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The official account of the Faculty of Law at the Univ. of Cambridge. https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/ Law has been studied and taught in Cambridge since the thirteenth century, and the Faculty remains one of the highest ranked schools of law in the world.
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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)
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📖@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
The Law and Practice of Human Rights
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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.
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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
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.
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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.

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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.
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Tickets are available for our 2025 Annual Animal Rights Law Lecture! 🎟️

Join us for this free event on 15 October at Cambridge University's Faculty of Law. (1/3)
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🥳 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
Faculty continues to top league tables for Law
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📻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/
Ben Kentish News
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📖@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
Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy 4th edition
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📖 @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
On the Interface between Public and Private International Law
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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
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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”

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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.”

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“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
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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...
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“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

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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

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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"
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Borkowski's Law of Succession 4e Resources - Oxford Learning Link
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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.

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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…
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🥳 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
Cambridge team wins International Negotiation Competition