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This new book edited by Dr Brian Sloan, Assistant Professor in Property Law and Fellow of Robinson College, has been published by Edward Elgar.A Research Agenda for Succession Law brings together an international group of leading scholars to map out the future of legal research in the field of inheritance and estates. The book arises from papers fr…

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing either full-time or part-time doctoral research in 2026/27. The studentship is available to home and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. Preference will be given to prospective PhD students intending to un…

Faculty and Cambridge Family Law (CFL) member Dr Brian Sloan has been serving on the advisory group for the Law Commission's project to modernise wills.On 16 May the Commission published its recommendations to reform the law of wills in its report 'Modernising Wills Law'. The reforms proposed will modernise the law governing wills to ensure it is f…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Autonomy, Care and Family Law by Anna Heenan.There is a tension at the heart of family law and policy between the increasing influence of individual autonomy and the demands of caring for children. Individual autonomy envisages decisions made in one's own best interests, whereas de…

Lesson plans written by the Centre's Deputy Director, Dr Jan Ewing, working in collaboration with Prof Anne Barlow (University of Exeter), and Resolution members Graeme Fraser (BBS Law) and Yuliya Osudina (Child and Child) won the 'Family Law Community Interaction Award' at the prestigious Family Law Awards 2023 recently. The PSHE Association-appro…

Cambridge Family Law is delighted to announce that Caitlin Jenkins has joined the Advisory Board of Cambridge Family Law. Caitlin is a Partner in Family Law at Mills & Reeve. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Law, and has been described in the Chambers UK High Net Worth Guide 2019 as "the best lawyer in Cambridge ... the all ro…

For the past year, Claire Fenton-Glynn and Jens M. Scherpe of Cambridge Family Law have been undertaking a research project on the experiences of individuals involved in international surrogacy arrangements under a contract with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government. Fenton-Glynn and Scherpe have provided training on…

Today, Cambridge Family Law released the results of its online survey, designed to shed light on the domestic and international surrogacy arena – why it is done, how it is done, and the issues that intended parents, surrogates, and governments alike must be aware of. The survey sought to understand the experiences of those who had become parents th…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 edited by Joanna Miles, Daniel Monk and Rebecca Probert. The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law. Coming into force in 1971, it had a significant impact on legal practice and was followed by a drama…

Brill has published Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities: Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child edited by Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn and Dr Brian Sloan. This book arises out of a CRC Implementation Project colloquium on Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 5 protec…

The unequal distribution of pension wealth puts women at greater risk of poverty in later life, especially after a relationship ends Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Important work in relation to pensions on divorce continues in the wake of the pub…

In June 2021, Professor Jens M Scherpe and Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn were appointed to a new EU Expert Group on the Recognition of Parenthood between Member States (E03765). The aim of this Expert Group is to assist the Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers in the preparation of a proposal for a new regulation on the cross-border …

Claire Fenton-Flynn and Jens M. Scherpe of Cambridge Family Law are undertaking a research project on the experiences of individuals involved in international surrogacy arrangements under a contract with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government. For this an online survey has been devised and currently is available on th…

The Cambridge Family Law (CFL) centre (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) and the Center for Constitutional Studies (CEC) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, agreeing to promote and further the links between the two institutions. The first project will be a major comparative resea…

Professor Jens Scherpe, Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty and Director of Cambridge Family Law, was elected as Member of the German Society of International Law by the society’s Council at their last meeting. The German Society of International Law is devoted to the promotion of Public International Law, Private International Law and othe…