Faculty of Law

One week until our next Annual Lecture! 🐾

Join us on 15 October @cambridgelaw.bsky.social from 4 pm for our Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture.

Professor Cass Sunstein (hls.harvard.edu) will deliver a lecture on ‘Beyond Kant and Bentham: A Bill of Rights for Nonhuman Animals’. (1/5)

The Law and Practice of Human Rights

📖@lexisnexisuk.bsky.social has published the new 'The Law and Practice of Human Rights' by David Blundell KC, Miranda Butler and Alistair Mills ( @magdalenecollege.bsky.social) - all from @landmarkch.bsky.social:

🔗https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2025/10/law-and-practice-human-rights

Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision 1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

Very worthwhile read: Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The @coe.int Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision www.ejiltalk.org/another-bric...

Book Launch: Cambridge Handbook of Generative AI and the Law Join us in Cambridge for the launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Generative AI and the Law, a new anthology bridging the gap between legal concepts and real-world applications of GenAI.

Are you curious about the future of the law in the age of AI? 🤔

Join our convo with Prof Mimi Zou, editor of 'The Cambridge Handbook of GenAI and the Law', next week! Hosted by @annkristinglenster.bsky.social with @cambridgelaw.bsky.social and @wipo.int.

Book now ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/book-...

Warmest congratulations to our @cambridgelaw.bsky.social graduate Justice Prof Geert De Baere on his appointment as President of the Fourth Chamber of the General Court.

A group of students in gowns posing for their matriculation day photo at Jesus College, Cambridge.

A group of Jesus College students in academic robes in front of a brick building with ivy.

A closeup of some Jesus College students in academic robes, gathered for their matriculation day photo in front of a brick building with an arched entrance.

Happy matriculation to all our new students 🌟

Matriculation is when students are formally admitted as members of the University.

Here are our new matriculants at @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social, wearing their formal gowns for the first time.

📸 Lloyd Mann

Environmental Justice and Human Rights: Putting People at the Heart of Sports and Sustainability

Ahead of @sportpositive.bsky.social where I facilitate a roundtable on #EnvironmentalJustice, some thoughts on how #Sport needs responses to #ClimateChange that are both technically sound & socially just!
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social @fbandclimate.bsky.social

www.sporthumanrights.org/library/envi...

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This article argues that, despite recent challenges, the classical view—unlawful administrative acts are void & #judicial review is declaratory—is vital for upholding the #ruleoflaw.

Read: spkl.io/63327AT8S7
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#LawSky @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

If you are in or around Cambridge on 15th October make sure not to miss our Centre‘s 2025 Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture held @cambridgelaw.bsky.social and delivered by the marvellous Cass Sunstein @casssunstein.bsky.social of @hls.harvard.edu.

Faculty continues to top league tables for Law

🥳 We're delighted with our strong performance in the most recent round of university league tables, where we continue to be recognised as a top-tier institution for legal education both in the UK and globally:

🔗http://bit.ly/46BORfZ

Ben Kentish News

📻Faculty's @stheil.bsky.social (@sidneysussex.bsky.social) was interviewed about misinformation and regulation of social media on the @lbc.co.uk @benkentish.bsky.social show last week from around the 2:10:10 mark:

🔗https://www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/uk/episodes/BUpVAnT3iqtrCptQSkNtmUihz/

Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy 4th edition

📖@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social has published the 4th edition of 'Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy' by Louise Gullifer (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) and Jennifer Payne featuring equal coverage of both the equity and debt sides of corporate finance law:

🔗http://bit.ly/4gAXCvn

On the Interface between Public and Private International Law

📖 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social has published 'On the Interface between Public and Private International Law' by Professor Campbell McLachlan (@trinityhallcamb.bsky.social) based on the course he offered at The Hague Academy in 2024:

🔗http://bit.ly/4gAXCvn

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@jillalpes.bsky.social on theorising transformative knowledge encounters:

"If we want to understand political processes, we need to understand the role of knowledge in political processes"

#BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Our sixth panel of the #BorderCrim2025 workshop is on Technology and Digital Futures. Fatmanur Delioglu discusses border tech and migrant tactics on the Balkan route:

“Migrants use these tools to figure out where it is safe to be visible and where to stay invisible”

@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Kicking off our last panel for the day, Ibrahim Ince discusses ‘border domestication’ in Cyprus.

“While people in other countries might talk about the weather, people in Cyprus discuss how long it takes to get across the checkpoint.”

#BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

“It’s a condescending and patriarchal narrative that the state can best protect those on the move through containment”

Andrew Fallone in our 2nd panel on Reframing smuggling and clandestine migration as knowledge and acts of debordering.

@cambridgelaw.bsky.social #BorderCrim2025 #HopeNotBorders

Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge!

We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.

Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

“Ideas of familial harm, separation and violence can be transported to other groups, including families of the border workers themselves”

@arkluge.bsky.social speaking at our first panel, Border policing: resisting emotions?

#BorderCrim2025 #HopeNotBorders

www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Our afternoon panel on Law and the Courts starts with Dr Nicola Palmer.

"we're seeing an extension, both of the sentencing and also of the notion of dangerousness" on immigration cases in the US

#BorderCrim2025

@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

New updates to Borkowski's Law of Succession (@oxfordacademic.bsky.social) just published, the main additions being on the Law Commission's much-anticipated Report on "Modernising Wills Law"
bit.ly/2YEOfU7

Very timely new book on EU External Relations Law and Sustainability - The EU, Third States and International Organizations - @tmcasser.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com Series: Global Europe: Legal and Policy Issues of the EU’s External Action Book Series

www.asser.nl/asserpress/b...

Non-Compliance Procedures This report surveys key developments in 2024, and one development in 2023, across the non-compliance procedures of several multilateral environmental agree

Delighted to see this new article by @tejasrao.bsky.social out: ‘Non-Compliance Procedures’ (2024) 35 Yearbook of International Environmental Law, discussing key developments of NCPs in MEAs. @landeconomy.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @demedglobal.bsky.social @cisdl.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/yiel...

In Defence of Classical Administrative Law In a recently completed paper, Philip Murray and I develop a defence of what we term the classical account of administrative law. The question with which we are centrally concerned is whether (as t…

A new paper from Philip Murray and me: 'In Defence of Classical Administrative Law'. We argue that the voidness of unlawful administrative acts is central to the rule of law and that recent challenges to that view can and should be resisted.

publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/09/16/i...

Cambridge team wins International Negotiation Competition

🥳 Many congratulations to Guan Rong T. and Lim Yee Rei (both Trinity College) who were the winners of the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer National Law University Delhi International Negotiation Competition last month!

For details and to watch the final negotiation see:

🔗http://bit.ly/4maPF1b

Applications for the next academic cycle at @uniofcam.bsky.social are now open. Provost Professor Eilis Ferran outlines the criteria you need to apply for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. More here -https://www.gatescambridge.org. Just click on the apply tab at the top.

#gatescambridge25

Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) FBA

Those at the Faculty are deeply saddened by the sudden death of Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) FBA last week. Conor will be remembered as a charming, funny and brilliant teacher, and a great thinker. For more plus some of his superb lectures see:

🔗http://bit.ly/4mhFOXx

Netanyahu refuses to rule out further strikes on Hamas leaders At a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Netanyahu said every country had the right "to defend itself beyond its borders".

Even under the controversial Bethlehem principles (‘Self-Defense Against an Imminent or Actual Armed Attack by Nonstate Actors’ (2012) 106 AJIL 769.) the Israeli strike constitutes an obvious breach of international law and threatening new strikes violates the UN Charter.

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Fantastic new event with our @cisdl.bsky.social Senior Fellow Prof James Bacchus @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social

Milestone Reached as WTO Global Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies Enters Into Force The WTO’s first-ever legally binding agreement on subsidies will enter into force on September 15, 2025—a historic achievement in tackling harmful subsidies at a global scale and advancing ocean susta...

Great news for international law related to sustainable development - today 15 Sep 2025 the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies entered into force. Thank you to everyone, esp. @iisd.org's @alicetipping.bsky.social, who made it happen.

www.iisd.org/articles/sta...