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The European Union finds itself at a historical crossroads. It currently faces a number of existential threats that need a common and unified response; yet such a common response is likely to require unprecedented pooling of sovereignty and sharing of financial burdens among the individual Member States. In other words, these challenges require a n…

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017. Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Professor Kenneth Armstrong has analysed the ruling, and written an article summarising the key points.  Co…

On 15th June the Vote Leave campaign published a 'roadmap' on the steps that it believes would need to be taken following a referendum vote on 23 June to leave the European Union. In an analysis published on 16th June, the Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, Professor Kenneth Armstrong has provided the first …

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday from Friday, 25 March to Monday, 28 March inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday, 29 March at 9am.

After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 J…

As part of the 'UK In a changing Europe project', Amy Ludlow and Catherine Barnard organised a mini referendum in the Cambridge Faculty of Law, with the help of some students. Stands explained the contents of the recent EU proposed settlement, and students were invited to put coloured balls into the 'leave', 'remain' or 'undecided' baskets. This vi…

  Photo courtesy of the Council of Europe.   The Cambridge LLM human rights moot team recently competed in, and won the 2016 fourth edition of the ELSA Human Rights Moot Competition. Over 60 teams participated and the top 16 teams were selected for the oral round in Strasbourg at the European Court of Human Rights. The team were the overall winn…

Professor Catherine Barnard has been awarded a prestigious ESRC Senior Fellowship as part of the UK in a Changing Europe project. Throughout 2016 Catherine will work together with Dr Amy Ludlow to gather empirical evidence about the experiences of EU migrants living and working in the UK and to explore whether the UK benefit system is acting as a p…

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) has published through Cambridge University Press an archive issue of the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies in honour of Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston to mark 10 years of her service at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). "On 11 January 2006, Eleanor Sharpston became the fourth Advocate G…

In March 2015, the Centre for European Legal Studies organized an international one-day conference exploring the implications for the future of internet regulation of C-131/12 Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González, the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case. This …

Cambridge University Press has published the seventeenth volume of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies edited by Kenneth Armstrong, Albertina Albors-Llorens, Alicia Hinarejos, Amy Ludlow, Eva Nanopoulos, Oke Odudu and Sophie Turenne. The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (CYELS) offers authors and readers a space for sustained r…

To coincide with the two day conference on the European Social Union that is being hosted by Catherine Barnard, the Centre for European Legal Studies has published a virtual special issue edited by Catherine Barnard and Amy Ludlow. The special issue celebrates the wealth of excellent material in the Yearbook’s archive in the field of EU social poli…

The crisis - and the EU’s response to it - have posed a major challenge to the European social model. Trade unions have obviously been highly critical of what the EU has done but concerns have been expressed by a number of other key players, not least Jean-Claude Juncker, the new President of the Commission. In his opening speech to the European Pa…

The euro area sovereign debt crisis has been the greatest threat to the euro since its inception, but the consequences of the crisis go well beyond the realm of macroeconomics: the crisis has cast doubt on the viability of a mechanism of integration such as the one envisaged in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), and on the future of the Europea…

The Law Faculty is delighted to welcome the announcement that the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) elected Síofra O'Leary as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ireland last week. Dr O’Leary was elected with an absolute majority of votes cast, and will serve a term of office of nine years. Prior to her election,…