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A number of Faculty Members have recently been involved with major Government policy initiatives: Professor Sir John Baker and David Howarth gave oral evidence (with Dr Meg Russell, Constitution Unit, UCL; Dr Alan Renwick, The University of Reading) to the Joint Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill on 31 October 2011. A recording of th…

The Center for European Legal Studies is pleased to announce that its Weekly Seminar Series is now be available for download from the University's Streaming Media Service (SMS) and as part of the University of Cambridge's collection on iTunes U.  Subject to speaker consent, the lecture component for each seminar will be made available on the U…

Leslie Kosmin QC, one of England’s most distinguished company law barristers, will lead the teaching of a module on company litigation as part of the Masters in Corporate Law programme in 2012-13. Mr. Kosmin studied law at Cambridge and Harvard. He was a law fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before joining Erskine Chambers, the UK’s …

After suffering a complete power outage lasting 16 hours, normal operations at the Faculty have been resumed as of 5.21pm this evening. This outage has been caused by a failure of a high voltage cable from a substation that feeds Law and Criminology (located at the junction of Grange Road and West Road). The cause of the problem was not identified …

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 2011-12 Forum was held on 5 October 2011, and recordings of the presentations are available i…

Howell Jackson, the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will be the Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science from October 2012 to January 2013 and will be prominently involved with the Masters of Corporate Law programme during his stay here. Professor Jackson, an internationally renowned expert in financial regulation, in…

The Law Faculty is delighted to announce that Mr Stuart Bridge has been appointed as a Circuit Judge on the South Eastern Circuit, based at Luton Crown Court, with effect from 12 January 2012. Stuart is a Fellow of Queens' College, and served as a Law Commissioner from 2001 to 2008 before returning again to teach at the Faculty.  He has been sittin…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to welcome attendees of the Society of Legal Scholars' 102nd Annual Conference, which is being held at the University of Cambridge, starting in the afternoon of Monday 5 September and finishing at lunchtime on Thursday 8 September. The main theme of the Conference will be Law in Politics, Politics in Law, which will be…

On Monday 5 September in the Moot Court Room of the Faculty of Law, Lord Justice Rupert Jackson delivered a talk entitled 'Legal Aid and the Costs Review Reforms'.  In it, he considered Government proposals to reduce public financial support for civil proceedings through the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, implementing some …

The Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 29 August. We will re-open on Tuesday 30 August at 9am.

Lectures for the new academic year commence in the Faculty of Law on Thursday 6th October. The Faculty of Law’s main lecture timetable for 2011-12 is now available to download. Special arrangements apply on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th October in order to accommodate the introductory lectures for Part IA students. Details of those introductory lectu…

In the week beginning 18th July 2011, 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 featuring the …

The 'Threats to the University, Humanities, and Science Conference' was held on 20-23 July 2011. Workshop IV on the afternoon of Friday 22nd July was entitled 'Threats from the Libel Laws' was recorded and is available to listen to or download below. Chair: Eric Barendt Discussion Leaders: David Howarth Adrienne Page Simon Singh Principal Partici…

Videos, audio recordings and transcripts from the Law Faculty Open Day held on 6th July are now available on a dedicated Open Day Microsite: openday.law.cam.ac.uk Potential applicants who could not attend, or wish to remind themselves of any of the details of the day can watch, listen to, or read, presentations about applying to the University and …

The Proceedings of the 4th Biennial ESIL Conference will be published by Hart Publishing in November 2011. Edited by James Crawford and Sarah Nouwen, the book contains select proceedings from the ESIL 2010 conference "International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal". With thirty-four edited papers included, the book captures many of the highli…