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This guide provides information on searching for theses of Cambridge PhDs and for theses of UK universities and universities abroad. 

For information and guidance on depositing your thesis as a cambridge phd, visit the cambridge office of scholarly communication pages on theses here ., this guide gives essential information on how to obtain theses using the british library's ethos service. .

On the last weekend of October, the British Library became the victim of a major cyber-attack. Essential digital services including the BL catalogue, website and online learning resources went dark, with research services like the EThOS collection of more than 600,000 doctoral theses suddenly unavailable. The BL state that they anticipate restoring more services in the next few weeks, but disruption to certain services is now expected to persist for several months. For the latest news on the attack and information on the restoration of services, please follow the BL blog here:  Knowledge Matters blog  and access the LibGuide page here:  British Library Outage Update - Electronic Legal Deposit - LibGuides at University of Cambridge Subject Libraries

A full list of resources for searching theses online is provided by the Cambridge A-Z, available here .

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Finding a cambridge phd thesis online via the institutional repository.

The University's institutional repository, Apollo , holds full-text digital versions of over 11,000 Cambridge PhD theses and is a rapidly growing collection deposited by Cambridge Ph.D. graduates. Theses in Apollo can be browsed via this link . More information on how to access theses by University of Cambridge students can be found on the access to Cambridge theses webpage.   The requirement for impending PhD graduates to deposit a digital version in order to graduate means the repository will be increasing at a rate of approximately 1,000 per year from this source.   About 200 theses are added annually through requests to make theses Open Access or via requests to digitize a thesis in printed format.

Locating and obtaining a copy of a Cambridge PhD thesis (not yet available via the repository)

Theses can be searched in iDiscover .  Guidance on searching for theses in iDiscover can be found here .   Requests for consultation of printed theses, not available online, should be made at the Manuscripts Reading Room (Email:  [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)1223 333143).   Further information on the University Library's theses, dissertations and prize essays collections can be consulted at this link .

Researchers can order a copy of an unpublished thesis which was deposited in print form either through the Library’s  Digital Content Unit via the image request form , or, if the thesis has been digitised, it may be available in the Apollo repository. Copies of theses may be provided to researchers in accordance with the  law  and in a manner that is common across UK libraries.  The law allows us to provide whole copies of unpublished theses to individuals as long as they sign a declaration saying that it is for non-commercial research or private study.

How to make your thesis available online through Cambridge's institutional repository

Are you a Cambridge alumni and wish to make your Ph.D. thesis available online? You can do this by depositing it in Apollo the University's institutional repository. Click here for further information on how to proceed.    Current Ph.D students at the University of Cambridge can find further information about the requirements to deposit theses on the Office of Scholarly Communication theses webpages.

UK Theses and Dissertations

Electronic copies of Ph.D. theses submitted at over 100 UK universities are obtainable from EThOS , a service set up to provide access to all theses from participating institutions. It achieves this by harvesting e-theses from Institutional Repositories and by digitising print theses as they are ordered by researchers using the system. Over 250,000 theses are already available in this way. Please note that it does not supply theses submitted at the universities of Cambridge or Oxford although they are listed on EThOS.

Registration with EThOS is not required to search for a thesis but is necessary to download or order one unless it is stored in the university repository rather than the British Library (in which case a link to the repository will be displayed). Many theses are available without charge on an Open Access basis but in all other cases, if you are requesting a thesis that has not yet been digitised you will be asked to meet the cost. Once a thesis has been digitised it is available for free download thereafter.

When you order a thesis it will either be immediately available for download or writing to hard copy or it will need to be digitised. If you order a thesis for digitisation, the system will manage the process and you will be informed when the thesis is available for download/preparation to hard copy.

See the Search results section of the  help page for full information on interpreting search results in EThOS.

EThOS is managed by the British Library and can be found at http://ethos.bl.uk . For more information see About EThOS .

World-wide (incl. UK) theses and dissertations

Electronic versions of non-UK theses may be available from the institution at which they were submitted, sometimes on an open access basis from the institutional repository. A good starting point for discovering freely available electronic theses and dissertations beyond the UK is the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) , which facilitates searching across institutions. Information can also usually be found on the library web pages of the relevant institution.

The DART Europe etheses portal lists several thousand full-text theses from a group of European universities.

The University Library subscribes to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses  (PQDT) database which from August 31 2023 is accessed on the Web of Science platform.  To search this index select it from the Web of Science "Search in" drop-down list of databases (available on the Documents tab on WoS home page)

PQDT includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations, representing 700 leading academic institutions worldwide from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The University Library only subscribes to the abstracting & indexing version of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database and NOT the full text version.  A fee is payable for ordering a dissertation from this source.   To obtain the full text of a dissertation as a downloadable PDF you can submit your request via the University Library Inter-Library Loans department (see contact details below). NB this service is only available to full and current members of the University of Cambridge.

Alternatively you can pay yourself for the dissertation PDF on the PQDT platform. Link from Web of Science record display of any thesis to PQDT by clicking on "View Details on ProQuest".  On the "Preview" page you will see an option "Order a copy" top right.  This will allow you to order your own copy from ProQuest directly.

Dissertations and theses submitted at non-UK universities may also be requested on Inter-Library Loan through the Inter-Library Loans department (01223 333039 or 333080, [email protected] )

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Law at the University of Cambridge allows you to understand law in its historical and social contexts, and to examine its general principles and techniques.

This course is your first step towards becoming a qualified solicitor or barrister. As part of the course you will be able to specialise from second year and study other legal systems from outside the UK.  

Law at Cambridge 

This course allows you to explore the law beyond the fundamental subjects to consider its interdisciplinary relationship with philosophy, economics, ethics, criminology, social policy, and history.  

In your first year you’ll study a range of topics such as Criminal Law and Constitutional Law.  

You will then be able to specialise and explore your interests from your second and third year. 

The Faculty and University Law Society organise numerous activities, including: 

• public lectures 
• careers events with leading barristers’ and solicitors’ firms 
• social events 
• mooting competitions (debates about hypothetical legal cases)

Teaching and facilities

You’ll be taught by experts in the field at the Faculty of Law.

The Faculty of Law facilities include the David Williams Building, which has: 

• lecture theatres 
• seminar rooms 
• a moot court, where you can take part in mock trials 
• the Squire Law Library, one of the finest academic law collections in the UK. The Library offers an extensive collection of printed and electronic resources and excellent computing facilities. 

Along with all other students at Cambridge, you'll also have access to: 

• our impressive Cambridge University Library, one of the world’s oldest university libraries 

Student exchange schemes  

You may have the opportunity to spend a year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore. The year abroad takes place after you complete the first two years of the course. 

You would then return to Cambridge to complete Part II of the course as a fourth year. 

You may be given financial support for your Year Abroad, if needed, through a Turing Scheme grant. This is subject to funding being awarded to the University by the Department for Education. Funding is awarded on an annual basis. Eligibility may change depending on the level of funding awarded each year.

Find out more about the student exchange schemes  

Course costs

When you go to university, you’ll need to consider two main costs – your tuition fees and your living costs (sometimes referred to as maintenance costs).

Your living costs will include costs related to your studies that are not covered by your tuition fees. There are some general study costs that will apply for all students – you can find details of these costs here .

There are no compulsory additional course costs for Law. If you choose to buy your own copies of course books, they usually cost around £15 each.

If you have any queries about resources/materials, please contact the Faculty.

Becoming a solicitor 

If you want to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales you will need to sit two Solicitors Qualifying Examinations (SQE1 & SQE2) after you complete this course. For more information visit the Solicitors Regulation Authority website.  

Becoming a barrister 

If you want to qualify as a barrister in England and Wales, your undergraduate degree will satisfy the academic component of training for this if you study the following papers throughout the course: 

• Criminal Law 
• Law of Tort 
• Constitutional Law 
• Contract Law 
• European Union Law 

You can then study vocational courses that lead to professional accreditation. For more information about qualifying as a barrister visit the Bar Standards Board website.

Teaching is provided through lectures, seminars and small-group supervisions.  

You will usually have 10 to 12 hours of lectures, and one supervision for each paper you’re studying, every 2 weeks.

Assessment is mostly through examinations which you take at the end of the year.

You will also have the option of taking a seminar course, which is assessed by a dissertation.

You won't usually be able to resit any of your exams.

Year 1 (Part IA)  

You take 4 papers.  

In previous years, papers have included: 

• Civil Law I 

Year 2 (Part IB) 

You choose 5 papers from a wide range of options, which may include: 

• Law of Contract 
• Administrative Law 
• Civil Law II 
• Comparative Law 
• Criminal Procedure and Criminal Evidence 
• Criminology 
• Sentencing and the Penal System 
• Family Law 
• Human Rights Law 
• International Law 
• Jurisprudence 
• Legal History 

Year 3 (Part II) 

You choose 5 papers. You can also take 2 half-papers as one of your 5 options.  

Full paper options may include: 

• Aspects of Obligations 
• Commercial Law 
• Company Law 
• Conflict of Laws 
• Intellectual Property Law 
• Labour Law 

 Examples of half-papers that may be on offer include: 

• Historical Foundations of the British Constitution 
• Landlord and Tenant Law 
• Law of Succession 
• Personal Information Law 
• Topics in Legal and Political Philosophy 
• Topics in European Legal History 
• Animal Rights Law 

You can also choose a seminar course, instead of one paper. Seminar courses vary each year but may include:  

• Select Issues in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 
• Family in Society 
• Law and Ethics of Medicine 
• Private Law 
• Public Law 
• Select Issues in International Law 
• Tax Law and Policy 

For further information about this course and the papers you can take see the Faculty of Law website . 

Changing course

It’s really important to think carefully about which course you want to study before you apply. 

In rare cases, it may be possible to change course once you’ve joined the University. You will usually have to get agreement from your College and the relevant departments. It’s not guaranteed that your course change will be approved.

You might also have to:

• take part in an interview
• complete an admissions test
• produce some written work
• achieve a particular grade in your current studies
• do some catch-up work
• start your new course from the beginning 

For more information visit the Faculty website .

You can also apply to change to:

• Management Studies at the Judge Business School

You can't apply to this course until you're at Cambridge. You would usually apply when you have completed 1 year or more of your original Cambridge course.

You should contact your College’s Admissions Office if you’re thinking of changing your course. They will be able to give you advice and explain how changing courses works.

Minimum offer level

• A*AA (all Colleges except Downing)
• A*A*A (Downing College)

IB: 41-42 points, with 776 at Higher Level Other qualifications : Check which other qualifications we accept .

Subject requirements

While we don't ask for any specific subjects to apply to Law, we would recommend certain subjects for a strong application:    

• English (language or literature)   
• Languages (ancient or modern)     

You can find more information about the subjects our typical entrants have studied below. 

Applying as an affiliate student

If you're applying to the Law course as an affiliated student , you should have achieved (or be expected to achieve) a first class undergraduate degree (or international equivalent) or alternatively, a Distinction in an MPhil (Master's qualification) or its international equivalent.

What Law students have studied

Most Law students (who had studied A levels and started at Cambridge in 2017-19) achieved at least A*A*A (62% of entrants).

Most had usually studied at least one of the subjects recommended above.

The rest had usually taken at least one of:

• Mathematics
• Ancient History, Classical Civilisation, Economics, Further Mathematics, Geography, Politics, History of Art, Law, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, sciences (Biology, Chemistry or Physics) or Sociology.

The majority of students who studied IB achieved at least 43 points overall.

Check our advice on choosing your high school subjects . You should also check if there are any required subjects for your course when you apply.

Admission test

All applicants for Law for 2025 entry are required to take the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT)  at an authorised assessment centre. You must register in advance for this test. 

See the LNAT page  for further information.

Submitting written work

Applicants to some Colleges are required to  submit written work  prior to interview. 

The following Colleges require two pieces of written work:

• Lucy Cavendish
• St Edmund's

Offers above the minimum requirement

The minimum offer level and subject requirements outline the minimum you'll usually need to achieve to get an offer from Cambridge.

In some cases, you'll get a higher or more challenging offer. Colleges set higher offer requirements for a range of reasons. If you'd like to find out more about why we do this, check the information about offers above the minimum requirement  on the entry requirements page.

Some Colleges usually make offers above the minimum offer level. Find out more on our qualifications page .

All undergraduate admissions decisions are the responsibility of the Cambridge Colleges. Please contact the relevant  College admissions office  if you have any queries.

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Discover Uni allows you to compare information about individual courses at different higher education institutions.  This can be a useful method of considering your options and what course may suit you best.

However, please note that superficially similar courses often have very different structures and objectives, and that the teaching, support and learning environment that best suits you can only be determined by identifying your own interests, needs, expectations and goals, and comparing them with detailed institution- and course-specific information.

We recommend that you look thoroughly at the course and University information contained on these webpages and consider coming to visit us on an Open Day , rather than relying solely on statistical comparison.

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• Discover Uni relies on superficially similar courses being coded in the same way. Whilst this works on one level, it may lead to some anomalies. For example, Music courses and Music Technology courses can have exactly the same code despite being very different programmes with quite distinct educational and career outcomes. Any course which combines several disciplines (as many courses at Cambridge do) tends to be compared nationally with courses in just one of those disciplines, and in such cases the Discover Uni comparison may not be an accurate or fair reflection of the reality of either. For example, you may find that when considering a degree which embraces a range of disciplines such as biology, physics, chemistry and geology (for instance, Natural Sciences at Cambridge), the comparison provided is with courses at other institutions that primarily focus on just one (or a smaller combination) of those subjects.You may therefore find that not all elements of the Cambridge degree are represented in the Discover Uni data.
• Some contextual data linked from other surveys, such as the National Student Survey (NSS) or the Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE), may not be available or may be aggregated across several courses or several years due to small sample sizes.  When using the data to inform your course choice, it is important to ensure you understand how it has been processed prior to its presentation. Discover Uni offers some explanatory information about how the contextual data is collated, and how it may be used, which you can view here: https://discoveruni.gov.uk/about-our-data/ .
• Discover Uni draws on national data to provide average salaries and employment/continuation data.  Whilst starting salaries can be a useful measure, they do not give any sense of career trajectory or take account of the voluntary/low paid work that many graduates undertake initially in order to gain valuable experience necessary/advantageous for later career progression. Discover Uni is currently piloting use of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data to demonstrate possible career progression; it is important to note that this is experimental and its use may be modified as it embeds.

The above list is not exhaustive and there may be other important factors that are relevant to the choices that you are making, but we hope that this will be a useful starting point to help you delve deeper than the face value of the Discover Uni data.

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If you will be aged 21 or over when you start your studies at Cambridge, you would be considered a mature student. Mature students experience the same teaching as all of the other students, attending the same lectures, supervisions and examinations as “traditional” students, and leaving Cambridge with the same degree.

For further information on applying as a mature student , see the application section.

Mature Colleges

Although all Cambridge colleges welcome mature students, there are three that are exclusively open to students over age 21:

• Hughes Hall ;
• St Edmund’s .

These colleges offer an environment and facilities which appeal to many mature students. Mature college communities include a mix of students with more life experience than the usual school-leavers. Mature college societies and events will reflect this range, for instance by taking into account partners and families. Mature colleges also offer things like family accommodation, childcare provision, or support for students returning to education after a hiatus.

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If you already have an undergraduate degree from another university, and are interested in studying Law, you have the option to apply as an affiliated student, and obtain what is also known as a ‘senior status’ degree.

As an affiliated student, you can complete the programme in two years, instead of the usual three. There are no compulsory papers set by the University for students taking the two-year programme. Those interested in pursuing a BA in Law solely out of academic interest are therefore free to select from a wide range of papers . However, if you are interested in obtaining a Law degree with the intention of becoming a solicitor or barrister, then you would be well-advised to take the seven foundation subjects; in that case, fewer optional modules will be available to you.

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• Constitutional Law
• Contract Law

Second year at Cambridge

• Criminal Law
• Option 3 (or Dissertation Seminar )

Although your pattern of study will be different, you will still attend lectures and supervisions alongside all other Law students. You will also sit the same exams for each module.

For more information about applying as an affiliated student , see the application section.

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Hello everyone! Has anyone received an invitation email for interviews yet? My status is still 'under department review', getting anxious now:(

Posted Jan 08, 2024 06:37

Hi thanks for creating a thread! I haven't heard anything yet and am getting anxious for the results

Posted Jan 10, 2024 23:02

When do we generally expect to hear something? 

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Posted Jan 16, 2024 12:54

Any updates please? My application is still at departmental review stage - has anybody received any interview calls yet? Really anxious!

Posted Jan 17, 2024 07:55

No updates ;(

Posted Jan 17, 2024 16:25

Anxiety levels are really high, any updates would be deeply appreciated!

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Posted Jan 20, 2024 12:12

Hi - I have an interview scheduled for Monday. I received an invitation for it on the 15th. Hope this helps :)

Posted Jan 20, 2024 21:54

Congrats! I just spotted a typo in my research proposal so am not holding out hope :( 

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Posted Jan 22, 2024 16:37

Hi. I just received an email for an interview this next Wednesday, 24 Jan. 

Posted Jan 22, 2024 21:11

I just got an interview for Friday! 

Posted Jan 24, 2024 09:49

I am yet to receive an interview invite - does this mean that I'm looking at a potential rejection or is there a possibility of more invites going out? I left my supervisor column blank!

[Edited by PhD Applicant on Jan 24, 2024]

Posted Jan 24, 2024 10:23

Thanks for the kind update - could I please know what area of law your research deals with? Also, did you reach out to your potential supervisor previously or have an informal conversation with them prior to putting in your application? My best wishes for your interview! :) Congrats! I just spotted a typo in my research proposal so am not holding out hope :( 

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Gaza protest relocates outside graduation hall

A protest at the University of Cambridge against the war in Gaza has spread to the lawn where graduation ceremonies are due to take place this weekend.

Demonstrators set up camp outside King's College last week but are now outside Senate House, where students have graduated since the 18th Century.

Ceremonies are planned for Friday and Saturday.

The university said it supported "protest within the law" and said it was happy to "engage" with students.

Palestinian flags were draped from the Grade II listed urn in the centre of the lawn.

A white sheet was fixed below it which read "welcome to liberated zone" and a "please keep off the grass" sign was modified so it read "please keep off Palestine".

A banner was taped to the doors of Senate House which read "Refaat's house".

The writer and literary scholar Refaat Alareer, a former student of University College London, was killed in an air strike in Gaza City in December.

Prof Bhaskar Vira, pro-vice-chancellor for education at the university, said in a statement that it had been in "ongoing contact" with students impacted by the "tragic events in Gaza and Palestine".

"We have been extremely clear that we would be happy to talk with our students and engage with them," he said.

"To date we have received only anonymous emails.

"We remain ready for constructive engagement with our students, but it is impossible to have a conversation with an anonymous group."

He added: "We support freedom of speech and protest within the law."

A Cambridge student, who did not wish to be named, said last week that protesters were demanding the university "disclose all of its research collaborations and financial ties with companies and institutions complicit in Israel's genocide and then to divest from these".

"We will be staying here until our demands are met," she said.

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12 June 2024, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to disrupt key private law doctrines and threatens to undermine some of the principal rights protected by private law. The social changes prompted by AI may also generate significant new challenges for private law. This webinar is a book launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and AI , edited by Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan. Written by leading experts from common and civil law jurisdictions, this Handbook comprises 29 chapters spanning the law of obligations, and corporate and commercial law.

For more information, and to order, visit the book webpage and enter the code TCHPLAI24 at the checkout for a 20% discount.

Ernest Lim is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). A prize-winning researcher, he has published on the implications of AI for corporate law , corporate governance , AI fairness framework , and commercial liability . He is currently researching on the topic of AI adjudication and the relationship between AI and authoritarianism. He obtained his DPhil and BCL from Oxford and LLB from NUS. He was a Robert S Campbell Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He practised corporate and securities law in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Phillip Morgan is a Reader in Law at the University of York. He has published widely on the liability implications of AI, as well as on tort law, particularly vicarious liability. He regularly works within interdisciplinary teams on AI issues, and is the law lead for SAINTS, York’s new interdisciplinary AI safety Centre for Doctoral Training. He obtained his PhD from UCL Laws, his BCL from Oxford, and his MA from Cambridge. He has previously held visiting appointments at Oxford, Cambridge, The University of Hong Kong, Trinity College Dublin, and Georgetown Law.  He is a Barrister of the Middle Temple, and currently sits as a fee-paid judge in both the Employment Tribunal and in the First-tier Tribunal.  He is also the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Professional Negligence, and an Editor of the Professional Negligence and Liability Reports. 

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Prior to joining EOS, he worked for First Peoples Worldwide, an NGO that uses corporate engagement to protect the rights of indigenous people and promote indigenous-led community development. He worked for the University of Colorado as a co-author of research on how social risks impact the market value of firms and advised Rio Tinto on social performance at its aluminium smelting operations. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Hunter College and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University.

Raphael Reims is a lawyer and compliance expert at the BMW Group. He previously worked at the German law firm Noerr and the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He studied at the London School of Economics and German universities and holds a Ph.D. in law.

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