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Law has been studied at Cambridge University since the thirteenth century.Today, the Faculty has more than seventy teaching staff, about 750 undergraduate students, over 100 LL.M. students and about 100 graduate research students.
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Eminent Scholars Archive
Squire Law Library / Faculty of Law Eminent Scholars Archive
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Reasons for Unjust Enrichment
Birks’ unjust enrichment formula was intended to provide a common descriptive structure to all the instances where there was recovery. He did not, however, engage in an analysis of the various reasons why courts awarded ... -
Beyond Short-Termism: Effective Regulatory and Financial Industry Reform for Sustainable Long-Term Investment in Publicly Listed Companies
(2019-03-30)This thesis examines responses to the problem of stock market short-termism (‘SMST’). SMST is defined as investors preferring short-term financial returns over potentially more profitable longer-term investment opportunities. ... -
The Legal Limits of Intervention by Invitation of Government in Civil Wars
(2019-05-24)It has become widely accepted that if a state sends troops into another state following a government request, it will not breach the prohibition on the use of force set out in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. This is known ... -
The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern European Legal Scholarship
(2019-02-23)In modern scholarship, the concept of equity is often assimilated with that of Aristotelian epieikeia, a process which serves to correct rules when, though their wording undoubtedly applies to a case, yet the outcome would ...
