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Policies for People and Planet

06 Dec 2023

Cambridge Zero symposium gathers researchers to examine the rules and incentives needed to combat climate change.

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Seeking climate justice at the 'world court'

29 Mar 2023

How a Cambridge professor helped the climate-embattled nation of Vanuatu put the question of global warming to the International Court of Justice for...

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A Ukrainian soldier near the front lines in the Donbas region in 2015

Russia-Ukraine ‘off-ramp’: potential plan drafted by Cambridge peace negotiator

14 Mar 2022

An international law expert outlines terms for a possible agreement on Ukraine, including proposals for the Donbas and Crimea regions, and a '...

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Russian attempts to invoke international law dismantled

09 Mar 2022

Professor Marc Weller, a leading expert in international law and advisor on a large number of peace negotiations, debunks in turn Russia’s attempts...

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Fighting for the rights of football fans

02 Feb 2022

How a Cambridge researcher fought for the rights of football fans and won.

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Mother and child at sunset

Family court decisions distorted by misuse of key research, say experts

12 Jan 2021

Family courts are misunderstanding and misusing research around how children form close relationships with their caregivers, say an international...

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Healthcare workers checking each other’s personal protective equipment

Healthcare rationing could see unlawful deaths from COVID-19, researchers claim

21 May 2020

Current medical guidelines risk unlawful deaths of patients – with doctors, hospitals, and even the government potentially liable – if a second peak...

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Criminals, miscreants and misdemeanours

12 Jun 2019

Two centuries of Isle of Ely court records illuminate the darkest corners of the region's past.

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Six Cambridge academics elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship

20 Jul 2018

Six academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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Steel workers

Legislating labour in the long run – how worker rights help economies

12 Jul 2018

Researchers have built the single largest dataset of employment laws – spanning more than 100 countries across much of post-war history – to look at...

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Girl, boy

Boy, girl... or intersex? Law and gender

19 Oct 2017

Boy or girl? This is one of the first questions all new parents are asked. In a small percentage of cases, the answer isn’t straightforward: the...

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Snip, snip, cure: correcting defects in the genetic blueprint

14 Jul 2017

Gene editing using ‘molecular scissors’ that snip out and replace faulty DNA could provide an almost unimaginable future for some patients: a...

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