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Last month, 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 con…

Registration is open for the Future of Registered Partnerships conference, to be jointly hosted by the University of Cambridge and Durham University at the Faculty of Law and Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge on 10 and 11 July 2015. In many jurisdictions registered partnerships were introduced either as a functional equivalent to …

On Thursday 29 January 2015 Anthony Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union delivered the 2015 CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture entitled "Facing Legal Challenges in US - EU Relations" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In his lecture, Ambassador Gardner focused his remarks on two substantive areas where legal challenges to US-EU rela…

The Centre and the Faculty are delighted to welcome the election of former Goodhart Chair and Mackenzie Stuart lecturer, Silvana Sciarra to the Corte Costituzionale (Italian Constitutional Court). For more information see the Repubblica website. Professor Sciarra delivered the 2006-07 Mackenzie Stuart Lecture entitled 'Trusting Judges to Deliver Ch…

A delegation of nineteen members of the European Court of Justice, including its President Judge Vassilios Skouris and its Vice-President Judge Koen Lenaerts were welcomed to the Faculty of Law by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz on 5 October. Among the delegation were Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston, a former member of the L…

On Monday 17 February 2014 Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the EU Commission and European Union Justice Commissioner delivered the 2014 CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture entitled "The United Kingdom and the EU: Inevitably Drifting Apart?" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. In a provocative lecture, Vice-President Reding examined the reas…

On Wednesday 15 January, Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Professor Kenneth Armstrong gave evidence before the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee, which was debating the referendum on separation for Scotland. The meeting of the Committee was reported in the Herald Scotland, which summarised "Europe has come to the f…

Hart Publishing, Oxford, has published the fifteenth volume of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies edited by Catherine Barnard, Albertina Albors-Llorens, Markus Gehring with Robert Schütze. The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in EU Law, the law of the European Convention …

In a joint seminar with the Centre for History and Economics, CELS hosted a seminar where Professor Kenneth Mack, Lawrence Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School discussed Civil Rights Lawyers in American Legal Historiography.

The Data Protection Regulation proposed in January 2012 by the European Commission would introduce a 'right to be forgotten' into European data protection law. There has been lively discussion about the legal nature of the right to be forgotten, its relationship to other rights and interests, and its implications for society and for the Internet. O…

CELS is pleased to announce that the latest volume of The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies (Volume 14) is now in circulation.  The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies is CELS' flagship publication. It provides a forum for the scrutiny of significant issues in European Union Law, the Law of the Council of Europe, and Comparative…

CELS offers its hearty congratulations to Alexandre Saydé on winning the 2012 Ius Commune Prize with his (2010-11) CYELS Article entitled "One Law, Two Competitions. An Enquiry into the Contradictions of Free Movement Law".  The Ius Commune Prize, which was started in 2001, is awarded to a PhD student or starting researcher who is deemed to have wr…

The two European Law Centres of Cambridge (CELS) and Durham University (DELI) joined forces to host a workshop on 26th and 27th October 2012 in Cambridge on the "External Relations Law of the European Union". This brought together academics and doctoral researchers from both institutions, as well as a number of guest speakers, to discuss a variety …

Jonathan Faull, Director General in DG "Internal Market and Services" at the European Commission in Brussels gave the CELS lecture on 31st October 2012 about the 'Legal Issues of Financial Reform in the EU' on 31st October 2012. Starting his lecture with an explanation of the extent of the current crisis, underlining that besides enormous legal cha…

The British Law Centre in Warsaw, founded by Professor Bill Cornish the first director of The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with a conference reuniting alumini, many of whom now hold important posts in their governments, judiciary and practice. The conference, with the theme of "Two decades …