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Earlier this year Bloomsbury Professional published Judicial Individuality on the UK Supreme Court by Lewis Graham. This book presents an empirical analysis of the UK Supreme Court's output over its first ten years, with a specific focus on each individual judge's contribution to each case. It shows that judges, like all of us, are human; it would …

Bloomsbury Professional has recently published a festschrift in honour of Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law TRS Allan, entitled The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections on the Work of TRS Allan edited by Geneviève Cartier and Mark D Walters. A book launch was held by the Centre for Public Law (CPL) to celebrate the event on 15…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover. Recent publications include: China's Free Trade Agreement Strategies: Securing the Chinese Developmental State and Socialist Market Economy, by Francine Hug (Springer, 2024) This book delves into the …

Bloomsbury Professional has recently published Tax, Public Finance, and the Rule of Law edited by Dominic de Cogan, Alexis Brassey and May Hen. This book offers a key point of reference for reflective and thoughtful examinations of the rule of law in tax and related disciplines. It features a stellar cast of established and early-career researcher…

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Societal Change by Felix Steffek and Mihoko Sumida, (Hitotsubashi University). Legal Innovation explores the impact of technology on the legal profession and societal change. Reflecting contributions from an international group of exp…

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Rights and Moral Rights in the Elements in Philosophy of Law series, by Matthew Kramer. In a short span, this Element will delineate the general nature of legal and moral rights and the general nature of the holding of rights, and it will also sketch the justificatory foundations of rights. Hence, the …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson edited by Joe Sampson and Stelios Tofaris. Over the last 40 years, David Ibbetson has paved the way in a remarkably broad range of fields. In ancient law, his scholarship has spanned both the detailed doctrine of the Roman law of obliga…

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 winter vacation. The library opening times will be: Saturday 2 December - Wednesday 11 December inclusive: Monday-Friday:  09:00-20:45    Saturday: 09:00-17:45 Sunday: Closed Thursday 12 Decemb…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing edited by Louise Gullifer, Michael Bridge, and Eva Lomnicka. Personal property security is an important subject in commercial practice as it is the key to much of the law of banking and sale. This book examines traditional methods of securing d…

Edward Elgar Publishing has published the Research Handbook on the History of Trademark Law edited by Lionel Bently and Robert G. Bone (G. Rollie White Chair Emeritus in Law, The University of Texas School of Law). Presenting a variety of historiographical approaches, this Research Handbook explores the historical development of trademarks and the …

Welcome to the Squire Law Library! We hope the library will be a useful resource for you. You'll find books, journals and reports here to support your taught course, including a course reserve collection for MCL and LLM students, plus lots of space to study. The iDiscover catalogue and legal databases are your gateways to extensive electronic coll…

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.This collection contains re…

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 scholarship.  The editors include …

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 the law. Incorporated in the …

Pearson Education 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…