Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US
📖 @hartpublishing.bsky.social has published 'Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US' by Dr Mohamed Moussa (Murray Edwards) - exploring how federalism emerged as a constitutional remedy to the ‘lethal disease’ of polarisation.
More: 🔗https://bit.ly/3QrODnj
Legal Studies Research Paper Series Vol. 17, No. 2
📣We have issued a new @ssrn.bsky.social Legal Studies RPS (v16 #2) including articles by Timo Minssen, Mateo Aboy & Effy Vayena, Ira Chadha-Sridhar, @daviderdos.bsky.social and @mwgehring.bsky.social, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger & Matheus Garcia:
🔗https://bit.ly/4tNFSm1
#LegalScholarship
Banner showing the cover image of 'Autonomy, Care and Family Law' as well as a look inside button.
Check out this free sample chapter from 'Autonomy, Care and Family Law' by Anna Heenan
Considers how family law and policy should take account of caregiving responsibilities on parental separation 👉 https://bit.ly/4cq7Q0i
#FamilyLaw #ComparativeLaw
We at @cambridgelaw.bsky.social (in conjunction with @newnhamcollege.bsky.social) are recruiting to a 1-year Catherine Seville Assistant Professorship in Equity & Trusts. Closing date 3/5. This is an excellent opportunity to join our team of property lawyers!
See link
CFL Seminar: Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Uni of the Basque Country, Visiting Fellow @camfamilylaw, Bye Fellow @RobinsonCamb): "Child Contact Arrangements in the Context of Gender-Based Violence. A look at the Spanish no-contact rule", 29 Apr, 1pm, @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
bit.ly/4sIFvZI
Proofs for my @cambup-law.cambridge.org textbook with Andy Hayward & Charlotte Bendall (www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...) have arrived!
My chapter on "La Family Provision en Inglaterra y Gales" (Family Provision in England and Wales), translated by @robinsoncollege.bsky.social Bye Fellow Maitena Arakistain Arriola, has been published.
bit.ly/3NAotOl
This is about whether a misattributed father ever had PR by virtue of the birth certificate. It is also a cautionary tale about not having sex with two identical twins in the same conception window.
OSCOLA 5th edition is out www.law.ox.ac.uk/oscola
Changes spotted so far include:
Adding Medium before Neutral Citation
Not putting JSC (or SCJ) after UKSC judge’s names (CJ, MR, V-C, LJ, J, & DJ remain; ICC also there but no EJ)
The end of Ibid
More on web sources - and how to cite Gen AI
Congratulations to @robinsoncollege.bsky.social Law students for participating in this year’s mooting competition. We had a brilliant final last night, with first-year Taylor Lovegrove taking the prize. Here are the finalists, with Taylor receiving the college mooting trophy from the Warden.
In this interview with the SCOTUS Blog, which launches its series on global apex courts, I reflect on the role of the UK Supreme Court and consider whether adjudication at this level in the UK is really as apolitical as we often assume it to be. www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/the-...
Proofs (@elgarpublishing.bsky.social) #ARAFSL
new Courts Bill includes the repeal of the statutory presumption that it's in children's welfare to maintain relationships with both parents when courts consider post-separation disputes
Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline
📖 @hartpublishing.bsky.social has published 'Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline' edited by @loreldridge.bsky.social, @dremilyireland.bsky.social and @carolinederry.bsky.social, championing the work of women in legal history:
Read more: 🔗 bit.ly/4tTmo0a
More so to you, for putting the whole collection together!
Dr Angela Merkel, Baroness Carr and Professor Philippe Sands nominated for honorary degrees in law
📢We're delighted to welcome the nomination of three honorary degrees in law, recognising the outstanding achievements of Dr Angela Merkel, and Cambridge alumni Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr and @philippesands.bsky.social
Read more:🔗 bit.ly/3MviIku
Attention to every detail? Nuggets of rare and accurate information? Please check out @sionhudson.bsky.social 's really excellent back-to-back-to-back between the three generations of 5
#WeirdCarBS
Sir Guenter Treitel came to the UK on the Kindertransport. He became the foremost authority on English contract law.
Famously, he held the Rolling Stones to their contract to play the Magdalen Ball in 1964 for £100 - they had suddenly become superstars after being booked as unknowns in 1963.
new Court of Appeal judgment on adoption vs long term fostering caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...
Assistant Professor in Tort Law (Fixed Term)
Assistant Professor in Tort Law (Fixed Term)
📢 Come and join our team! The Faculty is looking for an Assistant Professor in #Tort Law (fixed term for 3 years) to teach at UG and PG level, conduct and supervise research, and participate in the general work of the Faculty.
🔗https://bit.ly/4qhv91c
#TortLaw #Excellence
We at @cambridgelaw.bsky.social are looking for an Assistant Professor in Tort Law (fixed term for 3 years). Do please spread the word about this opportunity to join our fantastic team of tort lawyers!
Race and Transitional Justice
📖 Oxford University Press has published 'Race and Transitional Justice' edited by Sarah Nouwen (@pembroke1347.bsky.social) and Neha Jain (@northwesternlaw.bsky.social) which examines how race and racism interact with transitional justice mechanisms and institutions:
🔗https://bit.ly/4q8ViPH
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2... This week the Supreme Court will hear the appeal against the judgments that the High Court can't use its inherent jurisdiction to set aside a validly made adoption order, when the children are older and want the adoption to be 'undone'
The cover design for "A Research Agenda for Succession Law" (@elgarpublishing.bsky.social) has been unveiled. Forthcoming in April 2026. #ARAFSL
See https://bit.ly/2zTVwWB
We've just launched an Open Call for Student-Led Events and Workshop Funding Applications (bit.ly/2zTVwWB), for events broadly within the field of socio-legal studies. 1 applicant must be a current member of @cam.ac.uk. £300/£1,000 available. Deadline 20/3/26. Please share #sociolegal #camsociolegal
King's Counsel 2026 Announcements
🤩We're always so pleased at this time of the year to welcome the new King's Counsel appointments, especially those who are alumni of University of Cambridge and the Faculty.
Read about the KC appointments:🔗 bit.ly/3NIf5YF
#KC #KingsCounsel #Excellence #Congratulations #Silk
Sovereignty Intact: The UK Parliament, Foreign Courts and Immigration
📖@hartpublishing.bsky.social has published 'Sovereignty Intact: The UK Parliament, Foreign Courts and Immigration' by @mgillis.bsky.social (@corpuscambridge.bsky.social) - examining the relationship between the UK Parliament and the ECtHR, and previously with the CJEU:
More: 🔗 bit.ly/49PBpbz
I'm delighted to see the announcement of this richly deserved honour for @rosieharding.bsky.social. It's a privilege to have her as a contributor to "A Research Agenda for Succession Law" (bit.ly/4pYk9Ge, @elgarpublishing.bsky.social). #ARAFSL
