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Cambridge Family Law is delighted to co-organise a Conference on the 'Law and Practice of Surrogacy' together with the Academy of European Law (ERA). The conference will take place on 25 and 26 June 2018 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. Please download the conference programme for more informati…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Professor Cohen began by explaining - from a technological perspective - the progress of human reproduction and what the future may hold. He covered topics including in vitro fertilisation, uterine transplantation, m…

Brian Sloan has been invited to join the Advisory Group for the project on wills being conducted by the Law Commission for England & Wales. The Group, composed of academics, practitioners, members of the judiciary and others involved in this area, will work with the Law Commission team to provide expert advice and opinion on the policy and proposed…

Intersentia has published The Future of Registered Partnerships: Family Recognition Beyond Marriage? edited by Jens M Scherpe and Andy Hayward. A book series dedicated to the harmonisation and unification of family and succession law in Europe. The series includes comparative legal studies and materials as well as studies on the effects of internat…

Jens M. Scherpe and Peter Dunne (University of Bristol) have submitted a joint consultation response to the Hong Kong Inter-departmental Working Group on Gender Recognition (IWGGR). The submission was based on their joint chapter (The Legal Status of Transsexual and Transgender Persons – Comparative Analysis and Recommendations) published in Jens M…

A year following their visit to New Zealand in late 2016, Miles and Scherpe are continuing to engage with the development of relationship property law in New Zealand. They have recently been consulted again by the team at the NZ Law Commission that is conducting its wide-ranging project surveying that area of law, whose 900 page long Issues Paper (…

The President of the Family Division announced at the start of December plans to pilot proposals first made by family law judge HHJ Edward Hess and Joanna Miles (in (2016) Family Law 1335 and then with HHJ Martin O’Dwyer of the Central Family Court in (2017) Family Law 625) for the creation of a network of specialist Financial Remedies Courts acros…

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 2018/19. 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…

In 2016/17 several prizes were awarded in relation to the study of Family Law at the Faculty. Sylvie Armstrong was the winner of the 2016/2017 University of Cambridge’s John Hall Prize for the best paper in Family Law (Tripos). She was also awarded a studentship by the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL); you can read her report on her t…

​Scherpe's work on legal gender and non-binaries identities was included in the Cambridge University publication 'Research Horizons' as one of the University’s projects of general interest. The article was featured on the University's Research pages, and can be accessed in the complete publication (on pages 10-11). The short article draws on Scherp…

With Brexit negotiations now underway, the Child & Family Law Quarterly has published its special issue containing several of the academic papers from the joint CFLQ/Cambridge Family Law conference in Cambridge back in March this year.  The article titles and authors are available at this table of contents. Those wishing to subscribe to the full jo…

Cambridge Family Law hosted an invitation-only event on financial remedies in England & Wales and Australia in Trinity College in September. The event, conceived in part as a belated sequel to a similar event that had been held in Oxford in 2004, was convened by Jo Miles and Belinda Fehlberg, visitor at the Centre for the Long Vacation 2017.  It wa…

Jens Scherpe and Jo Miles have been representing Cambridge Family Law in Amsterdam this week at the triennial conference of the International Society of Family Law. The conference provides a unique opportunity for family law scholars and judges from all over the world to convene and share both comparative law knowledge about each other's jurisdicti…

In March 2017, Claire Fenton-Glynn joined Harcourt Chambers as an Associate Member. Harcourt Chambers is a leading family law set, awarded “Family Set of the Year” at the Chambers UK Bar Awards 2016 and recommended as a leading children law set by the Legal 500 (London and regional sections) and by the Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession. Hea…

In April 2017, the School of Law of the University of Padua invited Jens Scherpe to teach on the course ‘Istituzioni di diritto privato 2’ of Prof. Matilde Girolami on the ‘Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza’. Scherpe taught ‘Gender and Law’ and ‘Legal Recognition of Adult Relationships’, both of which were of particular interest to Itali…