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Sweet & Maxwell has published the 10th edition of Goff & Jones on Unjust Enrichment edited by Professor Charles Mitchell, Professor Paul Mitchell, and Professor Stephen Watterson. Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. Successive editions have played a major role in establishing the central importance of the subject for p…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned f…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court edited by William Day and Sarah Worthington. Lord Sumption has been one of the most influential judges of his generation. This book critically reflects on the important and controversial issues raised by his jurisprudence.…

The Faculty of Law is delighted to report that Professor Sarah Worthington QC (Hon) FBA has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The honour was conferred for services to English Private Law. Dame Sarah is Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the Faculty of Law at the Univ…

Oxford University Press has published the sixth edition of Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by David Fox, Roderick Munday, Baris Soyer, Andrew Tettenborn, and Peter Turner. Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts from key cases and w…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Principles of Equity & Trusts by Graham Virgo. The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to deliver an engaging, …

Sweet & Maxwell has published the third edition of Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies by Neil Andrews, Andrew Tettenborn, and Graham Virgo. Contractual Duties: Performance, Breach, Termination and Remedies provides guidance from three leading contract academics on the duties at play in a contract that is in dispute: i…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Lady Hale is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. In the lecture, Lady Hale gave her perspective on whether the developm…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published The Humanity of Private Law - Part I: Explanation by Nicholas McBride. The Humanity of Private Law presents a new way of thinking about English private law. Making a decisive break from earlier views of private law, which saw private law as concerned with wealth-maximisation or pre…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Stephen Smith is internationally renowned for his work in private law. He is the James McGill Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, and teaches and researches common law and civil law obligations and legal th…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has just published New Perspectives on Land Registration: Contemporary Problems and Solutions, edited by Amy Goymour, Stephen Watterson and Martin Dixon. The book is the product of a collaboration which began in November 2014 with a conference at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, supported by the Cambrid…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Revolution and Evolution in Private Law edited by Sarah Worthington, Andrew Robertson and Graham Virgo. The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginal…

On Wednesday 8 November, Professor Simon Deakin delivered the 2017 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The evolution of vicarious liability". The common law of vicarious liability has evolved rapidly in the past two decades as a result of a greater use by appellate courts across several jurisdictions of functiona…

Cambridge University Press has published Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies edited by Professor Graham Virgo and Professor Sarah Worthington. Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies is the product of a workshop run by the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC) and a number of members of the Faculty have made contributions. The law of co…

The Faculty of Law warmly congratulates Professor Sarah Worthington on her appointment as a Deputy High Court Judge. The appointment was made by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd. Professor Worthington is Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre. She is a specialist in the areas of comm…