University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

Cambridge University Press has published Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of International Law, entitled International Law in Asia , edited by Dr Maria Adele Carrai and Professor Surabhi Ranganathan (King's). Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by...

On 8–9 July the Faculty hosted a symposium on the Constitutional Architecture of EU Values. The symposium brought together leading scholars and practitioners from the Court of Justice of the European Union, University of Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Leiden University, University of Madrid, Universi...

"What keeps a judiciary resilient under pressure?" That question brought senior judges, legal scholars and political scientists together at King's College, Cambridge, on 6-7 July for a two-day workshop entitled 'The European Judiciary in Times of Crisis: Old and New Challenges'. Held under the Chatham House Rule, it examined how courts respond to democratic erosion, and how i...

We are delighted to announced that the Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize was awarded to two Cambridge PhD students, Giorgia Bucaria (St John's) and Declan Noble (Sidney Sussex), at the British Legal History Conference 2026 at the University of Nottingham last week. Giorgia's paper discussed the English law of incorporeal rights in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. ...

We hear a lot about the horrors of the war in Ukraine but what does it mean for the day to day delivery of justice? Yevhen Synelnykov, a judge at the Ukrainian Supreme Court, was given permission to visit the UK (fighting age men are not generally allowed to leave the country) to talk to the judiciary in London. Clive...