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On 2 November 2022 CELS member and Management Committee member Catherine Barnard (Trinity College) featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action presented by Joshua Rozenberg. The programme entitled "Scrapping European Law" considered the current government's commitment to remove large amounts of laws inherited from the EU as part of the Brex…

Oxford University Press has published the seventh edition of The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms by Professor Catherine Barnard. This authoritative text offers a unique balance of comprehensive, detailed coverage in a concise and readable style, providing a critical and thorough analysis of the key principles of the substantive law of …

The Faculty's Professor Alison Young gave evidence last week before the parliamentary EU Scrutiny Committee. The Committee were continuing examination of retained EU legislation. The European Scrutiny Committee assesses the legal and/or political importance of EU documents ‘deposited’ by the Government in Parliament. Since the end of the post-Brexi…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this Law in Focus video, Professor Catherine Barnard considers the legal implications, and the Brexit question. Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridg…

Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law" target="_blank">In December Cambridge University Press published Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law by Emilija Leinarte. This book provides a novel approach to the allo…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Professor Weatherill explained that the EU law's application to sport is ad hoc, ex post facto and driven by competition law (and occasionally free movement law). He argued that something more systema…

Cambridge University Press has published Fissures in EU Citizenship: The Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Legal Evolution of EU Citizenship by Dr Martin Steinfeld. This book argues that core concepts in EU citizenship law are riddled with latent fissures traceable back to the earliest case law on free movement of persons, and that later dev…

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that Bill Cornish, Professor Emeritus and inaugural holder of the Herchel Smith Chair in Intellectual Property here at Cambridge, has passed away. We remember Bill for his pioneering work in intellectual property law and his outstanding contributions to law in its social context, his intellectual ri…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Cassis de Dijon: 40 Years On edited by Catherine Barnard, Albertina Albors-Llorens and Brigitte Leucht (University of Portsmouth). Why is the 1979 the Court of Justice judgment in Cassis de Dijon so famous and so significant in the evolution of EU trade law? As this landmark judgme…

Cambridge University Press has published Europe's Second Constitution: Crisis, Courts and Community by Dr Markus Gehring. The process of European constitutionalisation is met with extensive scepticism in current national legal and political spheres and in broader circles of public opinion across Europe. By shedding light on these concerns, this boo…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of European Union Law edited by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers. European Union Law draws together a range of perspectives from experienced academics, teachers and practitioners to provide a comprehensive introduction. Each chapter has been written and updated by an expert in the field to pr…

Members of the Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) and Centre for Public Law (CPL) have prepared a response to the Ministry of Justice's Consultation on the Departure from Retained EU Case Law by UK Courts and Tribunals (July 2020).  The response was drafted following discussion at a webinar event on the 16th July 2020 organised by b…

The Faculty warmly congratulates Professor Catherine Barnard on her election as a Fellow of the British Academy. Catherine joins seven other Cambridge academics who have been elected to fellowships this year. Professor Barnard has been elected to the fellowship in recognition of her work on European Union law, especially the single market; Brexit a…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In its judgment pronounced on 5 May, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court granted several constitutional complaints directed against the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) of the European Centra…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In his lecture, Professor Craig explained his preliminary investigation into the formal and substantive dimensions of EU membership.  In doing so, Professor Craig reviewed the experience of the processes of accession…