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The David Williams Building, including the Squire Law Library, is closed until further notice owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We apologise for the inconvenience this causes. The Squire Law Library team will be operating an enquiry service remotely, and will continue to make resources available where possible. The enquiry service is st…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the third edition of Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy by Louise Gullifer and Jennifer Payne. The third edition of this acclaimed book continues to provide a discussion of key theoretical and policy issues in corporate finance law. It has been fully updated to reflect de…

Cambridge University Press has announced that all of their 700 textbooks have been available in HTML format on Cambridge Core until the end of May, to support our global community of teachers, researchers and learners during the coronavirus pandemic. These e-book titles will not automatically appear on iDiscover so please search on Cambridge Core t…

Oxford University Press has published The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law edited by Kevin Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens Ohlin, and Darryl Robinson. In the past twenty years, international criminal law has become one of the main areas of international legal scholarship and practice. Most textbooks in the field describe th…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for David Eryl Corbet Yale has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. David Yale was born in Southsea, near Portsmouth in 1928, where his father was stationed as an army officer. David spent much of his childhood at Porthmadog, where he attended primary school,…

The Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law will close early at 17:00 on Wednesday 18 December.  The Library will re-open at 09:00 on Thursday 19 December and then remains on vacation hours until 12:00 on Monday 23 December.     

Oxford University Press has published European Data Protection Regulation, Journalism, and Traditional Publishers: Balancing on a Tightrope? by Dr David Erdos. The tension between freedom of expression and European personal data protection regulation is unmistakable. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its interface with professional journalism a…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce an entry into the Eminent Scholars Archive for Mr Colin Conyngham Turpin, who died on 18th July 2019. This entry represents a new venture for ESA, being a posthumous tribute to a scholar whom we did not have the opportunity of interviewing. His demise predated a meeting that had …

Opening Times Michaelmas Term ends on Friday 6 December, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the vacation. The library opening times will be: Saturday 7 December - Thursday 12 December inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 20:50 Saturday: 09:00 - 17:50 Sunday: Closed Friday 13 December - Monday 23 De…

Friday 22 November, 13:00-15:00 Venue: SG1, The Alison Richard Building This session, led by library staff, will provide an opportunity to learn about the Official Publication (OP) collections available to students and researchers in Cambridge. The first part (13:00-14:00) will be an introductory talk on how to find government and official publicat…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Secured Transactions Law Reform in Africa by Marek Dubovec and Louise Gullifer. Over the last few decades, many countries have reformed their secured transactions law. One of the main reasons has been the clear link between reform and the availability of credit, and the drive to im…

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Postgraduate Student Open Day on Friday 1 November we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour and find out more about the library collections, which include over 180,000 books, 40 legal databases and extensive electronic resources. Members…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Landmark Cases in Succession Law edited by Dr Brian Sloan. The Landmark Cases series highlights the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the leading cases in a discipline, and seeks to provide contexts in which to better understand how and why certain cases ca…

Welcome to all new students. We hope the Squire Law Library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find reference books, journals and reports here to support your taught course (including a dedicated borrowing collection for MCL and LLM students) plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extens…

The annual stock-taking week for the Squire Law Library will take place from Monday 16 September to Saturday 21 September inclusive. During this time the library will be closed, though Faculty members with swipe card access will be able to gain entry. The Law Faculty building will be open 9am - 5pm during the week (though closed on Saturday 21 Sept…