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On Monday 9, Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be open special hours from 9am-9pm. The facilities will then operate the following vacation hours: Thursday 12 December - Thursday 19 December: 9am-7pm Monday to Friday, (Saturday 14 and 21 December: 9am-1pm) Friday 20 December: 9am-5pm Satu…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Neil H. Andrews: Multi-Party Litigation in England (39/2013) In England 'multi-party' litigation can take various forms, of which the most important are (a) the opt-in sy…

Next year, the University of Cambridge law faculty will be hosting the Annual Forum of the Association of Young Legal Historians from 2-5 April 2014. This is the first time the Annual Forum has been held in a common law country, and the chosen theme of 'Common Laws' invites attention both to the common law legal tradition, and also to the recurrent…

In this edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Professor John Spencer - one of the authors of the Corpus Juris project - responds to a recent article entitled "Innocent until proven guilty? Not under the EU's justice system" written in The Independent by Nigel Farage, UKIP Leader and MEP for the South East of England. T…

The Faculty is offering up to 3 studentships for new PhD students commencing doctoral research in 2014/15. The value of a Scholarship will be up to £20,000 each year for three years. They are available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking full time research towards a PhD in private law, corporate law or tax law, with annual renewal sub…

Cambridge University Press has published Contract Law Minimalism by Dr Jonathan Morgan. Commercial contract law is in every sense optional given the choice between legal systems and law and arbitration. Its 'doctrines' are in fact virtually all default rules. Contract Law Minimalism advances the thesis that commercial parties prefer a minimalist la…

Cambridge University Press has published Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan by Dr Sarah Nouwen. Of the many expectations attending the creation of the first permanent International Criminal Court, the greatest has been that the principle of complementarity would catalys…

Jordan Publishing has published Children: The Modern Law by Andrew Bainham and Stephen Gilmore. Children: The Modern Law is well established as the leading textbook dealing comprehensively with the law and policy relating to children. This fourth edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of significant legislative, case-law…

The Faculty congratulates Professor James Crawford on the award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Amsterdam. The degree will be conferred on the University Foundation Day on 8 January 2014. The Faculty extends further congratulations to Professor Crawford on the award of a Chang Jiang Distinguished Chair tenable at Xi'an Jiaotong Univer…

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor John Baker on his award of the Sutherland Prize of the American Society for Legal History. The prize, which is awarded annually, is for the best article on English legal history published in the previous year.  The winning article was "Deeds Speak Louder Than Words: Covenants and the Law of Proof, 1290-132…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 11 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Neil H. Andrews: Money and Other Fundamentals: English Perspectives on Court Proceedings, Mediation, and Arbitration (37/2013) This article examines the modern 'squeeze’ …

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 10 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Sahib Singh: Non-Proliferation Law and Countermeasures (21/2013) This paper examines a central question concerning the international law of countermeasures: what is the e…

A memorial service for Professor John Tiley will be held in the Chapel of Queens' College, Cambridge on Saturday, 9th November 2013 at 2.15pm. Refreshments will be served in the Long Gallery of the President's Lodge after the service. that people are asked to let the College know presidents.office@queens.cam.ac.uk if they will be attending. Profess…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 9 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Guglielmo Verdirame & Jason Pobjoy: The End of Refugee Camps? (29/2013) Encampment is one of the main challenges to the protection of the human rights of refugees. In most…

Due to the generosity of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills, the Law Faculty is delighted to announce the creation of a generous bursary scheme for the Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL) from which African applicants can benefit. The MCL Admissions Committee will, once the making of offers to join the MCL have been finalised, consider afresh t…