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​Scherpe was invited to teach at the Global College of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain/Belgium in March 2017 as a visiting professor by the by the Family Law Centre (Cefap) and by the Centre for International and European Law (Cedie). While in Louvain-la-Neuve, he taught three seminars on various family law topics at the Global College …

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) In this video, Brian Sloan considers the outcome of the case, which raised fundamental principles of succession law, and its broader implications. Brian Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, Universit…

Cambridge Family Law was delighted to host this joint event, generously supported by the CFLQ’s publisher, LexisNexis, at Trinity College in March 2017. Quite fortuitously, the conference happened to fall between two important events: the publication just days earlier of key Parliamentary committee reports on the implications of Brexit for transnat…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of Borkowski's Law of Succession by Dr Brian Sloan. Presented and written in a friendly and engaging style, Dr Brian Sloan's revised edition is perfectly pitched for today's undergraduate students. Considerable attention is given to the area's rich and evolving case-law, illustrating the relev…

On 16 February a public event on 'Gender in the law: need for legal reform of recognition and protection of gender diversity' took place at the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in Berlin/Germany. The Ministry presented two reports it had commissioned to the public (available for download in German). The f…

The Law Commission of England and Wales is currently undertaking consultations with regard to its 13th Programme of Law Reform, seeking suggestions concerning which areas of law would benefit from reform. One of the areas identified by the Law Commission was a review of the law surrounding surrogacy arrangements, where concerns have been expressed …

International surrogacy has been the subject of increasing scrutiny over the past 10 years, both by the media, as numerous scandals hit the headlines, and by politicians, where laws have struggled to keep up with advances in artificial reproductive techniques and rapid social changes. This conference, organised by Claire Fenton-Glynn, Jens M. Scher…

Brian Sloan has been invited to join the International Advisory Board of the Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ), the leading German family law journal. This prestigious position is only offered to selected individuals, and usually there will only be one member of the Advisory Board for each European jurisdiction. Brian will represent…

Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn has been shortlisted for "Commentator of the Year" for the Jordan Publishing Family Law Awards. The Family Law Awards were launched by Jordan Publishing to recognise the important work of family lawyers, and celebrate their many successes and outstanding achievements.  The 6th annual Family Law Awards will be held on Wednesda…

King’s College invites applications from individuals who are completing or have completed a relevant doctorate for one or more four-year Junior Research Fellowship/s in interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Candidates may come from any disciplinary background but will be expected to propose future projects that engage with issues of gender in ways that…

Scherpe and Fenton-Glynn together with Terry Kaan will be hosting a major international and comparative conference on surrogacy in Hong Kong on 9 and 10 September. With the advances in artificial reproductive techniques, and an increasingly globalised world, surrogacy has gone from a niche practice to a global market, raising questions of parenthoo…

Brian Sloan has published "Reversing Testamentary Dispositions in Favour of Informal Carers" in Current Issues in Succession Law. The book, edited by Dr Birke Häcker and Professor Charles Mitchell and published by Hart, contains papers presented at a conference that took place at All Souls College, Oxford in July 2015. Brian’s chapter links togethe…

The 16th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) entitled 'Family Law and Family Realities' will take place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 25 July to 29 July 2017 at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. The Conference will be dedicated to the subject whether existing national family laws adequately reflect the rapidly…

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 2017/18. 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…

Joanna Miles was one of two academic members on the Family Justice Council's Financial Needs Working Group, chaired by Mrs Justice Roberts, to take forward a recommendation made by the Law Commission in its report on Matrimonial Property, Needs and Agreements, published in February 2014, aimed to promote greater transparency and consistency in the …