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Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the fifth Edition of Simester and Sullivan’s Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine by Professor Graham Virgo, Professor John Spencer, Professor Andrew Simester and Professor Robert Sullivan (UCL). This is the fifth edition of the leading textbook on criminal law by Professors Simester, Spencer, Sullivan and Virgo.…

The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Arden was interviewed yesterday on the BBC Woman's Hour programme. Lady Justice Arden studied Law at Girton College before being appointed QC in 1986, and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2000 - the third female judge to do so. She is Head of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales and a member of the…

Oxford University Press has published The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. In the 10 years since its first edition, Catherine Barnard's text has quickly established itself as the leading textbook on the Four Freedoms. Popular with students and academics alike, this authoritative text offers a unique balan…

The Faculty has published Volume 4 Number 5 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Nicola Padfield: An Entente Cordiale in Sentencing? (11/2013) This is a short series of articles providing a description of the French system of sentencing (including the …

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place on 9th-14th September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed.  On those dates, the Faculty building will also close at 5:00pm.  The Faculty building is also closed all day on Saturday 14th September. The library will re-open at 9:00am on Monday 16th September.

Cambridge University Press has published Law and Legal Process: Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History edited by Dr Matthew Dyson and Professor David Ibbetson. This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Inste…

Cambridge University Press has published State Responsibility: The General Part by Professor James Crawford. Annexed to GA Resolution 56/83 of 2001, the International Law Commission's Articles on Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts put the international law of responsibility on a sound footing. As Special Rapporteur for the second read…

On 22 July 2013 the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills published the Single Market Report: A Review of the Balance of Competences. This report is one of 32 reports being produced as part of the Balance of Competences Review. The Foreign Secretary launched the Review in Parliament on 12 July 2012, taking forward the Coalition commitment to…

Oxford University Press has published The Sovereignty of Law: Freedom, Constitution and Common Law by Professor Trevor Allan. In The Sovereignty of Law Trevor Allan presents an accessible introduction to his influential common law constitutional theory - an account of the unwritten constitution as a complex articulation of legal and moral principle…

From the academic year 2013-14 onwards, Cambridge will be the first university in the United Kingdom to give full course credit to LL.M. students participating in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition. This innovative LL.M. course will count as one of four papers for the LL.M. As part of this dedicated Jessup course, up to five …

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Professor Sealy, Fellow of Gonville & Caius, has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Sealy first came to Cambridge from New Zealand to undertake his Ph.D shortly after WWII, and after a brief return home in 1958, he came to stay in 1959. …

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor David Feldman who has been awarded an honorary degree by Bristol University. Professor Feldman was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa today at today's degree ceremonies in the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol University. "Professor David Feldman... worked at the University of Bristol for 16…

In the week beginning 15th July 2013, the Faculty of Law hosted the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for twenty six seven formers from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility. The Summer School week culminated in a mock tri…

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Eilís Ferran on her election as a Fellow of the British Academy. Eilís is Professor of Company and Securities Law and a JM Keynes Fellow of the University. Her recent publications include The Regulatory Aftermath of the Financial Crisis (CUP, 2012, with Niamh Moloney, Jennifer Hill and John Coffee), 'The S…

In the eighth of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield considers the case of Vinter v UK which was recently decided by the European Court of Human Rights, and has raised a good deal of controversy regarding the right of the United Kingdom to sentence a prisoner to a life sentence (the Whole Life Tariff) withou…