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The Squire Library has recently taken a subscription to the online Kluwer Arbitration service. This is a leading resource for international arbitration research. Content includes BITs Conventions Decision Summaries on Arbitration Commentary through books and journals The service is available to users on the University network via IP address, or c…

The legal implications of the EU referendum could not be more profound. Fundamental questions arise concerning the constitution of the United Kingdom and few areas of English law will be untouched. As the legal landscape changes the immediate challenges facing UK law schools are immense. Difficult questions arise concerning staff recruitment, fees …

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an interview with Professor ATH 'Tony' Smith has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Smith is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2015-16. He is currently Professor of Law at Victoria University, New Zealand, having…

Gareth Jones, who died on 2 April at the age of 85, was one of the foremost legal academics of his generation. His wide range of interests included legal history, contract, property and trusts. On the first he wrote his History of the Law of Charity 1532-1827 in 1969 and on the second, with William Goodhart, Specific Performance in 1986. But it is …

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday from Friday, 25 March to Monday, 28 March inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday, 29 March at 9am.

A longstanding member of the Faculty of Law, Professor SFC "Toby" Milsom, died last week. He was a dominant voice in English legal historiography through the second half of the twentieth century, and has been described as the greatest legal historian of our time. While not a prolific writer, practically everything he published had a major influence…

The Faculty has published Volume 6 Number 12 of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series on SSRN. This issue includes the following articles: Oliver Butler: The Expanding Scope of the Data Protection Directive: The Exception for a 'Purely Personal or Household Activity (54/2015) This case note comments on the j…

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Wednesday 23 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9am on Monday 4 January 2016.

The Squire Library is delighted to have agreed a new subscription agreement with Westlaw UK which includes electronic access to a fuller range of books and loose-leaf material that are published by the company Thomson Reuters, a large part of which is Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. The listing of publications runs into some 200 titles, amongst them are Archb…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that a further entry for Professor David Dyzenhaus has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Dyzenhaus is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2014-15. He is currently Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of To…

The Maitland Legal History Room, which was originally established in 2000, has been expanded and refurbished. The room is named after Frederic William Maitland FBA, the Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1888 until 1906, who is regarded as the 'father' of English legal history. The room offers a focal point for the study and research of …

The Squire, in conjunction with the University Library, has now purchased The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, a database of GALE Cengage Learning, which provides scholars and students with a digital collection covering the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The database is a comprehensiv…

The Squire Library has recently taken a subscription to the French Database Doctrinal Plus. This service provides access to a wide range of primary and secondary materials, mainly in the French language, with the help files solely in French. Content includes: French legislation – Journal Officiel, the Codes; French Jurisprudence – Decisions from i…

A new book "Trinity Minds 1317-1945: An Intellectual Account of Trinity College Cambridge" has been authored by Professor PJ Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, and published by Cambridge Independent Press. A visitor to a Cambridge college sees a collection of buildings. The buildings obviously have some sort of coherence, as if…

The Squire Law Library has recently taken a subscription to Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL). This service provides full text access to reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press (OUP). Titles include Oppenheim’s International Law as well as many of the Oxford Handbooks (e.g. The Oxford Handbook of I…