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The Data Protection Regulation proposed in January 2012 by the European Commission would introduce a 'right to be forgotten' into European data protection law. There has been lively discussion about the legal nature of the right to be forgotten, its relationship to other rights and interests, and its implications for society and for the Internet. O…

Two articles co-written by SJ Berwin Professor of Corporate Law Brian Cheffins have been included in the Corporate Practice Commentator's list of the ten best corporate and securities articles of 2012. The list was compiled on the basis of a survey of teachers in corporate and securities law. The two articles were "Delaware's Balancing Act", which …

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the appointment of several Cambridge alumni to the Court of Appeal. Mr Justice Christopher Clarke and Mr Justice Vos both read Law at Gonville and Caius College, Mr Justice Ryder at Peterhouse, Mrs Justice Gloster at Girton, and Mr Justice Floyd read Natural Science and Law at Trinity.  These appointments were ma…

Representing the UK at the International Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition in Washington DC, the Cambridge Jessup Team secured a place among the 32 top teams breaking to the Advanced Rounds of the Competition last week. One of the team members, Deepak Raju, was listed in the top 10 speakers of the competition. The team, comprise…

On 28 and 29 September 2012 the University of Cambridge and University of Michigan co-hosted a Roundtable on the Future of Refugee Convention Supervision at Downing College. The Roundtable, convened by Professor James Hathaway, Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan, and Justice Anthony North, Immediate …

The Faculty welcomes the election of Mrs Nicola Padfield MA, Dip Crim, DES as the Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.  Mrs Padfield is to take office on 1 October 2013, upon the retirement of Professor Robert Lethbridge after eight years in office. Mrs Padfield has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1991 and is Reader in Criminal and …

In the seventh of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Dr Findlay Stark examines the defence of marital coercion, which recently hit the headlines with the trials of Vicky Pryce and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne for perverting the course of justice over an attempt to transfer penalty points …

On Monday 11 March 2013, two teams represented Cambridge at the Oxford French Law Moot/Concours de plaidoiries en droit français. Both teams made it to the semi-final, the one eliminating the other, and setting the scene for a final against University College London, at which UCL won. Congratulations to the Cambridge competitors, Lilit Nagapetyan, …

A team from Cambridge participated in the Annual 2013 International Intellectual Property Law Moot, held over the weekend of 16/17 March. The team consisted of Jessica Egan and Bernhard Heinzl, both LL.M. students at Darwin College, with Stephanie Wickenden, an affiliated law student at Wolfson College, as reserve mooter. This year's moot problem c…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed on Good Friday 29th March, and Easter Monday 1st April.

The Faculty welcomes the election of Professor David Ibbetson FBA as the eighth President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Professor Ibbetson will succeed Sir Martin Harris who will be retiring in Summer 2013. Professor Ibbetson is Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge since 2000. He is currently a Fellow of Corpus Christi College …

The Dr Amanda Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra Law Prize Fund has been set up in memory of Dr Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra, to reward students' outstanding performance in the study of the History and Philosophy of International Law. Dr Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra was a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Law. If you wish to donate to the Prize Fund, p…

The Faculty is delighted to welcome the appointment of two Cambridge alumni to the Supreme Court. Lord Justice Toulson, Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, will succeed Lord Walker, who retires on 17 March 2013. Lord Justice Toulson will also be sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court on Tuesday 9 April. He has been a member of the Court of Appeal…

In the sixth of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Dr Brian Sloan examines the case of Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9, in which the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother who had previously been suspected of causing significant harm to her child, and was now looking after different children in a new…

On 27 February 2013 the Faculty hosted an important and lively debate on the motion 'Those who wish to Practise Law should not Study Law at University'. Sir Patrick Elias, Lord Justice of Appeal, who chaired the debate, kept order in a packed auditorium. Those present included sixth form students considering studying law at University, current stud…