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Oxford University Press has published the 11th edition of Administrative Law by Professor William Wade and Professor Christopher Forsyth. Wade and Forsyth's Administrative Law has been a cornerstone text since its first edition in 1961. It provides a comprehensive and perceptive account of the principles of judicial review and the administrative ar…

The Faculty has published Volume 5 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Veronika Fikfak: Kadi and the Role of the CJEU in the International Legal Order (26/2014) This article investigates the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union …

The government is carrying out a review of the EU's competences which the Foreign Secretary launched in July 2012. This is an 'audit of what the EU does and how it affects the UK'. Never before has such an ambitious exercise been undertaken by any Member State. The government says that this 'Balance of Competences review' is important to ensure tha…

Jo Miles is one of two academic members on the Family Justice Council's Financial Needs Working Group, chaired by Mrs Justice Roberts, to take forward a recommendation made by the Law Commission in its report on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, published in February 2014. The Working Group's task has two limbs. The first is to produce a …

The first of a planned series of occasional seminars at which members of the judiciary, legal profession, legal commentators and others have the opportunity to hear about Faculty activities and to discuss matters of mutual interest took place at the offices of Travers Smith on 1 July 2014. The Faculty in General Eilís Ferran, the Chair of the Facul…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for a follow-up interview with Professor Gerald Postema has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Postema is the outgoing Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2013-14. He is currently the Cary C. Boshamer Disting…

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 Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Matthew Kramer on his election as a Fellow of the British Academy. Matthew is a leading scholar in legal philosophy, political philosophy and moral philosophy. He has published fourteen authored books and four co-edited books as well as numerous articles and other papers. International symposia have been o…

Cambridge University Press has published Unravelling Tort and Crime by Dr Matthew Dyson. Tort law and criminal law are closely bound together but their relationship rarely receives sustained and rigorous scrutiny. This is the first significant project in England and Wales to address that shortcoming. Building on growing interest amongst both academ…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Professor Graham Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and also Deputy Chair of the Faculty Board. For more information about Professor Virgo, please refer to his …

In this next edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (AM) v The DPP [2014] UKSC 38) focusing on the minority judgement of Baroness Hale. This item also features on th…

In addition to Dr Jens Scherpe, Dr Sophie Turenne has also been elected to an Associate Membership of l'Académie internationale de droit comparé. The International Academy of Comparative Law was founded at The Hague on 13 September 1924. The date itself is significant because it coincides with the prodigious movement towards a renaissance of law w…

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will close at 5pm on Friday 4 July, following the Open Day. The building is closed over the weekend for maintenance work, and on Monday 7 July due to widescale disruption of the Tour de France.  The building will re-open as normal at 9am on Tuesday 8 July. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Professor Richard Fentiman (third from the left) was awarded a Pilkington Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching at a ceremony at Downing College last night.  The Pilkington Prizes were established in 1994 by Sir Alastair Pilkington, the first Chairman of the Cambridge Foundation, who believed passionately that the quality of teaching was crucia…

Dr Jens Scherpe has been elected to an Associate Membership of l'Académie internationale de droit comparé. The International Academy of Comparative Law was founded at The Hague on 13 September 1924. The date itself is significant because it coincides with the prodigious movement towards a renaissance of law which followed World War I. That the Ac…