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Bloomsbury Professional published in June the second edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts by Elaine Freer and Ryan Evans. A Practitioner's Guide to Ancillary Orders in Criminal Courts sets out the law, application and analysis relating to ancillary orders that are available to criminal courts. It covers orders av…

Oxford University Press has published Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation by Matthew Kramer. Building on many years of scholarship, Matthew H. Kramer sets out his definitive philosophical investigation of rights and rights-holding with this monograph, as he sometimes revisits and modifies his previous positions. Beginning with t…

Oxford University Press has published The Principle of Systemic Integration in International Law by Campbell McLachlan. Systemic Integration examines the operation and health of a key part of international law’s general operating system by addressing the applicable law question: how can the constantly shifting web of States’ rights and obligations …

If you're visiting Cambridge for the Exploring Cambridge Law: Faculty of Law Open Day on Wednesday 3 July or the University of Cambridge Open Days on Thursday 4 July and Friday 5 July, we invite you to visit the Squire Law Library. Prospective students and their supporters can take a self-guided tour of the library, which is located on the upper th…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution by Graham Virgo. The fourth edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution brings this widely cited and influential volume fully up to date. Substantially rewritten to reflect significant changes in the law of restitution and the expansion in t…

Oxford University Press has published in May the eleventh edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan. OʼSullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract is the perfect student companion, providing a concise, clear overview of the fundamental principles of contract law. The 11th edition has been rigorously updated by Cambridge academic and teacher…

The Squire and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Mrs Cherry Hopkins, OBE, LLB, Life Fellow at Girton College, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed in the Squire Law Library between 13 September 2023 and 14 February 2024. In addition to a short video excerpt and transcripts of the aud…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Contract Law : An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer (4th edition), by John Cartwright (Hart Publishing, 2023) The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Criminal Law Reform Now, Volume 2: Proposals and Critique edited by Dr Melissa Bone (Leicester), Professor J J Child (Birmingham), and Dr Jonathan Rogers. If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? Following the success of the 1st volume, the same question …

Bristol University Press has published Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello and Sarah Fraser Butlin. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK following Brexit and COVID-19. Drawing on a longitudinal study, the book delves into the legal proble…

23 April - 13 June 2024 The Squire Law Library exists primarily to support the research and educational needs of Cambridge University Law Faculty staff and students, and secondarily, the needs of the wider Cambridge University community. During the Easter Term revision and exam period (Tuesday 23 April – Thursday 13 June inclusive) the first floor …

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Law at the Cutting Edge: Essays in Honour of Sarah Worthington edited by Dr Sinéad Agnew and Sir Marcus Smith (Justice of the High Court and President of the Competition Appeals Tribunal). This collection celebrates the immense contribution of Sarah Worthington to the field of priv…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of Corporate Tax Law: Structure, Policy and Practice by Professor Peter Harris. This new edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. It considers the Trump US tax reforms of late 2017 and then the Biden reforms of 2022. It recognises the economic rise of China…

Oxford University Press has published More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals by Raffael Fasel. Unprecedented demands have recently arrived at the doorstep of courts and parliaments the world over: nonhuman animals should receive some of the rights that have so far been reserved to human beings. This development has raised fu…

A selection of  law ebook titles were purchased this month, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child, by Georgina Dimopoulos (Routledge, 2022) Decisional privacy gives individuals the freedom to act and make decisions about how they live the…