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In February of this year, the Law Faculty announced the launch of the Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL), with the first cohort of students to be admitted in October 2012. Full details concerning the MCL are now available on the MCL’s website. The website has been designed to provide full information to those who might be interested in joining …

The Faculty is pleased to announce the publication of the latest edition of LawLink, the newsletter from the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. For environmental reasons, we circulate LawLink in electronic format, although hard copies are available from the Faculty on request. As in previous years, this issue and all back issues are availabl…

On 4 March 2011 the Faculty of Law launched the Cambridge Pro Bono Project with a lecture delivered by Professor Philippe Sands QC. Professor Sands spoke about the importance of pro bono legal work both as an academic and a legal practitioner. Drawing on his wealth of experience and personal anecdotes, he encouraged students to take chances that mi…

A number of Faculty Members have recently been involved with major Government policy initiatives: Professor David Feldman has been appointed Specialist Adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on the Draft Detention of Terrorist Suspects (Temporary Extension) Bills. This committee is due to report in June. Professor Feldman also gave ora…

A number of new books written by members of the Faculty have been published recently: Public Law Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas Public Law is an advanced, high quality textbook that comprehensively covers the key topics found on undergraduate public law courses. The book presents a sophisticated and accessible analysis of the l…

Now available on this website is the provisional list of papers to be offered by the Faculty of Law for the B.A. Tripos and LL.M. courses in the 2011-2012 academical year. These documents are available by browsing in the Document Repository under the 'Miscellaneous Documents' category, or you can access them via the following links: Tripos; LL.M.;

Professor Lionel Bently and Elena Cooper of the Centre for Intellectual Property & Information Law (CIPIL) have published in conjunction with Martin Kretschmer, Sukhpreet Singh (Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, UK) a report for the Design and Artistic Copyright Society (DACS). There is a common p…

David Wills, the Squire Law Librarian, has been appointed editor of the journal Legal Information Management (LIM), published by Cambridge University Press, with effect from 31 March 2011.

Routledge has published Dr Anat Scolnicov's book The Right to Religious Freedom in International Law Between Group Rights and Individual Rights.  This book analyses the right to religious freedom in international law, drawing on an array of national and international cases. Taking a rigorous approach to the right to religious freedom, Anat Scolnico…

The MCL team: E Ferran, R Nolan, B Cheffins & J Kirshner   The Law Faculty is launching in 2012-13 a new Masters degree in Corporate Law (the MCL). The MCL will be the first entirely new degree in Law to be established by Cambridge University since the nineteenth century and is at the heart of the Faculty’s strategy to maintain its position a…

The Twentieth British Legal History Conference will be held in Cambridge from Wednesday 13 July 2011 to Saturday 16 July 2011. The conference theme will be: Law and Legal Process The conference addresses the intersection between law and legal process, the ways in which the processes of courts and other tribunals, the practices of judges and lawyers…

The Faculty’s next Open Day will be held on 6th July 2011. The Open Day is a great opportunity to hear about what it is like to study law at Cambridge, how to apply, and meet members of staff and students. You can attend either in the morning or the afternoon. To book a place, email openday@law.cam.ac.uk by 1st July 2011.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an interview with Justice Paul Desmond Finn has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Justice Finn is currently Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science (2010 – 2011). He is a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and was previously Professor and Head, Dep…

The Squire Law Library and Law Faculty Building will be closed from Thursday 23rd December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Library and Faculty will re-open at 9.00am on Tuesday 4th January 2011.

Printed copies of the Form and Conduct Notices for the Law Tripos 2010/11 Examination and the Examination in Law for European Students 2010/11, and the LL.M. Examination are available for collection from the front reception desk in the Law Faculty building from today. The notices have also been uploaded to the Faculty website, where they are availa…