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The Squire Law Library welcomes the announcement that Professor Eyal Benvenisti has been elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law. He will join Cambridge's thriving international law community in January 2016. Eyal Benvenisti is currently the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University. He has held visit…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Dame Rosalyn Higgins, Past President of the International Court of Justice, has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Dame Rosalyn had a long and illustrious career in international law and human rights that spanned the early years of the United Nati…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that the following content has been added to the Justis subscription service.   State Trials Aspinall's Maritime Law Cases Bermuda Law Reports Chinese Commercial and Maritime Law Reports Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Extradition Law Reports Justis Irish Cases & Legislation Justis Jamaican Cases Menta…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an 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 Toronto, …

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed from Tuesday 21 December at 12.30pm for the Christmas and New Year break. The Faculty and Library will re-open at 9.00am on Friday 2 January 2015, and from 9am-1pm on Saturday 3 January. Normal opening hours will resume on Monday 5 January.

The Squire Law Library has recently subscribed to EBSCO Legal Source. This indexing service provides content to more than 880 scholarly full-text journals. Coverage is from 1912.   For detailed information on the sources included, please refer to the database coverage list. To access the source, please see the Legal Databases page.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for a follow-up interview with Professor Gerald Postema has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Postema is the outgoing Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2013-14. He is currently the Cary C. Boshamer Disting…

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will close at 5pm on Friday 4 July, following the Open Day. The building is closed over the weekend for maintenance work, and on Monday 7 July due to widescale disruption of the Tour de France.  The building will re-open as normal at 9am on Tuesday 8 July. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The Squire Law Library has recently subscribed to the TradeLawGuide database (Law of the World Trade Organization (WTO)). TradeLawGuide provides nine research tools for comprehensive and granular research of WTO law. Its document collection contains WTO legal agreements and instruments, negotiating history, precursor agreements, all related WTO and…

The Squire Law Library will close earlier than usual on Thursday (19 June). The library will close at 5pm though the rest of the Law Faculty building will remain open until 7pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Professor Leslie Zines has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. The late Professor Zines was Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 1992-93. He recently died in Canberra (31st May 2014) at the age of 83. He was Emeritus …

The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be closed on Good Friday (18 April)  until  Easter Monday (21 April) inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday (22 April) at 9am.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that the entry for Professor Gerald Postema has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Postema is the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic year 2013-14. He is currently the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and …

The Squire Law Library recently added the law titles from the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) collection to the library catalogue, as well as subscribing to the University Press Scholarship Online covering electronic book material published by Stanford University Press and the University of Chicago Press. The ebooks team located in the University L…

On Monday 9, Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, The Law Faculty Building and the Squire Law Library will be open special hours from 9am-9pm. The facilities will then operate the following vacation hours: Thursday 12 December - Thursday 19 December: 9am-7pm Monday to Friday, (Saturday 14 and 21 December: 9am-1pm) Friday 20 December: 9am-5pm Satu…