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Sweet & Maxwell has published the Ninth Edition of Gower & Davies' Principles of Modern Company Law edited by Professor Sarah Worthington and Professor Paul Davies (Oxford). Gower & Davies’ Principles of Modern Company Law presents the leading text available on company law, providing clarity while covering all key areas by way of a detailed, in-de…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an interview with Professor Peter Cane has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Cane was the 2011-2012 Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, a position he held jointly with his wife Professor Jane Stapleton. He is currently Director and Profes…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Michael Waibel has been awarded the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Book Prize 2012 for his book Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals (CUP 2011). The ESIL Book Prize, in line with ESIL's goals of encouraging high-level scholarship and promoting a greater awareness and…

Oxford University Press has published the Eighth Edition of Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law edited by Professor James Crawford. One of the classic treatises on international law, wholly updated in order to take account of recent developments Comprehensive coverage of the field, presenting the system of international law and it…

The British Law Centre in Warsaw, founded by Professor Bill Cornish the first director of The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with a conference reuniting alumini, many of whom now hold important posts in their governments, judiciary and practice. The conference, with the theme of "Two decades …

On Monday 17 September the Howard League for Penal Reform published a study undertaken by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Nicola Padfield and Jake Phillips on deaths on probation: an analysis of data regarding people dying under probation supervision. Report authors Prof Loraine Gelsthorpe and Nicola Padfield, from the University of Cambridge, said: "Our analy…

The Cambridge Pro Bono Project has recently completed three background papers exploring options for the reinforcement or reconceptualisation of international supervision of the 1951 Refugee Convention. On 28/29 September 2012 the papers will serve as a point of departure for a Roundtable on the Future of Refugee Convention Supervision to be held at…

Amid an escalating debate on whether the Government should use Protocol 36 of the Lisbon Treaty to opt out of EU criminal law, a study reveals how doing so would limit the UK’s ability to police international crime. The UK is in danger of compromising its ability to police international crimes like terrorism and drug trafficking by exercising its r…

As part of the launch of the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) programme the Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the establishment of an MCL Practitioners Advisory Board ("the Board"). Members of the Board are each distinguished members of the legal profession with substantial experience in the corporate area: Robert Hingley (Chairman of the Boa…

Cambridge University is launching a new Masters degree in Corporate Law (the MCL) that has been designed to provide a stimulating and academically rigorous programme of study for those strengthening their credentials as business lawyers. The MCL commences officially in October of this year and the Law Faculty is looking forward to welcoming the in…

For the first time last year, the Centre for European Legal Studies embarked on recording a large proportion of the seminars from the Weekly Seminar Series, and making them available to download or stream online. The CELS lunchtime seminars address topical issues of European Union Law and Comparative Law, with a view to using collective debate as…

The Selden Society has published in two volumes The Men of Court 1440 to 1550: A Prosopograhy of the Inns of Court and Chancery and the Courts of Law by Professor Sir John Baker. This monumental work in two very large volumes is a biographical dictionary of every named person connected with the law: all known members of the inns of court and chanc…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor David Farrington, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, has been awarded the 2013 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his pioneering research on early-life interventions and the cost-effectiveness of developmental programs over the life-course. Professor F…

OUP has published the book EU Employment Law (4th ed) by Professor Catherine Barnard. The new edition of EU Employment Law provides a complete revision and update of the leading English language text in the field. The coverage in the new edition has been expanded with material on all the latest developments, incorporating the changes made by the Li…

The Institute of Criminology holds an annual international conference on Evidence Based Policing in association with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and the Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP). The 5th conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 9-11 July 2012.  Speakers included the Rt. Hon. Nick H…