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The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 7 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Kenneth Armstrong: The Power of Routine and the Disruptive Politics of Brexit (23/2024) Inspired by, and building upon, Marise Cremona’s scholarship, Armstrong’s essay …

The Centre's latest newsletter is now available. To read, please click on the text or image below: Lauterpacht Centre News - October 2024  

Welcome to the Squire Law Library! We hope the library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find books, journals and reports here to support your taught course, including a course reserve collection for MCL and LLM students, plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extensive electronic coll…

Cambridge University now has permanent access to Public Petitions to Parliament 1833-1918, as part of the ProQuest U.K. Parliamentary Papers database collection. Current staff and student members of the University can search over 950,000 Petition records, many of which were previously only available in print or microform.This collection contains re…

Oxford University Press has published Torts on Three Continents: a volume of essays on tort law, in honour of Jane Stapleton, on her retirement as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. The volume considers her work as a leading scholarly authority on tort, providing cutting-edge analysis of central issues in tort scholarship.  The editors include …

Oxford University Press has just published a volume of essays on tort law, in honour of Jane Stapleton, on her retirement as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. The volume considers her work as a leading scholarly authority on tort, providing cutting-edge analysis of central issues in tort scholarship.  The editors include Jonathan Morgan (Unive…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce a new bursary to help young people from the North East study law at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Jabad Jaigirdar of Newcastle law firm, JLF Law, has very generously donated £17,500 to establish the undergraduate bursary. The JLF Law Firm Jabad Jaigirdar Bursary will provide up to £3,500 per yea…

Current staff and student members of the University of Cambridge now have access to the Climate Change and Law Collection, published by BRILL. This comprehensive collection of documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and the law. Incorporated in the …

Bloomsbury Professional published in June the second edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts by Elaine Freer and Ryan Evans. A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts sets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders av…

Pearson Education published in July the seventh edition of Tort Law by Nicholas McBride and Roderick Bradshaw. Written by two leading scholars Tort Law, 7th edition provides a comprehensive and easily accessible account of all areas of tort law, as well as discussion of the key academic debates and literature in this subject. It is ideal for use by…

Oxford University Press has published Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation by Matthew Kramer. Building on many years of scholarship, Matthew H. Kramer sets out his definitive philosophical investigation of rights and rights-holding with this monograph, as he sometimes revisits and modifies his previous positions. Beginning with t…

The Faculty of Law was pleased to once again host the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law on 6-9 August. A group of 27 sixth-form students from around the country attended the week-long course to learn more about university life and the academic study of Law. The Sutton Trust is a charitable organisation dedicated to increasing social mobility…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor Jan Klabbers has been elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law. Professor Klabbers is currently Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, where he has been based since 1996, having previously taught at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Klabbers serv…

Changes to UK innovation and industrial policy could reduce the early sale of promising companies to overseas firms and increase economic growth, says new report from Cambridge Judge Business School (JBS) co-authored by Faculty Professor of Corporate Law and Governance Bobby Reddy. The early sale of venture capital-backed science and technology-bas…

It is with great sadness that the Faculty of Law notes that Peter Glazebrook, formerly University Lecturer in Law, has passed away. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Peter arrived at the Faculty in 1967, having previously taught in Oxford and Exeter. An expert in criminal law, his name is probably best known to generations of undergradu…