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At the 2019 Annual Conference and General Assembly of the European Law Institute (ELI), Jens Scherpe was elected to serve on the Council of the European Law Institute. In the current challenging international environment, he hopes to ensure that the views of England & Wales are still heard in the major European projects undertaken by ELI. Scherpe w…

The Centre is delighted to recognise the award of two prizes in relation to the study of Family Law at the Faculty for the 2018/19 academic year. Amber Turner was the winner of the 2018/19 University of Cambridge John Hall Prize for the best paper in Family Law (Tripos). Reacting to the award of her prize, Amber said: "Choosing family law was a gre…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Joanna Miles, Rob George, and Sonia Harris-Short. Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive e…

Claire Fenton-Glynn and Brian Sloan recently hosted a colloquium as part of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Implementation Project. Like its predecessors (held elsewhere), the colloquium was an invitation-only event bringing together international experts to analyse the implementation of a specific article of the United Nat…

After two years of hard work, the Pension Advisory Group (PAG), of which Joanna Miles is an academic member, has published its essential guide to the treatment of pensions on divorce.  PAG’s long awaited report brings guidance to family judges, lawyers and pension experts encouraging fairer settlements and helping to manage liability. The guide and…

On 6 June 2019, the Law Commission of England and Wales and Scottish Law Commission published its Consultation Paper on "Building Families Through Surrogacy: A new law". The Law Commission have attended a number of events run by Cambridge Family Law over the past 3 years, including the conference on Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy (wi…

Cambridge University Press has published Children's Rights and Sustainable Development edited by Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn. This volume, edited by Claire Fenton-Glynn, considers how to implement children’s rights in the 21st century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development. Bringing together authors from six countries, and acro…

Intersentia has published Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy edited by Dr Jens Scherpe, Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn and Professor Terry Kaan. Over the past 10 years, a convergence of scientific, demographic, legal and social developments has led to a significant influx of cases of international surrogacy. What was previously a marginal form …

The Nuffield Foundation, an independent charitable trust funding research & student programmes to advance educational opportunity & social well-being, has today published a report drafted by the Faculty's Dr Jens Scherpe and Professor Liz Trinder (Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Exeter Law School). The report 'Reforming the Gr…

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 2019/20. 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…

Jens Scherpe was appointed as Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School for 2019. Together with Melbourne Professor Belinda Fehlberg, (who also is a corresponding member of Cambridge Family Law) he will teach an intensive course on 'Comparative Family Law' in July 2019 at Melbourne Law School.

This year, I was lucky enough to be selected as the winner of the 2018 International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) Studentship, which led to a wonderful three weeks in Victoria, Canada. I chose to undertake my placement in Canada because whilst studying family law, I did a lot of research into Canadian law, as family law there is considerably mo…

Cambridge Family Law Centre member Brian Sloan hosted a small conference on Landmark Cases in Succession Law at Robinson College on 11 and 12 September 2018. The conference brought together leading international scholars to analyse 19 fundamental decided cases on Succession Law, dating from 1720 to 2017, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topic…

Joanna Miles and Jens Scherpe gave presentations at a roundtable meeting in Parliament in early June chaired by Lord Marks QC, coordinated by Miles together with Professor Gillian Douglas (KCL) and Liz Trinder (Exeter). The principal aim of the event was to disseminate research regarding the reality of divorcing parties’ financial outcomes, to prov…

Jens Scherpe has been awarded an Honorary Professorship by the University of Aalborg (Denmark) for five years commencing 1 April 2018. This title (which in Danish reads 'adjungeret professor') can be conferred by institutions under the Danish University Act for a maximum of five years 'on persons of a high professional standing, whom the institutio…