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Amid an escalating debate on whether the Government should use Protocol 36 of the Lisbon Treaty to opt out of EU criminal law, a study reveals how doing so would limit the UK’s ability to police international crime. The UK is in danger of compromising its ability to police international crimes like terrorism and drug trafficking by exercising its r…

For the first time last year, the Centre for European Legal Studies embarked on recording a large proportion of the seminars from the Weekly Seminar Series, and making them available to download or stream online. The CELS lunchtime seminars address topical issues of European Union Law and Comparative Law, with a view to using collective debate as…

On 11 July 2012, the Centre for History and Economic and CELS hosted an 'In conversation with...' featuring Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court at Trinity College, Cambridge. In a wide ranging discussion, the Justice talked about the function of comparative law, originalism in the Supreme Court, and the role of public opinion in shaping…

CELS hosted a highly successful seminar on the European Commission's Monti II and Enforcement Directive proposals in Cambridge on 27th April 2012. Participants included those from academia, the European Commission, BIS, the TUC, and the CBI. A lively exchange of views ensued on these highly controversial proposals.

The first high level meeting to discuss the Commission’s new proposals on data protection took place in Cambridge on 20 April 2012. Attracting data protection experts from across Europe, including the European Data Protection Supervisor and representatives from the European Commission and the Council of Europe, a lively discussion took place consi…

On 29th February Judge Dean Spielmann was the guest of CELS as part of the weekly CELS Seminar Programme to talk about "Allowing the Right Margin, The European Court of Human Rights and the National Margin of Appreciation Doctrine: Waiver or Subsidiarity of European Review?". This was a particularly relevant topic, as it took place in the same week…

The Center for European Legal Studies is pleased to announce that its Weekly Seminar Series is now be available for download from the University's Streaming Media Service (SMS) and as part of the University of Cambridge's collection on iTunes U.  Subject to speaker consent, the lecture component for each seminar will be made available on the U…

Recordings of this year's CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture by Eleanor Sharpson QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities and entitled "Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ" are available on the Faculty website: Audio; Standard Video; and HQ Video.

The Law Faculty building and the Squire Law Library will be closed on Saturday 12 December 2009 for the entire day due to essential maintenance work affecting all power to the building. Due to this work, this website will not be available while the work is being undertaken.

The first CELS/Shearman & Sterling Negotiation Competition was held in the Faculty of Law on Saturday, 4 February 2006.  Twenty-four second-year students entered. Shearman & Sterling are pleased to announce that the winners of the Negotiation Competition are as follows: First place: Stephanie Tang (Christ's College) & Yvonne Tew (Fitzwilliam Colleg…

CELS is pleased to announce the launch of a new Negotiation Game for law students in their second undergraduate year, which is being sponsored, organised and judged by Shearman and Sterling LLP, to be held on 4 February 2006 at the Faculty of Law. The Negotiation Game will be an excellent opportunity for law students to develop key legal skills in…