The University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law has appointed two St Catharine’s Fellows to academic posts in recognition of their teaching and research capabilities.
Dr Peter Candy (2019) has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Civil Law. He formerly held a fixed-term Assistant Professorship in Civil Law in the Faculty, and his monograph on Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2024.
Dr Candy was previously Sir John Baker Lecturer and Fellow in Law at St Catharine's (2019–21) and Fellow in Roman Law and European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh's Faculty of Law (2021–22). He was re-elected to the Fellowship of St Catharine’s and is now one of the College’s Directors of Studies in Law. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the last centuries of the Roman Republic.
Dr Hend Hanafy (2021) has been appointed to a fixed-term Assistant Professorship in Criminal Law – her first appointment at the Faculty. She is currently the Richard Fellingham College Assistant Professor and Director of Studies in Law at St Catharine’s. Her research interests are in criminal law and penal theory, with a focus on the justification and legitimacy of punishment and the limits of criminalisation.
Prior to joining St Catharine's, Hend was a Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Christ's College and completed her doctoral research at Girton College. Before Cambridge, Hend was a lawyer in Cairo and Assistant Lecturer at Cairo University, Egypt.
Drs Peter Candy and Hend Hanafy celebrate University appointments
These new appointments were announced earlier in May as part of a major recruitment exercise that represents a substantial expansion of the Faculty’s breadth and depth across its research activities and teaching programmes. They also mean that St Catharine’s has four Law Fellows with University appointments, with Professor Mark Elliott (1998) serving as Chair of the Faculty of Law and Professor Eilís Ferran (1980) in the role of Professor of Company & Securities Law.
“On behalf of the entire College, I would like to congratulate Peter and Hend on their appointments and have every confidence that they will help strengthen teaching and research at the Faculty of Law. I am thrilled that their new roles will also enhance the links between St Catharine’s and the Faculty, for the benefit of everyone studying law here.”
