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The Faculty notes with great pleasure the appointment of Sir John Thomas as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. A Welshman by origin, he read Law at Trinity Hall in the mid-1960s, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 2004. In recent years he has been a frequent and welcome visitor to the Faculty, taking an active part in various conference…

In a joint seminar with the Centre for History and Economics, CELS hosted a seminar where Professor Kenneth Mack, Lawrence Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School discussed Civil Rights Lawyers in American Legal Historiography.

The Faculty of Law has launched a new companion website which focuses on the BA Tripos undergraduate Degree in Law. The site can be found at http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk. The website has been designed as an online prospectus to provide full information to those who might be considering whether they are interested in undertaking the BA Law Degree, and f…

25 February 1941 – 30 June 2013 John Tiley was appointed to a lectureship in the Cambridge Law Faculty in 1967. He remained with the Faculty for the rest of his long and distinguished career. In 1990 he became the Faculty’s first ever Professor of the Law of Taxation, a position he held until his retirement in 2008. John was a pioneer of academic …

25 February 1941 – 30 June 2013 John Tiley was appointed to a lectureship in the Cambridge Law Faculty in 1967. He remained with the Faculty for the rest of his long and distinguished career. In 1990 he became the Faculty’s first ever Professor of the Law of Taxation, a position he held until his retirement in 2008. John was a pioneer of academic …

Oxford University Press has published the first Edition of Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials by Professor Graham Virgo and Mr Paul Davies. Equity & Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a complete guide to the subject in a single volume. Clear author introductions and analyses of the law accompany the extracts from cases and materia…

Professor Lionel Bently has won a major research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).  Professor Bently will collaborate with Professor Ian Hargreaves at Cardiff University, formerly editor of The Independent, who led the recent Hargreaves Review, Digital Opportunity: Intellectual Property and Growth (2010), leading to a swat…

The Faculty extends its congratulations to members who are recipients of the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013. Professor Alan Dashwood, CBE, QC has received a knighthood (KCMG) for services to the development of European law. Alan, now Professor Emeritus of European Law, has had a 40-year career in EU law that has spanned most forms of legal practice …

The Faculty notes with pleasure the appointment of Clive Lewis, QC to the High Court Bench. A Welshman by origin, he was until his elevation to the Bench the First Counsel to the Welsh government. A Cambridge man by adoption, he read law at Churchill and later, from 1986 to 1993, was a Fellow of Selwyn College and a University Lecturer. After leavi…

This year, The Hague Prize for International Law will be awarded to Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, and Egyptian Professor Georges Abi Saab. Since 2002, the prize is awarded every two years to individuals or organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the development of public or private international law or to the advancement of t…

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Kenneth Armstrong, LLB (Glas), LLM (Toronto), Ph.D (Glas) has been elected to the Professorship of European Law. This Chair was established in 1994 and was held previously by Professor Alan Dashwood, CBE, QC. Kenneth Armstrong joined Queen Mary, University of London in 1998 and in 2005 was promoted …

Dr Kirsty Hughes has been awarded the Wedderburn Prize (jointly with Jo Braithwaite, LSE), awarded by the Modern Law Review. The article "A behavioural understanding of privacy and its implications for privacy law" M.L.R. 2012, 75(5), 806-836 presents a theory of privacy based on the behavioural approach of social interaction theory. The Wedderburn…

The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) held its Second Annual Conference on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 May 2013, bringing together almost 150 scholars and practitioners from around the world. Under the theme 'Legal Tradition in a Diverse World', more than 50 papers were presented in over a dozen panels. The event took pla…

Cambridge University Press has published the fourth Edition of Collier's Conflict of Laws by Dr Pippa Rogerson. This reworked version of Conflict of Laws introduces a new generation of students to the classic. It has been completely rewritten to reflect all the recent developments including the increased legislation and case law in the field. The a…

The University of Cambridge has retained its spot as the top-ranked university law faculty, according to a major study carried out by Legal Week's research arm into the perceptions of more than 3,000 law students at some of the UK's leading institutions.  After an excellent showing in the QS World University Rankings, in which the Cambridge Law Fac…