Edward Elgar has published a new book by Brian Cheffins , Advanced Introduction to Corporate Governance Law and Regulation . The book focuses on facets of corporate law essential to the governance of publicly traded companies. It deploys a robust theoretical and multijurisdictional framework to analyse the elements of ..read more

Cambridge University now has permanent access to Public Petitions to Parliament 1833-1918 , as part of the ProQuest U.K. Parliamentary Papers database collection. Current staff and student members of the University can search over 950,000 Petition records, many of which were previously only available in print or microform ..read more

Oxford University Press has published Torts on Three Continents : a volume of essays on tort law, in honour of Jane Stapleton, on her retirement as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. The volume considers her work as a leading scholarly authority on tort, providing cutting-edge analysis of central issues in tort ..read more

Current staff and student members of the University of Cambridge now have access to the Climate Change and Law Collection , published by BRILL. This comprehensive collection of documents contains original source, non-edited and non-redacted “grey literature” (non-peer reviewed) in English, centered on climate change and ..read more

Bloomsbury Professional published in June the second edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts by Elaine Freer and Ryan Evans. A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts sets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders available on acquittal, such as Restraining Orders and Defence Costs Orders, as well as those available on conviction, such as Compensation Orders and Directors' Disqualification Orders. Many of these orders are available in the magistrates' courts as ..read more

Pearson Education Ltd published in July the seventh edition of Tort Law by Nicholas McBride and Roderick Bradshaw. Written by two leading scholars Tort Law, 7th edition provides a comprehensive and easily accessible account of all areas of tort law, as well as discussion of the key academic debates and literature in this subject. It is ideal for use by anyone studying tort law or private law at undergraduate or postgraduate level. Extensively updated, this edition covers all important case-law and legislative developments, including: Detailed accounts of significant UK Supreme Court decisions ..read more

Oxford University Press has published Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation by Matthew Kramer . Building on many years of scholarship, Matthew H. Kramer sets out his definitive philosophical investigation of rights and rights-holding with this monograph, as he sometimes revisits and modifies his previous positions. Beginning with the analytical schema propounded by the American legal theorist Wesley Hohfeld, the book provides a defence of the proposition that every claim-right with a certain content is correlative to at least one duty with the same content, and that every du ..read more

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Exploring Cambridge Law: Faculty of Law Open Day on Wednesday 3 July or the University of Cambridge Open Days on Thursday 4 July and Friday 5 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour of the library, which ..read more

Oxford University Press has published the eleventh edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan . OʼSullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract is the perfect student companion, providing a concise, clear overview of the fundamental principles of contract law. The 11th edition has been rigorously updated by ..read more

The Squire and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Mrs Cherry Hopkins, OBE, LLB , Life Fellow at Girton College, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive . Mrs Hopkins was interviewed in the Squire Law Library between 13 September 2023 and 14 February 2024. In addition to a short video ..read more