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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that  the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council yesterday elected Professor James Crawford as a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). After simultaneous rounds of voting in the Assembly and the Council – which met concurrently with but independent of each other – Professor Cra…

'How can the government stem the tide of migrant workers coming to the UK?'. This question has been asked with increasing vigour by those who perceive immigration as a threat rather than a benefit to the UK economy. In this video, Catherine Barnard considers whether it is possible to restrict free movement of workers under EU law, both as it now st…

On Tuesday 5 November 2014 Mr Graham Vinter, General Counsel, BG Group plc (and ex-partner of Allen & Overy), delivered the 2014 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The Trouble with Executives". Mr Vinter described his experiences as a senior executive at BG Group plc, and shared his observations of the disparity…

The Cambridge Law Journal is offering two studentships for full time PhD students commencing doctoral research in 2015-16. The purpose of these scholarships is to promote research in core areas of the common law. The value of a Cambridge Law Journal PhD Studentship will be up to the value of the applicable fees for a Home UK/EU or Overseas student,…

Professor Cheffins Delivers the Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture Photo courtesy of Widener University School of Law.   Professor Brian Cheffins, director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) since 2009 and of the Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL) since 2011, is on research leave in 2014-15. He is focusing primarily on …

Professor Cheffins Delivers the Francis G. Pileggi Distinguished Lecture Photo courtesy of Widener University School of Law.   Professor Brian Cheffins, director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) since 2009 and of the Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL) since 2011, is on research leave in 2014-15. He is focusing primarily on …

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced that University Lecturer in Law Dr Sarah Nouwen is among the winners of a Future Research Leaders grant. The award is for Nouwen's research project "Peacemaking: What's Law Got to Do With It?". This demand-driven project will conduct the interpretive empirical research that is necessary …

Oxford University Press has published the 4th edition of Intellectual Property Law by Professor Lionel Bently and Professor Brad Sherman. Bently & Sherman's 'Intellectual Property Law' is the definitive textbook on the subject. The authors' all-embracing approach not only clearly sets out the law in relation to copyright, patents, trade marks, pass…

Dr Findlay Stark has been serving as a member of the Academic Expert Group advising the Post-corroboration Safeguards Review (PCSR). The PCSR (headed by Lord Bonomy) was set up in the light of the Scottish Government's proposal to abolish the requirement of corroboration in criminal cases. The corroboration requirement (which applies in relation to…

A delegation of nineteen members of the European Court of Justice, including its President Judge Vassilios Skouris and its Vice-President Judge Koen Lenaerts were welcomed to the Faculty of Law by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz on 5 October. Among the delegation were Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, a former member of the L…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: David Howarth and Shona Wilson Stark: The Reality of the British Constitution: H.L.A. Hart and What 'Officials' Really Think (53/2014) In The Concept of Law, H.L.A. Hart…

On 17 September 2014 the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, signed a Memorandum of Understanding about a student exchange. Beginning with Michaelmas Term 2014, every year up to two students from Hong Kong will be studying in Cambridge for a year. This student exchange is a further step in streng…

RAND Europe and the Prisons Research Centre and Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge have been commissioned to undertake a study into staff experience, knowledge and views of self-inflicted death amongst 18-24 year olds and its prevention. The interviews and fieldwork will support and inform Lord Harris’s Review into Self-inflicted Deaths …

The Faculty is pleased to announce that it has been able to make the following Scholarships, Studentships and grants to assist incoming LLM, MCL, and research students. AHRC Awards Three-year studentships were awarded to Oliver Butler (Emmanuel College), Lorenzo Maniscalco (Trinity Hall) and Emilija Marcinkeviciute (Trinity College). Oliver is Brit…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Neil G. Jones: The Authority of Parliament and the Scope of the Statute of Uses 1536 (47/2014) Drawing upon evidence from early-sixteenth-century Chancery pleadings, this…