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A number of Faculty Members are involved with major Government policy initiatives: The House of Lords EU Committee (EU Sub-committee on Economic and Financial Affairs has published its report European Banking Union: Key issues and challenges (12 December 2012). In this report the Committee warns that banking union poses a significant threat to the …

Hart Publishing has published Informal Carers and Private Law by Brian Sloan. Every day, large numbers of altruistic individuals, in the absence of any legal duty, provide substantial and essential services for elderly and disabled people. In doing so, many such informal carers suffer financial and other disadvantages. This book considers the scope…

Studying law at University is not a vital prerequisite for a distinguished career in legal practice. But those advocating the non-law route into the profession may undervalue the benefits of the law degree, both for those intending to practise and those not so intending. This important debate will examine the arguments. Justice of The Supreme Court…

In the fifth of the Faculty's ongoing series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Professor David Feldman considers the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the UK’s blanket ban on voting by convicted prisoners violates Article 3 of Protocol 1 to the European Convention on Human Rights which have caused controversy in the UK, …

The Faculty has entered the blogosphere thanks to the efforts of two of its members. Mark Elliott's blog, 'applying for law' (http://applyingforlaw.org/) is a blog for people who are applying to study Law at university or who are thinking of doing so. It is also of interest to current Law students, and to those who are just curious about legal issu…

Cambridge University Press has published The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis by Eilís Ferran, Niamh Moloney (LSE), Jennifer Hill (Sydney) and John Coffee (Columbia). The EU and the US responded to the global financial crisis by changing the rules for the functioning of financial services and markets and by establishing new overs…

The two European Law Centres of Cambridge (CELS) and Durham University (DELI) joined forces to host a workshop on 26th and 27th October 2012 in Cambridge on the "External Relations Law of the European Union". This brought together academics and doctoral researchers from both institutions, as well as a number of guest speakers, to discuss a variety …

Jonathan Faull, Director General in DG "Internal Market and Services" at the European Commission in Brussels gave the CELS lecture on 31st October 2012 about the 'Legal Issues of Financial Reform in the EU' on 31st October 2012. Starting his lecture with an explanation of the extent of the current crisis, underlining that besides enormous legal cha…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that the Australian Government today supported the candidature of Professor James Crawford for election as a Judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The International Court of Justice is established under Chapter XIV of the UN Charter and has 15 members who are elected for terms of nine years…

The latest publication from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, due to be published in December, is Intoxication and Society, edited by Jonathan Herring, Ciaran Regan, Darin Weinberg and Phil Withington. Produced following a Socio-Legal Group workshop meeting in Cambridge for all contributors and some invited discussants, the collection brings togethe…

The William L. Prosser Award will be presented on 6 January 2013 to Professor Jane Stapleton. Nominators of this year's honoree note that she is an influential scholar on three continents. In her native Australia, she serves as a Research Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law in Canberra. Professor Stapleton is al…

In the fourth of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Professor John Spencer examines the plans to amend the criminal law to ensure that even householders who react in a way that may seem disproportionate in the cold light of day will be protected from prosecution, which were announced by new Justice Secretary Chris Grayling …

It was with great pleasure that the Faculty welcomed the recent news that the Queen has approved the appointment of four new Lord Justices of Appeal, all of whom have Cambridge connections. Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, who was the Chair of the Faculty between 2001 and 2003, was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1972. He was a Law Commissioner for Engl…

The LL.M. Subject Forum is an event held at the beginning of each academic year to help current LL.M. students decide which courses to take. Course convenors for each course discuss for approximately 10 minutes the goals and objectives of their course. The 2012-13 Forum was held on 3 October 2012, and recordings of the presentations are availab…

On 22nd September Professor of Public Law and Private International Law, delivered the first M K Nambiyar Endowment Lecture on 'The Province of Legitimate Expectations Redefined'. Supreme Court Judge K.S. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the endowment instituted the endowment at National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) which has been institut…