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What Does Literature Have to Do with Political Thought? Moses and the Formation of the Pentateuch

The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though,...

Angela Roskop Erisman | 4 Mar 2025

Cambridge Handbook on Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law

Fabrizio and Mateusz live in the same jurisdiction. They enter the same website at the same time, search for the same product, but each person pays a different price. They each paid a personalized price. Will...

Fabrizio Esposito, Mateusz Grochowski | 3 Mar 2025

The Shamanism of Eco-Tourism

How did Indigenous people in the New World understand their encounters with Europeans during the colonial era? This question is at the centre of ongoing debates among anthropologists and historians and...

James Andrew Whitaker | 27 Feb 2025

Back to the Phalanstery: The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature

When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be...

Eric Naiman | 27 Feb 2025

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...

Jannik Woxholth, Dirk Zetzsche | 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...

Maarten Pieter Schinkel, Joseph E. Harrington Jr. | 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...

Ju Yeon Park, Pamela Ban, 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