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Palgrave has published Great Debates in Jurisprudence by Mr Nicholas McBride and Dr Sandy Steel. A clear and critical exposition of the more advanced concepts in Jurisprudence, providing a cutting edge for students who are looking to gain additional insights with which to excel. Readers are introduced to the many debates surrounding each core area …

The Cambridge Faculty of Law will host a one-hour webinar for prospective LLM applicants on Friday 3 October from 1:00-2:00pm GMT. Dr Michael Waibel, University Lecturer in International Law and former LLM Deputy Director, will discuss Cambridge's LLM admission process and answer questions about the Faculty's LLM programme. He will explain the sele…

Lord Justice Laws in conversation with Professor David Feldman.   From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law hosted a major international conference on Process and Substance in Public Law. The conference, sponsored by Hart Publishing, was specifically designed to address a clear need for a regular, international public law conference, bringi…

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the University of Cambridge held a launch ceremony on 16 September to mark the collaboration of the two leading universities on emerging issues in medical ethics, law and policy. Professor John Spencer and Mr. Terry Kaan of the HKU Centre for Medical Ethics and Law officiated at the ceremony. The event marked t…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the following set of appointments to the one-year Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professorship in Legal Science: Professor David Dyzenhaus (2014-15); Professor Tony Smith (2015-16); Rt Hon Lord Justice Laws (2016-17); and Professor Harold Koh (Yale) (2017-18). The University of Cambridge established the Arthur Goodh…

On Monday 15 September, public lawyers from across the common-law world will arrive in the Faculty of Law for for the inaugural Cambridge Public Law Conference. Organised by the Faculty’s Centre for Public Law and co-convened by Prof John Bell, Dr Mark Elliott, Dr Jason Varuhas and Dr Philip Murray, it will be the first of what will become a bienni…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 10 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: TRS Allan: Justice, Integrity, and the Common Law (44/2014) Ronald Dworkin’s work in legal theory emphasizes the close dependence of common law adjudication on moral reas…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the appointment of St Catharine's graduate and Honorary Fellow Rona Fairhead as the new chair of the BBC Trust, where she replaces Lord Patten who left the position in May. The former chief executive of the Financial Times Group is to become the first woman to lead the BBC, as the new chair of the BBC Trust, the …

On Wednesday 3 September, Dr Matthew Dyson and Dr Ben Crewe (Institute of Criminology) were invited to give evidence before the House of Commons Justice Committee, which was hearing follow-up evidence to the first evidence session on Joint Enterprise. For more information, please refer to the Justice Committee website. Professor Graham Virgo recent…

Ridhi Kabra graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first class LLM degree in June 2014. She won First Prize in the inaugural Nappert (Arbitration) Prize 2014. The prize was awarded for her LLM thesis entitled "Has Abaclat v. Argentina left the ICSID with a 'Massive Problem?'" supervised by Dr Michael Waibel. The prize amounts to Can. $4,…

Dr Jonathan Morgan's book Contract Law Minimalism which was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2013 has been shortlisted by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) for the Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for 2014. The Society has announced that Dr Morgan's boook has been included on the following shortlist: Ja…

Research leave is one of the great privileges of an academic job, and a great opportunity to explore issues that you would like to know more about but simply did not have the time during the usual teaching year. For me the privilege was even greater because I spent my time as Catedra de Excelencia University of Carlos III, Madrid (September 2013-Fe…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 9 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Veronika Fikfak: Domestic Courts' Enforcement of Decisions and Opinions of the International Court of Justice (32/2014) The chapter investigates the role of domestic court…

In the week beginning 11 August 2014, the Faculty of Law hosted the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for twenty nine sixth-former students from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility, and to give the students the experienc…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the appointment of two Cambridge alumni to the Court of Appeal. Mr Justice Philip Sales read Law at Churchill College, and was called to the Bar in 1985. He served as a Recorder from 1999 to 2008. He was appointed First Treasury Junior Counsel (Common Law) in 1997 and (upon becoming a QC in 2006) became First Tre…