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The Centre for Tax Law (CTL) is delighted to invite proposals to present papers at the Centre's 13th biennial Tax Law History Conference, to be held in Darwin College, Cambridge on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 July 2026. As usual, there is no particular academic theme for the conference, except that proposals should have a tax law and historical focus. V…

The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our Tax Policy Conference on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 July 2025. The topic of the conference is 'Legal perspectives on the development and enactment of tax policy'. We have prepared a brief paper explaining this theme and setting out p…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of Corporate Tax Law: Structure, Policy and Practice by Professor Peter Harris. This new edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. It considers the Trump US tax reforms of late 2017 and then the Biden reforms of 2022. It recognises the economic rise of China…

Notice is hereby given that the 12th biennial Tax Law History Conference organised by the Centre for Tax Law, University of Cambridge will take place in the Law Faculty on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July 2024. While Centre for Tax Law conferences of the past two years have been predominantly attended in person, for additional flexibility a hybrid forma…

The Tax Research Network (TRN) conference will be held at the University of Cambridge from 5-7 September 2023 and will run as an in-person conference with some virtual provision for those who are unable to travel to Cambridge. As usual, the first two days will be research focused, while the Tax Education Day will run on the 7th September. Further d…

The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our fifth Tax Policy Conference on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 July 2023. The topic of the conference is ‘Tax, public finance and the rule of law’. We have prepared a brief paper explaining this theme and setting out possible areas in whi…

The Faculty welcomes the news that Dr Dominic de Cogan has won second prize in the Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for 2022, awarded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). Dr De Cogan's prize was won for his book Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution, published by Hart Publishing in August 2020. Tax Law, State-Building …

The Centre for Tax Law at the University of Cambridge is delighted to invite proposals for papers to be presented at our fifth Tax Policy Conference on Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 July 2021. The topic of the conference is “Tax law in times of disruption and recovery”.  Possible areas of interest include, but are not restricted to the following: The rol…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Tax Law, State-Building and the Constitution by Dominic de Cogan. This monograph looks at how tax is intertwined with constitutional law and the state in the UK. It looks at a variety of topics including tax devolution, scrutiny and reform of tax legislation, the protection of taxp…

Cambridge University Press has published the second edition of International Commercial Tax by Professor Peter Harris. International Commercial Tax, 2nd edition takes account of the substantial developments of the last decade. With more than sixty percent new material, the book considers the outcomes of the OECD's BEPS project and the substantial c…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Landmark Cases in Revenue Law edited by John Snape and Dominic de Cogan. In an important addition to the series, this book tells the story of 20 leading revenue law cases. It goes well beyond technical analysis to explore questions of philosophical depth, historical context and con…

The Faculty and the Centre for Tax Law (CTL) are delighted that first prize in the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Tax Faculty essay competition has been awarded to Clavance Lim, a Part II Law student at Homerton College, and participant on the Tax Law and Policy (Seminar) course. Clavance's essay, which won a cash p…

The Faculty building and Squire Law Library will be closed for the Easter Bank Holiday from Friday, 25 March to Monday, 28 March inclusive. The building will re-open on Tuesday, 29 March at 9am.

The Centre for Tax Law (CTL) has announced a Call for Papers for the upcoming Tax Law History Conference VII, to be held on 11 and 12 July 2016. The biennial Tax Law History Conference brings together experts from academia, regulatory bodies and practitioners, to discuss tax matters. The Call for Papers is on the Conference pages section of the CTL…

25 February 1941 – 30 June 2013 John Tiley was appointed to a lectureship in the Cambridge Law Faculty in 1967. He remained with the Faculty for the rest of his long and distinguished career. In 1990 he became the Faculty’s first ever Professor of the Law of Taxation, a position he held until his retirement in 2008. John was a pioneer of academic …