University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

There were many excellent applications for the Yorke Prize this year, and the Degree Committee decided to make 5 awards. Very many congratulations to all those who won a prize, and also to all those who successfully completed their PhD (a great achievement) even if they did not win a prize. The depth and quality of the...

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. ...