In June 2009, Family Law specialists from around the world arrived in Cambridge to attend a two-day conference entitled ‘Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in a Comparative Perspective’. The conference, organised by Jens M. Scherpe of the University of Cambridge, formed part of a British Academy-funded research project comparing the legal status of marital agreements in 12 jurisdictions. The results will be published by Hart Publishing in 2010.