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The Faculty is delighted to welcome the establishment of the Prathiba M Singh Cambridge Scholarship. This scholarship will enable talented Indian students to study for the LLM programme in Cambridge. Eligible students for the scholarship will be those who show a strong interest in Intellectual Property Law and who intend to pursue a legal career in…

Hart Publishing has published Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy edited by Stephen GA Pitel, Jason W Neyers and Erika Chamberlain. The book is a new collection of essays arising from the Sixth Obligations Conference which was held in London, Ontario in 2012. Four members of the Faculty have papers published in the collection: Nicholas McBride, Graha…

On Wednesday 9 October 2013 the Supreme Court unanimously allowed the appeals of three prisoners who were seeking the right to have an oral hearing before the Parole Board: see Osborn v Parole Board [2013] UKSC 61. The decision is an important one, re-enforcing the value of common law human rights protections, alongside, and separately from, those…

Cambridge University Press has published Judges on Trial: The Independence and Accountability of the English Judiciary by Shimon Shetreet, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr Sophie Turenne. The second edition of Judges on Trial articulates the rules, assumptions and practices which shape the culture of independence of the English judiciary today…

Two Cambridge PhD students have been awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. Fernando Lusa Bordin was awarded the Diploma in Public International Law, and Hayk Kupelyants was awarded the Diploma in Private International Law. The prestigious Diploma is awarded each year to candidates attending the Academy's Summer Courses in P…

It is with sadness that the Faculty notes the death on 30 September 2013 of David Thomas QC. David was a student at Queens' College and became a member of the Faculty on his appointment as an Assistant Director of Research in the Institute of Criminology from 1 January 1971, soon after the publication of his path-breaking book "Principles of Senten…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 8 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Christopher Forsyth: The Rock and the Sand: Jurisdiction and Remedial Discretion (31/2013) This article emerges from the tension between two conflicting fundamental propos…

In September 2014 the Faculty of Law will host a major international conference on public law. It will be the first in an ongoing series of biennial conferences. The theme of the inaugural Public Law Conference is Process and Substance in Public Law. The conference will bring together scholars, judges and practitioners from a range of public law fi…

The University of Cambridge secured top ranking this weekend in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2014 league tables, and the Faculty of Law was ranked No. 1 for Law. The awards rank institutions with reference to a wide variety of criteria, including UCAS tariff points, completion rates, facilities spend, academic success, graduate …

The Journal of Refugee Studies has this month published the Summary Conclusions of the Roundtable on the Future of Refugee Convention Supervision, alongside three background papers prepared by the Cambridge Pro Bono Project (authored by Katie O’Byrne, Jo Whiteman, Claire Nielsen and Alysia Blackham). The Roundtable was convened at the University of…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Jason Pobjoy: A Child Rights Framework for Assessing the Status of Refugee Children (27/2013) Children have always been particularly susceptible to violations of human rig…

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge hosted a major conference on Interpretation in International Law on 27 August 2013. The event was convened by Daniel Peat and Matthew Windsor, two PhD candidates at Gonville and Caius College, and was attended by over 100 delegates. The conference was…

On 13th September 2013 the House of Commons Justice Committee published its Post-legislative scrutiny of Part 2 (encouraging or assisting crime) of the Serious Crime Act 2007. Professors Spencer and Virgo had both been consulted by the Justice Committee about the drafting and intelligibility of Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act which created new inch…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 6 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Catherine Barnard: The Charter, the Court - and the Crisis (18/2013) The incorporation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights into the EU Treaties is the most profound Const…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Professor Flogaitis, has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Flogaitis has been the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the Lent and Easter terms of 2013. He is currently Professor of Administrative Law, and Director o…