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Enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the Squire Law Library whenever you want, wherever you are, with our new virtual study session! This three hour on-demand study session video is available now via YouTube. Have the library all to yourself, with a view from the third floor. There's no soundtrack, just library silence to enjoy. 

The Squire Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Sir Christopher John Greenwood GBE, CMG, QC, Emeritus Professor of Law LSE, former Judge at the International Court of Justice, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive. Sir Christopher was interviewed at his home in Girton and at the Master’s Lodge Magdalene …

Oxford University Press (OUP) has published the eleventh edition of Evidence (Core Texts Series) edited by Dr Roderick Munday. Munday's Evidence is a concise yet stimulating introduction to the key areas of the law of evidence. Vibrant and engaging, the book demystifies a traditionally intimidating subject. Careful analysis of the issues, both hist…

Koubundou Publishers (Tokyo) has published Legal Innovation: Technology, the Legal Profession and Industrial Change edited by Professor Mihoko Sumida (Hitotsubashi University) and Associate Professor Felix Steffek (University of Cambridge). The book brings together voices from academia, ministries, international organisations, regulators and practi…

Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law" target="_blank">In December Cambridge University Press published Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law by Emilija Leinarte. This book provides a novel approach to the allo…

Opening Times  Lent Term ends on Friday 18 March, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for most of the vacation. The library opening times will be:  Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 18:45 Saturday: 09:00 - 12:45 Sunday: Closed The Library will be closed for the Easter holiday weekend from Friday 15 April - Monday 18 Ap…

A selection of law ebook titles was purchased in February, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: "Beyond the Law": The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch (Temple University Press, 2021)  In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable …

A new international law resource published by BRILL, Commentaries on World Trade Law Online, is now available to access.  Commentaries on World Trade Law Online is a comprehensive, standard reference work on WTO Law. The Commentaries explain the provisions of the WTO Agreements article by article, setting out the interpretation of each article in t…

Cambridge University Press has published Fissures in EU Citizenship: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Legal Evolution of EU Citizenship by Dr Martin Steinfeld. This book argues that core concepts in EU citizenship law are riddled with latent fissures traceable back to the earliest case law on free movement of persons, and that later dev…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 edited by Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk and Rebecca Probert. The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law. Coming into force in 1971, it had a significant impact on legal practice and was followed by a drama…

A selection of law ebooks purchased in January, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Constitutions and Religion, edited by Susanna Mancini (Edward Elgar, 2020) Constitutions and Religion is the first major reference work in the emerging field of comparative constitutional law and rel…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Agency: Law and Principles by Dr Roderick Munday. Questions of agency regularly arise in the work of commercial practitioners. Agency: Law and Principles addresses these questions by offering clear and accessible analysis of the principles of agency law, as well as detailed explanation of …

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Fictions in Private Law by Liron Shmilovits. Legal fictions are falsehoods that the law knowingly relies on. It is the most bizarre feature of our legal system; we know something is false, and we still assume it. But why do we rely on blatant falsehood? What are the implications of doing so? Should we …

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Bill Cornish, Professor Emeritus and inaugural holder of the Herchel Smith Chair in Intellectual Property here at Cambridge, has passed away. We remember Bill for his pioneering work in intellectual property law and his outstanding contributions to law in its social context, his intellectual ri…

A selection of law ebooks were purchased in October, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are alll available through iDiscover, and include: Elliott & Quinn's Contract Law (12th edition), by Catherine Elliott and Frances Quinn (Pearson, 2019) Elliott & Quinn’s Contract Law explains the fundamental legal principles in this area in cl…