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An article co-written by SJ Berwin Professor of Corporate Law Brian Cheffins, has been included in the Corporate Practice Commentator's list of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2013.  'Is Delaware Losing its Cases' was included on the list which was compiled on the basis of a survey of US-based teachers in corporate and securities …

Several members of the Faculty have featured in the media in recent of weeks, in relation to a broad range of topics: David Howarth: Today Programme Professor David Howarth was interviewed on the BBC Today Programme on Tuesday 6 May to discuss the legality of the contract struck for the construction of a nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point (the UK…

The Faculty has published the third edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Simon Deakin: Labour Law and Inclusive Development: The Economic Effects of Industrial Relations Laws in Middle-Income Countries (13/2014) We us…

The Cambridge University European Society hosted a European Parliament Elections Debate on Saturday 26 April at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. With only one month to May's elections to the European Parliament, the CU European Society hosted the debate with one representative from each political party of the Cambridgeshire constituency…

On 25-27 April 2014, the Cambridge Private Law Centre and Trinity College hosted a conference entitled Comparing Tort and Crime. The conference was the last in a series devoted to understanding the relationship between these two areas of law. Representatives from 8 jurisdictions gathered in Cambridge to debate and discuss procedural, substantive, n…

Professor Lionel Bently featured on the BBC Radio 3 flagship programme Free Thinking on 9 and 24 April. The first programme on 9 April was entitled 'Originality': Naomi Alderman, Geoff Mulgan and Lionel Bently join Philip Dodd to explore the ever-changing meaning of Originality. Nicholas Penny, director of the National Gallery, discusses the meanin…

Oxford University Press has published Torture and Moral Integrity by Professor Matthew H. Kramer. 'Torture and Moral Integrity' is about the wrongness of torture and the nature of morality. It discusses multiple types of torture with great philosophical acuity and it seeks to explain why interrogational torture and other types of torture are always…

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has selected Cambridge LLM student Miriam Boxberg (Newnham College) to participate in its 2014-2015 University Traineeship Programme. This traineeship offers a Cambridge student the rare opportunity to work at one of the world’s most important legal institutions. Trainees assist ICJ judges in tasks su…

In April 2014, the Faculty of Law hosted a symposium on New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research. The symposium brought together scholars from across the UK and Europe to discuss emerging trends and challenges in empirical labour law scholarship. A full list of speakers, together with the titles of their papers, can be found on the CELS websi…

Oxford University Press has published the second edition of Public Law by Dr Mark Elliott and Professor Robert Thomas. Public Law offers a fresh and distinctive approach to the subject. Covering in detail all the topics fundamental to undergraduate courses, this essential text presents a sophisticated and coherent analysis of the doctrines and inst…

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) has carried out an eight-month investigation into the law of joint enterprise, which culminated in a a report published on Monday 31 March.  The investigation is the first in-depth statistical analysis of the impact of joint enterprise law. The report compiled comprehensive data showing at least 1,800 pe…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed on Good Friday (18 April)  until  Easter Monday (21 April) inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday (22 April) at 9am.

Dr Matthew Dyson has been awarded a research fellowship at the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL). Commenting on the appointment, Professor Ivo Giesen of UCALL said: "The Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL) is pleased to announce that Dr Matthew Dyson (Trinity College, Cambridge) has accepted its inv…

On Monday 17 March 2014, two students from the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge won the Seventh Annual French Law Moot held at the University of Oxford. The competition featured 12 teams from around Europe, arguing in French, on French law. None of the competitiors had degrees in law from French Universities. LLM students Bruno Gelinas…

The Law Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Richard Hooley, a highly distinguished legal academic with extensive practical experiences, as the academic with principal responsibility for undertaking Corporate Transactional teaching on the Masters of Corporate Law (MCL).  The one fully compulsory element of the MCL, known as…