amy Goymour. The Cambridge Sixth Form Law Confe…

The Faculty is offering a full studentship for new PhD students commencing doctoral research in 2015/16 for three years. The Hatton WYNG PhD studentship is available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking full time research towards a PhD in medical law, ethics and policy, with annual renewal subject to satisfactory academic performance. T…

The fifth edition of Meagher, Gummow and Lehane's Equity: Doctrines and Remedies has been published by LexisNexis Butterworths. On the strength of the previous editions, the President of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Neuberger, has described Meagher, Gummow and Lehane as "authoritative" and has said: "No better treatment of the topic exists". The Judi…

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded Leverhulme Prizes to two University Lecturers at the Faculty, Dr Sarah Nouwen and Dr Michael Waibel. The prizes recognise "the achievement of early career researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising". Sarah received the prize for her resea…

The Centre and the Faculty are delighted to welcome the election of former Goodhart Chair and Mackenzie Stuart lecturer, Silvana Sciarra to the Corte Costituzionale (Italian Constitutional Court). For more information see the Repubblica website. Professor Sciarra delivered the 2006-07 Mackenzie Stuart Lecture entitled 'Trusting Judges to Deliver Ch…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the election of Queens' College graduate James Palmer as the new Chair and Senior Partner of Herbert Smith Freehills. He will succeed St Catharine's graduate Jonathan Scott as Senior Partner. Herbert Smith Freehills have supported a Faculty Visitor Scheme since 2002, enabling distinguished academics and practitio…

On 17-19 September the Violence Research Centre of the Institute of Criminology hosted the first Global Violence Reduction Conference at King's College, Cambridge. The conference discussed issues arising from the central questions: Is it possible to cut worldwide levels of interpersonal violence by half within the coming 30 years? What can we do to…

Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Centre for Community, Gender and Social Justice at the Institute of Criminology has been awarded a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (ACSS). Professor Gelsthorpe is a pioneer in the study of women and criminal justice, as well as on community s…

The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam University Press, 2014) is a collection of essays available openly on a CC-BY-NC-ND licence that represent some of the findings from the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) funded collaboration between CIPIL, the University of Bergen and the University of Amsterdam. The collection contains essays by the…

The Faculty is offering up to 2 studentships for new PhD students commencing doctoral research in 2015/16. The value of a Scholarship will be up to £20,000 each year for three years. They are available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking full time research towards a PhD in corporate law or tax law, with annual renewal subject to satisf…