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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Sir Derek Bowett, who passed away on 23rd May 2009. Professor Sir Derek is one of the Faculty Members for whom we had previously compiled a tribute in the Eminent Scholars Archive. Readers may find a full account of Sir Derek's illustrious career in the archive.

The Squire Law Library will be closed for Easter from 7:00pm on Thursday 9th April until 9:00am on Tuesday 14th April.

This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to the post. The Squire Law Library is a dependent library of the UL and  David Wills and his staff congratulate Anne Jarvis on her appointment. They look forward to working with her for the greater good of the Library service. For more information see the UL website.

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an important entry for Professor Sir Bob Hepple has just been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive.  Professor Hepple is an internationally-famous labour lawyer and champion of human rights, whose career spans the historic struggle against Apartheid, the introduction of ant…

The Eminent Scholars Archive has broadened its horizons to include the incumbent in the Goodhart Visiting Professorhip for Legal Science. Professor Martti Koskenniemi from the University of Helsinki is an eminent international lawyer and during the interview gave some insights into his thinking on the current status and role of international law.…

The Eminent Scholars Archive is an expanding archive in which we document the careers and achievements of eminent scholars associated with the Squire Law Library and Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. The archive contains extensive bibliographies, biographies, photographs and interviews with some of the world's most renowned academic a…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that the 'Squire Archive' is now live on the University of Cambridge Janus repository. This project represents the Squire Library's first foray into the art of electronic archiving. The Janus-based Squire Archive (Reference GBR/3207/SQL) provides a catalogue of the papers of the late Professor Kurt Li…

The Squire Library is pleased to note the publication of transcripts of the interviews with Professor Kurt Lipstein and an accompanying commentary in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Legal Information (35(1) International Journal of Legal Information 93-133 (Spring 2007)). This publication represents a small subset of the gr…

It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Professor Kurt Lipstein at 11:15pm on Saturday 2nd December 2006. We invite colleagues and friends of Kurt's to express their thoughts and condolences on his passing on our website and we will preserve your messages as part of this archive. We have recently created an Eminent Scholars Archive as …

Lord Woolf the Lord Chief Justice delivered the Squire Centenary Lecture in the Law Faculty on the evening of March 3 2004. His title was "The Rule of Law and a Change in Constitution". He dealt with the most important changes to the structure of the English Courts since the Judicature Acts of 1873- 5. The position of the Lord Chancellor is to be …