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In September 2014, the Faculty of Law and the Centre for Public Law will host a major international conference on Public Law. Following an outstanding response to the call for papers, the conference convenors are delighted to be able to publish the conference programme. The conference will bring together around 60 speakers—along with approximately …

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

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the second edition of Hearsay Evidence in Criminal Proceedings by Professor John Spencer. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 re-wrote the hearsay evidence rule for the purpose of criminal proceedings, enacting the recommendations of the Law Commission together with some proposals from the Auld Review. In 2008, Prof…

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Pippa Rogerson as its first Director of the Law Tripos. The decision to create this important new role resulted from the Whole Course Review of the Law Tripos conducted by the Faculty between 2012 and 2014. The Law Tripos is a meaningful academic degree which requires breadth, depth and int…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that it has entered into a Pathway Agreement with the Faculty of Law at Monash University. This Agreement completes a trio of Pathways between the Faculty and top Australian law schools. The new Pathway with Monash follows the same pattern as the Pathways with Sydney and Melbourne, and gives outstanding Monash l…

The Faculty has published the fourth edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Simon Deakin et al: Empirical Analysis of Legal Institutions and Institutional Change: Multiple-Methods Approaches and Their Application to Cor…

The Squire Law Library recently added the law titles from the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) collection to the library catalogue, as well as subscribing to the University Press Scholarship Online covering electronic book material published by Stanford University Press and the University of Chicago Press. The ebooks team located in the University L…

Routledge, Oxford, has published the ninth edition of Modern Land Law by Dr Martin Dixon. Modern Land Law offers a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Dispelling any apprehension about the subject’s formidability from the outset, this compact textbook provides an absorbing and exact analy…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Graham Virgo has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education. He will take up position in October 2014. The Pro-Vice Chancellors support the work of the Vice-Chancellor, providing academic leadership to the University and work in partnership with senior administrators to help drive strategy a…

The Faculty warmly congratulates the Cambridge alumni appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2014. The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall on 14 April 2014. Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. The Cambridge grad…

The inaugural Cambridge Arbitration Conference took place on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th March at the Faculty of Law. Organised by the University’s Graduate Law Society, in conjunction with the Faculty, this unique event brought together speakers from more than 12 top law firms and Chambers, as well as the University of Cambridge and UCL. The event…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published Law As Engineering by Mr David Howarth. Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigation, and having much in common with engineering in the way it produces devices useful for its clients. It uses that comparis…

The Faculty has published the third edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Michael Waibel: Investment Arbitration: Jurisdiction and Admissibility (9/2014) Jurisdiction refers to the power of a court or judge to entertai…

Oxford University Press has published the second edition of Principles of Corporate Finance Law by Professor Eilís Ferran and Look Chan Ho. A multidisciplinary work allowing readers to appreciate the importance of interfaces between law, economics and political science, which guides readers to key issues in corporate finance law and provides an exp…

The Faculty has published the third edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Michael Waibel: Coordinating Adjudication Processes (6/2014) International investment tribunals, like all other international courts and tribuna…