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Congratulations to Dr Maayan Menashe, Fellow of the Centre, whose doctoral thesis has been awarded the Yorke prize by the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. The Yorke Prize is awarded annually ‘in recognition of the exceptional quality’ of the doctoral thesis, ‘which makes a substantial contribution to its field of legal knowledge’. The thesi…

The Centre warmly welcomes the news that Dr Jamie Trinidad has been appointed a King’s Counsel in Gibraltar (KC) by the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir David Steel.   Jamie is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Wolfson College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His research focuses on public international law…

The Centre is delighted to share the news that English Heritage has installed a blue plaque for Sir Hersch Lauterpacht at his former home at 103 Walm Lane, Cricklewood, London.  The blue plaques scheme celebrates the links between notable historical figures and the buildings in which they lived and worked. Hersch, and his wife Rachel, lived at Walm…

We are immeasurably saddened by the news of the passing of our colleague and friend Karen Knop. Karen’s long association with Cambridge and the Lauterpacht Centre began with her doctoral work under the supervision of James Crawford. In May this year, Karen joined us in Cambridge for the memorial conference that marked one year of James’s own untime…

The election of Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, to a prestigious senior Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) - Academy of Social Sciences was announced this month. Nominated by their peers and institutions for thei…

Dr Jamie Trinidad, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, has been awarded the prestigious Round Table Peter Lyon prize for his article, “Self-determination and contested peoplehood in Gibraltar: separating the law from the rhetoric”, published in the June 2021 issue of The Round T…

On 12 April 2022, the award-winning online Customary IHL Database of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was updated with practice from Sri Lanka up to the end of 2014, as well as Zimbabwe up to the end of 2016. This recently added practice is marked in green throughout the database. A team of British Red Cross researchers based at …

Today, an international team of mediation experts based in the University of Cambridge and other major institutions launched a pathbreaking resource in support of a peace settlement for Ukraine. The Ukraine Peace Settlement Project web-resource is geared towards helping the sides in the conflict, and the present and future facilitators in negotiati…

The Faculty warmly welcomes the news that Professor Lorand Bartels, Professor of International Law at the Faculty, and a Fellow of Trinity Hall has been awarded an MBE for Services to UK Trade Policy in the New Year's Honours List. Professor Bartels, who was appointed Chair of the UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission in October, said: "It is a gre…

Nico with his daughter, Nomi (March 2016)   The Centre was saddened to hear of the death of Professor Nissim ‘Nico’ Bar-Yaacov, who passed away in Israel yesterday at the age of 93. Nico was a very dear friend and supporter of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Professor Bar-Yaacov studied International Law at Cambridge University in 19…