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The Guardian Law section has announced the results of a poll held to determine the best law books a future student should read.  Two of those selected by readers were written by Faculty members. In second place behind Lord Bingham's Rule of Law, was Nick McBride's Letters to a Law Student. From The Guardian:   ""Dear Sam, I hope you don't mind …

It is with much sadness that the Faculty announces the death of Amanda Perreau-Saussine Ezcurra. After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Amanda passed away in the early hours of Wednesday, 1 August 2012. She is survived by Carlos, her husband, and her children, Elisabeth and Martin, whose father, Emile Perreau-Saussine, Amanda's first husb…

A lot of people who study Law at University do so because they want to become practising lawyers, whether as barristers or solicitors, but it is not necessary to read Law at University to become a practising lawyer. Equally, studying Law at University is a legitimate subject for academic study even if you definitely do not want to become a lawyer o…

The University Library Journal Co-ordination Scheme is pleased to announce that the BRILL NESLi2 package for 2012 is now available on the new BRILL Online Books and Journals platform. Inter alia this will provide access to 172 Brill journals in the Humanities, International Law and Biology. See University Library News for more information.

From 17-21 July, six members of the Faculty travelled to the Faculty of Law at Western University, London, Ontario, to give papers to the Sixth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, entitled 'Challenging Orthodoxy'. Pictured are: Sandy Steel (King's College London and Bye-fellow of Murray Edwards College), Matthew Dyson, Paul Davies, Graha…

In the week beginning 23rd July 2012, the Law Faculty hosted the annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Law for twenty six sixth formers from around the country. The aim of the Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility. The week culminated in a mock trial, with students…

In the third of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Dr Mark Elliott examines the current debate over the reform of the House of Lords, and the role which the body should play in the UK constitutional order. Dr Mark Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. His main…

On 11 July 2012, the Centre for History and Economic and CELS hosted an 'In conversation with...' featuring Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court at Trinity College, Cambridge. In a wide ranging discussion, the Justice talked about the function of comparative law, originalism in the Supreme Court, and the role of public opinion in shaping…

Professor John Spencer is a co-editor on the new book entitled 'Children and Cross-Examination - Time to Change the Rules?'. In 2009, Stephen Barker was convicted of rape on the evidence of a little girl who was four-and-a-half years old at the trial, and about three-and-a-half when first interviewed by the police. The high point of the proceedings…

The Law Faculty is pleased to announce that Dr. Rafal Zakrzewski will take up in September 2012 a two-year appointment as University Lecturer in Corporate Law and Transactions. He will lead the teaching of a course on corporate transactions – the "Deals Course" – as part of the Masters in Corporate Law program in 2012-13. This course is a core elem…

Potential applicants to the undergraduate law degree may be thinking that they might eventually wish to pursue a career as a lawyer, whether a solicitor or a barrister.  There are two different ways of getting the necessary qualifications. One is to study any subject at University other than Law, then do a one-year Law conversion course and finally…

In the second of a new series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Ms Jo Miles examines the potential impact of proposed changes to the legal aid system and their effect on access to justice, especially in relation to difficult family law cases. Ms Miles is Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Senior Lecturer in Law, sp…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Mr Michael J. Prichard, Life Fellow of Gonville & Caius, has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Mr Prichard has provided a fascinating account of growing-up in London during the Second World War and attending King’s College London in the ravaged …

The Faculty is launching a new collection of short videos entitled 'Law in Focus'. Law in Focus is a series of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergradua…

On 19th and 20th of May 2012, the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) launched its first two issues at its inaugural conference on 'Agents of Change: The Individual as a Participant in the Legal Process'. The conference, convened by the Journal’s Founding Editors-in-Chief, Rumiana Yotova and Andrew Sanger (second year doc…