On 9th April 2024 the European Court of Human Rights delivered Grand Chamber rulings in three cases relating to climate change: Carême v France Duarte Agostinho and Others v Portugal and 32 Others Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v Switzerland In this video, Dr Stefan Theil discusses the extent to which the ECHR is prepared to dictate how countries might implement their own climate change policies. Stefan Theil is Assistant Professor in Public Law and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. In Stefan's recent book Towards the Environmental Minimum (Cambridge Unive ..read more

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 4 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN . This issue includes the following articles: Bobby V. Reddy: Getting in a Bind - Comparing Executive Compensation Regulations in the US and the UK ( 5/2024 ) Andreas Samartzis: State Authority and True Political Community: Exploring the Basis of Political Equality ( 6/2024 ) Philip Murray: On the Doctrinal Foundations of Administrative Law ( 7/2024 ) David Erdos: Palestine and the Modern Commonwealth: Past Engagements and Future Membership? ( 8/2024 ) Ahmed ..read more

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Law at the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honour of Sarah Worthington edited by Dr Sinéad Agnew and Sir Marcus Smith (Justice of the High Court and President of the Competition Appeals Tribunal). This collection celebrates the immense contribution of Sarah Worthington to the field of private law. Defining the subject broadly, experts from the judiciary and the academy address contemporary challenges arising in the fields of agency, company law and insolvency, contract law, equity, the law of money, personal property, restitution and ..read more

The Faculty has learned with sadness of the death of Professor Malcolm A Clarke (Emeritus Fellow, St John's College) last week. Malcolm was Professor Emeritus of Commercial Contract Law. He began his academic career in Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College 1966-68, and then took up his university post in ..read more

The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS) was founded by Alan Dashwood and Angela Ward to provide a space for reflection and conversation about the challenges facing Europe and the diverse legal contexts in which those challenges are addressed. To mark this milestone and demonstrate the continuing commitment ..read more

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of Corporate Tax Law: Structure, Policy and Practice by Professor Peter Harris . This new edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. It considers the Trump US tax reforms of late 2017 and then the Biden reforms of 2022. It recognises the economic rise of China by incorporating its corporate tax system for comparison. This creates increased balance, introducing a second civil law jurisdiction.This edition also incorporates many changes resulting from international tax developments including the Base Eros ..read more

Congratulations to the Cambridge team: Wanting Guo (Queens’), Zofia Halbersztat (Trinity), Zheng Yu Chow (Emmanuel), Ben Mays (Trinity), Julian Poon (Wolfson), Sarah Hair (Christ's), Sam Pearce (Churchill), Jonathan Saunders (Selwyn) for their achievements in the Vis Moot International Commercial Arbitration Competition , one of the most prestigious international commercial law competitions. In the first of the season of pre-moots leading up to the final rounds of the Vis Moot in Vienna, the Cambridge Team (Sam Pearce, Julian Poon and Jonathan Saunders won the DLA Piper Vis Pre-moot in Stockh ..read more

Oxford University Press has published More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals by Raffael Fasel . Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the rights that have so far been reserved to human beings. This development has raised fundamental questions about the nature of legal rights, and who should have them. More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals provides a sustained analysis of the fundamental rights of human and nonhuman animals to explore the issu ..read more

Image: Eugene Shevchuk Last week, the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (PEPP) visited the Faculty of Law. Twenty-three PhD students came to Cambridge from our partner universities in Genoa, Hamburg, Katowice, Leuven, Maribor, Münster, Valencia and Zagreb to discuss their research, attend lectures and ..read more

The Faculty has distributed Volume 15 Number 3 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN . This issue includes the following articles: Eyal Benvenisti: When Solange I Met Neubauer: National Courts Protecting Global Interests When Reviewing Decisions of International Organizations ( 31/2023 ) Fiona Costello & Catherine Barnard: The Darker Side of the Internal Market Ideal: EU Migrant Workers Living in a Coastal Town ( 32/2023 ) Bobby V. Reddy: Going Dutch? Comparing Regulatory and Contracting Policy Paradigms Via Amsterdam and London SPAC Exp ..read more