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On Friday 21 February 2014 Professor Conor Gearty of LSE and Matrix Chambers delivered the 2014 CPL Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Not in the Public Interest?" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. As a former student of Sir David Williams, Gearty spoke fondly of the way Sir David combined his passion for young people and teaching, …

On Monday 17 February 2014 Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the EU Commission and European Union Justice Commissioner delivered the 2014 CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture entitled "The United Kingdom and the EU: Inevitably Drifting Apart?" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In a provocative lecture, Vice-President Reding examined the reas…

On Wednesday 12 February 2014 Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered the inaugural 2014 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "The British and Europe" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. The consequences of membership of the European Union and of the Council of Europe appear to involve disquiet …

Jo Miles presented findings at the Family Justice Council conference on 7 February from research conducted with Emma Hitchings (University of Bristol) and Hilary Woodward (Cardiff University) on the settlement of financial issues on divorce. The research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, is the first in over a decade to examine the proces…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce a new pathway agreement with Melbourne Law School. The agreement will allow Melbourne JD students to do three and a half years of full-time law study, comprised of five semesters at Melbourne and three terms at Cambridge. Successful completion of the LLM or Masters degree in Corporate Law (MCL) at Cambridg…

From 20 to 31 January 2014, Faculty Lecturer Dr Sarah Nouwen returned to Uganda to give her recently published book Complementarity in the Line of Fire "back" to the hundreds of people whom she had interviewed. Much legal research often ends up close to its sources, for instance in libraries and databases. But with qualitative empirical research ac…

With Britain's relationship with Europe and the nation's constitutional make-up under scrutiny, a series of lectures this month promises to shed light on the controversial issues. The University of Cambridge will host three leading figures from the legal and political world as they cast their eyes on Britain's constitutional past and the future of …

The Faculty has published the second edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 2 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Neil H. Andrews: Nurturing Civil Justice (41/2013) This article emphasizes the State’s duty as the ultimate trustee of legal values to safeguar…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce a new partnership with Sydney Law School, having entered into a pathways agreement with the Australian institution. The agreement will allow high achieving Sydney students the opportunity of commencing the LLM or the Masters degree in Corporate Law (MCL) at the Cambridge Faculty after the completion of five…

The Faculty has published the first edition of 2014, Volume 5 Number 1 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Neil H. Andrews: No Longer an Island: European Influence on English Civil Procedure (40/2013) English civil justice is no longer insulated from …

On Wednesday 15 January, Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Professor Kenneth Armstrong gave evidence before the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee, which was debating the referendum on separation for Scotland. The meeting of the Committee was reported in the Herald Scotland, which summarised "Europe has come to the f…

The Faculty website, and accompanying Squire Library and Research Centre sites are currently experiencing technical problems. This is resulting in many links being broken, some sites being unreachable, and some error codes being displayed. Registered users of the site (students and staff) may also encounter unusual site behaviour during this time…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published Law in Politics, Politics in Law edited by Professor David Feldman. A great deal has been written on the relationship between politics and law. Legislation, as a source of law, is often highly political, and is the product of a process or the creation of officials often closely bound into party politics. Legis…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the fifteenth volume of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies edited by Catherine Barnard, Albertina Albors-Llorens, Markus Gehring with Robert Schütze. The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in EU Law, the law of the European Convention …

Pearson has published the third editions of Letters to a Law Student by Nicholas McBride and Jason Varuhas. Letters to a Law Student relays all that a prospective law student needs to know before embarking on their studies. It provides a useful guide to those considering a law degree or conversion course and helps students prepare for what can be a…