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The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) is delighted to announce that, from October 2026, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP will be supporting its 3CL Lunchtime Seminar Series. The series will now be known as the 3CL Sullivan & Cromwell Lunchtime Seminar Series.The series brings together leading academics and distinguished practitioners from around…

Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; CERF Fellow; Fellow, Pembroke College) has been cited and quoted by the Financial Times [paywall link] in its piece "US bankruptcy fights are heading to London" for her paper 'The Global Law of Debt', co-authored with Professor Jared Ellias (Harvard Law School).The research project, 'The G…

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that the University of Cambridge recently hosted the Cambridge Debt Roundtable on The Global Law of Debt. The event was organised by Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; Fellow of Pembroke College; Fellow of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance) around a new research projec…

The Law Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; Fellow, Pembroke College; CERF Fellow) has been extensively cited and quoted by the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee in its 2026 report, Private Markets: Unknown Unknowns. This follows Dr Lalafaryan's oral evidence to the …

Bloomsbury Professional has published Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation: Law and Technology edited by Matthias Haentjens, Louise Gullifer and Ilya Kokorin. This book provides a commentary on the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR), a game-changing EU regulation for crypto-assets and crypto-asset services. Directly applicable in all EU Me…

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has today published a report which warns the Government that the UK’s failure to retain and scale its science and technology companies has now reached crisis point and is causing the UK economy to bleed out. 'Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency' argues that without urgen…

Dr Narine Lalafaryan (Assistant Professor of Corporate Law; Fellow, Pembroke College; CERF Fellow) gave evidence on 9 July 2025 to the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee. The Financial Services Regulation Committee invited Dr Lalafaryan to provide evidence on the growth of private markets in the UK following reforms introduced a…

Cambridge University Press has published Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Societal Change by Felix Steffek and Mihoko Sumida, (Hitotsubashi University). Legal Innovation explores the impact of technology on the legal profession and societal change. Reflecting contributions from an international group of exp…

Oxford University Press has published the fourth edition of The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing edited by Louise Gullifer, Michael Bridge, and Eva Lomnicka. Personal property security is an important subject in commercial practice as it is the key to much of the law of banking and sale. This book examines traditional methods of securing d…

Changes to UK innovation and industrial policy could reduce the early sale of promising companies to overseas firms and increase economic growth, says new report from Cambridge Judge Business School (JBS) co-authored by Faculty Professor of Corporate Law and Governance Bobby Reddy. The early sale of venture capital-backed science and technology-bas…

On 11 January 2024, the OECD has published its report on 'Developing Effective Online Dispute Resolution in Latvia'. The report documents the assessment of online dispute resolution in Latvia and develops key policy recommendations to support its development. It draws from prior influential work of the OECD on access to justice, for example, the OE…

Oxford University Press has published the third edition of Principles of Corporate Finance Law by Eilís Ferran, Elizabeth Howell (LSE), and Felix Steffek. Corporate finance theory seeks to understand how incorporated firms address the financial constraints that affect their investment decisions. This is achieved by using varied financial instrument…

On 31st December Sweet & Maxwell published the 7th edition of Goode and Gullifer on Legal Problems of Credit and Security edited by Professor Louise Gullifer. Goode and Gullifer on Legal Problems of Credit and Security clearly explains the fundamental concepts of common law and equity as they affect secured transactions. It provides a thorough expl…

The Cape Town Convention Academic Project (CTCAP) has created the Cape Town Convention (CTC) international moot court programme (CTC moot court). The purpose of the CTC moot court programme is to familiarise students and judges with the CTC in the context of complex hypothetical fact patterns and to provide students with educational exercises invol…

On Wednesday, 16 February 2022, Dr Felix Steffek, Associate Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL), gave evidence to the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The Board focussed on corporate debt workouts in this session. The objective of the session was to examine practices, experiences and lessons from me…