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Opening Times Michaelmas Term ends on Friday 3 December, but the Squire Law Library remains open throughout the MCL exam period and for much of the vacation. The library opening times for the vacation will be: Saturday 4 December - Saturday 11 December inclusive: Monday - Friday: 09:00 - 18:45 Saturday: 09:00-12:45 Sunday: Closed Monday 13 December…

A selection of law ebooks were purchased in October, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are alll available through iDiscover, and include:  Deakin and Morris' Labour Law (7th edition), by Zoe Adams, Catherine Barnard, Simon Deakin and Sarah Fraser Butlin (Hart Publishing, 2021) Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as author…

Cambridge University Press has published Founders without Limits: Dual-Class Stock and the Premium Tier of the London Stock Exchange by Dr Bobby Reddy. Big Tech has flourished on the US public markets in recent years with numerous blue-chip IPOs, from Google and Facebook, to new kids on the block such as Snap, Zoom, and Airbnb. A key trend is the b…

A selection of law ebooks were purchased this September, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Class Actions in Europe: Holy Grail or a Wrong Trail?, edited by Alan Uzelac, Stefaan Voet (Springer, 2021) This book investigates whether class actions in Europe are indeed a Holy Grail or …

Brill has published Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities: Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child edited by Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn and Dr Brian Sloan. This book arises out of a CRC Implementation Project colloquium on Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 5 protec…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the third edition of What About Law? by Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo. Law is one of the few subjects that the school leaver, choosing a degree course, will have very little real understanding of. This book comes to the rescue by clearly setting out what a pr…

Pre-booking no longer required As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually eased, and as the new academic year approaches, some of the limitations for using the Squire Law Library have been relaxed. However, the overall approach to using the library will continue to be in line with that of using the David Williams Building as a whole. Further details ca…

A selection of law e-books were purchased between 15 July - 15 August, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Comparative Corporate Governance, edited by Afra Afsharipour and Martin Gelter (Edward Elgar, 2021) This research handbook provides a state-of-the-art perspective on how corpor…

The Squire Law Library will be closed for the August Bank Holiday on Monday 30 August. The library will re-open on Tuesday 31 August from 09:00.

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published the seventh edition of Deakin and Morris Labour Law by Dr Zoe Adams, Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor Simon Deakin, and Ms Sarah Fraser Butlin. Deakin and Morris' Labour Law, a work cited as authoritative in the higher appellate courts of several jurisdictions, provides a com…

A selection of law e-books were purchased between 15 June - 15 July, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: If You're a Classical Liberal, How Come You're Also an Egalitarian? : A Theory of Rule Egalitarianism, by Åsbjørn Melkevik (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Classical liberalism has wr…

Routledge has published Sentencing: New Trajectories in Law by Dr Elaine Freer. This book examines the process and purpose of sentencing in the criminal justice system, beyond the confines of its legalistic aspects. Sentencing is the process that concludes any criminal trial that ends with the defendant being convicted, and any hearing in which a …

A selection of law e-books were purchased between 15 May - 15 June, in association with the ebooks@cambridge team. These are all available through iDiscover, and include: Cross-Border Protocols in Insolvencies of Multinational Enterprise Groups, by Ilya Kokorin and Bob Wessels (Edward Elgar, 2021). Cross-border insolvency protocols play a critical …

Due to a failure in the air handling system for the David Williams Building, we regret that  the Squire Law Library, will be closed throughout this morning: Monday 7 June.  Please do not visit the building for the morning study session (09:00-13:00) as we are unable to admit library users. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. The cause of the…

It is with enormous sadness that the Faculty of Law reports the death of James Crawford. As an international lawyer of exceptional distinction — recognised by his appointment, among many other honours, as a Companion of the Order of Australia — James made profound contributions as a scholar, practitioner, teacher and jurist, and as mentor to genera…