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The launch of the Survival guide to pensions on divorce on 20 January will be a welcome step towards the demystification of the tricky topic of pensions on divorce. The new guide is a key publication in the work of the Pension Advisory Group, led by Cambridge Family Law’s Hilary Woodward with Joanna Miles also a member of the core team. It is a cle…

The Faculty of Law is offering one studentship for a new PhD student commencing full-time doctoral research in any area of family law in 2020/21. The studentship is available to Home UK/EU and overseas students, and is renewable for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory academic progress. The value of a studentship will be £10,000 per annum and…

On 7 January, Oxford University Press has published Children and the European Court of Human Rights by Claire Fenton-Glynn. This is Dr Fenton-Glynn’s second monograph, following on from her award winning Children’s Rights in Intercountry Adoption (Instersentia, 2014). The European Convention on Human Rights is one of the most influential human righ…

Intersentia has published The Interaction between Family Law, Succession Law and Private International Law: Adapting to Change edited by Jens M Scherpe and Elena Bargelli of the University of Pisa. There can be no doubt that both substantive family and succession law engage in significant interaction with private international law, and, in particul…

Cambridge Family Law is pleased to announce that two colleagues from Latin America have joined the Centre as corresponding members. Our new corresponding member for Chile is Fabiola Lathrop. She is a full professor of Private Law at the University of Chile, and currently also Deputy Director of the Private Law Department at University of Chile. Nic…

It is with great sadness that we learned that Anne-Marie Hutchinson passed away on 2 October. Anne-Marie, a partner at the leading Family Law form Dawson Cornwell, was an inaugural member of CFL’s Advisory Board. Very few practitioners can claim to have had an influence on the development of family law as extensive as Anne-Marie’s. She was a true c…

It is just over a year since the publication of the Pension Advisory Group’s ground-breaking guidance on the treatment of pensions on divorce, to which Joanna Miles was a key contributor, and its impact to date has been far-reaching. The report has been featured in a wide range of general and specialist media, recently including the New Law Journal…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) This Report is based on material the authors submitted to the House of Commons Women and Equality Committee inquiries on the unequal impact of Covid-19 and the Coronavirus Act 2020 on People with protected characteri…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Borkowski's Law of Succession by Brian Sloan. Presented and written in a friendly and engaging style, Dr Brian Sloan continues to update Borkowski's classic textbook which is perfectly pitched for today's undergraduate students. Considerable attention is given to the area's rich and evolvi…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Spaces of Care edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody, Brian Sloan. The collection examines the ways in which the emerging interdisciplinary study of care provokes a reassessment of the connections and disjuncture between care and governance, ethics, and public, personal and pr…

The University of Western Cape (Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence) has appointed Jens Scherpe as Extraordinary Professor for an initial period of 1 April 2020 - 30 March 2023. Established in 1960 as 'University for Coloured People' and located in the Bellville suburb of Cape Town/South Africa, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) has a…

The Scottish Law Commission has published a new Discussion Paper on Cohabitation (DP 170), considering the financial remedies available between cohabitants on separation in Scots law as part of its Family Law reform agenda. The paper draws extensively on earlier empirical work by Joanna Miles, undertaken with Fran Wasoff and Enid Mordaunt in 2009-1…

From January 2020, Professor Jens Scherpe has become the editor of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family (IJLPF), published by OUP. Having previously been assistant editor, he takes over from Mr John Eekelaar (Oxford) and Professor Robert Dingwall (Nottingham Trent University) who have been the editors of the journal since its inc…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Landmark Cases in Succession Law edited by Dr Brian Sloan. The Landmark Cases series highlights the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the leading cases in a discipline, and seeks to provide contexts in which to better understand how and why certain cases ca…

The Faculty now has a Director of International Strategy and Partnerships, with Professor Jens Scherpe taking up this important new role. Professor Scherpe, who has just been elected to the Council of the European Law Institute, is a highly distinguished comparative lawyer and family lawyer with extensive international links. The new role of Direct…