Faculty of Law

Copyright as Personal Property

📖OUP ( @oxfordunipress.bsky.social) has published 'Copyright as Personal Property' by Dr Poorna Mysoor (@lucycavcoll.bsky.social) offering a more sophisticated classification of property rights than that based simply on tangibility:

📷https://bit.ly/4omFVmU

#Copyright #IP #IntellectualProperty

With MegaSportingEvents coming up in India, Morocco, Italy, North America & Scotland, @danihee.bsky.social & I write on using #HumanRights approaches to design Events that can serve as platforms for #justice!
📌 lnkd.in/d5hc7sp2 #MSEs #Sports
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social @sportandrights.bsky.social

Hear Catherine Barnard discuss the impact of migration in this month's Crossing Channels #podcast:
"There's got to be more legal routes for migration. Because at the moment, what you're seeing is that there are so few legal routes for people to come." 🧵
pod.fo/e/309b75

Infographic summary of history and trajectory of Commonwealth citizenship from end of Second World War to the present

New Working Paper: Pleased to post first comprehensive historical and comparative #law & #policy analysis of #Commonwealth #citizenship from end of WWII to present, also looking at its possible future faciliating short-term mobility especially for #business purposes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Take a look at our Conference's 'Case study: constitutional animal rights in Finland' block 👀

🗣️ Mai Kivela (MP, Left Alliance Party, Finland)
🗣️ Venla Mathlein (President of the Finnish Society for Animal Rights)
👥 Panel Q&A (1/2)

🚨 New Report: #HumanRights impacts of the #ClimateCrisis in & around #Sports @sportandrights.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Read: lnkd.in/dxEPGMC6
@sportecogroup.bsky.social @climateblawg.bsky.social @sportpositive.bsky.social @thenexttest.org #ClimateJustice #environment #ClimateChange #law

Portrait of Cambridge legal expert Professor Jorge Viñuales, seated and looking directly at the camera, with a caption that reads: "A Cambridge legal expert reflects on the ICJ’s landmark climate opinion".

“This could open a new front in climate litigation.”

Prof Jorge Viñuales from @landeconomy.bsky.social helped Vanuatu take climate change to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Get his initial reaction to the ICJ’s landmark Advisory Opinion 👇
bit.ly/4oaPh51

YouTube video by Cambridge University Beyond jury reform - what else does Leveson recommend?

🎞️Dr Jonathan Rogers ( @fitzwilliamcollege.bsky.social / CLRNNetwork) has spoken to #LawInFocus about part 1 of the recent #MoJ #Leveson independent review into the criminal courts to explore the important details behind the headlines about jury trials:

🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-2JUe3lcU

There is still time to join us TODAY (now) - open to all. We promise to discuss the amazing triptych of international court and tribunal advisory opinions.

Thank you again for such as stimulating discussion. Delighted to have contributed. Such a momentous decision. @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Jorge Vinuales speak on IJ Vanuatu decision

Professor Jorge Vinuales (Clare College/Land Economy) has spoken to @cam.ac.uk to give his views on the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the legal obligations of States in respect of climate change:

🔗https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/icj-climate-opinion-cambridge-expert

Grateful to the German TV stations RTL and @ntvde.bsky.social team for interviewing me yesterday @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social on the ICJ Advisory Opinion (in German).

South African Perspectives regarding the Advisory Opinions at the ICJ on Climate Change — Climate & Environment Initiative This symposium blog focuses on South Africa’s submission to the ICJ and what this Advisory Opinion could herald for the African region, from which nine African States submitted written statements.

Fantastic blog by our @cisdl.bsky.social fellow @zunaida-mw.bsky.social: South Africa urges the Court to recognise the differentiated nature of climate obligations, and to respect the integrity of the legal framework developed by the international community.
www.ceipak.org/blog/icj-cli...

Join us Thursday morning 24 July 2025 at 7:30 am UK time @dgap.org German Council on Foreign Relations to hear reflections on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change - open to all.

Very timely piece by @daviderdos.bsky.social highlighting, against the background of the absence of any formal regulatory action in respect of the Afghan data breach, the ICO's 'doubling down' on 'its hyper-selective and hyper-discretionary approach' to enforcement.

‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’ Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still

As someone who couldn't have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. It's incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Annual Report for 2024/25 released last week sadly provides evidence of a severe and serious weakening of information rights regulation compared to the s…

David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/d...

Occupied Palestinian Territories: joint statement, 21 July 2025 The UK and 25 international partners gave a joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Perpetrators of war crimes are not just Ministers or Generals who give orders. War crimes are committed by ordinary solders and civilians implicated. This might be the last warning by several Western government before real indictments start for those responsible. www.gov.uk/government/n...

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office and the 2022 Afghan Relocations UK GDPR Data Breach: Regulatory Action Is Necessary – David Erdos The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has some history of failing to learn the lessons from its past information governance mistakes, even seeking to present these as a testament to succes…

First look at @iconews stance on MoD #databreach, which put up to 100K #Afghans at grave risk, incl. its relationship to other MoD UK #GDPR violations, the lack of any formal ICO investigation, regulatory action or even reprimand & the need for action now: inforrm.org/2025/07/19/t...

In relation to the Afghan data breach, the ICO 'determined that there was little we could add in this case that would justify the further allocation of resource away from other priorities'.

What could be a 'higher priority' than addressing this particular breach?

ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

🗞️🌍 Out now! Catch up on all the latest from the Centre for Climate Engagement in our action-packed newsletter. News of #ClimatePolicy #LawforClimateAction #ClimateGovernance Read it here: climatehughes.org/the-centre-f...

I am delighted to say that Lars Vinx and I have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for our Handbook on the Limits of Constituent Power. The aim of the Handbook is to shed much-needed critical light on the concept and practice of constituent power.
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Jus Cogens and the Climate Crisis

Action on climate change is urgent and now a jus cogens norm? Read my blog. Thanks to @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cisdl.bsky.social @hugheshall.bsky.social @climatehughes.bsky.social @demedglobal.bsky.social & all who commented.

verfassungsblog.de/jus-cogens-a...

The Cambridge Pro Bono Project @cambridgelaw.bsky.social is hosting a report launch event in collaboration with the Centre for Sport and Human Rights on the Tuesday 22 July 2025, from 2–4 pm, at Christ's College @cam.ac.uk.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sport-huma...

Rumiana Yotova Delivers the 6th Annual Heilbron Lecture for the Next 100 Years Project

📢On 1st July Dr Rumiana Yotova (@caiuscollege.bsky.social) was was invited to deliver the 6th Annual Heilbron Lecture for the Next 100 Years Project in the Old Bailey on the topic 'Creation: The Human and Humanity in the Age of New Technologies':

🔗https://bit.ly/464sxNC

#CRISPR #BioTech

The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms 8th edition

📖OUP ( @oxfordunipress.bsky.social) has published the eighth edition of 'The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms' by @cbarnard.bsky.social (Trinity) providing an updated critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of the EU:

🔗https://bit.ly/4nLgmvl

We are delighted to share the Criminal Jurisprudence & Philosophy Group's (CrimJur) call for submissions for the academic year 2025-2026! The deadline is 31 August.

Narine Lalafaryan gives evidence before the House of Lords

Narine Lalafaryan gives evidence before the House of Lords

Yesterday, the Faculty's Narine Lalafaryan (@pembroke1347.bsky.social) gave evidence to the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Financial Services Regulation Committee on the growth of #PrivateMarkets in the UK following reforms introduced after 2008. More at:

🔗https://bit.ly/4loDQFf

Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars in the European Union: A 2025 update and key factors to consider - International Council on Clean Transportation The study presents a life-cycle analysis of passenger cars in all major powertrains in Europe.

Amazing new report @theicct.org on Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars in the European Union - worth reading, also because so many politicians seem to think EV targets are somehow optional. They are not. theicct.org/publication/...

Our former @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social Director @cam.ac.uk emeritus Prof Benvenisti who was part of Israel’s ICJ team raises the alarm of this manifest war crime being planned. @cambridgelaw.bsky.social Time for the UK government to act. Even planning a war crime is criminal.