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The Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 29 August. The Library will re-open at 09:00 on Tuesday 30 August. 

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The Future of High-Cost Credit: Rethinking Payday Lending by Dr Jodi Gardner. The research leading to this book has featured in an extended article on the St John's College website, in which Dr Gardner was interviewed about the explosion in the number of people falling into a 'debt…

Oxford University Press has published the seventh edition of The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. This authoritative text offers a unique balance of comprehensive, detailed coverage in a concise and readable style, providing a critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of …

A selection of law ebook titles purchased in July, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19, by John Fabian Witt (Yale University Press, 2020) From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have p…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of International Human Rights Law, edited by Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah and Sandesh Sivakumaran. Written by leading experts in the field, the textbook explores the essentials of international human rights law, from foundational issues to substantive rights and systems of protection. A vari…

The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Christopher Forbes Forsyth, Emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public International Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Forsyth was interviewed in person at his home in the Hertfordshire countryside on four occasions during April…

The Squire Law Library is pleased to announce that online access to the Edward Elgar Essentials in Environmental Law collection is now available. This provides full-text access to 58 leading titles, published by Edward Elgar, focusing on environmental law and related subjects including international energy law, climate change, international water l…

Oxford University Press (OUP) has published Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki. Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time - even if the label 'legal philosopher' does not do justice to the breadth of his work. This collec…

Bath Publishing has published the fourth edition of A Practical Guide to Permitted Changes of Use, a detailed guide to the rights to change the use of land and buildings under the General Permitted Development Order. The first three editions having been authored by Martin Goodall, this fourth edition has been updated by Martin Goodall, Alistair Mil…

A selection of law ebook titles purchased in April, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: A Treatise on Dharma, by Yajnavalkya; edited and translated by Patrick Olivelle (Harvard University Press, 2019) A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest exampl…

Oxford University Press has published the tenth edition of The Law of Contract by Janet O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan & Hilliard's The Law of Contract provides students with a clear, straightforward, and comprehensive account of the core principles of contract law to enable a sound understanding of the subject. The new edition has been rigorously updated …

The David Williams Building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter bank holiday weekend from Friday 15 April to Monday 18 April inclusive.  The library will re-open at 09:00 on Tuesday 19 April.

LexisNexis Butterworths has published the 20th edition of Underhill and Hayton Law of Trusts and Trustees by Paul Matthews, Charles Mitchell, Jonathan Harris, and Sinead Agnew. Underhill & Hayton Law of Trusts and Trustees is LexisNexis Butterworth's flagship Trusts title and is recognised as being the leading book in the market. Written by renown…

A selection of law ebook titles was purchased in March, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Blurry Boundaries of Public and Private International Law: Towards Convergence or Divergent Still?edited by Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit and Dharmita Prasad (Springer, 2022) This book examines …

The Faculty of Law and Squire Library are pleased to announce that an entry for the photo collection created by Professor Malcolm Clarke, which he and Mrs Eva Clarke have donated to the Faculty, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Professor Clarke, a keen photographer, amassed a collection of photographs of Faculty personalities at vari…