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The EU Law on Crypto-Assets

In our new book “The EU Law on Crypto-Assets” (Cambridge University Press, 2025, 560pp), we discuss the EU’s regulatory responses to the rapidly growing area of crypto-assets, framed against challenges...

Dirk Zetzsche, Jannik Woxholth | 26 Feb 2025

Defining Darwinism

In late 2024 Cambridge University Press published two surveys of the history of evolutionism, Michael Ruse’s Charles Darwin: No Revel, Great Revolutionary and my own Darwin for the People. Michael passed...

Peter J. Bowler | 25 Feb 2025

The struggle against a German word…and why Germans have never stopped saying it

Scholars have often looked at cultures through the lens of their “keywords”– terms allegedly so unique as to be untranslatable. In German-speaking countries, one six-letter word has particularly...

Jeremy DeWaal | 24 Feb 2025

Oh, I never knew that

On 15 October 2024 I attended the UK premiere of Joy at the Royal Festival Hall — part of the 68th annual British Film Institute gala sponsored by Cunard.  Directed by Ben Taylor and produced by...

Fiona Kisby Littleton | 18 Feb 2025

Enhancing legal and policy frameworks on Biodiversity and Nature-Based Solutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

In 2022, at the 5th session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, the session adopted a landmark resolution recognising the potential of nature-based solutions (NBS) to contribute significantly...

Riyad Fakhri, Damilola S. Olawuyi | 18 Feb 2025

Cartels Diagnosed: New Insights on Collusion

Cartels Diagnosed contains twelve gripping and insightful case studies of collusion from key business sectors – such as airlines, gasoline industry, and big pharma – which span from North...

Joseph E. Harrington Jr., Maarten Pieter Schinkel | 18 Feb 2025

How Congress Gathers Information: The Politics Behind Hearings on the Hill

Members of Congress play a critical role in shaping policy on a vast array of complex issues — from climate change to healthcare, national security to agriculture.  Yet, they are not experts...

Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You | 17 Feb 2025

African Governments, New Creditors, and the Politics of Aid and Finance

In the past two decades, African governments have transformed their financial relationships – in the process gaining leverage in foreign relations in ways many would not expect. At the dawn of the 2000s,...

Alexandra O. Zeitz | 14 Feb 2025

Maximizing Your Study Time: Efficient Techniques from BASIC Essentials

BASIC Essentials is a comprehensive review book for the Anesthesiology BASIC Exam. It is designed to provide a concise and focused review of high-yield and testable facts for the BASIC examination. The...

Alopi M. Patel, | 14 Feb 2025

God’s Means and God’s Ends are Identical

In 1999 I was an area dean overseeing a group of clergy in west Norwich, England. Having encouraged my colleagues to read my first book, published the previous year, another priest suggested we read a...

Samuel Wells | 14 Feb 2025

Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity: An Anthropology of Science

When we look up into the night sky, we see stars and the few constellations that we can name, even occasionally a planet.  But at the same time, we know that with the aid of telescopes and astronomical...

Francesca Rochberg | 13 Feb 2025

Agrarian Elites’ Representation, Democracy and Inequality in Latin America

How do landowners protect their interests in contemporary democracies? Classic social science studies have argued that landowners’ economic interests are incompatible with democracy, as democratization...

Belén Fernández Milmanda | 13 Feb 2025