Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
By Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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The Faculty of Law has a thriving calendar of lectures and seminars spanning the entire gamut of legal, political and philosophical topics. Regular programmes are run by many of the Faculty's Research Centres, and a number of high-profile speakers who are leaders in their fields often speak at the Faculty on other occasions as well. Audio recordings from such events are published in our various podcast collections. Video recordings are available via YouTube.
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The Future of the European Union: Socio-Economic and Political Challenges to its Legal-Constitutional Framework: CELS Seminar | Speaker: Dr Bernadette Zelger, University of Innsbruck Abstract: The debate about the future of the European Union has long left academic circles, arrived in the midst of society and been awarded political attention. Meanwhile, there has been an increase of Euroscepticism accompanied by more nationalist political developments echoed in the swings to the right all across the EU. These developments may, arguably at least in parts, be explained by social resentments of the peoples of Europe. While acknowledging that law constructs and contributes to a social reality of its own it is thus, arguably also about the lack of a genuine socio-economic equilibrium within the law and political system of the EU. This imbalance is not only found within the EU legal constitutional framework, but also within the case-law of the European Court of Justice. However, possible solutions to solve this socio-economic imbalance are limited: It is either (i) Treaty reform or, alternatively, (ii) a change in the approach of the Court in its jurisprudence. While these alternatives are both valid and, to some extent, mutually exclusive, they unveil and epitomise different visions as regards the future of the European Union. However, while acknowledging the differences in the approach, they are arguably different means to serve the very same end: Warrant the European Union’s future success. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 13 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Property and Provenance: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Professor Madhavi Sunder, Georgetown University Law School Abstract: Innovation thrives on borrowing from creators, past and far-flung. When does cultural exchange cross the line into cultural misappropriation or theft decried as “cultural appropriation”? Notably, today’s culture wars increasingly turn on intellectual property claims, with calls for attending to the legal and ethical implications of dominant cultural creators taking and profiting from the innovations of disadvantaged and minority creators. Black creators embark on a #TikTokStrike to protest white influencers siphoning credit and revenues from black creatives. The Mexican Culture Minister calls out high end fashion labels for stealing local designs. Black dancers sue blockbuster video game Fortnite for copying dance moves without credit or royalties. Native activists challenge racist trademarks. The implication is clear: intellectual property has a cultural appropriation problem. Is intellectual property an appropriate legal tool for addressing cultural appropriation? This Lecture builds on growing scholarship studying dispossession and racial capitalism to consider intellectual property’s role in promoting or stifling recognition and redistribution for diverse creators. Biography: Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a widely published and influential scholar of intellectual property law, law and technology, women’s human rights, and international development. In 2024-2025, she is the Co-director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars | 11 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Official responses to sexual violence: obstacles and opportunities: CCCJ Evening Seminar | Speakers: Professor Vanessa Munro (University of Warwick) and Professor Miranda Horvath (University of Suffolk) Professors Munro and Horvath both actively contributed to Operation Soteria, the joint project between the police and CPS to rethink how allegations of sexual violence should be investigated and prosecuted. In this public lecture they will reflect together on the data they collected and the findings concerning reasons for underperformance, myths and stereotypes affecting charging decisions and the treatment of complainants. They will conclude by reflecting on the prospects for sustainable improvement post-Soteria. There will be opportunities for the audience to ask questions at the end. For more information see: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/past-events-0 | 5 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Equitable Ownership: XXIV Old Buildings Lecture 2025 | On 28 February 2025 The Rt. Hon. Lord Briggs of Westbourne delivered the 2025 XXIV Old Buildings Lecture entitled "Equitable Ownership". Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs, Lord Briggs of Westbourne became a Justice of the Supreme Court in October 2017. Lord Briggs grew up around Portsmouth and Plymouth, following his naval officer father between ships, before spending his later childhood in West Sussex. He attended Charterhouse and Magdalen College, Oxford. A keen sailor and the first lawyer in his family, he practised in commercial and chancery work before being appointed to the High Court in 2006. He was the judge in charge of the extensive Lehman insolvency litigation from 2009 to 2013. Lord Briggs was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013. He was the judge in charge of the Chancery Modernisation Review in 2013, and led the Civil Courts Structure Review in 2015 to 2016. In January 2016 he was appointed Deputy Head of Civil Justice. Timings: Professor Graham Virgo - Introduction: 00:00The Rt. Hon. Lord Briggs of Westbourne: 02:07 The XXIV Old Buildings Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by XXIV Old Buildings. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website: https://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events | 4 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine | Summary: This talk explains Sudan’s descent into a horrific war that is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The war has displaced over 11 million people, involved the targeting of civilians, including especially women, in mass violence, and precipitated a hunger crisis affecting over 24 million people, with over 630,000 currently facing famine. How, after a momentous civilian uprising in 2018-19 that toppled the dictator Omer el-Bashir after 30 years of authoritarian rule, did Sudan come to this? Unravelling the causes and events that led to tragedy begins with how counter-revolutionary actors within the State benefitted from the priorities of external peacemakers seeking to achieve a democratic transition in order to displace revolutionary forces, before carrying out a coup against that very transition. The war erupted when the counter-revolution itself unravelled, and its two primary bedfellows, the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces fell-out violently with each other in a struggle for power. With complex regional geopolitical entanglements and drawing in other armed groups in Sudan, their war to the bitter end has mixed cruel indifference and intentional harm towards civilians in devastating ways. Remarkably, the revolutionary spirit of the Sudanese has not been vanquished, and has found expression in how neighbourhood resistance committees have transformed into ‘emergency response rooms’ to deliver life-saving support. Sudan’s plight and prospects lie precariously within these intersecting trajectories. Sharath Srinivasan is David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is also Founding Director, and currently Co-Director, of the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). Professor Srinivasan is a Fellow and Trustee of the Rift Valley Institute and a Trustee and Vice-President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Professor Srinivasan’s work focuses on contentious politics in Africa in global perspective, from explaining failed peace interventions in civil wars to rethinking democratic politics in a digital age. He is the author of When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond (British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2020). Chair: Dr Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Centre Fellow | 3 3 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Much Ado about Disclosure: The WIPO 2024 IP Treaties: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Professor Margo Bagley, Emory University School of Law Abstract: 2024 was a year for multilateral IP like no other. WIPO Member states adopted two new treaties last year: the WIPO Treaty on IP, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and the Riyadh Design Law Treaty. Both were groundbreaking in their mention of one or more of genetic resources, traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions, and indigenous peoples and local communities, none of which are standard IP topics and all of which have been controversial additions to the normative work at WIPO. Moreover, both treaties address disclosure of origin for one or more of these controversial areas, another first for a WIPO treaty. I will discuss how these two treaties came to fruition and their ramifications for future multilateral IP treaty-making. Biography: Margo A. Bagley is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. She returned to Emory in 2016 after ten years at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she held the Hardy Cross Dillard chair. She was the Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law at Harvard Law School in Fall 2022. Her scholarship focuses on comparative issues relating to patents and biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and access to medicines, and IP and social justice issues. Professor Bagley served on two National Academies Committees on IP matters, is a technical expert to the African Union in World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) matters, and has served as a consultant to several United Nations organizations. She has served as a US Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program advisor and currently serves as a member of the U.S. DARPA ELSI Team for the BRACE project. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a faculty lecturer with the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, and also has taught patent related courses in China, Cuba, Israel, and Singapore. She has published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs as well as two books with co-authors with a third on the way. She is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, practiced patent law with both Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, and Smith, Gambrell and Russell, and has been an expert witness in several patent cases. A chemical engineer by training, Professor Bagley worked in industry for several years before attending law school at Emory where she was a Woodruff Fellow. She is a co-inventor on patents on peanut butter and bedding technology. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars | 28 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Property Rights at Sea - Prof Richard Barnes | Lecture summary: Property is a fundamental legal institution governing the use of things: who may own what, how and why. Given that such questions extend to a wide range of natural resources essential to human well-being, such as food, water and shelter, then it is reasonable to assume that human rights should play an important role in shaping property rights discourse and practice. And yet this assumption is somewhat misplaced. The relationship between property and human rights and property remains relatively underdeveloped in both practice and academic literature, and virtually non-existent when we move to the maritime domain. In this paper, I explore and question the role that property and human rights can and should play in the maritime domain. I outline how such rights arise and are protected under human rights instruments, before exploring how they might inform the moral and legal distribution of resources. In particular, I focus on how we might balance individual rights and public interests that arise in respect of property, and how these are informed by the nature of the oceans as a commons. Richard Barnes is Professor of International Law at the University of Lincoln and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea, the University of Tromsø. His current research focuses on the human right to property, ocean commons, and the BBNJ Agreement. He is widely published in the fields of international law and law of the sea. Property Rights and Natural Resources (2009), won the SLS Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He has edited several collections of essays including Research Handbook on Plastics Regulation (2024), Frontiers in International Environmental Law. Oceans and Climate (2021), Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts (2020), and The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A Living Instrument (2016). Professor Barnes a member of the ILA Committee on the Protection of People at Sea. He has acted as a consultant for the WWF, Oceana, ClientEarth, the European Parliament, the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He has also provided advice to foreign ministries. He has appeared numerous times before Parliamentary select committees on matters related to law of the sea, fisheries and Brexit. He is on the Editorial Board of International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, the German Yearbook of International Law, and the Portuguese Yearbook of the Law of the Sea. | 25 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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SkyKick in the UKSC: is the Sky a limit at all?: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Dr Stuart Baran is a barrister at specialist intellectual property chambers Three New Square IP Abstract: The UK Supreme Court has now given its long (and long-awaited) judgment in SkyKick v. Sky. It concerns the appropriate specification of goods and services as part of a trade mark application. In particular, the UKSC was asked to consider the circumstances in which a party applying for a specification broader than its intended commercial activities can be found to have applied in bad faith. The UKSC reversed the Court of Appeal on the approach in law, finding that Sky’s trade mark registrations had been sought partly in bad faith, and should be partially invalidated. The Court found infringement of the remaining specification by one of SkyKick’s products, but upheld the Court of Appeal’s finding that there was no infringement by the other. It also found that it enjoyed a continuing jurisdiction to grant EU-wide relief given that these proceedings started before Brexit. Here I will focus on the part of the judgment about invalidity for bad faith. I will introduce what the Court has decided and its reasons, and then look at three questions: (i) to what extent does this judgment advance the law of invalidity for applying in bad faith?; (ii) is there now a difference between the extent of goods/services for which you can register your mark, and those for which you can enforce it?; and (iii) is this judgment likely to change applicants’ approach to drafting their specifications? Biography: Dr Stuart Baran is a barrister at specialist intellectual property chambers Three New Square IP. After a degree in chemistry and doctorate in chemical physics, each at Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 2011 and has practised from Three New Square ever since, in all areas of IP but with particular emphases on trade marks and patents. Stuart was lucky to chair the Oxford International IP Moot for several years, starting during his DPhil. As a barrister, Stuart has appeared unled in every IP forum, from the UKIPO and European Patent Office to the EU General Court and Court of Justice as well as the UK High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has been involved in a number of seminal cases across the IP spectrum, including Actavis v. Lilly, Newron v. Comptroller-General, Sky v. SkyKick, and Thaler v. Comptroller-General. Alongside his private practice, Stuart is Standing Counsel to the Comptroller-General which means he represents and advises the UKIPO and government departments on intellectual property issues. He was awarded Legal 500 Junior of the Year for IP in 2018; Managing IP Junior of the Year in 2021 and 2024; and was profiled as a JUVE Patent “One to Watch” in 2023. Outside of work he is a keen orchestral violinist, cook and Italophile. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars | 21 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies | Panel: '(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies'Feminist activists, country representatives, and other civil society actors have debated how to define “gender” in international criminal law (ICL) for at least three decades. In the Rome Conference that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Statute in 1998, defining “gender” was a hotly debated topic of negotiation. More recently, this debate has resurfaced in the steps leading to the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles for a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty, and continues to be discussed in the deliberations at the Sixth Committee on the Draft Articles. The CAH Convention is now expected to be negotiated between 2026-2029, and, more than a mere point of contention, the concept of ‘gender’ in its text can be crucial for prosecuting sexual and gender-based international crimes and thus fundamental to gender justice efforts worldwide. With this in mind, this roundtable gathers scholars and activists studying and working (often simultaneously) on the definition of gender in international criminal law, in an effort to learn from their specific positionalities, perceptions, and experiences about the challenges, strategies, and possibilities for (non-)defining the term. https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2025/02/panel-queering-gender-crimes-against-humanity-draft-possibilities-alliances-and-strategies | 10 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Governing Sovereign Debt Crises: The Case for International Sovereign Insolvency Law - Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima | Sovereign debt crises have surged since the end of the Bretton Woods system and currently threaten a lost decade for many countries across the world. Indermit Gill, in the World Bank Group’s 2024 International Debt Report, describes the situation in many of the poorest countries as a ‘metastasising solvency crisis that continues to be misdiagnosed as a liquidity problem’. Despite their severe socioeconomic consequences, no comprehensive legal framework exists to address these crises—arguably the most significant gap in international economic law. This lecture, based on Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima’s forthcoming book Governing Sovereign Debt Crises: The Case for International Sovereign Insolvency Law (Hart Publishing), makes the case for creating such a mechanism under international law. The book challenges prevailing narratives that attribute sovereign debt crises solely to debtor states’ mismanagement or misfortunes, instead arguing that sovereign insolvency is a systemic feature of the international monetary system. Current solutions—voluntary, ad hoc, and fragmented—fail to equitably allocate losses across an increasingly diversified sovereign creditor base, leaving many creditors worse off. At the same time, debtor states and their populations remain vulnerable to macroeconomic crises and enduring austerity, which often lead to long-term economic stagnation. The book adopts a legal political economy approach to illustrate how power asymmetries among stakeholders and the absence of enforceable rules perpetuate inefficiencies and inequities in resolving sovereign debt crises. Drawing on the legal theory of finance, insolvency law, and common resource governance theory, it illustrates how these governance failures result in a dual tragedy: a tragedy of the commons and a tragedy of the anticommons. The lecture will also examine the growing complexity of sovereign debt markets, including the diversification of creditor types, the erosion of ‘gentlemen’s agreements,’ and the limitations of initiatives like the Paris Club and the G20’s Common Framework for debt treatments. It concludes by arguing that only international sovereign insolvency rules can resolve the delays, inefficiencies, and inequities that plague sovereign debt restructuring, while exploring avenues for implementing such a proceeding and discussing the role of domestic law in a well-functioning international sovereign debt architecture. Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, finance, and sovereign debt within the broader context of global economic governance. Her research portfolio covers the legal governance of sovereign debt crises, the law and policy of international financial institutions, and the macroeconomic impact of financial law and regulation. Dr Patrício advises public entities, NGOs, and leading law firms on various aspects of financial and monetary law, including sovereign debt restructuring, financial regulation, and the governance of international financial institutions. Her work has been recognised with prestigious awards, including the 2022 Society of International Economic Law-Hart Prize and the 2022 John H. Jackson Prize, conferred by the Journal of International Economic Law. She also serves as a peer reviewer for top law and social sciences journals globally. | 10 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On the Interface between Public and Private International Law: 1973 Professor Inaugural Lecture 2025 | Oh Thursday 6th February 2025 Professor Campbell McLachlan KC delivered his 1973 Professor Inaugural Lecture: 'On the Interface between Public and Private International Law'. The lecture begins at 05:18 Abstract: Our understanding of the operation of law beyond the nation State has been deeply shaped by two great disciplines: public and private international law. Yet surprisingly little systematic attention has been devoted to the relationship between the two. In his inaugural lecture as Professor of International Dispute Resolution in the University of Cambridge, McLachlan argues that the neglect of this interface is highly consequential for our understanding of law’s capacity to control the State and the corporation, which are, respectively, the principal holders of public/political and private/economic power in the world. Campbell McLachlan is elected as Professor of Law (1973) in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. He took up his chair in July 2024, specialising in International Dispute Resolution. A New Zealander, his career has spanned scholarship and practice in private and public international law. His principal works include: Foreign Relations Law (CUP 2014), International Investment Arbitration: Substantive Principles (2nd ed, OUP 2017) and The Principle of Systemic Integration in International Law (2024). He is a Specialist Editor of Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws. He gave the General Course at The Hague Academy of International Law in January 2024. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Photographs of the event are available at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cambridgelawfaculty/albums/72177720323668326 | 7 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Digital Empire or Fiefdoms? The Role of 'the EU' as a Digital Power': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Professor Orla Lynskey, University College London Abstract: The EU ‘digital empire’ seeks to align technological development to its rights and values by adopting and promoting a rights-driven model of technological regulation. Bradford’s influential characterisation of EU digital strategy is credible when one maps the array of legal ‘Acts’ applicable to data, digital markets, digital services and AI adopted by the EU in recent years, all of which are without prejudice to the EU data protection law. Yet, when one delves deeper, the EU’s commitment to rights-based regulation of the digital sphere is not iron-clad. Rather, as we demonstrate through an empirical analysis of the European Commission’s adequacy decisions over a quarter of a century (1999-2024), there are clear divergences amongst EU institutions about the balance to be struck between fundamental rights and economic interests. Such divergence suggest the EU might more accurately be characterised as an amalgamation of fiefdoms rather than an empire. This inter-institutional dynamic is relevant to the legitimacy of EU actions in the digital sphere and may foreshadow the future direction of EU data law. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 5 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What is Project Finance, and Why is it Important?: 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Paul Deemer (Vanderbilt Law School) This lecture focuses on the development and project financing of large international infrastructure projects, and covers – What is “project finance” and what is not? How does a “project financing” differ from other types of financing?Why is project finance used on large infrastructure projects? What is “leverage,” and why is that important?What legal structures and documents are commonly used in project financings?Who are the participants in a project financing? What are their roles?What is the role of the lawyer? Why should a new lawyer be familiar with project finance? In discussing these issues, the speaker draws on his experience representing clients on projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 4 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice' - Dr Arman Sarvarian | Speaker: Arman Sarvarian, University of Surrey Date: Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Friday 31 January 2025 Dr Arman Sarvarian will speak about his forthcoming monograph The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice to be published by Oxford University Press in April. The product of seven years’ labour of approximately 170,000 words, the work includes a foreword by Professor August Reinisch of the University of Vienna and International Law Commission. The following is the summary of Oxford University Press: 'The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive, practical, and empirical overview of the topic, establishing State succession as a distinct field with a cohesive set of rules. From the secession of the United States of America in 1784 to that of South Sudan in 2011, the book digests and analyses State practice spanning more than two centuries. It is based on research into a wide and diverse range of case studies, including archival and previously unpublished data. Reconstructing the intellectual foundation of the field, the book offers a vision for its progressive development - one that is rooted in an interpretation of State practice that transcends the politics of the codification projects in the decolonization and desovietization eras. The book examines international law on State succession with respect to territorial rights and obligations, State property (including archives) and debt, treaties, international claims and responsibility, as well as nationality and private property (including concessions and investments). Its central focus is identifying the general rules of international law in order to guide States in the negotiation of succession agreements, the interpretation of ambiguous or incomplete provisions, and the regulation of succession in default of specific agreement. A highly relevant work, The Law of State Succession offers governments, judges, legal practitioners, and scholars an authoritative account of the current law. It enables negotiators to identify different legal paths within succession and assists adjudicators in interpreting provisions of succession agreements and regulating questions omitted from such agreements.' The book is available for pre-order at the OUP website. Dr Arman Sarvarian a public international lawyer in academia and private practice. A Reader in Public International Law at the University of Surrey, he regularly acts as legal adviser and counsel to States, companies and individuals. He is counsel to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire in the pending Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change advisory proceedings of the International Court of Justice and counsel in two pending investor-State arbitrations. Since 2019, he has served as legal adviser to the Republic of Armenia at the Legal Committee of the UN General Assembly for the annual reports of the International Law Commission and International Court of Justice as well as multilateral negotiations on reform of investor-State arbitration in Working Group III of the UN Commission on International Trade Law. He served as judge ad hoc in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in 2020. A generalist of broad interests and expertise, his first monograph Professional Ethics at the International Bar (Oxford University Press, International Courts and Tribunals Series, 19 September 2013) was the first comprehensive work on the subject and has been widely cited, including in proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, investment arbitrations and the International Court of Justice. His second monograph The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice will be published by Oxford University Press in April 2025. He is a Humboldt Research Fellow in Climate Change Law at the University of Kiel from 2024 to 2026. Chair: Dr Jamie Trinidad, Centre Fellow | 4 2 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'An Institutional Theory for Corporate Law': 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Eva Micheler (LSE) Abstract: Reliance on agency-theoretic reasoning has led to substantial theoretical and empirical advances in company law scholarship, but the narrow focus on board-level actors and phenomena has disconnected the analysis of the company from the reality of the economic organisation it is meant to enable and support. We follow Oliver Williamson’s call for a ‘law, economics, and organization’ approach, and build on Elinor Ostrom’s ‘institutional analysis and development’ framework to propose a narrative model of the company in terms of nested levels of governance. We argue that our model works as a positive description of the law as it is, and puts us in a stronger position to evaluate the likely consequences of certain normative interventions, which we illustrate with some observations about ongoing debates in corporate governance. The paper is jointly written by David Gindis and Eva Micheler and can be found at Taylor and Francis Online. Eva Micheler studied law at the University of Vienna and at the University of Oxford before joining LSE Law School in 2001. She is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Professor Micheler is also on the management committee of the Systemic Risk Centre at LSE. She was a TMR fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and teaches regularly at the University of Vienna and the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 28 1 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Potential Legal Limitations on a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement: Gregory Fox | Speaker: Gregory Fox, Wayne State University Date: Friday Lunchtime Lecture - Friday 24 January 2025 Summary: Does international law place any constraints on a possible Ukraine-Russia peace agreement? While we can only speculate about its contents, two aspects appear certain: Ukraine will be asked to relinquish (at a minimum) territory now occupied by Russia, and it will only contemplate entering into an agreement because Russia invaded its territory. Professor Fox will examine the implications of these and other factors for the validity of an agreement. Gregory H. Fox is a Professor of Law at Wayne State University School of Law, where he is the Director of the Program for International Legal Studies. Professor Fox is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at Cambridge University, a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Public International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and a Fellow at the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School, among other institutions. Professor Fox has written widely on a variety of international law topics, including civil war peace agreements, the powers of the UN Security Council, international occupation law, international control of territory, and international efforts to promote democratic governance. His most recent article, Of Looting, Land and Loss: The New International Law of Takings, was published in Volume 65 of the Harvard International Law Journal. Professor Fox was co-counsel to the State of Eritrea in the Zukar-Hanish arbitration with the Republic of Yemen concerning the status of a group of islands in the southern Red Sea. He has also served as counsel in several human rights cases in US courts. Professor Fox was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation/Social Science Research Council Fellowship in International Peace and Security. He began his career in the Litigation Department of the firm Hale & Dorr, now WilmerHale. He is a graduate of Bates College and New York University Law School. | 24 1 2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday lecture: 'International Law, Marxist State Theory, and the Many Ends of Decolonization' - Prof Umut Özsu, Carleton University | Lecture summary: Many political economists, economic historians, and historical sociologists understand the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s as involving a shift from debates about inflation, oil shocks, floating currencies, and the New International Economic Order to neoliberalism's political and ideological breakthrough, first in the industrialized states of the North Atlantic and shortly thereafter in much of the global South. By contrast, among most scholars of international law, the 1980s are remembered chiefly for signalling the effective close of the decolonization era, and with it the struggle to transform and reconstruct international law to meet the demands of 'economic' in addition to 'political' sovereignty. This talk puts these two perspectives into conversation. Drawing mainly from the work of Simon Clarke and Nicos Poulantzas, core figures in the Marxist state-theoretical debates of the 1970s and 1980s, the talk examines changes to prevailing conceptions of economic development and international human rights at the end of the decolonization era in light of broader structural changes in the juridicopolitical architecture of capitalist states. Umut Özsu is Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. His research interests lie mainly in public international law, the history and theory of international law, and Marxist critiques of law, rights, and the state. He is the author of Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers (OUP, 2015) and Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82 (CUP, 2023). He is also co-editor of the Research Handbook on Law and Marxism (Elgar, 2021) and The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge, 2019), as well as several journal symposia. | 2 12 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH 2024 Annual Lecture: 'Legal History and Literature: Towards Creative Reciprocity' | On 26 November 2024 Professor Paul Mitchell (University College London) delivered the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Legal History and Literature: Towards Creative Reciprocity'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. To find out more, and download the accompanying presentation, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures | 29 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969: Daniel Monk & Rebecca Probert | Speakers: Professors Daniel Monk (Birkbeck University of London) & Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter) The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment in family law. Coming into force in 1971, it had a significant impact on legal practice and was followed by a dramatic increase in divorce rates, reflecting changes in social attitudes. Fifty Year of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 brought together scholars from law, sociology, history, demography, and film and literature, to reflect on the changes to divorce law and practice over the past 50 years, and the changing impact of divorce on different people in society, particularly women. As such, it presents a 'biography' of this important piece of legislation, moving from its conception and birth, through its reception and development, to its imminent demise. Looking to the future, and to the new law introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020. It hopes to suggest ways for evaluating what makes a 'good' divorce law. Rebecca Probert’s research focuses on the law and history of marriage, bigamy, divorce and cohabitation. She is currently working on a history of bigamy from 1604 to the present day. Daniel Monk’s research has research has explored a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education and sexuality. His current research is about law and friendship and how to make family law visual. Daniel Monk’s research has research has explored a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education and sexuality. His current research is about law and friendship and how to make family law visual. This seminar was co-hosted by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology, and the Cambridge Family Law Centre. The CSLG organises and supports events and publications relating to socio-legal research, drawing participants from within the University of Cambridge and around the world. A donation would be instrumental in allowing the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group to continue its cross-disciplinary work: https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/the-cambridge-socio-legal-group | 28 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'EU Antitrust Law's Resilience: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Dr Andriani Kalintiri, King’s College London Abstract: Is EU antitrust law resilient in the face of change? This question has acquired prominence amidst the many crises and disruptions of recent times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and digitalisation. Attempts to answer it though have been rather narrow in scope and tend to employ the language of resilience casually. This article contributes to knowledge (a) by developing a conceptual framework for understanding and assessing legal resilience in administrative enforcement systems and (b) by applying it to Articles 101 and 102 TFEU with a view to investigating its ability to respond to change in a systematic manner. The analysis reveals that the current regime exhibits several design features that enable decisionmakers to make resilience choices as needed, and the resilience choices that have been made on various occasions are prima facie justifiable given the nature of the problem the European Commission and/or the EU Courts were faced with. However, certain aspects of the existing legal framework may weaken or limit EU antitrust law’s ability to deal with certain problems, in particular (very) complex ones, whereas some of the resilience choices that have been made have had implications for legal certainty, coherence and legitimacy that may not have been sufficiently appreciated so far. The article highlights the added value of a legal resilience perspective for effectively using EU antitrust law as a tool for tackling problems in an ever-changing world and demonstrates that, albeit not a panacea, such a perspective may reinforce the quality of enforcement and public’s trust in it. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/centre-activities For more information about CELS see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 20 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2024: 'In the shadow of trade: a critique of Global Health Law' - Prof Sharifah Sekalala, University of Warwick | Lecture summary: In this talk Sharifah Sekalala examines this critical moment in the making of Global Health Law, with two treaty making processes: the newly finalised revisions of the International Health Regulations and ongoing negotiations by the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body for a possible pandemic Accord or Instrument, as we well as soft-law proposals for the World Health Organization proposal for a medical countermeasures platform. The lecture will illustrate that despite the laudable objectives of creating a new system of international law that attempts to redress previous inequalities in accessing vaccines and countermeasures, they are unlikely to meet these broader objectives. The lecture will argue that this is because, despite being a public good, Global Health Law has always been underpinned by capitalist and post-colonial rationales which privilege trade. In order to make lasting changes, the current system of Global Health Law must focus on broader questions of ‘reparations’ that will achieve greater equity. Sharifah is a Professor of Global Health Law at the University of Warwick and the Director of the Warwick Global Health Centre. She is an interdisciplinary researcher whose work is at the intersection of international law, public policy and global health. Professor Sekalala is particularly focused on the role of human rights frameworks in addressing global health inequalities. Her research has focused on health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, international financing institutions and the rise of non-communicable diseases and she has published in leading legal, international relations and public health journals. Prof Sekalala is currently the PI on a Wellcome-Trust-funded project on digital health apps in Sub-Saharan Africa. Professor Sekalala is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FaSS) and she has consulted on human rights and health in many developing countries and worked for international organisations such as UNAIDS, the WHO and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Her research has also been funded by the Wellcome Trust, GCRF, ESRC, Open Society Foundation and international organisations including the International Labour Organisation and the WHO. Sharifah also sits on the Strategic Advisory Network of the ESRC. Sharifah holds a PhD in Law (Warwick, 2012), an LLM in Public International Law (Distinction in research, Nottingham, 2006) and an LLB Honours (Makerere University, Uganda 2004). She was called to the Ugandan Bar in 2005. | 18 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Art of the New Deal: The Brief Wondrous Life of the Yale Law School/Harvard Business School Combined Law-Business Program': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Professor Christopher Nicholls (University of Western Ontario) In 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Yale Law School and Harvard Business School launched an innovative joint program: the “Law-Business Course”. The program’s principal architect was Yale law professor William O. Douglas, best remembered today as the longest serving member of the US Supreme Court and one of the most provocative. For a short time, this remarkable academic initiative brought together professional schools at America’s two foremost universities, foreshadowing the interdisciplinary approach to law and business education that animate modern JD/MBA programs. The creation and short life of this unique academic collaboration provide a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual dynamism of early twentieth century business law education and the politics and practical exigencies facing academic pioneers of that important era. The story of this forward-thinking interdisciplinary perspective also offers important insights into current approaches to business law and, in particular, the pivotal role of modern finance theory in the development of the study, practice, and theory of corporate law today. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Familiapress Dilemma: The Horizontal Application, Horizontal Direct Effect and Horizontal Enforcement of the Free Movement Provisions': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Professor Barend van Leeuwen, Durham University Abstract: What do we mean when we talk about the "horizontal direct effect" of the free movement provisions? You would think that, after decades of case law on the free movement provisions, the meaning of this concept should be relatively clear and crystallised. However, there is still a significant amount of disagreement about the very meaning of the concept of "horizontal direct effect". While some EU lawyers speak of horizontal direct effect when the free movement provisions are applied in a dispute between private parties (a procedural approach), other EU lawyers will only refer to horizontal direct effect when the rule or conduct that is being challenged is of a private nature (a substantive approach). This paper will analyse these different interpretations of the concept of horizontal direct effect through the lens of the "Familiapress dilemma". It will be argued that a distinction should be made between horizontal direct effect cases (in which private rules or actions are challenged in a dispute between private parties) and horizontal enforcement cases (in which State rules or actions are challenged in a dispute between private parties). The problem with a procedural approach to horizontal direct effect is that no connection is made between direct effect and the question of who is held responsible (and liable) for breaches of the free movement provisions. This makes it more difficult to provide effective judicial protection to victims of breaches of free movement law, because it is unclear who should ultimately "pay the bill". Against this background, it will be argued that the CJEU should develop more explicit techniques or "formulas" to allocate responsibility in free movement cases. In parallel, the CJEU should improve the effectiveness of the remedies of State liability and private liability for breaches of the free movement provisions. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. | 11 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brexit and Data Protection Law: A Possible (Missed) Opportunity for Innovative Reform?: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Dr Henry Pearce, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Portsmouth and Deputy Editor for Computer Law & Security Review Abstract: This presentation examines the impact of Brexit on UK data protection law and, using the introduction of the now-defunct Data Protection and Digital Information Bill as a case study, critiques the ongoing reliance on personal data as the core concept underlying UK data protection law and policy. As an alternative, the presentation explores the possibility of a harm-based approach to data protection, which would shift the law’s focus away from the concept of personal data to the notion of information harms. It is contended that an approach in this vein could help to address some of the semantic and practical challenges inherent in the current personal data-based approach and could provide a more sustainable foundation for data protection law moving forward. Biography: Dr Henry Pearce is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Portsmouth. He joined the University in November 2018, having previously been lecturer in law at the University of Hertfordshire from July 2015, and tutor in law at the University of Southampton from December 2012 until June 2015. He is Deputy Editor for Computer Law & Security Review (CLSR) and provides data protection consultancy services to a number of firms based in London and the South of the UK. His research primarily focuses on data protection law and policy, and law and emerging technologies. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday Lecture: 'Global Re/Ordering Through Norms - A Methodological Stocktake' - Prof Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg | Lecture summary: The United Nations Charter order (UNCO) and the co-evolved liberal international order (LIO) are contested with a heretofore unknown force. The steep rise in contestations in the realm of public politics rather than the courtroom demonstrates a shift from normal contestation as a source of legitimacy and ordering towards deep contestation as a political challenge of foundational elements of liberal order. Today, not only in the Global South but also across Europe and North America, sceptics of globalization on the political left and nationalist-populists on the political right are challenging the fundamental pillars of the LIO (i.e., democracy, economic openness, and multilateralism). The process is paired by growing contestations of international law that is codified in the UN Charter including contestation of core norms of the UNCO (i.e., non-intervention, human rights, and sovereignty). While the effect of deep contestation is unknowable, we do know however that normal contestation is the essence of everyday politics. The clash of interests, norms, and ideas is entirely normal. Yet, contestation can also be degenerative, moving political outcomes away from desired ends through ad hoc and perhaps inconsistent compromises. As core norms of the LIO and UNCO have become deeply contested, we require a better understanding about the expected effects. Access to contestation as the right to speak and participate in political decisions is a necessary condition for normative legitimacy and mutual recognition of the norms that govern us. Achieving this condition involves struggles about norm(ative) meaning-in-use which take place on distinct sites of global order. This raises a question about time, substance, and norm(ative) change in global order more generally and, more specifically, which elements of international order ought to be retained. The lecture posits that the observed qualitative shift from constitutive everyday contestations towards potentially degenerative political contestation calls for a methodological stocktake of how contestations work with regard to global re/ordering, i.e. whose practices count and whose norms ought to count in that process? Professor Antje Wiener FAcSS, MAE, holds the Chair of Political Science, especially Global Governance at the University of Hamburg where she is a member of the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences as well as the Law Faculty. She is an elected By-Fellow of Hughes Hall University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Academia Europea. Her research and teaching centres on International Relations theory, especially norms research and contestation theory. Previously she held Chairs in International Studies at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bath and taught at the Universities of Stanford, Carleton, Sussex and Hannover. Current research projects include ‘Contested Climate Justice in Sensitive Regions’ at the Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change and Society (CLICCS) as well as ‘Doing Theory – From Where and What For? A Backpackers’ Guide to Knowledge Production’ at the Centre for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) among others. With James Tully, she is co-founding editor of Global Constitutionalism (CUP, since 2012 ). And she also edits the Norm Research in International Relations Series (Springer). She serves on several Committees of the Academy of Social Sciences . In 2021, she concluded her second three-year term as elected member of the Executive Committee of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). Her book ‘Contestation and Constitution of Norms in Global International Relations’ (CUP 2018) was awarded the International Law Section’s Book Prize in 2020. And her most recent book ‘Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice’ co-edited with Phil Orchard was published with CUP in 2024. | 11 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday lunchtime lecture: 'The Rapidly Progressing Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court' - Judge Mark L Wolf | Lecture summary: Grand corruption – the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation's leaders (kleptocrats) - has devastating consequences. As then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, the amount lost to corruption each year is enough to feed the world's hungry 80 times over. Grand corruption contributes to climate change and is a major impediment to ameliorating it. The refugees creating humanitarian and political crises around the world are largely fleeing failed states ruled by kleptocrats. Grand corruption is antithetical to democracy. Indignation at grand corruption has prompted uprisings in many countries and created grave dangers for international peace and security. Grand corruption does not thrive and endure in many countries because of a lack of laws. 186 UN member states are parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Virtually all of them have the laws required by the UNCAC criminalizing corrupt conduct, and international obligations to enforce them against their corrupt leaders. However, kleptocrats have impunity in the countries they rule because they control the police, the prosecutors, and the courts. Therefore, the proposed International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) is urgently needed. It will be a court of last resort, to prosecute kleptocrats and their private conspirators, for violating treaty counterparts of the laws of countries that are unwilling or unable to do so themselves. Successful prosecutions, and civil suits, in the IACC will result in the recovery and repatriation of stolen assets. The imprisonment of kleptocrats, who are among the worst abusers of human rights, will create opportunities for the democratic process to replace them with leaders dedicated to serving their citizens rather than enriching themselves. It will also deter others tempted to emulate their example. The effort to establish the IACC is rapidly progressing. It has been publicly endorsed by: more than 350 world leaders, including 55 former Presidents and Prime Ministers; the European Parliament; the Netherlands, Canada, Ecuador, Nigeria, Moldova, and the UK Labour Party before it recently took office. Many other countries have privately expressed support for the IACC or strong interest in seriously considering the treaty being drafted to establish it that will be ready to be reviewed in early 2025. Speaker: Mark L. Wolf is a Senior United States District Judge and Chair of the Integrity Initiatives International (III), which has catalyzed and is coordinating the campaign to create the IACC. Prior to his appointment in 1985, Judge Wolf served as a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the US after Watergate and as the chief federal corruption prosecutor in Massachusetts. He has taught a course on combatting corruption internationally at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has spoken on the role of a judge in a democracy, human rights issues, and combatting corruption in many countries, including Russia, China, Ukraine, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Egypt, Cyprus, Panama, Colombia, Mexico, Norway, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and at the Vatican. | 4 11 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Corporate Governance and Technology': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Dr Akshaya Kamalnath (Australian National University) Governance of companies has always involved some uncertainty and technology related challenges similarly add to the risks and challenges involved. Yet, corporate governance – both the legal and non-legal aspects – finds ways to address risks and so it will be with tech-related issues. This paper argues that effective corporate governance should now include a focus on ‘digital governance’ which I define as governance of technology and data related challenges. It will include questions of the role of AI and other technologies in making boards more effective, the governance of risks associated with the use of technology at all levels of the firm including considerations of fairness and bias when AI is used in some contexts, and data privacy and cybersecurity risks. While the paper does not call for a change in the core legal duties of directors, it proposes that soft law nudge companies to address tech-related risks. An obvious starting point is to encourage companies to appoint directors with tech expertise and constitute a tech committee where relevant. However, drawing from literature on independent directors and board diversity, the chapter notes that alterations to board composition is not a silver bullet. It must be part of a mindset where the risks posed by technology are treated seriously enough to necessitate strategies and practices beyond mere compliance with existing laws. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Synthetic Data, Data Protection and Intellectual Property: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Dr Kalpana Tyagi, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University Abstract: Data protection, privacy and copyright may be closely aligned, yet distinctly respond to the common element, that is data – comprising of personal as well as non-personal elements. While data may not be copyright-protected, works (at least in their current form) are copyright-protected. As the Generative AI tools become more advanced, data and copyright-protected works may cease to bear any direct resemblance to pre-existing works. This can be attributed to the rise of synthetic data. While synthetic data may facilitate compliance with the 2016 EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it also heralds notable challenges for the current IPR (particularly copyright) framework. This interplay between law and technology - in light of its inter- & intra-disciplinary complexity - remains under-explored in the literature. At the CIPIL seminar, Dr. Tyagi presents her research findings on this interplay between copyright (and other IPRs) as well as data protection and privacy in the context of synthetic data and Generative AI. Biography: Kalpana Tyagi is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law in the European and International Law Department, Maastricht University. She holds a multidisciplinary PhD (summa cum laude) from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich where she worked as Max Planck Fellow for Innovation and Competition until 2015. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing and business strategy (I division) from College of Business Studies, New Delhi (2002), a bachelor’s degree in law (I division) from the Department of Law, New Delhi, an LLM degree in International Business Laws (I division) from Singapore and China (2009) and a specialized master in European Law and Economics (magna cum laude) from University of Hamburg, Bologna and Ghent (2012). Her main areas of interest relate to the interface of intellectual property rights and competition law, particularly in the context of digitalization. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 25 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Judicial review of discretionary decision-making: differences of approach': The 2024 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 18 October 2024, The Honourable Susan Mary Kiefel AC KC delivered the 2024 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Judicial review of discretionary decision-making: differences of approach". The lecture begins at: 05:40 The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 24 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Will Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Transform Intellectual Property? Cautionary Lessons from the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty: CIPIL Evening Seminar | Speaker: Professor Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith Jr., Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center Abstract: The conclusion of the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in 1994 sparked a quiet revolution in the global IP system by directing unprecedented scrutiny to the maldistribution of innovation benefits among countries and communities, including Indigenous Peoples’ traditional knowledge. The unauthorized access, use, and commercialization of biological resources raised specific questions about the malleability of acquisitive processes for patents, designs, and trademarks, and galvanized soft and hard law instruments recognizing interests in traditional knowledge and genetic resources that are in tension with dominant IP justifications. This lecture examines the recently concluded WIPO genetic resources treaty - the first formal attempt to overlay Indigenous people’s concerns on the system of global IP rights and administration. The lecture will explore prospects for structural change in IP governance based on the treaty’s design and highlight its implications for IP harmonization that differ starkly from the vision codified in the TRIPS Agreement. Those implications threaten prospects for the equitable allocation of benefits between Indigenous People’s knowledge and other stakeholders in the international IP regime. Biography: Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property in social and economic development, Professor Okediji has advised inter-governmental organizations, regional economic communities, and national governments on a range of matters related to technology, innovation policy, and development. Her widely cited scholarship on IP and development has influenced government policies in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and South America. Her ideas have helped shape national strategies for the implementation of the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). She works closely with several United Nations agencies, research centers, and international organizations on the human development effects of international IP policy, including access to knowledge, access to essential medicines and issues related to indigenous innovation systems. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 21 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2024: 'The Right to Self Determination: Chagos, the Caribbean and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)' - Judge Patrick Robinson | Lecture summary: Part 1 of the Lecture focuses on the development of the right to self-determination as a rule of customary international law and its application to the Chagos Archipelago, Africa and the Commonwealth Caribbean. The adoption of Resolution 1514 by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 14, 1960 was a decisive element in the development of the customary character of the right to self-determination. After that transformational development it was colonial peoples, not colonial powers, who determined their independence and its form e.g. whether based on a republican system or a UK parliamentary system. Thus, after that time the colonial powers were under an obligation to respect the right of colonial peoples to ‘freely determine their political status’, and any breach of that obligation would entail their international responsibility. Part 11 addresses the status of the right to self-determination as a norm of jus cogens, and concludes that on the basis of the relevant evidentiary material, the right to self-determination is a peremptory norm of general international law. Part 111 focuses on the right to self-determination in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Disappointment is expressed at the lack of clarity in the ICJ’s treatment in its recent Advisory Opinion of the jus cogens character of the right to self-determination in cases of foreign occupation. Speaker: Judge Patrick Robinson 1. In 1964 graduated from the University College of the West Indies -London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Latin and Economics. 2. In 1968, called to the Bar at Middle Temple, in which year also completed the LLB degree from London University. In 1972, completed the LLM degree in International Law at Kings College, London University. 3. Jamaica’s representative to the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN General Assembly from 1972 to 1998. Led treaty -making negotiations on behalf of Jamaica in several areas, including extradition, mutual legal assistance and investment promotion and protection. 4. From 1988 to 1995, served as a member of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, including as the President in 1991. From 1991 to 1996, member of the International Law Commission. From 1995 to 1996, member of the Haiti Truth and Justice Commission. 5. In 1998 elected a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and served as the Tribunal’s President from 2008 to 2011; presided over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. 6. In 2020 appointed Honorary President of the American Society of International Law (ASIL); in that capacity, in collaboration with ASIL and the University of the West Indies, organized two International Symposia which led to the launch on June 8, 2023 of the historic Report on Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery (TCS) in the Americas and the Caribbean, which quantified for the first time the reparations due from the practice of TCS in the Caribbean, Central America, South America and North America. 7. Elected a Judge of the International Court of Justice in 2014 and demitted office on February 5, 2024. The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture was established after Sir Eli's death in 2017 to celebrate his life and work. This lecture takes place on a Friday at the Centre at the start of the Michaelmas Term in any academic year. These lectures are kindly supported by Dr and Mrs Ivan Berkowitz who are Principal Benefactors of the Centre. | 21 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday Lecture: 'The Duty to Cooperate and the Role of Independent Expert Bodies: The Case of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom and the Media Freedom Coalition of States' - Can Yeginsu | Lecture summary: At a time where questions abound about the state and future of international cooperation and compliance across the international legal system, this lecture will consider the new partnership of countries established in 2019 to promote and protect media freedom globally – the Media Freedom Coalition of States. The Coalition offers a new paradigm that seeks to answer some of the systemic challenges to State cooperation and compliance today, here in the area of freedom of expression, and one that puts independent experts in international law at the very centre of its institutional and operational framework. The lecture will chart the establishment and work of the Coalition, through the perspective of its independent panel of legal experts, the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, and the Panel’s work advising States and international organisations across a broad panoply of media freedom issues, and answering requests by international courts and tribunals to intervene in cases of public importance engaging Article 19 of the ICCPR and UDHR. It will focus on examples of areas where specific recommendations by legal experts have already been turned into State policy and practice (for instance, with the creation and implementation of an emergency visa for journalists at risk), and areas where the progress towards implementation has been altogether more challenging. Five years on from its establishment, the Media Freedom Coalition finds itself at a crossroads, while its tri-partite structure of States, legal experts, and civil society is already being replicated by States in other areas of international legal cooperation and compliance. Speaker Biography: Can Yeğinsu is a barrister practising from 3 Verulam Buildings in London where he practises in commercial litigation, international commercial and investment arbitration, public law and human rights, and public international law. Prof Yeğinsu is also a long-standing member of the Law Faculties of Georgetown Law, Columbia Law, and Koç University Law School where he teaches courses on public international law, including courses on international dispute settlement, international human rights, and international investment law. He is a Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute, and serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. In 2022, Prof Yeğinsu was appointed by the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, with Catherine Amirfar, to succeed Amal Clooney as the Deputy Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, having served as a member of the Panel since its established in 2019. | 14 10 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book launch: The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (Second Edition) | Professor Daniel Bodansky’s seminal and widely acclaimed book The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law was first published in 2010. In contrast to other general works on international environmental law, the book focused on the processes of developing, implementing, and enforcing international environmental law rather than on legal doctrine. In order to comprehensively analyse these processes, the book is highly interdisciplinary, relying not only on the legal toolkit but integrating perspectives and lenses of political science and economics, as well as philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. This year, Oxford University Press published the second edition of The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, co-authored by Prof Daniel Bodansky and LCIL Centre Fellow, Prof Harro van Asselt. Aside from the co-authorship, this second edition differs in several important aspects from the previous edition, in order to adequately reflect the important developments that international environmental law has witnessed during the last decade. At this event, Professors Bodansky and van Asselt will provide an overview of the approach to international environmental law taken in this second edition, highlighting the ways in which it differs from the first. This presentation is intended to subsequently lead to a discussion on developments specifically in the international climate change regime, including prospects for the Paris Agreement and the recent request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change. | 12 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Admissions to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Law Open Day 2024) | The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Brenda Hale Fellow in Law, Girton College) discusses process of applying to study Law at Cambridge. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to watch or listen to via the University Streaming Media Service, iTunes or YouTube. You can download the slides from this presentation from: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_applying_to_cambridge.pdf The Open Day programme: - Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675475) - Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675518) - Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675501) - Legal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675510) - Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675488) For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to: http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio-only source for iTunes. | 5 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (Law Open Day 2024) | The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Findlay Stark gives an interactive lecture on the law of criminal damage. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to watch or listen to via the University Streaming Media Service, iTunes or YouTube. You can download the slides from this presentation from: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_without_lawful_excuse.pdf The Open Day programme: - Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675475) - Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675518) - Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675501) - Legal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675510) - Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675488) For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to: http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio-only source for iTunes. | 5 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Legal Problems: Professor Janet O’Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo KC (Hon) (Law Open Day 2024) (audio) | The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Janet O'Sullivan and Professor Graham Virgo give attendees an idea of what a Law supervision is like, by leading a discussion on a handful of legal questions. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to watch or listen to via the University Streaming Media Service, iTunes or YouTube. You can download the slides from this presentation from: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_legal_problems.pdf The Open Day programme: - Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675475) - Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675518) - Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675501) - Legal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675510) - Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675488) For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to: http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio-only source for iTunes. | 5 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (Law Open Day 2024) | The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Christina Angelopoulos (Associate Professor & Director of Tripos) discusses the benefits of studying Law, and the nature of Law at Cambridge. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to watch or listen to via the University Streaming Media Service, iTunes or YouTube. You can download the slides from this presentation from: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_the_cambridge_law_course.pdf The Open Day programme: - Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675475) - Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675518) - Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675501) - Legal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675510) - Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675488) For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to: http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio-only source for iTunes. | 5 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Introduction to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (Law Open Day 2024) | The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Mark Elliott (Chairman of the Faculty) welcome attendees to the Faculty. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to watch or listen to via the University Streaming Media Service, iTunes or YouTube. The Open Day programme: - Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675475) - Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675518) - Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay Stark (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675501) - Legal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675510) - Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4675488) For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to: http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio-only source for iTunes. | 5 7 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Staging international law: order and disorder in an inter-agency meeting' - Prof Guy Fiti Sinclair, Auckland Law School | Lecture summary: A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship explores overlaps and interactions among different normative and institutional branches of international law. This lecture contributes to this scholarship through a case study of relations among international organizations in the mid-1960s, when several emerging political fault lines – between East and West, between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries, and between the established specialized agencies and newer institutions – brought the coherence of the international legal order into doubt. Drawing on original archival research, the lecture focusses on a single inter-agency meeting, held in Geneva in early July 1966, where these fault lines were exposed and debated at length. Through this case study, the lecture aims to expand our understanding of the impact of international organizations championed by actors in the Global South in this period, the reactions they provoked from others, and the potential and limits of international legal reform through such institutional means. As a technology for representing, knowing, and managing inter-organizational relations, the study of inter-agency meetings offers insights into both micro- and macro-level processes in international law, and the links between them. To this end, the lecture develops a concept of ‘staging’ to analyze the work of assembling and choreographing heterogeneous elements with the aim of producing a particular performance of international legal ordering. As a multilayered concept, ‘staging’ invokes and enables the study of international law’s material, spatial, and temporal dimensions. The lecture shows that, as much as staging international law implies scripting, direction, and rehearsal, it also inevitably entails improvisation, accident, and error. Guy Fiti Sinclair is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Pacific) at Auckland Law School, The University of Auckland. He holds first degrees in law and history, and a Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD) from New York University School of Law. His research and teaching focusses on the doctrine, theory, and practice of international law, often in historical perspective and with particular focuses on international organisations law, international economic law, and law and global governance. His first book, To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), was awarded the European Society of International Law Book Prize in 2018. Guy’s current research includes a project on institutional interactions in the construction and contestation of international economic law, funded by a Marsden Fast Start Grant from Te Apārangi | Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2023, he began work on a major research project on international legal ordering in Oceania/the Pacific, supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand. | 21 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Professor Glanville Williams: 7 December 1970 | Professor Glanville Williams, Peter Glazebrooke, David Williams, and Dr Richard Sparks with Mr A F Wilcocks, previously Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, and author of 'Enforcing the Law with Discretion'. | 20 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Mrs Cherry Hopkins: Conversation #3 | This is the third interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the third time on 14 February 2024 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at: http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 17 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Power of the Narrative in Corporate Lawmaking': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Professor Mark Roe (Harvard Law School) Chair: Felix Steffek (University of Cambridge) Abstract: The notion of stock-market-driven short-termism relentlessly whittling away at the American economy’s foundations is widely accepted and highly salient. Presidential candidates state as much. Senators introduce bills assuming as much. Corporate interests argue as much to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the corporate law courts. Yet the academic evidence as to the problem’s severity is no more than mixed. What explains this gap between widespread belief and weak evidence? Bio: Mark J. Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate bankruptcy. His research interests cover bankruptcy (corporate bankruptcy and reorganization), corporate law and corporate finance. He wrote Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance (Princeton, 1994), Political Determinants of Corporate Governance (Oxford, 2003), and Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization (Foundation, 2014). Academic articles include: Stock-Market Short-Termism’s Economy-Wide Impact (forthcoming); Containing Systemic Risk by Taxing Banks Properly, 35 Yale Journal on Regulation 181 (2018), Financial Markets and the Political Center of Gravity, 2 J. Law, Finance, and Accounting 125 (2017) (with Travis Coan); Bankruptcy’s Three Ages, 7 Harvard Business Law Review 187 (2017); Corporate Structural Degradation Due to Too-Big-to-Fail Finance, 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1419 (2014); Corporate Short-Termism — In the Boardroom and in the Courtroom, 68 Business Lawyer 977 (2013); and Breaking Bankruptcy Priority: How Rent-Seeking Upends the Creditors’ Bargain, 99 Virginia Law Review 1235 (2013) (with Frederick Tung). 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 14 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Co-producing Automated Public Decision-Making: CIPIL Evening seminar (audio) | Speaker: Dr Oliver Butler, University of Nottingham Abstract: When automated decision-making technologies (ADM) are procured and used by public authorities, important design and implementation decisions are often delegated to the professional developers they sub-contract to co-produce such technology. This can undermine accountability, democratic oversight, and the allocation of public functions determined by legislative bodies. On the other hand, in some circumstances officials might appropriately defer to the expertise of developers. This presentation considers how the concept of non-delegation in public law could be reassessed in this context to improve accountable official decision-making and the proper retention of decision-making authority where ADM is co-produced for public purposes. Biography: Oliver Butler is an Assistant Professor at Nottingham University School of Law. He read law at the University of Cambridge and received a Distinction on the BCL at the University of Oxford, where he received the Faculty Prize in Constitutional Theory. He graduated from the LLM at Harvard Law School and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013. He worked at the Law Commission of England and Wales as a research assistant on the Data Sharing between Public Bodies project before returning to Cambridge to undertake his PhD on the development of information law in the UK and Europe. He was Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, jointly with a research fellowship at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and has taught constitutional, administrative and human rights law on the BA and BCL and researched emerging digital rights. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 10 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation': CELS Seminar | Speakers: Professor Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) and Dr Markus W. Gehring, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Member of CELS. Abstract: On 18 September 2023 the Group of 12 Experts from both France and Germany released their proposal ‘Sailing on High Seas: Reforming and Enlarging the EU for the 21st Century’. The Group make two proposals on the Rule of Law and five further proposals for institutional reform. Overall, the Group had three objectives to increase the EU’s capacity to act, to get the institutions ready for enlargement and strengthen democratic legitimacy and rule of law. This resulted in a series of proposals for inter alia treaty change. The proposals are all on a continuum but largely aim for reform rather than a recreation of the European Union. They align with other reform proposals and at times take up proposals that were made for EU reform in the past or indeed discussed during the EU Constitutional convention process in the early 2000s. The objective here was clearly reformation rather than revolution. This conversation discusses some of the individual reform proposals in the context of the practice of the Court of Justice – could these proposal mean the beginning of 'Europe’s Second Constitution'? This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 9 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: ''Mistakes' in War' - Prof Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School | Lecture summary: In 2015, the United States military dropped a bomb on a hospital in Afghanistan run by Médecins Sans Frontières, killing forty-two staff and patients. Testifying afterwards before a Senate Committee, General John F. Campbell explained that “[t]he hospital was mistakenly struck.” In 2019, while providing air support to partner forces under attack by ISIS, the U.S. military killed dozens of women and children. Central Command concluded that any civilian deaths “were accidental.” In August 2021, during a rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. military executed a drone strike in Kabul that killed ten civilians, including an aid worker for a U.S. charity and seven children in his family. The Pentagon later admitted it was a “tragic mistake.” In these cases and others like them, no one set out to kill the civilians who died. Such events are usually chalked up as sad but inevitable consequences of war - as regrettable “mistakes.” In this lecture, based on a forthcoming co-authored article, Professor Oona Hathaway will examine the law on “mistakes” in war. She will consider whether and when the law holds individuals and states responsible for “mistakes.” To see how the law works, or fails to work, in practice, she will examine the US military’s own assessments of civilian casualties. She will show that “mistakes” are far more common than generally acknowledged. Some errors are, moreover, the predictable - and avoidable - result of a system that does too little to learn from its mistakes. She will focus her remarks on the United States, both because of its global military operations and because of the power of its example to shape global practices. The United States is far from alone, however. Thus, lessons learned from its failures can be instructive for other states as well. | 7 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Of Hijabs and Shechitah/Halal – Does the CJEU (and perhaps even the ECtHR) have a Blind Spot about Non-Christian Religions?': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Professor Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: As an AG Professor Sharpston worked on religious discrimination and employment matters, delivering an opinion in one of the first two hijab cases (Bougnaoui) and then the ‘shadow opinion’ in Wabe and Müller, which she posted via Professor Steve Peers’ EU law blog after leaving the Court. She has already compared Achbita and Bougnaoui to the decisions in Egenberger and the Caritas hospital case (IR v JQ) in her festschrift contribution for Allan Rosas. Unsurprisingly, she has been keeping an eye open for further developments in that case law (WABE and Müller, S.C.R.L (Religious clothing) and, most recently, Commune d’Ans (Grand Chamber, 28 November 2023). Additionally, she has also been looking at what the Court has been saying in relation to ritual slaughter of animals (as required for meat-eating observant Jews and Muslims). Notable cases include Liga van Moskeeën, Oeuvre d’assistance aux bêtes d’abattoirs (OABA) and Centraal Israëlitisch Constistorie. The case law of the European Court of Human Rights also addresses these issues: Eweida v UK on religious symbols in the workplace, and the very recent decision (13 February 2024) in Executief van de Moslims van België and Others v Belgium on banning ritual slaughter of animals without prior stunning. The cases are constitutionally important in terms of the deference shown to Member States; and in some respects, they are troubling for anyone who is religious and non-Christian. Discussion chaired by Dr Markus W. Gehring, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Member of CELS. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. | 1 5 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Does the European Court of Human Rights dictate climate policy?': Stefan Theil (audio) | On 9th April 2024 the European Court of Human Rights delivered Grand Chamber rulings in three cases relating to climate change: Carême v. France - https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-233261 Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others - https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-233174 Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland - https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-233206 In this video, Dr Stefan Theil discusses the extent to which the ECHR is prepared to dictate how countries might implement their own climate change policies. Stefan Theil is Assistant Professor in Public Law and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Sidney Sussex College. In Stefan's recent book 'Towards the Environmental Minimum' (Cambridge University Press, 2021) he argues for the recognition of a comprehensive framework that addresses the relationship between human rights and environmental harm. For more information about Dr Theil, please refer to his profile at: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/s-theil/6578 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 4 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Elephants not in the room: Decoupling, dematerialisation and dis-enclosure in the making of the BBNJ Treaty' - Dr Siva Thambisetty, LSE | Lecture summary: This lecture examines the treatment of marine genetic resources (MGR) in the negotiations and the text of the new Treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). The Treaty provides a coherent governance framework for MGR including an unexpected techno-fix to the most longstanding problem of biodiversity governance, some normative novelty on principles, and a trendsetting approach to valuation of aggregate usage of genetic resources. Yet, this painstakingly formed framework continues to be buffeted by self-interested attempts to redefine and relitigate the value of genetic resources; particularly around decoupling use from access to genetic resources, dematerialisation from physical resources and dis-enclosure under legal frameworks, all of which are now stable features in this and other Treaty-making contexts. How can we better characterise the success of the BBNJ Treaty in a way that helps resist de facto erosion following ratification? Relevant papers: S Thambisetty ‘The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction (Dec 4, 2023) LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 24/2023 87 Modern Law Review (2024) Forthcoming S Thambisetty, P Oldham, C Chiarolla, The Expert Briefing Document: A Developing Country Perspective on the Making of The BBNJ Treaty (September 21, 2023). LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 30/2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4580046 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4580046 P Oldham, Paul C Chiarolla, S Thambisetty, Digital Sequence Information in the UN High Seas Treaty: Insights from the Global Biodiversity Framework-related Decisions (January 30, 2023). LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 53, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4343130 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4343130 | 11 4 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Mrs Cherry Hopkins: Conversation #2 | This is the second interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the second time on 16 October 2023 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at: http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 9 4 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reforming Data Protection – Enforcement Perspectives (CIPIL Spring Conference 2024) | On Friday 22nd March 2024, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Data Protection Reform'. This session: Session 4 – Reforming Data Protection – Enforcement Perspectives Chair: Dr Jennifer Cobbe, CIPILDr Orla Lynskey, London School of EconomicsDr Johnny Ryan, Irish Council for Civil LibertiesDr Luca Tosoni, Norwegian Data Protection AuthorityProfessor Gloria Gonzalez Fuster, Vrije Universiteit Brussel For full information about this event, please see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-eventscipil-spring-conference/cipil-spring-conference-2024 | 28 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reforming Data Protection – Substantive Perspectives (Keynotes) (CIPIL Spring Conference 2024) | On Friday 22nd March 2024, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Data Protection Reform'. This session: Session 3 – Reforming Data Protection – Substantive Perspectives (Keynotes) Chair: Professor David Erdos, CIPILDr Winfried Veil, Data Protection LandscapeProfessor Bert-Jaap Koops, Tilburg UniversityProfessor Nadja Purtova, Utrecht University For full information about this event, please see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-eventscipil-spring-conference/cipil-spring-conference-2024 | 28 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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UK Data Protection – The Changing Enforcement Landscape (CIPIL Spring Conference 2024) | On Friday 22nd March 2024, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Data Protection Reform'. This session: Session 2 – UK Data Protection – The Changing Enforcement Landscape Chair: Jon Baines, MishconProfessor David Erdos, CIPIL Claudia Berg, General Counsel, Information Commissioner's OfficeJim Killock, Open Rights Group For full information about this event, please see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-eventscipil-spring-conference/cipil-spring-conference-2024 | 28 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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UK Data Protection – The Changing Substantive Landscape (CIPIL Spring Conference 2024) | On Friday 22nd March 2024, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Data Protection Reform'. This session: Session 1 – UK Data Protection – The Changing Substantive Landscape Introduction to Conference: Professor David Erdos, CIPILChair: Dr Jennifer Cobbe, CIPIL (04:24)Dr Michael Veale, University College London (05:12)Gavin Freeguard, Policy Associate, Connected by Data (25:54)Vivienne Artz, Data Strategy & Privacy Policy Advisor to CIPL (43:27) For full information about this event, please see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-eventscipil-spring-conference/cipil-spring-conference-2024 | 28 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Medicine and the Rule of Law': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2024 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2024 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery of University College London on 21 March 2024, and was entitled "Medicine and the Rule of Law". For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see: http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 26 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Natural Resources in International Law - The Political Economy of Sovereignty and the Postcolonial Order' - Prof Sigrid Boysen, Helmut Schmidt University | Lecture summary: From European colonialism to the ‘post’colonial constellation, modern international law has developed in parallel with the changing legal forms of industrialised countries’ access to the natural resources of the global South. Following this development, we can see how imperial environmentalism was translated to the transnational law of natural resources. The historic perspective also highlights that the specific ambivalence of colonial and postcolonial environmental protection (exploitation vs. protection) is an ambivalence built into international law itself. In accordance with its colonial origins, international law has institutionalised a specific path to economic growth and development that presupposes and stabilises a world order supported by the industrialised countries of the North. At the same time, with the principle of equal sovereignty and self-determination, it recognises difference from the dominant economic and industrial culture as a political principle. Analysing international law’s approach to natural resources also directs our attention to changing ideas of nature and to the heart of international law's anthropocentrism, questioning its efficacy in tackling the ecological crisis. What we see here is an extractivist rationality that is intrinsically linked to the commodification of natural resources and green economy approaches in international environmental law. Last not least, a natural resource perspective highlights the fact that the legal concepts devised to determine how we share the world’s resources entail distributive processes among humans themselves. Sigrid Boysen is Professor of International Law at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and a Judge at the Hamburg State Constitutional Court. She serves as editor-in-chief of the international law review ‘Archiv des Völkerrechts’, has held positions as Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University (2014), the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School (2021/22) and is currently Fernand Braudel Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence. Her research focuses on international law with a particular focus on the theory of international law, the law of natural resources, environmental justice, international environmental and economic law, and constitutional law. Recent publications include Die postkoloniale Konstellation. Natürliche Ressourcen und das Völkerrecht der Moderne, Mohr Siebeck 2021; ‘Postcolonial Global Constitutionalism’, in: Lang and Wiener (eds.), Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, 2nd ed. 2023, 166-184. | 22 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 3: 'Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania | The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania. Summary: The Golden Age of globalization has reached an end in the popular and political imagination. In its place has arisen growing anxiety about state borders. What is the evidence of such a shift? What are the causes and consequences? What answers does international law have for how international borders should be governed, especially as human mobility intensifies? Traditional international law defining and settling borders will not suffice to answer these questions. Instead, the lectures explore a different approach that views international borders as institutions that obligate states to manage the tensions that territorial governance implies in an interdependent world. 6 pm Thursday 14 March 2024 Lecture 3: Where Cooperative Border Governance (Should) Lead: Interstate Borders as Though People Mattered The lecture culminates by addressing ways forward in the light of Lectures 1 and 2. First, it explores the ways that border unilateralism has had some results that are inconsistent with international human rights. Second, it suggests possibilities for addressing rights violations committed in the name of “border sovereignty.” While international law is not equipped to address all of the injustices and anxieties associated with international borders, it does offer cooperative levers and lenses that can help address and arrest some of its worst consequences. Chair: Eyal Benvenisti | 19 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture 2: 'Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania | The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania. Summary: The Golden Age of globalization has reached an end in the popular and political imagination. In its place has arisen growing anxiety about state borders. What is the evidence of such a shift? What are the causes and consequences? What answers does international law have for how international borders should be governed, especially as human mobility intensifies? Traditional international law defining and settling borders will not suffice to answer these questions. Instead, the lectures explore a different approach that views international borders as institutions that obligate states to manage the tensions that territorial governance implies in an interdependent world. 6 pm Wednesday 13 March 2024 Lecture 2: Treaties and Neighbors: Recovering the Cooperative Roots of International Bordering Territorializing political authority was a violent affair. Borders are implicated in that violence. But this lecture foregrounds their cooperative international legal roots as well. In theory, borders divide by agreement. That is their purpose. Any border worth its salt impacts relationships between states, communities and individuals. The obligation, then, is to address that impact. This lecture explores international legal resources for cooperative border management, which is subject, as always, to international legal obligations. Chair: Surabhi Ranganathan | 19 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2024: 'International Borders in an Interdependent World' - Lecture I: 'Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World' - Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania | The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture is an annual three-part lecture series given in Cambridge to commemorate the unique contribution to the development of international law of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. These lectures are given annually by a person of eminence in the field of international law. This year's lecture was given by Prof Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania. Summary: The Golden Age of globalization has reached an end in the popular and political imagination. In its place has arisen growing anxiety about state borders. What is the evidence of such a shift? What are the causes and consequences? What answers does international law have for how international borders should be governed, especially as human mobility intensifies? Traditional international law defining and settling borders will not suffice to answer these questions. Instead, the lectures explore a different approach that views international borders as institutions that obligate states to manage the tensions that territorial governance implies in an interdependent world. 6 pm Tuesday 12 March 2024 Lecture I: Setting the stage: Border Anxiety in an Interdependent World Even as interstate territorial aggrandizement has waned over the decades, border anxiety around the world is on the rise. A rich array of physical and rhetorical evidence from satellite imagery to discourse analysis supports this point. International borders have become a flashpoint for political demands and policies that insist on unilateralism. Yet “sovereign borders” misconstrue the very purposes – and consequences – of bordering. Can an International Law of borders move from its traditional focus on border fixity to border management? That will be the focus of Lecture 2. Chair: Sandesh Sivakumaran | 19 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Responsible Investment: Strategies of Government Pension Fund of Norway Explained': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Elisa Cencig (Norges Bank Investment Management) Cambridge 3CL invites you to a seminar on the responsible investment strategies of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the entity responsible for managing Norway's government pension fund, valued at over 1 trillion US dollars. Operating in over 70 countries, NBIM is at the forefront of shaping sustainable and fair market practices globally. This session will delve into NBIM’s role in policy-making and standard setting, highlighting its commitment to responsible stewardship. The focus will be on NBIM's active investment approach across various levels - from market-wide initiatives to individual company engagements. NBIM works to ensure long-term growth in its investments while minimizing environmental and societal harm, through direct company engagement, goal setting, and strategic voting at shareholder meetings. Key topics like climate change action, responsible AI practices, and CEO compensation will be discussed, showcasing NBIM's dedication to guiding global investments towards ethical and sustainable outcomes. Leading this session is Elisa Cencig, Senior ESG Policy Advisor at NBIM. Her expertise will provide a comprehensive view into how a major global investor like NBIM navigates the complexities of responsible investment. Biography: Elisa is Senior ESG Policy Advisor at Norges Bank Investment Management, where she is responsible for the fund’s engagement with international organisations, standard-setters and policymakers on sustainability, responsible investment and corporate governance. Prior to that, she worked at the UK Financial Authority, first on EU Withdrawal Policy and Strategy and more recently leading the FCA’s engagement at the Financial Stability Board. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Association of Financial Markets in Europe’s Brussels office on prudential and resolution policy and advocacy. She is an alumna of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy) and the College of Europe (Belgium) and holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 14 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Physicalism in Intellectual Property: 17th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture | On 12 March 2024 the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held the 2024 Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture, delivered by Professor Oren Bracha (William C. Conner Chair in Law, The University of Texas, Austin). Abstract: It is a universal truism that the subject matter of modern intellectual property law is intangible information. Yet the field is haunted by a stubborn specter of physicalism. Time and again, courts and commentators engage in reasoning that relies on physicalist and quasi-physicalist assumptions or fails to absorb the implications of the intangible object of property. This happens in a wide variety of contexts, spanning from the patentability of DNA sequences to copyright infringement by training Generative Artificial Intelligence systems. The lecture explores persisting physicalism in intellectual property law, diagnoses its sources, and argues that we should go beyond it. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 14 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CFL Lecture: 'The Lundy Model of Child Participation: space, voice, audience and influence for young people in decision making when parents separate' (audio) | This event was hosted by Cambridge Family Law Centre (CFL) on 7 March 2024. Speakers: Professor Laura Lundy (Queen’s University Belfast), Professor Anne Barlow (University of Exeter) & Dr Jan Ewing (University of Cambridge) When parents separate, children have the right to a voice in the decision-making per their article 12, UNCRC rights. However, evidence shows that this right is rarely upheld in England and Wales. Professor Lundy has developed the ‘Lundy Model of Child Participation’ (‘the Lundy Model’), a core set of rights-based principles to ensure young people can participate meaningfully in decision-making. The model is core to the Irish National Framework on Child and Youth Participation. It has been adopted internationally, by the European Commission, World Health Organisation, World Vision and UNICEF. Professor Lundy presents the Lundy Model and Professor Barlow and Dr Ewing presents the findings of empirical research from the Wellcome Trust Centre-funded, ‘HeaRT Project’ to consider the extent to which child-inclusive mediation as currently practised in England and Wales is compliant with their article 12 rights and the mental health and well-being benefits to young people when they are given space, voice, audience and influence per the Lundy Model in child-inclusive mediation. For more about CFL see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'A Counterintuitive Approach to the Interaction Between Trade marks and Freedom of Expression in Europe and the US: A Two-Way Relationship': CIPIL Evening seminar (audio) | Speaker: Dr Alvaro Fernandez-Mora, KCL Abstract: As trade marks have evolved to perform an expressive function, courts and scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have devoted increased attention to elucidating when, and how, marks and speech interact. Three forms of interaction can be identified in European and US case law. First, in infringement litigation, a defendant can invoke speech with a view toward insulating from liability his unauthorized use of plaintiff’s mark for expressive purposes, usually for parody or commentary. Second, in trade mark registration, unsuccessful applicants can invoke speech to challenge the validity of a refusal of registration. And third, in constitutional challenges, a trade mark owner can invoke speech in seeking to strike down public measures encroaching on trade mark use. Regrettably, to date, commentators have had a tendency to focus on one form of interaction at a time, placing special emphasis on infringement cases. Their analyses and proposals for reform have privileged this form of interaction in an effort to avoid the severe repercussions that unbridled enforcement of trade mark rights could have on defendants’ speech. This has led to an impoverished understanding of the interaction between marks and speech, broadly considered. In the absence of comprehensive studies covering the diversity of instances where both sets of rights interact, conventional wisdom posits that their interaction is unidirectional, in the sense that trade mark rights chill expression. My ongoing research seeks to redress this misconception by engaging in a taxonomic analysis of the diverse scenarios in which marks and speech interact. Their joint study reveals that this interaction is best understood as a two-way street, where freedom of expression can simultaneously limit and validate trade mark rights. The proposed reconceptualization of the interaction between marks and speech can contribute significantly to the advancement of the field. Biography: Dr Alvaro Fernandez-Mora is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. Alvaro joined King's College London in 2024, having previously worked as a Lecturer in Law at the University of York (2021-2024). Alvaro has earned degrees from the University of Oxford (DPhil), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid ICADE (LLB). Before pursuing his doctoral studies, Alvaro worked as an associate lawyer at Hogan Lovells LLP’s intellectual property litigation department in Madrid. Alvaro's research interests lie at the intersection between intellectual property law and other fields –notably human rights, competition law and economics–, often from a comparative perspective. Alvaro's work has been published in the Berkeley Journal of International Law (BJIL), the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IIC) or the Intellectual Property Quarterly (IPQ). For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 6 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Re-Imagining International Monetary and Financial Law' - Prof Michael Waibel, University of Vienna | Lecture summary: This lecture considers what Josef Kunz termed “swings of the pendulum” in international monetary and financial law and the formal and informal institutions in these related fields. International monetary law exploded in importance after the Second World War with the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a global system of managed exchange rates. With the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 and a decline in capital controls, the IMF evolved from a dominant institution into a peer of central banks and private markets, providing surveillance of the “non-system” of floating exchange rates and assisting in responses to financial crises. By contrast, international financial law, which was of limited importance during the Bretton Woods era, has become a major soft law force in the global financial sector since the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision was created in 1974. The dichotomy between profit maximization and systemic risk at the core of global finance today is overseen and guided by the technocrats of the Basel Committee, the Financial Stability Board and other institutions of international financial law. Today, the pendulums of international monetary and financial law may be reversing again. Armed conflict, rising authoritarianism, growing fragmentation of the global financial system, and a revival of capital controls and other restrictions on capital flows could reinvigorate international monetary law and the IMF. This institution has reimagined itself multiple times already while staying true to its original mandate of safeguarding monetary stability. Michael Waibel is a professor of international law at the University of Vienna. His teaching and writing focus on international law, international economic law, sovereign debt and international dispute settlement. He received the Deák Prize of the American Society of International Law, the Book Prize of the European Society of International Law and a Leverhulme Prize for his research. He is Co-General Editor of the ICSID Reports (with Jorge Viñuales) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law (with Kathleen Claussen and Sergio Puig). | 4 3 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'EU, UK and the World: Reflecting on Challenging Times': CELS Seminar | Speaker: José Barroso, former President of the European Commission Biography: José Manuel Durão Barroso served twelve years in the Government of Portugal including as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister. He was President of the European Commission during two mandates (2004/2014). His academic appointments include visiting professor at Georgetown University and visiting professor at Princeton University. He is currently a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and at the European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Florence. José Manuel Barroso studied Law (University of Lisbon) Political Science and International Affairs (University of Geneva). He is currently Chair of the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Chairman of International Advisors, Goldman Sachs. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. | 27 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Re-imagining the Express Trust: The 2024 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 23 February 2024 Professor Lusina Ho (University of Hong Kong) delivered the 2024 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Re-imagining the Express Trust". Lusina Ho is Harold Hsiao-Wo Lee Professor in Trust and Equity at the Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong. While pursuing her teaching and research in Trust, Restitution, and Comparative Trust Law (in particular Chinese Trust Law), she has been consulted by the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the enactment of the Chinese Trust Law and the Government of the Hong Kong SAR on the reform of the Trustee Ordinance. In 2019, she has successfully convinced the Hong Kong SAR Government to launch a trust service for special needs individuals in the territory. She has published widely and her work has been cited in highest appellate courts in common law jurisdictions, and has been translated and published in Japanese. She received from HKU the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2006, the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2017, the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award in 2018, and the University Knowledge Award in 2018. Timings: - Professor Lionel Smith - Introduction: 0:00 - Dr Sinead Agnew - Introduction: 4:23 - Professor Lusina Ho: 7:00 - Dr Brian Sloan - Thanks: 50:15 The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including a transcript and photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: https://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/CambridgeFreshfieldsLecture This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 26 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What is Project Finance, and Why is it Important?': 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Paul Deemer (Vanderbilt Law School) Abstract: This lecture will focus on the development and project financing of large international infrastructure projects, and will cover – - What is “project finance” and what is not? How does a “project financing” differ from other types of financing? - Why is project finance used on large infrastructure projects? What is “leverage,” and why is that important? - What legal structures and documents are commonly used in project financings? - Who are the participants in a project financing? What are their roles? - What is the role of the lawyer? Why should a new lawyer be familiar with project finance? In discussing these issues, the speaker will draw on his experience representing clients on projects in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ (audio feed collection) | 14 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Victimhood: Gender as Tool and Weapon' - Prof Vasuki Nesiah, NYU GALLATIN | Lecture summary: This paper looks at the political purchase of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in helping constitute the normative framework guiding and legitimizing laws and policies advanced under the rubric of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE). It attends to how these have intersected with the work of the international criminal court (ICC) in new modalities of lawfare that have taken place against the backdrop of Security Council action, including its military interventions in Muslim majority countries. These intertwined projects – ICF, CVE and International Criminal Law – can be situated in the dominant structures of global governance that have rendered their driving logics the thinkable default option, and their legitimacy the dominant common sense for diverse groups, from feminist lawyers to military strategists. This analysis comes together in reading the Al Hassan case at the ICC as the grain of sand through which we examine the universe at the crossroads of sharia panic, sex panic and security panic. Vasuki Nesiah teaches human rights, legal and social theory at NYU Gallatin where she is also faculty director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. She has published on the history and politics of human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal law, reparations, global feminisims, and decolonization. Nesiah was awarded the Jacob Javits Professorship (2022), Gallatin Distinguished Teacher Award in 2021 and the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2020. Her current book projects include International Conflict Feminism (forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press) and Reading the Ruins: Colonialism, Slavery, and International Law. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she is also co-editing TWAIL: A Handbook with Anthony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, and Karin Mickelson (forthcoming from Elgar). | 13 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Radically legal: Berlin constitutes the future: Joanna Kusiak | Speaker: Joanna Kusiak, Junior Research Fellow in Urban Studies at King’s College Bio: Dr Joanna Kusiak is a scholar-activist who works at the University of Cambridge. Born in Poland, she has been shaped by the emancipatory tradition of the Solidarność movement and by the brutality of the neoliberal transformation. Her work focuses on urban land, housing crises, and the progressive potential of law. In 2021 she was one of the spokespeople of Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen, Berlin’s successful referendum campaign to expropriate stock-listed landlords. She is the winner of the 2023 Nine Dots Prize for ’thinking about the box’ about contemporary social challenges. Her winning book ‘Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future’ will appear in May 2023 in Cambridge University Press. Do we need a revolution to save our cities from the rampant housing crisis? Yes – but this revolution is powered by the law. Right in the middle of the German constitution, a group of ordinary citizen discovers a forgotten clause that allows them to take 240.000 homes back from multi-billion corporations. My talk describes the story of a grassroots movement that convinced one million Berliners to pop the speculative housing bubble a design a new institutional model for managing urban housing. For more about the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/researchfaculty-centres-networks-and-groups/cambridge-socio-legal-group | 13 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Copyright in Fictional Characters and the Parody and Pastiche Defences': CIPIL Evening seminar (audio) | Speaker: Thomas St Quintin, Hogarth Chambers Abstract: Lessons from the decision of the IPEC in Shazam v Only Fools the Dining Experience, and cases referred to in that decision, addressing the findings that copyright can subsist in fictional characters (and the factors that the court relied upon in reaching that conclusion), and the defences of fair dealing for the purposes of parody and pastiche. Biography: Thomas St Quintin is a barrister at Hogarth Chambers. He specialises in intellectual property, media and entertainment. He has been instructed in cases in the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court, and has appeared as the sole or lead advocate in each of the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, and in the UKIPO. His practice covers all areas of IP law, and is fairly evenly split between patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and confidential information cases (both technical and those involving privacy). He is a co-author of the Modern Law of Trade Marks, of Intellectual Property in Europe, and is a contributor to Copinger and Skone-James on Copyright. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'International Law and Communications Infrastructure: A History' - Dr Daniel Joyce, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney | Lecture summary: This research examines international law’s longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between international law and infrastructure as a means of examining their relationship in the global communications context. This reveals a longer trajectory to current interest in information capitalism’s effects on international life. Current concerns focus on the power of private digital platforms and the networked communicative infrastructure they maintain for the global economy. Introducing an historical perspective to such debates highlights infrastructure’s ongoing connections to violence and exploitation. This points to the wider and constitutive role of infrastructure in international life and underscores the need to address the blending of public and private forms of power in global governance. While the technologies driving change and re-appraisal within the contemporary international legal imagination are clearly distinct, viewing infrastructure as regulation in the current day requires us to confront continuing patterns of inequality and discrimination, which in turn can be connected with a longer international legal history. Such a focus can also help to explain how the traditional form of international law as a limited system of positive rules and of managerial ordering came to dominate the legal imagination and entrench a state-centrism which now appears anachronistic in light of the reality of private power and its concentration on the international plane. Dr Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He specialises in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a member of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation. His monograph Informed Publics, Media and International Law was published by Hart in 2020. He is a visiting fellow at LSE Law School from September 2023 until March 2024. | 5 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Inventorship in the light of Thaler v. Comptroller-General': CIPIL Evening seminar | Speaker: Stuart Baran, Three New Square Abstract: The UK Supreme Court recently gave judgment in Thaler, upholding the refusal of patent applications listing DABUS, an AI, as the inventor. After looking at what the UKSC decided and why, I will consider three broader questions that arise from the litigation: (i) why did the case take the shape it did – in particular, was it driven by questions of procedure more than substance?; (ii) what does the judgment mean for patents arising from AI inventions in future?; and (iii) how do we approach the appropriate division of labour between the courts and Parliament in approaching these questions? Biography: Stuart is Barrister at Three New Square Chambers. He was Legal 500 Junior of the Year in IP, IT and Media for 2018. In 2019 he was appointed to a three-year term as one of two Standing Counsel to HM Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. He practises in all areas of intellectual property, including: patents, SPCs, trade marks, passing off, copyright, designs and confidential information. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 2 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Beyond Mirrors and Windows: Exploring State-Society Relationships Through Prison and Film: Oliver Wilson-Nunn | Bio: Oliver Wilson-Nunn is an Isaac Newton Research Fellow at Robinson College, University of Cambridge. He recently completed his PhD on prison and film in Argentina at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. He has published on prison education in contemporary documentary film and on prison writing from Cuba. He is broadly interested in the relationship between law, criminal justice, and culture in Latin America, with his new project focussing on the relationship between contemporary documentary cinema and the processes of judicialisation and juridification. Prison, the cliché goes, serves as a mirror of society. Films about prison, according to a similarly clichéd logic, serve as a window onto that mirror of society. In this presentation, I move beyond this focus on reflection and refraction to propose a more materially sensitive approach to what prison-based films can tell us about state and society. I reflect on the institutional relationships between the film industry and prisons to show how the very production and exhibition of film—not just the symbolic force of the image itself—reconfigure the relationships between imprisoned people, non-imprisoned people, and the state. Focussing on Argentina, I consider examples of location shooting inside operational prisons, the use of imprisoned people as actors, and the exhibition of film inside prison from the 1930s through to the present day to trouble a tendency among academic lawyers, criminologists, and film scholars to evaluate prison films in terms of their ‘accurate’ or ‘inaccurate’ representation of real-life prisons. By shifting our focus from the truth value of the strictly defined ‘prison film’ towards the broader social relationships produced at the institutional interstice of prison and film, we can better understand prison, following Ruth Wilson Gilmore, not as a ‘building “over there” but a set of relationships that undermine rather than stabilize everyday lives everywhere’ (2007, 242). The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group organises and supports events and publications relating to socio-legal research, drawing participants from within the University of Cambridge and around the world. For more about the CSLG, see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/researchfaculty-centres-networks-and-groups/cambridge-socio-legal-group The CSLG organises and supports events and publications relating to socio-legal research, drawing participants from within the University of Cambridge and around the world. A donation would be instrumental in allowing the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group to continue its cross-disciplinary work: https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/the-cambridge-socio-legal-group | 1 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Judges, Jurists and Style': Professor Jonathan Morgan Inaugural lecture (audio) | Judges and jurists employ distinctive, and distinctly different, styles of reasoning. Judges develop the common law cautiously, by incremental analogical development. Judicial reasoning is characteristically practical, even pragmatic, with the resolution of concrete disputes paramount. The stability of the common law depends on strong shared, albeit implicit, understandings about its content. Academia might seem hostile to much of this. Academics are expected to build ambitious theories, to investigate legal rules to their theoretical foundations, to question and reject consensus, and above all to innovate. In pursuing such goals, legal scholars risk misconceiving the nature of the common law enterprise, and overlooking its strengths. Jonathan Morgan delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of English Law on Friday 26 January 2024 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The ICO’s Role in Realising a Free and Accountable Press Post-Leveson': CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Paul Wragg, University of Leeds Biography: Professor Paul Wragg is Professor of Media Law at the University of Leeds. He has written extensively on privacy and press freedom. His monograph on the compatibility of compulsory press regulation with press freedom was published by Hart in May, 2020. He is co-editor (with Professor András Koltay) of a collection of papers examining comparative privacy and defamation laws, published by Edward Elgar in July 2020 and was previously editor-in-chief of Communications Law (2016-2019). He has been at Leeds since September 2009, having previously taught at Durham University and the University of Birmingham. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Modernising Commercial Dispute Resolution': 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Associate Professor John Sorabji (UCL) The presentation will look at why England and Wales has, historically, been a 'good forum to shop in' for commercial dispute resolution. It will then consider four challenges to its ability to maintain that position, before turning to practical steps that could and, perhaps should, be taken to enable it to remain a forum of choice for commercial disputes. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ (audio feed collection) | 23 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Can the 'Post Office convictions' be quashed by legislation?': Jonathan Rogers (audio) | The government has recently announced that it intends to quash by legislation convictions of hundreds of subpostmasters who had been prosecuted by the Post Office for, variously, theft, fraud and false accounting. This follows a number of appeals which have already succeeded where it has been accepted that convictions that are based on generated by the Horizon software are necessarily unsafe. Usually, one would expect other subpostmasters to have to follow that same route, but the government is concerned about the delay in processing so many cases. Nonetheless it is unprecedented to quash convictions by legislative fiat in a situation when the courts would yet be competent to do the same; and notwithstanding the concerns of criminal and constitutional lawyers, a Bill to this effect appears likely to be produced this year and to receive support from all sides of the House of Commons. In this short video Dr Jonathan Rogers explains the background, explores the challenges that will face those who draft the legislation, and comments further on the likely reservations that many will still entertain about this innovation. Jonathan Rogers is Associate Professor in Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He co-founded the Criminal Law Reform Now Network (http://www.clrnn.co.uk/) in 2017 and leads an ongoing project by that network into the reform of private prosecutions, and in that capacity he gave evidence to the Justice Select Committee in 2020 on safeguards in the wake of the Post Office scandal. For more information about Dr Rogers, you can also refer to his profile at: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/jw-rogers/78191 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 23 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Idealist's Dilemma' - Philip Allott | On 23 May 2014, Professor Philip Allott of the University of Cambridge addressed the Spring Conference of the International Law Association British Branch at the Inner Temple, London. | 2 1 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Mrs Cherry Hopkins: Conversation #1 | This is the first interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviews for the first time on 13 September 2023 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 20 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Professor Campbell McLachlan: Conversation #2 | Professor Campbell McLachlan was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2022-2023. Professor McLachlan was interviewed for the second time on 13 September 2023 at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 12 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What are the legal and constitutional implications of the Rwanda Bill?': Mark Elliott (audio) | The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill seeks to circumvent the UK Supreme Court's recent judgment holding the Government's Rwanda policy, concerning the removal of certain asylum-seekers, to Rwanda. The Bill contemplates placing the UK in breach of its international obligations, including under the European Convention on Human Rights and the Refugee Convention, while forming part of a policy that relies upon Rwanda's adherence to its own international obligations. The Bill is thus at once hypocritical and parochial, given that domestic legislation cannot free the UK of its legal obligations on the international plane. In this short video Professor Mark Elliott explores the legal and constitutional implications of the Bill. Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, providing advice to the Committee on a range of legislative and other matters. Mark co-founded the international biennial Public Law Conference series and co-convened the first two conferences. He is the recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching and is the author of a widely read blog http://publiclawforeveryone.com/ that is aimed at public law scholars, current and prospective law students, policy-makers, and others who are interested in the subject. For more information about Professor Elliott, you can also refer to his profile at: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 7 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters': 2023 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2023 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by President Síofra O'Leary, ECHR under the title 'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters' on 30 November 2023. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 1 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Structured Finance: A Primer': 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Martin Voitko (World Bank) Abstract: The Structured Finance seminar is intended to be a primer on understanding key concepts of these complex financial instruments and their benefits/limitations. The seminar will cover securitisation trades (both traditional (or cash) securitisations and synthetics) as well as covered bonds. The presentation will further explain what different types of those trades are used for as well as provide examples of typical structures. In the discussion part, the seminar can dive deeper into topics of interest for the audience such as ABS securities, CLN notes and covered bonds. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at: http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ (audio feed collection) | 1 12 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: The CJEU is a court that speaks through a single judgment, and that ‘dialogues’ with its Advocates General without ever saying quite what that dialogue means. What is the reader to make of the interplay between the individual opinion of the advocate general and the collective decision of the judges? The final seminar in the series asks some questions, suggests some partial answers, and invites reflection on whether the current arrangements should ‘evolve’ (and, if so, in what direction). This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 29 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Generative AI and Copyright Law': CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Dr Alina Trapova, UCL Biography: Dr Alina Trapova is a Lecturer in IP Law at University College London (UCL) and a Co-Director of the Institute for Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL) at UCL Laws. Prior to that, she worked at the University of Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in Law and Autonomous Systems and Bocconi University as a Research Assistant and Coordinator of the LLM in European Business and Social Law. Alina's research interests focus on copyright law and the implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence on the creative industries. Alina also has a keen interest in EU law, particularly in examining the EU's law-making powers in the field of IP law. She is also a keen blogger and acts as a Co-Managing Editor of the well-known Kluwer Copyright Blog. Abstract: AI-generated output has been a topic for discussion in the past years in academic, institutional and governmental circles. The topic involves a copyright challenge on both the input and output stage: (i) is an AI system engaging in copyright infringing activities when it processes information for the purposes of training; and (ii) are the outputs of these systems protected with copyright law as original works? While answers to these questions have remained difficult to find, a new type of AI systems have come to light – generative AI. These typically engage in the so-called prompt engineering activity whereby images and music are generated as a result of written text instructions. The copyright law puzzle becomes even more difficult to put together. This seminar will paint the picture of these issues by referring to EU, UK, and US copyright law due to ongoing litigation in these jurisdictions, as well as legislative and policy initiatives. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 24 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?': CELS Seminar | Speakers: João Vale de Almeida, Former Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom (2020-2022) and Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: The UK and EU relationship has not been straight forward since Brexit but since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister a certain amount of pragmatism has prevailed. Meanwhile, the European Union is facing significant geo-political challenges – not least the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Does it have capacity to think about these broader issues? The Ukraine conflict has led to much deeper thinking about enlargement of the EU, not just for Ukraine but also the Baltic states. The question of Europe of concentric circles has been raised again. What might a Europe of concentric circles mean for the accession and neighbourhood countries? What else can be done to improver relations with our closest trading partner? For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. | 24 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH Annual Lecture 2003: 'Women and the Crime of Bigamy in English Law, 1603-2023' (audio) | On 21 November 2023 Professor Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter Law School) delivered the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Women and the Crime of Bigamy in English Law, 1603-2023'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. To find out more, and download the accompanying presentation, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 24 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Compensating Miscarriages of Justice: CCCJ Seminar | Speaker: Professor Kent Roach, Professor of Law, University of Toronto This talk defined the distinct but overlapping concepts of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions and proven innocence. The three distinct and overlapping concepts are analysed as what Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt have called a 'tragic choice' approach to allocating scarce resources. For more information about the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ) see: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday Lecture: 'Reclaiming Agency: Indigenous Peoples and the Turn to History in International Law' - Dr Lucas Lixinski, UNSW Sydney | Lecture summary: In this talk, Lucas Lixinski examines the erasure of Indigenous perspectives from the literature on the turn to history in international law. Considering the turn to history’s promise to offer alternative imaginations by recovering history, it is somewhat surprising and disappointing that so much of this turn is narrated from the perspective of colonisers. Lixinski unpacks the implications of this turn to Indigenous agency and victimhood, and leverages alternative retellings of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with European international law that focus on Indigenous agency, diplomacy, and power. The talk fundamentally challenges what we take for granted in emancipatory international legal projects, and offers possibilities for rethinking how we do international legal history. Dr Lucas Lixinski is Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. His research interests main centre on international human rights adjudication and international cultural heritage law, and sometimes international legal history especially in relation to rights. His latest monograph is Legalized Identities: Cultural Heritage Law and the Shaping of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which he started developing while a visitor at the Lauterpacht Centre in 2018. | 20 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Queens Of Creativity: Drag, Social Norms, and Cultural Production Beyond Intellectual Property': CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Dr Eden Sarid, Essex Law School Biography: Eden Sarid is a lecturer at Essex Law School. His research and teaching interests include intellectual property, land law, law and technology, and cultural heritage law. Abstract: This study offers a new way of thinking through the questions of what drives creativity and the role that IP plays in creative production, by empirically examining how the drag subculture governed creativity, entitlements, and information-exchange over time. First, in the 1990s when drag was a counterculture and from the mid-2010s onwards, after transforming into a lucrative mainstream industry. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 17 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Why was the Rwanda Agreement unlawful, and will withdrawal from the ECHR resolve this?': Kirsty Hughes (audio) | On the 15 November the UK Supreme Court decided that the United Kingdom's policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. In this short video Dr Kirsty Hughes explains the Court's reasoning, and considers the Government's response and possible next steps. Kirsty Hughes is an Associate Professor specialising in Human Rights Law. She is joint General Editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, Director of the Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, a member of Blackstone Chambers Academic Panel and Deputy Editor of Public Law. She is a co-convenor of the European Human Rights Law Conference. For more information about Dr Hughes, please refer to her profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/ke-hughes/2113 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 16 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Asset Partitioning without Legal Personality': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Professor Chris Thomale (University of Vienna, University Roma Tre) Abstract: According to a widely received concept coined by Hansmann/Kraakman, “asset partitioning” denotes a bundle of doctrines surrounding the relationship of business owners as well as their business and private creditors, so-called entity shielding and owner shielding. Often, this configuration is associated with a legal entity, e.g., providing the “corporate veil” which allegedly protects owners’ assets from business creditors. Contrary to this intuition, it will be shown that legal personality, while offering a metaphorical framework for asset partitioning, is no institutionally indispensable prerequisite for it. To support this claim, we will look at historical and contemporary comparative evidence from continental-European as well as Middle- and South-American legal orders. This allows us to compare asset partitioning with and without legal personality and evaluate the policy implications of each. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 14 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Lecture: 'Maritime crimes and the 'interdiction' of ships without nationality' - Prof Loureiro Bastos, University of Lisbon | Lecture summary: After the conclusion of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the entry into force of its Article 108, the subject of maritime crimes has experienced many important developments. Indeed, at present, States have to deal with criminal actions which did not exist in the classical International Law of the Sea. Relevant examples include kidnapping and hostage-taking at sea, maritime terrorism offences, the smuggling of migrants by sea, illicit oil and fuel illicit activities in the maritime domain and the maritime crime of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances by sea. The issue of jurisdiction to fight this type of maritime crimes may be complex, especially when the flag State does not respect its duties under the International Law of the Sea. Practice has shown that difficulties in acting can be particularly stormy when dealing with the fight against the maritime crime of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances by sea. In these terms, the starting point for a contemporary analysis of the issue of interdicting ships without nationality in relation to maritime crimes can be a question of a general nature: when fighting against illicit drug trafficking must the principle of the exclusive jurisdiction of the flag state really be considered untouchable? Professor Fernando Loureiro Bastos is Associate Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. He is Head of the Research Group on International and European Law of the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre and President of the Portuguese Society of International Law (Portuguese Branch of the International Law Association) and a member of the ILA Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise. He has served as Co-Agent and Counsel of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Case 19 – M/V “Virginia G”, ITLOS (2011-2014). Commentator: Dr Tor Krever, ‘Piracy as a maritime crime’. Chair: Mr Stratis Georgilas (G-H Law Chambers, Athens) | 9 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Decoding CJEU Judgments': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: A common complaint of common lawyers is that the way in which CJEU judgments are written is abstract and obscure. The criticism is levelled most notably at judgments that reply to requests for a preliminary ruling from national courts. Once you understand about language and the Court, there are a lot of hidden clues, if you only know where to look for them. This second seminar is designed to help you squeeze the maximum information out of the text, and alert you to what those formulae you’re reading really mean. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 8 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Revisiting Personhood Theories and Effective AI Legal Framework: Contemporary and Muslim’s Discourse': CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi, IIUM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Biography: Ida Madieha bt. Abdul Ghani Azmi obtained her LLB from IIUM, LLM from University of Cambridge and Ph.D from University of London (1995). Dr. Ida has authored and presented extensively on various issues on Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw. She is currently a Professor at the Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws and the former Dean of Center for Postgraduate Studies, IIUM. She was the lead consultant for the Drafting of National Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Competition (2017-2018). She served as the Consultant to WIPO for the Drafting of IP Modules for MyIPO Malaysia (2017), the IP Policy for Kathmandu University (2016) and IP Curriculum and Syllabus in Bangladesh (2014). She has assisted WIPO on to design Database of Copyright law and Policy for ASEAN countries (2022) Model Curriculum on Copyright for Arts and Culture Schools in Developing Countries (UG and PG) (2022) and serve as a resource person for WIPO Training programmes. She currently serves as the consultant to the drafting of the Malaysian Cybersecurity Bill, which is awaiting to be tabled to the Parliament. Dr Ida served as a member of the Board of the Malaysian Intellectual Property Office (MyIPO) (2004-2008), (2018-2020). She was the former Deputy Director of the Malaysian Copyright Tribunal (2014-2016). She acts as a Domain Name Panelist with the Kuala Lumpur Arbitration Centre and Asian International Arbitration Centre. In the past, Dr Ida served as a resource person for the Intellectual Property Training Centre, ILKAB and the WTO Regional Trade Policy Program for Asia Pacific. She has served as the External Reviewer for the Multimedia University Law Faculty (2017-2018)(2019-2021) and Guest Editor, Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities. Abstract: Many countries, including Malaysia, are embarking on ambitious plans to take full advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies in transforming their economy. Given that the deployment of AI necessitates a supportive and comprehensive legal framework, the legal status of AI as an artificial person comes into picture. Where an AI technology is considered as mere tool for human consumption, there is no issue as to whether they should be recognised as separate legal entities accountable to their own rights and responsibilities. Yet, this is where the storm is brewing. With the ability of AI platforms to match human abilities on certain activities, in addition to the astronomical resources being poured into the development of human-like sentient AI, there is a fresh call for the legal status of AI to be revisited. This talk begins with an examination of the ontological status of personhood in contemporary discourse. The talk then moves to explore the discussion on ‘personhood’ within Muslim scholar’s discourse. Core to the issue is in what context would rights and obligations arising from AI activities and transactions be recognised under the Shariah. As Shariah is the golden thread that binds most Muslim countries, the articulation of the Shariah perspective would be beneficial to these countries aiming to build their entire economy based on AI products and services. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 3 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Principles of Corporate Finance Law: New Developments': 3CL Lecture | Professor Eilís Ferran (Cambridge), Assistant Professor Elizabeth Howell (LSE) and Professor Felix Steffek (Cambridge) present the third edition of the book ‘Principles of Corporate Finance Law’ published by Oxford University Press in September 2023. Each of the three co-authors presents fundamental issues and new developments in corporate finance law reflected in the chapters of the book they were leading. For further details on ‘Principles of Corporate Finance Law’, please see the OUP website at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/principles-of-corporate-finance-law-9780198854074 The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics and high-profile practitioners. This seminar was presented in cooperation with SMU School of Law who joined via Zoom. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 31 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2023: 'Trade Law Policing on the Factory Floor: Next Generation Agreements and their Corporate Accountability Tools' - Prof Kathleen Claussen, Georgetown Law | The LCIL and Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) are pleased to invite you to the LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture Lecture summary: Recent pathbreaking trade agreements empower trade policymakers to target foreign companies in novel ways and to police corporate due diligence in global supply chains rather than seek to change foreign government behavior as used to be their purview. This repurposing of our trade enforcement system has the power to transform dramatically the global commercial system, the bargains it manages, the procedures applicable to it, and the rights and obligations of all involved. This research project maps the institutional ascent of this revealed practice, which it maintains was the product of disillusionment with the intellectual pedigrees of conventional trade law. The project evaluates our trade policing in light of the progressive aims policymakers have set for it, taking into account the many constituencies on whom the burdens fall unevenly. This excavation exposes how our trade police do not operate like other widely accepted forms of law enforcement or of international law bureaucracy. Tactics like those in the new arsenal bear close resemblance to the practices of authoritarian governments that seek to provoke acquiescence without process. The project’s assessment prescribes lessons for the several disciplines trade policing touches, including for the way scholars and lawmakers conceive of what bodies of law, tools, and actors are best suited to manage transnational corporate behavior and for concepts of compliance in international law. Finally, this project demonstrates that, as a corporate accountability system, trade policing has leapfrogged efforts by fields with similar aims like business and human rights, and the policing tools we have so far are just the tip of the iceberg. Kathleen Claussen is a leader in international economic law and procedure and has served as arbitrator, counsel, expert, public servant, and teacher. Her expertise covers several topics of international law, especially trade, investment, international business and labor; dispute settlement and international dispute bodies; national security and cybersecurity law; and, administrative law issues surrounding U.S. foreign relations and transnational agreements. Professor Claussen has served as a visiting faculty member or invited researcher at numerous institutions around the world, including Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, the University of Cambridge Lauterpacht Centre for International Law where she was a Brandon Fellow, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, the iCourts Center of Excellence at the University of Copenhagen, the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies, the University of Zurich and Collegium Helveticum, and the World Trade Institute. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty in 2023, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Miami School of Law for five years. | 30 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Language and the CJEU': CELS Seminar | Speaker: Eleanor Sharpston KC, Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) Abstract: The CJEU is unique in having 24 equally valid languages of procedure, plus an informal and unofficial working language (French) which is not necessarily spoken by as great a percentage of staff members in 2023 as it was when the Court was first set up by the original six founding Member States. What does running a 24-language court mean in theory and in practice? How does the diversity of language – and indeed of legal tradition (in the sense of how legal argument is presented) – impact upon the way the CJEU functions, how it handles its caseload, and how it writes its judgments? This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 25 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Friday Lecture: 'The 'Common Law Method': British Approaches to the Development of International Law' - Dr Devika Hovell, LSE | Lecture summary: For better or for worse, the ‘English school’ or ‘British tradition’ of international law has eluded systematization or definition. The lecture pursues the argument that it is possible to identify clear synergies in the mainstream legal method of British international lawyers, focusing on British approaches to the doctrine of self-defence. It should not be surprising that this method follows in the common law tradition, displaying the tradition's three key hallmarks of (1) connection to social practice, (2) focus on courts and (3) an anti-theoretical tendency. Identity and analysis of these characteristics helps us to understand the distinctive contribution of British approaches to international law and the work this 'common law method' has done in strengthening and shaping international law. Identifying these characteristics is also important in order to understand the more problematic implications of their application in the international legal context. The common law method has consequences for the structure and direction of the international legal system, including the parameters of its community, the site of its authority and the role of theory in its development. Reflection on these strengths and weaknesses helps us better understand British contributions to international law. Paradoxically, the route to a more universal international law requires us first to understand the ways in which it is plural. Devika Hovell is an Associate Professor in Public International Law at the London School of Economics. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws from New York University and an Arts/Law degree from the University of Western Australia. She served as Associate to Justice Kenneth Hayne at the High Court of Australia, and as judicial clerk at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, before starting her academic career at the University of New South Wales. She joined the London School of Economics in 2012. She is author of The Power of Process (edited by Oxford University Press) and has published articles in a range of journals, including the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Modern Law Review. The article the subject of this lecture will be published in the centennial volume of the British Yearbook of International Law. She is on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law and is one of four editors of the international law blog, EJIL Talk!. | 19 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Rethinking Securities Law': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Professor Marc I. Steinberg (SMU Dedman School of Law) Abstract: This presentation, based on Professor Steinberg’s recent Oxford University Press book Rethinking Securities Law, which was awarded Winner — Best Law Book of 2021 by the American Book Fest Awards, focuses on the need to “rethink” the U.S. securities laws — with particular emphasis on the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and as amended). In both transactional and litigation settings, with frequency, U.S. securities law mandates apply that are erratic and antithetical to sound public policy. The objective of this book — and the presentation — is to highlight the deficiencies that exist under the current regimen, address their failings, provide recommendations for rectifying these deficiencies, and set forth a thorough analysis for remediation in order to prescribe a consistent and sound securities law framework. The book has received widespread favorable reviews from both practitioners and academicians. Professor Steinberg will focus on several key subjects that are addressed in the book. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 10 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Professor Campbell McLachlan: Conversation #1 | Professor Campbell McLachlan was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2022-2023. Professor McLachlan was interviewed for the first time on 19 June 2023 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 19 9 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture: 'Private Law's Two Bodies' (audio) | Professor Lionel Smith gave his Downing Professor Inaugural Lecture on Friday 19 May 2023 at the Faculty of Law. The Downing Professorship was founded in 1800, supported from a bequest from Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College. Previous holders have included Andrew Amos, FW Maitland, Sir William Ivor Jennings, Stanley de Smith, Gareth Jones and Sir John Baker. Professor Smith took up the Chair in October 2022, following the retirement of Dame Sarah Worthington. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on the EU legal order': CELS/UCU Webinar (audio) | On 12 May 2023 the Cambridge University Centre for European Legal Studies and (CELS) and the Ukrainian Catholic University School of Law held a webinar on the topic 'The Impact on Russia’s War against Ukraine and the EU Legal Order'. Dr Luigi Lonardo (University College Cork) will discussed his book ‘Russia’s 2022 War Against Ukraine and the Foreign Policy Reaction of the EU: Context, Diplomacy, and Law’ which focuses on the pre-war EU-Ukraine relations and the effects of Russia’s 2022 war against Ukraine on the EU, and the EU’s reaction to the war. There were five speakers at the event: Speaker: Dr Luigi Lonardo (University College Cork) Chair: Dr Markus Gehring (University of Cambridge) Introduction: Nataliya Haletska Respondent: Professor Taras Leshkovych (Ukrainian Catholic University Law School) Respondent: Dr Maxim Kolyba (Ukrainian Catholic University Law School) This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 17 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties' - Dr Tibisay Morgandi, Queen Mary University of London & Professor Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge | Lecture summary: The Energy Charter Treaty was concluded in 1994 on the assumption that fossil fuels could continue to be used for the foreseeable future. This article examines how ECT contracting parties can now withdraw from this treaty for climate change reasons without being subject to its 'sunset' clause, which protects existing investments for 20 years. It evaluates several strategies, including amendment and inter se agreements, and withdrawal on the basis of a fundamental change of circumstances (rebus sic stantibus). That fundamental change is not climate change itself, which was foreseen in 1994. It is the fact that, as recently stated by the IPCC, fossil fuels now need urgently to be abandoned, resulting in significant stranded assets. This was then unforeseen and radically transforms the extent of the ECT’s obligation to continue to protect existing fossil fuel investments for another 20 years. The article finally considers the implications of such a withdrawal for remaining contracting parties under Article 70 VCLT. Dr Tibisay Morgandi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Energy and Natural Resources Law at Queen Mary University of London, School of Law. Professor Lorand Bartels is Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge. | 12 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Law, race, rights and the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery' | Professor Parosha Chandran is a distinguished, multi-award winning human rights barrister at One Pump Court Chambers in London, a specialist in modern slavery law, and a world-leading expert on the law relating to human trafficking, including for the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and the British Parliament’s work for Commonwealth States. She represents victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in their cases and during her 26-year legal career she has set critical trafficking precedents in the Courts with national and global reach, most recently in a landmark judgment on non-punishment of the European Court of Human Rights in 2021, VCL and AN v UK, which concerned trafficked Vietnamese minors wrongly convicted of cannabis cultivation which their traffickers had required them to perform. She works closely with NGOs and international organisations, provides trafficking training, including for judges, lawyers NGOs and prosecutors, and has advised on domestic and international legislation, including aspects of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. She has published two books, including ‘The Human Trafficking Handbook: Recognising Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery in the UK’ (LexisNexis, 2011). She is a co-author of the Council of Europe’s comprehensive e-learning course on ‘Combatting Human Trafficking’ (2018 & 2023 edition publication pending). In 2015 she received the ‘Trafficking in Persons Hero Award’ from John Kerry and the Obama administration for her outstanding work in the field. In 2018 she received the distinction of being appointed the first Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Law at King’s College London where she teaches her own LLM course. In 2021 she represented the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons in two cases of significance, including in her third party intervention in the Supreme Court in Basfar and Wong, which lifted the diplomatic veil of immunity in a global landmark case concerning a female migrant domestic worker trafficked into the UK for exploitation. Many of her landmark legal cases have involved critical issues concerning race and gender and she highlights these and bring her personal observations on how these impacted victim protection in her talk. This lecture was delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 11 May 2023 as part of the series of Law and Race talks. Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 12 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL Friday Lecture: 'The Evolving UN Climate Regime: (Professed) Ambition at the cost of (Real) Equity?' - Professor Lavanya Rajamani, University of Oxford | Lecture Summary: This lecture will discuss recent developments in the UN Climate Regime, focusing in particular on the mismatch between the increasing emphasis on temperature goals and target-setting under the Paris Agreement and its treatment of equity and fairness in delivering these goals and targets. Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter's College, Oxford. Lavanya writes, teaches and advises on international climate change law. She has been closely involved in the climate change negotiations in various capacities for two decades, including as advisor to Chairs, Presidencies, and the Secretariat. She was part of the core UNFCCC drafting and advisory group for the Paris Agreement. And a Coordinating Lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report. She is also currently involved in providing the evidence base for ongoing climate change litigation in national, regional and international courts. | 9 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Craft of Constitutional Adjudication': The 2023 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Thursday 5 May 2023, Professor Kat O'Regan (University of Oxford) delivered the 2023 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The Craft of Constitutional Adjudication". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 5 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Snyder Lecture 15: 'Embracing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Disclosure: What the US Can Learn From the UK and the EU' - Prof Donna M Nagy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law | Lecture summary: Just over a year ago, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sought public comments on a bold and thoughtfully framed rule proposal for the enhancement and standardization of climate-related disclosure. It was a move that signaled to many that the US was finally responding to the global shift amongst investors and asset managers toward the integration of ESG data into fundamental value analysis. Today, however, as ESG issues in the US have become politically polarized and as litigation challenges loom large, the possibility of meaningful change appears more remote. Now is therefore an ideal time to spotlight the new ESG disclosure requirements in the UK and EU and, against this backdrop, to refute the claim that ESG disclosure involves “major questions” that transcend the SEC’s longstanding and clear authority to impose new reporting requirements on publicly traded companies. The UK and EU experiences likewise provide valuable perspectives in connection with other hot-button issues in the US, including: closing the public-private disclosure gap, broadening the traditional concept of materiality, and imposing mandates that require real-time disclosure as opposed to disclosure primarily at periodic intervals. Donna M. Nagy is the C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. She teaches and writes in the areas of securities litigation, securities regulation, and corporations, and has served for eight years as the law school’s Executive Associate Dean. Her scholarship includes two co-authored books, one on the law of insider trading and a casebook on Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and Compliance. She has published extensively in distinguished law journals on matters including insider trading and fiduciary principles; securities disclosure and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information; government officials and financial conflicts of interest; and securities enforcement remedies. She is also a frequent speaker on securities regulation and litigation topics at law schools and professional conferences. Professor Nagy is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and as an appointed member to the ABA Corporate Laws Committee. She began her teaching career in 1994, and prior to that, was an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, D.C. She earned her law degree in 1989 from New York University School of Law and her BA in Political Science in 1986 from Vassar College. | 3 5 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH Annual Lecture 2023: 'Law as Backcloth? A History of English Commercial Law' - Sir Ross Cranston (audio) | On 27 April 2023 Sir Ross Cranston delivered the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Law as Backcloth? A History of English Commercial Law'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. Sir Ross Cranston is a former Judge of the High Court of England and Wales, who sat in Commercial Court and in 2016 became the judge in charge of the Administrative Court. He is professor of law at the London School of Economics (LSE), where before appointment to the bench he was Sir Ernest Cassel professor of commercial law and Centennial professor of law. Prior to the LSE, he was director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. To find out more, and download the accompanying presentation, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 28 4 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Music & Drama in UK Copyright Law - Reflections on Recent Case Law': CIPIL Evening Webinar | Speaker: Dr Luke McDonagh, London School of Economics Biography: Dr Luke McDonagh the LSE Law School in 2020. He undertakes research in the areas of Intellectual Property Law and Constitutional Law. Prior to taking up his position at LSE he was a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London (2015-2020), a Lecturer at Cardiff University (2013-2015) and LSE Fellow (2011-13). Luke holds a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London (2011), an LL.M from the London School of Economics (LSE) (2006-7) and a B.C.L. degree from NUI, Galway (2002-05). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars | 28 4 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Talking about private prosecutions: Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice | An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an indelible mark, as a leading criminologist and criminal justice scholar, and former Recorder. Whilst best known for her work in sentencing, prisons and, recently, on the Parole Board, she has shown an unparalleled flexibility in teaching and research, much of which went beyond academic audiences. This workshop, kindly supported by the Yorke Fund, will celebrate Nicky’s career and enable participants to reflect upon themes which were prevalent in her research, such as managerialism and accountability within (criminal justice) public services, and fairness and proportionality in sentencing, parole and recalls to prison. Participants will consider the gains to be made for researchers in having conversations with those who act within the criminal justice system and (too often overlooked) those who are at the receiving end of state power, and how such gains in understanding their everyday experiences may be reflected in research outputs and policy documents. Programme of recordings: - Introduction (Dr Findlay Stark, Co-Director of CCCJ, University of Cambridge); 'Telling it like it is, a talk in honour of Nicky Padfield' (Prof Em Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226608) - 'Talking about private prosecutions' (Dr Jonathan Rogers, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226623) - 'Some thoughts on parole' (Prof Em Sir Anthony Bottoms, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226638) - 'Reflections on Criminal Justice Conversations' (Prof Em Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226653) | 28 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reflections on Criminal Justice Conversations: Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice | An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an indelible mark, as a leading criminologist and criminal justice scholar, and former Recorder. Whilst best known for her work in sentencing, prisons and, recently, on the Parole Board, she has shown an unparalleled flexibility in teaching and research, much of which went beyond academic audiences. This workshop, kindly supported by the Yorke Fund, will celebrate Nicky’s career and enable participants to reflect upon themes which were prevalent in her research, such as managerialism and accountability within (criminal justice) public services, and fairness and proportionality in sentencing, parole and recalls to prison. Participants will consider the gains to be made for researchers in having conversations with those who act within the criminal justice system and (too often overlooked) those who are at the receiving end of state power, and how such gains in understanding their everyday experiences may be reflected in research outputs and policy documents. Programme of recordings: - Introduction (Dr Findlay Stark, Co-Director of CCCJ, University of Cambridge); 'Telling it like it is, a talk in honour of Nicky Padfield' (Prof Em Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226608) - 'Talking about private prosecutions' (Dr Jonathan Rogers, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226623) - 'Some thoughts on parole' (Prof Em Sir Anthony Bottoms, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226638) - 'Reflections on Criminal Justice Conversations' (Prof Em Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226653) | 28 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Some thoughts on parole: Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice | An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an indelible mark, as a leading criminologist and criminal justice scholar, and former Recorder. Whilst best known for her work in sentencing, prisons and, recently, on the Parole Board, she has shown an unparalleled flexibility in teaching and research, much of which went beyond academic audiences. This workshop, kindly supported by the Yorke Fund, will celebrate Nicky’s career and enable participants to reflect upon themes which were prevalent in her research, such as managerialism and accountability within (criminal justice) public services, and fairness and proportionality in sentencing, parole and recalls to prison. Participants will consider the gains to be made for researchers in having conversations with those who act within the criminal justice system and (too often overlooked) those who are at the receiving end of state power, and how such gains in understanding their everyday experiences may be reflected in research outputs and policy documents. Programme of recordings: - Introduction (Dr Findlay Stark, Co-Director of CCCJ, University of Cambridge); 'Telling it like it is, a talk in honour of Nicky Padfield' (Prof Em Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226608) - 'Talking about private prosecutions' (Dr Jonathan Rogers, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226623) - 'Some thoughts on parole' (Prof Em Sir Anthony Bottoms, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226638) - 'Reflections on Criminal Justice Conversations' (Prof Em Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226653) | 28 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Introduction / 'Telling it like it is, a talk in honour of Nicky Padfield': Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice | An event in honour of Professor Emeritus Nicky Padfield. On 27 March 2023 the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice held a workshop in honour of Nicky Padfield entitled 'Criminal Justice Conversations: Experiencing and Researching Criminal Justice'. In September 2022, Professor Nicky Padfield formally retired from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She has left an indelible mark, as a leading criminologist and criminal justice scholar, and former Recorder. Whilst best known for her work in sentencing, prisons and, recently, on the Parole Board, she has shown an unparalleled flexibility in teaching and research, much of which went beyond academic audiences. This workshop, kindly supported by the Yorke Fund, will celebrate Nicky’s career and enable participants to reflect upon themes which were prevalent in her research, such as managerialism and accountability within (criminal justice) public services, and fairness and proportionality in sentencing, parole and recalls to prison. Participants will consider the gains to be made for researchers in having conversations with those who act within the criminal justice system and (too often overlooked) those who are at the receiving end of state power, and how such gains in understanding their everyday experiences may be reflected in research outputs and policy documents. Programme of recordings: - Introduction (Dr Findlay Stark, Co-Director of CCCJ, University of Cambridge); 'Telling it like it is, a talk in honour of Nicky Padfield' (Prof Em Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226608) - 'Talking about private prosecutions' (Dr Jonathan Rogers, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226623) - 'Some thoughts on parole' (Prof Em Sir Anthony Bottoms, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226638) - 'Reflections on Criminal Justice Conversations' (Prof Em Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge) (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/4226653) | 28 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Assisted Dying: Slippery Slopes and Unintended Consequences': The Baron de Lancey Lecture 2023 | The 2023 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Emily Jackson (London School of Economics) on 16 March 2023. Emily Jackson is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. She is a member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee, and until 2012, she was Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. From 2014-2017, she was a Judicial Appointments Commissioner. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to higher education. Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This item provides an audio entry for iTunes. | 21 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Session 3 - Commonwealth / Common Law Approaches to IP | CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System In 1981, Professor Bill Cornish published the first student textbook on “Intellectual Property”. The book was to prove hugely influential, as academic courses on the subject proliferated around the country. In turn, it spawned a host of imitators, all of whom stuck doggedly with the template Cornish had provided (of treating patents, copyright and trade marks together). However, now in its 9th edition, and curated and updated by Professors David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin, the text has never been surpassed. One of the most significant aspects of the book was its very categorisation. Entitled “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights”, the textbook presented the distinct legal regimes as “allied” in important respects. Previously, practitioner texts had treated the fields of copyright, patent, trade marks and designs as deserving of separate treatment (in Copinger; Terrell; Kerly and Russell-Clarke; while, at the international level, the Paris and Berne Conventions had instilled a dichotomy between “industrial property”, on the one hand, and copyright and neighbouring rights on the other. Although it would be inaccurate to attribute the shift in thinking to the Cornish textbook (and certainly there were important precursors, not least establishment of WIPO in 1967), forty years on from the publication of Cornish’s seminal text, “intellectual property” has been cemented as a foundational legal concept. The term is deployed in international treaties (e.g. TRIPs, but as a chapter in the vast majority of free trade agreements), in regional instruments (Article 17 of the EU Charter, the EU’s Enforcement Directive), in national constitutions, in domestic legislation; the term is used to denominate governmental and non-governmental organisations, not least the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and the now numerous “intellectual property offices” around the world (including the UKIPO and EUIPO). In the UK, the notion of “intellectual property” serves to define the field of operation of distinct civil procedure rules, as well as the remedies available to litigators. Moreover, the concept figures in the names, and to define the operational fields of, professorial chairs (Bill was the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property between 1995 and 2004); institutes (such as CIPIL, which was conceived under Bill’s watch and founded to coincide with Bill’s retirement), journals (such as the E.I.P.R. and I.P.Q.) and scholarly organisations (such as A.T.R.I.P., to which Bill gave strong support during his career, including as president from 1985-7). Of course, the concept of “intellectual property” has not gone uncriticised, and its usefulness unchallenged. Some institutes and journals have, of late, abandoned the term: the Max Planck Institute is now an institute for “innovation and competition law”, and UCL has an “Institute of Brands and Innovation Law.” The UK Intellectual Property Office has recently been located within the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. At this conference, we bring together scholars and practitioners, many of whom had a first hand relationship with Bill, to consider critically the origin, history, and utility of the notion of “intellectual property”, and more generally of thinking of trade marks, patents and copyright as “allied rights.” Reflecting Bill’s origins (in Australia), his cosmopolitanism (in particular his connection, as external academic member (from 1989) at the Max Planck Institute in Munich), and internationalism (as well as being President of A.T.R.I.P. from 1985-7 and Vice-President of A.L.A.I. from 1990), as well as the links he forged between university and practice (as a door tenant at 8 New Square), the conference will bring together a range of perspectives on the... | 20 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Session 4 - European Harmonisation of IP | CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System In 1981, Professor Bill Cornish published the first student textbook on “Intellectual Property”. The book was to prove hugely influential, as academic courses on the subject proliferated around the country. In turn, it spawned a host of imitators, all of whom stuck doggedly with the template Cornish had provided (of treating patents, copyright and trade marks together). However, now in its 9th edition, and curated and updated by Professors David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin, the text has never been surpassed. One of the most significant aspects of the book was its very categorisation. Entitled “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights”, the textbook presented the distinct legal regimes as “allied” in important respects. Previously, practitioner texts had treated the fields of copyright, patent, trade marks and designs as deserving of separate treatment (in Copinger; Terrell; Kerly and Russell-Clarke; while, at the international level, the Paris and Berne Conventions had instilled a dichotomy between “industrial property”, on the one hand, and copyright and neighbouring rights on the other. Although it would be inaccurate to attribute the shift in thinking to the Cornish textbook (and certainly there were important precursors, not least establishment of WIPO in 1967), forty years on from the publication of Cornish’s seminal text, “intellectual property” has been cemented as a foundational legal concept. The term is deployed in international treaties (e.g. TRIPs, but as a chapter in the vast majority of free trade agreements), in regional instruments (Article 17 of the EU Charter, the EU’s Enforcement Directive), in national constitutions, in domestic legislation; the term is used to denominate governmental and non-governmental organisations, not least the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and the now numerous “intellectual property offices” around the world (including the UKIPO and EUIPO). In the UK, the notion of “intellectual property” serves to define the field of operation of distinct civil procedure rules, as well as the remedies available to litigators. Moreover, the concept figures in the names, and to define the operational fields of, professorial chairs (Bill was the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property between 1995 and 2004); institutes (such as CIPIL, which was conceived under Bill’s watch and founded to coincide with Bill’s retirement), journals (such as the E.I.P.R. and I.P.Q.) and scholarly organisations (such as A.T.R.I.P., to which Bill gave strong support during his career, including as president from 1985-7). Of course, the concept of “intellectual property” has not gone uncriticised, and its usefulness unchallenged. Some institutes and journals have, of late, abandoned the term: the Max Planck Institute is now an institute for “innovation and competition law”, and UCL has an “Institute of Brands and Innovation Law.” The UK Intellectual Property Office has recently been located within the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. At this conference, we bring together scholars and practitioners, many of whom had a first hand relationship with Bill, to consider critically the origin, history, and utility of the notion of “intellectual property”, and more generally of thinking of trade marks, patents and copyright as “allied rights.” Reflecting Bill’s origins (in Australia), his cosmopolitanism (in particular his connection, as external academic member (from 1989) at the Max Planck Institute in Munich), and internationalism (as well as being President of A.T.R.I.P. from 1985-7 and Vice-President of A.L.A.I. from 1990), as well as the links he forged between university and practice (as a door tenant at 8 New Square), the conference will bring together a range of perspectives on the... | 20 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Session 2 - IP as a legal domain in the UK | CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System In 1981, Professor Bill Cornish published the first student textbook on “Intellectual Property”. The book was to prove hugely influential, as academic courses on the subject proliferated around the country. In turn, it spawned a host of imitators, all of whom stuck doggedly with the template Cornish had provided (of treating patents, copyright and trade marks together). However, now in its 9th edition, and curated and updated by Professors David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin, the text has never been surpassed. One of the most significant aspects of the book was its very categorisation. Entitled “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights”, the textbook presented the distinct legal regimes as “allied” in important respects. Previously, practitioner texts had treated the fields of copyright, patent, trade marks and designs as deserving of separate treatment (in Copinger; Terrell; Kerly and Russell-Clarke; while, at the international level, the Paris and Berne Conventions had instilled a dichotomy between “industrial property”, on the one hand, and copyright and neighbouring rights on the other. Although it would be inaccurate to attribute the shift in thinking to the Cornish textbook (and certainly there were important precursors, not least establishment of WIPO in 1967), forty years on from the publication of Cornish’s seminal text, “intellectual property” has been cemented as a foundational legal concept. The term is deployed in international treaties (e.g. TRIPs, but as a chapter in the vast majority of free trade agreements), in regional instruments (Article 17 of the EU Charter, the EU’s Enforcement Directive), in national constitutions, in domestic legislation; the term is used to denominate governmental and non-governmental organisations, not least the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and the now numerous “intellectual property offices” around the world (including the UKIPO and EUIPO). In the UK, the notion of “intellectual property” serves to define the field of operation of distinct civil procedure rules, as well as the remedies available to litigators. Moreover, the concept figures in the names, and to define the operational fields of, professorial chairs (Bill was the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property between 1995 and 2004); institutes (such as CIPIL, which was conceived under Bill’s watch and founded to coincide with Bill’s retirement), journals (such as the E.I.P.R. and I.P.Q.) and scholarly organisations (such as A.T.R.I.P., to which Bill gave strong support during his career, including as president from 1985-7). Of course, the concept of “intellectual property” has not gone uncriticised, and its usefulness unchallenged. Some institutes and journals have, of late, abandoned the term: the Max Planck Institute is now an institute for “innovation and competition law”, and UCL has an “Institute of Brands and Innovation Law.” The UK Intellectual Property Office has recently been located within the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. At this conference, we bring together scholars and practitioners, many of whom had a first hand relationship with Bill, to consider critically the origin, history, and utility of the notion of “intellectual property”, and more generally of thinking of trade marks, patents and copyright as “allied rights.” Reflecting Bill’s origins (in Australia), his cosmopolitanism (in particular his connection, as external academic member (from 1989) at the Max Planck Institute in Munich), and internationalism (as well as being President of A.T.R.I.P. from 1985-7 and Vice-President of A.L.A.I. from 1990), as well as the links he forged between university and practice (as a door tenant at 8 New Square), the conference will bring together a range of perspectives on the... | 20 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Session 1 - International Legal Conceptions of IP | CIPIL Spring Conference 2023: Intellectual Property Rights as Allied Rights: Bill Cornish and the Making of Today’s Intellectual Property System In 1981, Professor Bill Cornish published the first student textbook on “Intellectual Property”. The book was to prove hugely influential, as academic courses on the subject proliferated around the country. In turn, it spawned a host of imitators, all of whom stuck doggedly with the template Cornish had provided (of treating patents, copyright and trade marks together). However, now in its 9th edition, and curated and updated by Professors David Llewelyn and Tanya Aplin, the text has never been surpassed. One of the most significant aspects of the book was its very categorisation. Entitled “Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights”, the textbook presented the distinct legal regimes as “allied” in important respects. Previously, practitioner texts had treated the fields of copyright, patent, trade marks and designs as deserving of separate treatment (in Copinger; Terrell; Kerly and Russell-Clarke; while, at the international level, the Paris and Berne Conventions had instilled a dichotomy between “industrial property”, on the one hand, and copyright and neighbouring rights on the other. Although it would be inaccurate to attribute the shift in thinking to the Cornish textbook (and certainly there were important precursors, not least establishment of WIPO in 1967), forty years on from the publication of Cornish’s seminal text, “intellectual property” has been cemented as a foundational legal concept. The term is deployed in international treaties (e.g. TRIPs, but as a chapter in the vast majority of free trade agreements), in regional instruments (Article 17 of the EU Charter, the EU’s Enforcement Directive), in national constitutions, in domestic legislation; the term is used to denominate governmental and non-governmental organisations, not least the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and the now numerous “intellectual property offices” around the world (including the UKIPO and EUIPO). In the UK, the notion of “intellectual property” serves to define the field of operation of distinct civil procedure rules, as well as the remedies available to litigators. Moreover, the concept figures in the names, and to define the operational fields of, professorial chairs (Bill was the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property between 1995 and 2004); institutes (such as CIPIL, which was conceived under Bill’s watch and founded to coincide with Bill’s retirement), journals (such as the E.I.P.R. and I.P.Q.) and scholarly organisations (such as A.T.R.I.P., to which Bill gave strong support during his career, including as president from 1985-7). Of course, the concept of “intellectual property” has not gone uncriticised, and its usefulness unchallenged. Some institutes and journals have, of late, abandoned the term: the Max Planck Institute is now an institute for “innovation and competition law”, and UCL has an “Institute of Brands and Innovation Law.” The UK Intellectual Property Office has recently been located within the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. At this conference, we bring together scholars and practitioners, many of whom had a first hand relationship with Bill, to consider critically the origin, history, and utility of the notion of “intellectual property”, and more generally of thinking of trade marks, patents and copyright as “allied rights.” Reflecting Bill’s origins (in Australia), his cosmopolitanism (in particular his connection, as external academic member (from 1989) at the Max Planck Institute in Munich), and internationalism (as well as being President of A.T.R.I.P. from 1985-7 and Vice-President of A.L.A.I. from 1990), as well as the links he forged between university and practice (as a door tenant at 8 New Square), the conference will bring together a range of perspectives on the... | 20 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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First in Intellectual Property Law: 2023 Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture | Professor Jeanne Fromer (Vice Dean and Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law, New York University School of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy) delivered the 2023 International Intellectual Property Lecture on "First in Intellectual Property Law" on 14 March 2023 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Professor Jeanne Fromer specializes in intellectual property, including copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and design protection laws. She is a faculty co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Fromer is the co-author, with Chris Sprigman, of a free copyright textbook, Copyright Law: Cases and Materials, which is in use at over 65 law schools around the world. In 2011, she was awarded the American Law Institute’s inaugural Young Scholars Medal for her scholarship in intellectual property. Before coming to NYU, Fromer served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the US Supreme Court and to Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also worked at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale) in the area of intellectual property. Fromer received her JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, serving as articles and commentaries editor of the Harvard Law Review and as editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Fromer earned her BA summa cum laude in computer science from Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her SM in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research work in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics and worked at AT&T (Bell) Laboratories in those same areas. Fromer was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School, and she also previously taught at Fordham Law School. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 20 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University | Lecture 2: 'Exploring Nexus' A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Between 2004-2006 he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo universities, the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the American University of Cairo, and has been visiting fellow at Harvard, Minnesota, and York (Canada) universities and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes. He is an associate member of Institut de Droit International, and Member, Academic Council, Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School. He is former Vice-President Asian Society of International law and at present Member of its Advisory Council. He is a member of the editorial board of American Journal of International Law and also the former Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of International Law. In 2022 he was honored by the American Society of International Law with its Honorary Membership. The University of London has instituted a scholarship in his name for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by distance-learning. He has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the author of International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. He is closely associated with the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement. | 17 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2023: 'Capitalism and the Doctrines of International Law' - Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines' - Dr B S Chimni, Jindal Global University | Lecture 3: 'Reframing Doctrines' A series of three lectures by Dr. B.S.Chimni, Distinguished Professor of International Law, O.P. Jindal Global University. Previously, he was for over three decades Professor of International Law, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Between 2004-2006 he was the Vice Chancellor of the W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown and Tokyo universities, the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the American University of Cairo, and has been visiting fellow at Harvard, Minnesota, and York (Canada) universities and the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes. He is an associate member of Institut de Droit International, and Member, Academic Council, Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School. He is former Vice-President Asian Society of International law and at present Member of its Advisory Council. He is a member of the editorial board of American Journal of International Law and also the former Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of International Law. In 2022 he was honored by the American Society of International Law with its Honorary Membership. The University of London has instituted a scholarship in his name for the MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies by distance-learning. He has also received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the author of International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches. He is closely associated with the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) movement. | 17 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Leading Wherever They Want? CSR, ESG and Directors’ Duties': 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Speaker: Professor Jens Binder (University of Tübingen) 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 15 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Harmonisation of transactions avoidance law': 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Speaker: Professor Reinhard Bork (University of Hamburg) 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 15 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Constitutional values in the common law of obligations: The 2023 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 10 March 2023 Lord Philip Sales delivered the 2023 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Constitutional values in the common law of obligations". Philip James Sales, Lord Sales became a Justice of the Supreme Court in January 2019. Lord Sales was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, before reading law at both Churchill College, Cambridge, and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Lincoln's Inn in 1985 and was appointed First Treasury Junior Counsel in 1997. He was an Assistant Recorder from 1999 to 2001, Recorder from 2001 and 2008, and Deputy High Court Judge from 2004 and 2008. Lord Sales became a Queen's Counsel in 2006 and continued to act in the re-named post of First Treasury Counsel Common Law until his appointment to the High Court, Chancery Division in 2008. He was a member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal between 2008 and 2015, and Vice-President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal between 2014 and 2015. Between 2009 and 2014 Lord Sales served as Deputy Chair of the Boundary Commission for England. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2014. Timings: - Professor Lionel Smith Introduction: 0:00 - Professor Pippa Rogerson Introduction: 7:46 - Lord Sales: 11:46 - Professor Graham Virgo Thanks: 56:17 The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: https://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/special-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 14 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The 'Glocal' Space in International Intellectual Property Law: CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Dr Emmanuel Oke, Edinburgh Law School Biography: Emmanuel Oke is a Senior Lecturer in International Intellectual Property Law at Edinburgh Law School. His research interests include international and comparative aspects of intellectual property law. Specifically, his research explores the interface between intellectual property and other branches of international law such as international trade law, international investment law, and international human rights law. He is equally interested in the relationship between intellectual property and development. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 10 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Assessing Antitrust Damages in Follow-on Actions Against Cartels': 3CL Travers Smith/CELS seminar (audio) | Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Wurmnest Biography: Wolfgang Wurmnest is a full professor of law at the University of Hamburg since 2021. Previously he served as a full professor at the Universities of Augsburg (2013–2021) and Hanover (2009–2013), and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Private International and Comparative Law, Hamburg (2004–2008). He was a visiting scholar in Foggia, Lyon, Hanoi and (from September 2022 onwards) Cambridge. His main fields of research are comparative and international tort and competition law. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. The Cambridge Private Law Centre acknowledges with gratitude the generous financial support of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and of South Square: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/centre-activities For more information about CELS see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 3 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Penalty Clauses from a Comparative Perspective: Different Legal Approaches, Same Functions?': 3CL Travers Smith Seminar/CPLC Event (audio) | Speaker: Professor Jorge Feliu Rey (University Carlos III of Madrid) Commentator: Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick) Held in collaboration with CPLC. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. The Cambridge Private Law Centre acknowledges with gratitude the generous financial support of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and of South Square. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 28 2 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The legal science of the international': The Goodhart Lecture 2023 | Professor Campbell McLachlan KC delivered the Goodhart Lecture on Monday 6 February 2023 at the Faculty of Law on the topic 'The legal science of the international'. Professor Campbell McLachlan was the 2022-23 Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science in the University of Cambridge and a visiting fellow of Trinity Hall. He is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington; a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; and an associate member of Essex Court Chambers, London. Professor McLachlan asks what light the idea of law as a science can shed on the capacity of international law to respond to the many disintegrative pressures that it faces. The lecture begins at 02:43 For information about the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professorship in Legal Science see https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive/arthur-goodhart-visiting-professor-legal-science This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 7 2 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Decolonising Copyright: CIPIL Evening Webinar | Speaker: Jade Kouletakis, Abertay University, Dundee Biography: Jade is currently a lecturer at Albertay University Law School. Abstract: International intellectual property frameworks conceive of copyright exclusivity as a largely individualistic, westernised and capitalistic benefit which must be balanced against and limited by the non-commercial, competing public interest. This is expressed primarily by way of limitations to and exceptions from the norm of exclusivity recognised within these frameworks. This presentation argues for an alternative interpretation of copyright exclusivity as being justified by the public interest. However, unlike the works of Geiger et al., this interpretation is not premised upon the constitutional and quasi-constitutional patterns accounting for the public interest foundations of IP. Instead, it is premised upon the conceptualisations of indigenous communities within the Global South relating to exclusivity over intangible property for the communal benefit. This presentation argues that a paradigm shift in the international community at a supranational level is needed in order to better reflect the norms and values of the Global South. By reassessing the nature of copyright exclusivity rather than delegating conversations about non-commercial communal needs to limitations and exceptions, the Global South is no longer seen as mere passive receptors of Western norms and values, but as active participants with inherent value in the creation of a truly global IP framework. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 3 2 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Reasonable Person: A biographical introduction to an empathetic character: Valentin Jeutner | Speaker: Valentin Jeutner, Lund University Bio: Valentin Jeutner is an Associate Professor of Law at Lund University, Sweden. He was educated at Oxford (BA Law), Georgetown (LLM), Cambridge (PhD Law), Lund (MTh Theology). Valentin is a member of the New York Bar and has held visiting positions at the Federal Chancellery of Germany, Münster University, KU Leuven, the Berkman Klein Center of Harvard Law School, and Malta University. Since 2013, he has been affiliated with Pembroke College, Oxford. Valentin's teaching and research activities concern foundational questions of (international) law. For more about the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/researchfaculty-centres-networks-and-groups/cambridge-socio-legal-group | 25 1 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Responsible Algorithms: Guiding Principles for Automated Decision-Making in Commercial Transactions': 3CL/CPLC Seminar (audio) | Speaker: Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell (University Carlos III of Madrid) Held jointly with the Cambridge Private Law Centre. Biography: Professor Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell is Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. She works extensively in the area of AI, the digital economy and fintech, and is a member of EU Expert Groups on Liability for AI and other emerging technologies, on the Platform Economy and on Model Contract Terms for B2B Data Sharing and Cloud Computing. She is also an expert at UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL in Working Groups on Enforcement (Technology), Warehouse Receipts and Digital Economy (AI for international trade, Data transactions, Online Platforms) and has been the Spanish Delegate to UNCITRAL WG VI on Security Interests and WG IV on E-Commerce (Projects on AI in international data and Data transactions), and to UNIDROIT for the MAC protocol to the Cape Town Convention. She is an active member of the European Law Institute, and has been involved in many ELI projects: as the author of “Guiding Principles on ADM in Europe”, (2022), as co-reporter to the Project on Algorithmic Contracts, as a member of the project on Model Rules for Online Platforms and as assessor to the project on Smart Contracts and Blockchain. Her main other research interests focus on international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?': Alison Young (audio) | On the 23rd November the UK Supreme court decided that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to enact legislation to hold a second independence referendum in Scotland. In this short video Professor Alison Young explains the backdrop to the case, sets out how the Supreme court decided the case, and explores possible future paths to Scottish independence. Alison Young is the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She teaches constitutional law on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Cambridge and is the author of Turpin and Tomkins’ British Government and the Constitution (8th Edition). For more information about Professor Young, please refer to her profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/al-young/77940 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Darwin College Erasmus Seminar: 'What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: Brexit, free movement and … Great Yarmouth' (audio) | The inaugural Darwin College Erasmus Seminar took place on Wednesday 23 November at 6pm in Darwin College. Professor Catherine Barnard gave her talk on : 'What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: Brexit, free movement and … Great Yarmouth'. Professor Barnard is Professor of EU Law and Employment Law in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Professor Barnard looks at the experiences of EU migrant workers in Great Yarmouth, a declining seaside resort with the fifth highest leave vote in the UK. Her research has looked at the experiences of those living and working in Great Yarmouth. It tells the story of significant under-enforcement of employment rights in a legal aid desert. The question then is what do the workers do to get help, is it effective and are there lessons for labour enforcement more generally? For more information see: https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-catherine-barnard-gives-first-darwin-erasmus-seminar This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Privacy International (Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows Seminars) | The Faculty of Law is organising in the 2022-23 academic years three seminars on key public law cases, given by three Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows – Lord Carnwath, Lady Hale, and Lord Lloyd-Jones. The first of these seminars took place on Wednesday 16 November and was given by Lord Carnwath, looking at the Privacy International case. Lord Carnwath gave the leading judgment of the majority in the case. Lord Carnwath and Professor Alison Young talked about the impact of the new ouster clause found in section 2 of the Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022. Lord Carnwath talked about his judgment in this case and the new legislation, with a brief response from Alison Young. The talk was sponsored by the Centre for Public Law. | 17 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Sustainable Finance in Private Markets': 3CL Lecture (audio) | Speaker: Professor Simon Witney (Travers Smith, LSE) The EU and, more recently, the UK have introduced very significant new sustainable finance regulation in recent years, most notably the SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation), the Green Taxonomy and mandatory TCFD (Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures) reporting. Simon will explain what these regulations are seeking to achieve, how they apply in private markets and assess whether they are achieving their objectives. Biography: Dr Simon Witney, Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law, is a practising lawyer who also teaches on the LLM programme at LSE Law. His doctoral thesis, completed at LSE in 2017, was on corporate governance in private equity-backed companies. Simon continues to research and write on corporate governance, company law and related topics. Simon is a Senior Consultant at London-based law firm, Travers Smith. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 16 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seeing Trade Mark Reputation With Fresh-Eyes: Lessons From Consumer-Based Brand Equity Models: CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Dr Luminita Olteanu, London School of Economics Biography: Luminita qualified as a lawyer in Romania in 2011 and has been practicing for more than 8 years across a variety of legal areas including Intellectual Property Law, International Arbitration, European Law, and Commercial Law. She recently gained her PhD at UCL and currently teaches Intellectual Property Law at the LSE. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Black Deaths in Custody' | Professor Leslie Thomas KC is a human rights and civil liberties barrister. He has appeared in many high-profile cases representing the families of the deceased (Birmingham Pub Bombing Inquests, Grenfell Inquiry, Azelle Rodney, Mark Duggan, Christopher Alder and Sean Rigg). In 2012 he was awarded Legal Aid Barrister of the Year (LALY) and again in 2016 for his work on the Hillsborough disaster. In 2020 he received the award for Outstanding Contribution to D&I in the UK Chambers Bar Awards. He is also former Joint Head of Garden Court Chambers. In 2020 he became the first Black Professor of Law at Gresham College and is a visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths. He sits on the Equality Diversity and Inclusion sub-committee for the Inner Temple and the Bar Standards Board Race Equality Task Force. He is also the author of 'Do Right and Fear No One', his autobiography published in 2022. This lecture was delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 13 October 2022 as part of the series of Law and Race talks. Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 3 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Addressing Structural Discrimination through International Human Rights Law: the Approach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination' | Speaker: Professor Mehrdad Payandeh, Member, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School Professor Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. His research is focused on international human rights law, anti-discrimination law as well as general international law and constitutional law and theory. Since 2020, he is also a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Law and Race talks organised by Kirsty Hughes and Vandita Khanna at the Faculty of Law on 2 November 2022. Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 2 11 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Venture Capital and European Corporate Laws: Bargaining in the Shadow of Regulatory Constraints': 3CL Travers Smith Seminar (audio) | Speaker: Professor Luca Enriques (University of Oxford) Biography: Luca Enriques is the Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, a Research Fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute (where he also chairs the Research Committee and is a member of the board) and a Fellow Academic Member of the European Banking Institute (where he also co-chairs the Fintech Working Group). He has published widely in the fields of comparative corporate law, securities regulation and banking law. He has held visiting positions, among others, at Harvard Law School (as Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems in 2012-13), IDC Herzliya, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and Sydney Law School. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a commissioner at Consob, the Italian securities market authority. Before joining the Oxford Faculty of Law, he was Professor of Law at the University of Bologna (2002-07) and at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (2013-14), and a consultant to Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (2003-07). He has also advised the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance on corporate and financial markets policy issues throughout the years. He holds a Degree in law at the University of Bologna, an LLM at Harvard Law School and a Doctorate in Business Law at Bocconi University in Milan. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 10 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #4: Scholarly Works | Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 4 7 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #2: Career Part 1 | Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 4 7 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #3: Career Part 2 | Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 4 7 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #1: Early Life and Career | Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. **Please note due to technical problems, the audio quality of this interview is very poor** The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1 - Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2 - Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 4 7 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?': Mark Elliott (audio) | On Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Protocol creates a special legal position for Northern Ireland in the light of its particular political circumstances, effectively enabling Northern Ireland to remain within the EU’s Single Market for goods. The UK Government argues that it is necessary to ‘fix’ certain practical problems that it perceives in relation to this arrangement, including ‘disruption and diversion of trade and significant costs and bureaucracy for business’. It therefore proposes the enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. In this video, Professor Mark Elliott considers the extent to which the Bill could be considered to be proposing a breach of international law. Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, providing advice to the Committee on a range of legislative and other matters. Mark co-founded the international biennial Public Law Conference series and co-convened the first two conferences. He is the recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching and is the author of a widely read blog http://publiclawforeveryone.com/ that is aimed at public law scholars, current and prospective law students, policy-makers, and others who are interested in the subject. For more information about Professor Elliott, you can also refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos created by Daniel Bates featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 17 6 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS/CPL/LCIL webinar: Rapid response on the UK Internal Market Bill (audio) | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the UK Internal Market Bill. The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill 2019-21 was introduced on 9 September 2020 and contained what observers have called constitutional dynamite and the newspapers described as ‘Britannia waives the rules.’ Ministers have alternatively called it ‘his does break international law in a specific and limited way’ or justified it as a reaction to a material breach by the EU to the Withdrawal Agreement and the Northern Ireland/Ireland Protocol. A detailed provision authorising Ministers (possibly with consent of Parliament) to breach international law and preventing access to the courts is unprecedented. The three Research Centres of the Faculty of Law have joined forces to analyse three aspects of the UK Internal Market Bill in a rapid response seminar. Experts on EU law, international law and public law will jointly discuss different aspects of the introduction, passage and potential consequences of the Bill. While the content of the Bill and the rules governing the internal market are equally controversial, these will be discussed in detail in November during an academic CELS seminar. The rapid response given by members of the three research centres is designed to bring different legal perspectives together and provide expert opinions on this new legislation from diverse points of view. It will allow enough time for an online Q&A, so please submit your questions through the chat. Welcome – UK Internal Market Bill Rapid Response Seminar (5 min) Professor Mark Elliot (for the Faculty of Law) Professor Alison Young (for the Centre for Public Law) Professor Catherine Barnard (for CELS) Dr Lorand Bartels (for the LCIL) Panel 1 – The Withdrawal Agreement, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Withdrawal Agreement Act (Special status of EU law, international law in UK domestic law, why are state aid and customs checks a problem for the UK internal market?) (25 min) Chair: Dr Gehring Dr Bartels– International law Professor Barnard – EU law Dr Steinfeld – Public law Panel 2 – The breach of an international treaty, the rule of law and sovereignty of Parliament (Is there a breach, does it matter, does the Ministerial Code prevent it, why are the devolved administrations concerned?) (25 min) Chair: Dr Hinarejos Dr Bartels – International law Dr Gehring – EU law Professor Young – Public law Panel 3 – Consequences of breaches in international law, reactions by the EU, ongoing trade negotiations and dispute settlement (Analysis of the statements by the Cabinet Office and the EU Commission and EU Parliament, US politicians?) (25 min) Chair: Professor Barnard Dr Bartels – International Law Professor Armstrong – EU Law Professor Young – Public law Questions and Answers (30 min) This entry provides an audio source. | 7 6 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL/CPL Webinar: Rapid response on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill (audio) | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary announced on 17 May that a Bill will be introduced in response to "the grave situation in Northern Ireland", there was a "necessity to act to ensure institutions can be restored as soon as possible". (BBC News) While there is still the preference for a negotiated solution the Government highlighted that if a resolution cannot be reached, the UK would take steps to "cement provisions" that are working in the protocol, while "fixing those elements that aren't". The EU expressed grave concern and signalled that countermeasures would be adopted if the UK went ahead with its plans. The two Research Centres of the Faculty of Law have joined forces to analyse two aspects of the proposed cause of action in a rapid response seminar. Experts on EU law and public law will jointly discuss different aspects of the proposal. It will allow enough time for an online Q&A, so please submit your questions through the chat. Speakers: - Professor Lorand Bartels – UK Border Concerns - Professor Catherine Barnard – Linkages of the Protocol with the TCA and similarities/differences in Dispute Settlement - Dr Stefan Theil – Reactions by the EU and in the Member States Broader Systemic Implications - Professor Alison Young – International Legal Advice in the Westminster Government - Dr Markus Gehring – Unilateral Actions in EU and International Law For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source. | 7 6 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS Lunchtime Seminar: 'Defending the Rule of Law in the EU, a trip to the Legal Metaverse?' (audio) | Speaker: Professor Carlos Moreiro González, University Carlos III, Madrid Biography: Professor Carlos Moreiro González is Chair in International Law at the University Carlos III in Madrid and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law. Abstract: This talk will focus on some paradoxical legal issues that entail the implementation of Articles 2 and 7 of the TEU. Both provisions lack, in my view, the normative standards which are necessary to preserve the Rule of Law and the Democratic Principle in the EU. In addition, the current context of the international crisis created by the Criminal Attack of the Russian Federation to Ukraine has given a unique role to the Eastern European States which may contribute to dilute the rulings of the CJEU regarding some breaches of the Rule of Law by both the Polish and the Hungarian Government. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio source. | 20 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Technology and the Public Interest': CIPIL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Haochen Sun Biography: Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His recent scholarship has focused on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. He has published numerous articles and co-edited books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His opinions about intellectual property and technology law have appeared in many media outlets such as Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Abstract: In this seminar, Haochen Sun will discuss his groundbreaking work that analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest. He examines technology companies' growing power and their increasing disregard for the public good. To tackle this asymmetry of power and responsibility, he argues that we must reexamine the nature and scope of the right to technology and dynamically protect it as a human right under international law, a collective right under domestic civil rights law, and potentially a fundamental right under domestic constitutional law. He also develops the concept of fundamental corporate responsibility requiring technology companies to compensate users for their contributions, assume an active role responsibility in upholding the public interest, and counter injustices caused by technological developments. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 20 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Courts We Trust: Some Evidence for Law as Credibility: CELS Seminar (audio) | Speaker: Professor Antonio Estella de Noriega, University Carlos III of Madrid Biography: Antonio Estella is Professor of Administrative Law and Jean Monnet Professor "ad personam" of European Economic Governance Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He has been Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law in 2006-2010. He completed his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy, 1997) with an essay on the principle of subsidiarity, receiving the unanimous compliments of the jury for the "excellent quality of the doctoral thesis". He holds a Master's Degree in Community Law from the ULB (Brussels, Belgium, 1992). He graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 1991. He started his academic career at the UC3M in 1997, where he obtained a tenured position as Associate Professor in 2003. In 2006 he obtained a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and in 2013 he was granted a Jean Monnet Chair "ad personam" in European Economic Governance Law. He has published on administrative law, constitutional law, European law, on theory of law and on the legal aspects of European economic governance. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Berkeley (1999), Princeton University (2012) and the University of Oxford (European and Comparative Law Institute) (2014-2015). He is the author of "The EU Principle of Subsidiarity and its Critique" (Oxford University Press, 2002), "El dilema de Luxemburgo: el Tribunal de Justicia de las Comunidades Europeas ante el Principio de Subsidiariedad" "(Ceura, 2000)," El control de la administración comunitaria a través de la motivación" (Aranzadi, 2005), "España y Europa: hacia una nueva relación” (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2014). He has recently published "The Legal Foundations of EU Economic Governance", (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He has been a member of/ is a member of evaluation panels of the Jean Monnet Program, the Altiero Spinelli Program, and the ERC program, in addition to other programs of a national (spanish) scope. He is a member of the editorial board of several Spanish and international journals, a member of the Executive Board of the Council for European Studies (Columbia University). He chairs the CES Law Research Network, an interdisciplinary and multinational network aimed at reinvigorating research in EU law. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio source. | 11 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress': The 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 6 May 2022, Professor David Feldman delivered the 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Regulating for Digital Policy in the EU: A Toolkit Approach': CELS Webinar (audio) | Speaker: Professor Colin Scott, University College, Dublin Biography: Colin Scott is Professor of EU Regulation & Governance at University College Dublin, where he currently serves as Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Principal of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law and Dean of Social Sciences. He was previously Dean of Law in UCD and has held academic posts at the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics, the Australian National University and the College of Europe Bruges. His main research interests lie in the field of regulatory governance and he served as Convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance from 2016 to 2021. He has held editorial positions at the Modern Law Review, Law & Policy, and Legal Studies and currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Conversation UK. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 4 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'ISDS and Intellectual Property in 2020 - Protecting Public Health in the Age of Pandemics': CIPIL Evening Webinar | Speaker: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, NYW Law School Biography: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU Law School and a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. She is a leading scholar of intellectual property law as well as other science and technology topics. She was a research chemist prior to law school, and later clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the US Supreme Court. Among her works on international intellectual property issues are A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System(2012, with Graeme Dinwoodie), and several co-edited books, including Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st century: Integrating Incentives, Trade, Development, Culture, and Human Rights (2018, with Elizabeth Siew Kuan Ng); and the IILJ Project volume Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle Over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (2014, with César Rodríguez-Garavito). She was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University for 2019–20. Abstract: Many countries have responded (or have considered responding) to the COVID pandemic by modifying their intellectual property laws to ensure the availability of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and related information. Some have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a waiver to excuse any steps they might take that are inconsistent with obligations under the TRIPS Agreement. Although a waiver would protect WTO members from challenges in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, a state that is a party to an international investment agreement (IIA) that includes investor-state dispute resolution has something else to worry about. Investors could claim that its actions amount to an indirect expropriation or a denial fair and equitable treatment in violation of the obligations in the IIA. In this piece, I conduct a thought experiment on how such suits might unfold. The first part describes how states sought or may seek to exercise control over the knowledge and products needed to protect public health during the global pandemic. The second part considers the challenges that investors might lodge and how they might be resolved. I identify the places where safeguards in IIAs that are intended to protect sovereign authority over healthcare may fall short. For more information see: https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-seminars This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 4 5 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2022: Panel 3 - Construction arbitration | - Karen Gough (39 Essex Chambers) - 'Have Dispute Adjudication Boards rendered Engineers obsolete?' (13:53) - Rupert Reece (Gide Loyrette Nouel) - 'Are muti-tier dispute resolution clauses more trouble than they are worth?' (45:18) - Ian Gaunt (London Maritime Arbitrators Association) - 'Different strokes: How is shipbuilding arbitration unlike (and sometimes like) other construction arbitration?' (01:04:07) The Cambridge University Arbitration Society (CUArb) hosted the seventh annual Cambridge Arbitration Days on 1-2 April 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (the ‘Cambridge Arbitration Days’ or ‘CAD’). The Cambridge Arbitration Days bring together scholars, practitioners, and students for discussions on intriguing and topical issues in the field of international arbitration. For more information on the Cambridge Arbitration Days see: https://www.cuarb.uk/cambridge-arbitration-day/ | 20 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2022: Panel 1 - Sports Arbitration | - John Mehrzad QC (Barrister, Littleton Chambers) - 'Arbitrator impartiality and lists in sports arbitration' (7:14) - Dr Leanne O'Leary (Senior Lecturer in Law, Edge Hill University) - 'Switching teams mid-match: Should sports arbitration parties be allowed to change their factual position on appeal?' (27:18) - Paul Gilroy QC (Barrister, Littleton Chambers) - 'The Russian anti-doping scandal and the recent CAS decision to reduce WADA’s sanctions: Was the CAS panel too lenient?' (43:20) - Udo Onwere (Partner, Bray & Krais) - 'An insight into the Football Association panels' (1:05:34) - Jeffrey Benz (Door tenant, 4 New Square) - 'Reflections of a CAS arbitrator' (1:28:19) The Cambridge University Arbitration Society (CUArb) hosted the seventh annual Cambridge Arbitration Days on 1-2 April 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (the ‘Cambridge Arbitration Days’ or ‘CAD’). The Cambridge Arbitration Days bring together scholars, practitioners, and students for discussions on intriguing and topical issues in the field of international arbitration. For more information on the Cambridge Arbitration Days see: https://www.cuarb.uk/cambridge-arbitration-day/ | 20 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2022: Panel 2 - Investor State Arbitration | - Kate Cervantes-Knox (DLA Piper) - 'From Achema to Komstroy to PL Holdings: What does the future hold for intra-EU investments?' (10:21) - Belinda McRae (Twenty Essex Chambers) - 'Challenges to investment treaty awards in the English courts' (32:29) - Alvaro Nistal (Arnold & Porter) - 'Protection of foreign investments during armed conflict' (55:52) - Dr Lionel Nichols (CANDEY) - 'Access to justice in investor-state arbitration: Risk and reward in funding and enforcement' (1:17:26) The Cambridge University Arbitration Society (CUArb) hosted the seventh annual Cambridge Arbitration Days on 1-2 April 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (the ‘Cambridge Arbitration Days’ or ‘CAD’). The Cambridge Arbitration Days bring together scholars, practitioners, and students for discussions on intriguing and topical issues in the field of international arbitration. For more information on the Cambridge Arbitration Days see: https://www.cuarb.uk/cambridge-arbitration-day/ | 20 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2022: Commercial arbitration panel | - Mo Haque QC (CANDEY) - 'Having your kabab and eating it - Supreme Court decisions of Enka v Chubb and Kabab-Ji - Implied choice of law in international arbitration' (3:15) - Renato Stephan Grion (Pinheiro Neto Advogados) - 'Halliburton v Chubb: Conflicts in arbitral appointments - Recent trends in international commercial arbitration' (24:35) - Hamid Abdulkareem (Three Crowns) - 'Enforcement of ethical standards - Gaps in the edifice' (50:17) The Cambridge University Arbitration Society (CUArb) hosted the seventh annual Cambridge Arbitration Days on 1-2 April 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (the ‘Cambridge Arbitration Days’ or ‘CAD’). The Cambridge Arbitration Days bring together scholars, practitioners, and students for discussions on intriguing and topical issues in the field of international arbitration. For more information on the Cambridge Arbitration Days see: https://www.cuarb.uk/cambridge-arbitration-day/ | 20 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 7 - Strengthening the Role of Established and Emerging Actors | - Remarks from the Chair: Dr. Nafay Choudhury, Junior Research Fellow, St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge - Rebecca Barber, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Queensland - 'The Role of the UN General Assembly in Determining the Legitimacy of Governments' (5:46) - Dr. Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, King’s College London - 'Citizens at the Global Governance Table: The Global Citizens’ Assembly on the Climate Emergency and The Making of International Climate Law' (23:23) - Dr. Abhishek Trivedi, Assistant Professor of Law, Institute of Legal Studies and Research, GLA University, Mathura, India - 'Global Governance of REDD+ and the Challenges of Applying the International Law of Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Moving Towards an Integrated Human Rights-based Approach' (40:37) - Dr. David Hughes, Assistant Professor, Canadian Forces College / Dr. Yahli Shereshevsky, Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa School of Law - 'State-Academic Lawmaking as Global Governance' (1:01:31) - Dr. Agnieszka Szpak, Associate Professor, Nicolaus Copernicus University - 'Global Governance, International Law, and Cities' (1:19:03) - Discussion and Q&A (1:33:50) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 14 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 3 - Protecting Human Rights | - Remarks from the Chair: Ms. Raghavi Viswanath, Ph.D. Candidate, European University Institute - Dr. Sophie Duroy, Fellow, KFG Berlin-Potsdam Research Group The International Rule of Law: Rise or Decline?' - 'The Case for a Human Rights Approach to Global Security' (7:45) - Dr. Maxwell Young Joo, Associate Professor, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University - 'The Passion of Global Governance as a Threat to International Law: The Irreversible Precedent of Libya and UNSC Resolution 1973 Legitimizing Illegality under Humanitarianism and Democratic Intervention' (22:50) - Dr. Isabel Lischewski, Scientific Associate, Faculty of Law, WWU Münster 'Designing Oversight, Overlooking Human Rights? How State Interest Shapes Procedure in Platform Governance' (39:11) - Md Khalid Rahman, Assistant Professor of Law, American International University-Bangladesh - 'A Study on the Persecution of Rohingya Considering Incitement to Genocide on Global Standards: An Empirical Approach' (57:00) - Discussion and Q&A (1:13:32) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 14 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Day 2 Keynote address | Keynote Address: Ms. Maja Groff (4:35) Chair Remarks: Dr. Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge (0:59) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 1 - Strengthening the Role of International Courts and Tribunals | - Remarks from the Chair: Ms. Melina Antoniadis, Public International Lawyer - Nina Herzog, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Leeds - '‘Positive complementarity’ – a threat to ne bis in idem in International Criminal Law?' (2:37) - Pushkar Keshavmurthy, Case Manager, Mumbai Center for International Arbitration / Daniela-Olivia Ghicajanu, LL.M. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center - 'Security for Costs in ISDS: Is the UNCITRAL Working Group III Leading to the Predictable Global Governance of International Adjudication?' (17:15) - Dr. Agata Kleczkowska, Assistant Professor, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences - 'Enforcing International Law Through Sanctions: From Comprehensive to Horizontal Sanctions. Is International Law Heading in the Right Direction?' (31:54) - Xiao Mao, D.Phil Candidate, University of Oxford; Judicial Fellow, International Court of Justice - 'Promoting Global Governance through Granting Effective Remedies: Comparison of Recent Remedy Cases in the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court' (51:26) - Sarthak Roy, Human Rights Specialist, Richemont International SA - 'Commissions of Inquiry as Bulwarks Against Impunity' (1:07:06) - Discussion and Q&A (1:20:34) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 2 - Governing the Climate and Environment | - Remarks from the Chair: Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Santosh Anand, Assistant Professor of Law, Alliance University, Bangalore, India - 'Modified Continuity: International Criminal Law and the Vision of ‘Ecocide’' (7:44) - Dr. Carlos Soria–Rodriguez, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Jaén - 'Marine Renewable Energy Technologies in the High Seas: Challenges and Opportunities to Strengthen International Environmental and Renewable Energy Governance' (22:12) - Thiago Pires Oliveira, Ph.D. Candidate, University of São Paulo / Dr. Tagore Trajano de Almeida Silva, Professor, Catholic University of Salvador - 'The Proposals for Regulation of Methane Emissions as Turning Point of Global Climate Governance: A Socio-legal Approach' (38:46) - Danilo B. Garrido Alves, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oxford - 'The Analogy between Corporations and International Organizations: towards a new, UNGP-based approach to studying global governance' (54:02) - Ju-Ching Huang, S.J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center - 'Framing the Future Global Adaptation Law Regime: Principles for the Emerging Dynamics of Climate Change Governance' (1:09:00) - Discussion and Q&A (1:27:30) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 4 - Charting New Frontiers in Cyberspace | - Remarks from the Chair: Ms. Ashrutha Rai, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge - Dr. Thanapat Chatinakrob, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Thailand - 'Rethinking the Scope of International Law Regulating Information Operations: Lesson Learned From a Crime of Online Genocide in Myanmar' (7:00) - Yuan Fang: J.S.D Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law - 'The Global Governance of Cyberspace Within the UN Charter Context: Main Issues, Methodology, and the Pathway Forward' (23:45) - Dr. Asaf Lubin, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law - 'The Law and Politics of Ransomware' (38:15) - Dr. María Vásquez Callo-Müller, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Lucerne / Dr. Iryna Bogdanova, Research Fellow, World Trade Institute - 'Unilateral Cyber Sanctions and Global Cybersecurity Governance' (56:45) - Dr. Giovanni De Gregorio, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford / Dr. Roxana Radu, Lecturer, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford - 'Back and Forth in Global Internet Governance: Public and Private Authority Examined' (1:12:50) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 5 - Challenges for Global Governance | - Chair Remarks: Dr. John Barker, Law Fellow, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge - Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, Founder and Executive Director, Society for Democratic Initiatives - 'The Emerging Trend in International Law and Global Governance: the African Experience' (5:00) - Medy Dervovic, Research Assistant, Stefansson Arctic Institute / Katharina Heinrich, Junior Researcher, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland - 'Law-Science Nexus in International Law-Making: Perspectives from Arctic Fisheries Governance' (34:08) - Tsubasa Shinohara, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Lausanne - 'Global Governance in International Esports Society?' (50:51) - Marissa Sterling, J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center - 'Course-Correcting for Unexpected Flow: A Discussion of Trade in Virtual Water and the Global Water Governance Regime' (1:09:00) - Discussion and Q&A (1:18:40) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 6 - Opportunities for Global Governance | - Remarks from the Chair: Dr. Jamie Trinidad, Director of Studies in Law, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge - Dr. Alexandra Harrington, Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University Law School - 'Global Governance and International Law Synergies in the Face of Emergency' (2:53) - Ilias Ioannou, Ph.D. Candidate, Queen Mary University of London - 'Relational Networks in International Trade Platforms’ (24:00) - Hedvig Lärka, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Gothenburg - 'Capital Flight as Creature of Sovereignty: A Posthumanist Approach to Corporate Income Taxation and the ‘Global Tax Base’ of Pillar II?' (41:12) - Discussion and Q&A (59:58) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Panel 8 - Regulating the Global Economy & Closing Keynote | - Remarks from the Chair: Professor Lorand Bartels, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Joel Slawotsky, Faculty, Reichman University - 'Corporate Monitoring of the State to Ensure Compliance with International Law' (8:06) - Keer Huang, Ph.D. Candidate, Wuhan University Institute of Law - 'Development and Challenges of Global Subsidy Governance: An International Investment Law Perspective' (30:12) - Discussion and Q&A (44:40) - Further remarks from the Chair: Professor Lorand Bartels, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge (1:09:41) - Keynote Address: Professor Ernst Ulrich Petersmann, chaired by Professor Lorand Bartels (1:17:10) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CILJ 2022: Opening and keynote address | - Keynote Address: Dr. P.S. Rao Chaired by Professor Catherine Barnard. 0:38 - Mr Darren Peterson and Mr Oliver Hailes 6:54 - Professor Catherine Barnard 9:03 - Dr P S Rao 22:22 - Q&A This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ | 13 4 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Greenwood #3: Scholarly Works | Between November 2021 and February 2022 Sir Greenwood was interviewed three times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (16 November 2021): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (23 November 2021): LSE, ICJ and Master of Magdalene - Third Interview (1 February 2022): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 29 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Greenwood #2: LSE, ICJ and Master of Magdalene | Between November 2021 and February 2022 Sir Greenwood was interviewed three times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (16 November 2021): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (23 November 2021): LSE, ICJ and Master of Magdalene - Third Interview (1 February 2022): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 28 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Christopher Greenwood #1: Early Life and Career | Between November 2021 and February 2022 Sir Greenwood was interviewed three times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (16 November 2021): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (23 November 2021): LSE, ICJ and Master of Magdalene - Third Interview (1 February 2022): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive | 28 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Did Brexit cause P&O job losses?': Catherine Barnard (audio) | On Thurday 17th March leading UK ferry operator P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet and stopped all sailings. The move sparked fury amongst employees and unions, and consternation in parliament. Many asked was the move - and the proposal to use cheap agency staff instead - legal, and also was it a result of Brexit? In this recording, Professor Catherine Barnard considers the legal implications, and the Brexit question. Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director at UK in a Changing Europe. This item was originally published as a blog via UK in a Changing Europe at: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/po-ferries-and-employment-law/ For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 25 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi: Simanti Dasgupta | Simanti Dasgupta is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her overarching interest in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states link her works. She is currently preparing a book manuscript tentatively titled, Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi, India, based on her ethnographic research with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a sex workers’ collective, since 2011. She published this work in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Anti-Trafficking Review, Opendemocracy:Beyond trafficking and slavery and The Conversation. She previously authored BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water and Neoliberal Governance in India (Temple University Press, 2015), which examined the emerging neoliberal politics in urban India at the intersection of Information Technology and water privatization. She can be reached at sdasgupta1@udayton.edu. Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of the sex work labour subjectivity at the intersection of two state surveillance regimes: HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. It draws on ethnographic work since 2011 with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Durbar), a grassroots female sex workers' collective in Sonagachi. In 1992 the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health identified sex workers as a High-Risk Group and launched the Sexually Transmitted Diseases/HIV Intervention Project (SHIP) in Sonagachi. SHIP recruited sex workers as peer-educators to introduce others to the etiology of HIV/AIDS and promote the condom as the prophylactic device. In addressing structural barriers –poverty and stigma –SHIP achieved remarkable success in reducing new HIV infections through the sustained use of condoms. More importantly, SHIP extended the prophylactic narrative beyond public health to emphasize the threat the virus posed to the labour and livelihood of the women. The rearticulation of HIV/AIDS as a question of the labouring body that is worthy of rights, was unprecedented in Sonagachi. It motivated the peer educators to establish Durbar in 1995 as a collective to demand sex work rights and juridically delink it from trafficking. The existing literature posits both sex work and sex workers as a priori categories, when the categories themselves are relatively new in Sonagachi. This project examines how the labor narrative emerges in dissociation from ‘prostitution’ and how ‘prostitutes’ come to inhabit the worker position. I argue that for labor to emerge as a political category, the women submitted to HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking surveillances, while also subverting them with resistive connotations. In formulating what I term, the ‘medicolegal unstable’, I further show that the struggle for labor rights in such instances of historical marginalization, is characteristically uneven, that is, advances in HIV/AIDS prevention and related health rights of sex workers are often undermined by regressive anti-trafficking laws. | 18 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Law, Policy, Expertise: Judicial Review in EU Competition Law': CELS Seminar (audio) | Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (LSE) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Law, Policy, Expertise: Judicial Review in EU Competition Law" on 16 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Biography: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair in Competition and Regulation at London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), Joint General Editor of the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice and co-editor of the Chillin’ Competition Blog. He received a PhD from the European University Institute in June 2010 (Jacques Lassier Prize). Before joining the EUI as a Researcher in 2007, he taught for three years at the Law Department of the College of Europe (Bruges), where he also completed an LLM in 2004. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 16 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Re-engineering the Regulation of Regenerative Medicine?': The 2022 Baron de Lancey Lecture | Regenerative medicine seeks to regrow, repair, or replace damaged tissues. Current regenerative technologies include the bio-engineering of organs and tissues, cell reprogramming, and gene editing. Such interventions are significant not only for present-day patients, but also for future generations. They challenge the concept of the self as ‘biologically finite’ or ‘genetically determined’ and blur traditional distinctions between therapy and enhancement and between humans, animals, and things. Given the ways in which regenerative medicine blurs socially-significant boundaries, the ethical and legal obligations of clinicians, researchers, funders, and governments are fluid and uncertain. For example, it is unclear whether present policies governing the use of regenerative technologies offer sufficient safeguards, even if access is limited to patients with conditions deemed sufficiently serious to justify the risks. This talk explores whether international human rights law might require governments to identify, monitor, and support translational pathways that would provide broad, equitable access to the benefits of regenerative medicine, or whether international human rights law requires a more controlled approach because of the potential social implications. With regenerative medicine's great potential, the welfare of current and future generations is at stake. We must collectively ask ourselves how best to secure a desirable clinical future for present day and future generations. About the Speaker: Bartha Maria Knoppers is Full Professor, Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine, and Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University. Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 15 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU': CELS Seminar (audio) | Dr Or Brook (Leeds University) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Non-Competition Interests in EU Antitrust Law: An Empirical Study of Article 101 TFEU" on 11 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Biography: Dr Or Brook is a Lecturer in Competition Law and the deputy-director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice, School of Law at the University of Leeds, where she teaches EU and international competition law, business regulation, and quantitative research methods. Holding an academic background in law and economics, she employs empirical approaches to study questions related to the goals of competition law, the role of public policy consideration, decentralised enforcement, and the exercise of enforcement discretion. Dr Brook is the director of the UK branch of the International Academic Society for competition law (ASCOLA UK) and a Non-Resident Institute Research Fellow at the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 11 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The antitrust market does not exist... so why should we define one? Market definition's sense and nonsense in digital markets': CELS Seminar (audio) | Dr Magali Eben (Glasgow University) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The antitrust market does not exist... so why should we define one? Market definition's sense and nonsense in digital markets" on 9 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Biography: Dr Magali Eben is Lecturer in Competition Law at the University of Glasgow, where she teaches UK and EU competition law and US antitrust law. Her current research focuses on antitrust in digital markets, market definition, national and international divergences in competition law, the challenges for competition law created by innovation and technology and legal certainty and coherence in competition law. She is currently writing a book on market definition in digital markets, based on her PhD completed at the University of Leeds. Magali is co-director of the UK Chapter of ASCOLA (the Academic Society for Competition Law). ASCOLA is a global organisation with several regional chapters. ASCOLA's website is https://ascola.org/. ASCOLA UK can be found on Twitter or on LinkedIn. In addition to her academic work, Magali consults for UK and Belgian law firms, both in the area of competition law and EU law more broadly. This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 10 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law': The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Professor Stephen Weatherill (Emeritus Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, Oxford University) under the title 'Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law' on 3 March 2022. Abstract: EU law's application to sport is ad hoc, ex post facto and driven by competition law (and occasionally free movement law). Something more systematic would be helpful - not least because governance in sport needs reform to prevent corruption, intransparency, unaccountable power etc. The latest example/flashpoint being the European SuperLeague. This talk aims to explore these issues further. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Artificial Intelligence and dispute resolution: challenges and limitations': 3CL Seminar | Speaker: Professor Alberto Saiz Garitaonandia (University of the Basque Country) Among some other problems, due to court congestion and case backlog, many judicial systems are seen as slow and unable to offer a response to the citizen´s demands in a reasonable time. The limitations and restrictions implemented by the different governments during the Covid 19 pandemic crisis have exacerbated the previous concern, but at the same time has shown how new technologies, such as videoconferencing, can be introduced and play an important role in the traditionally conservative area of Justice. In this context, the rapid improvement of the artificial intelligence (AI) in the last few years and its extensive use in some transcendent spheres of our lives makes us wonder how we could integrate such a technology in the area of justice, supporting or, even more, substituting a judge. In fact, a certain amount of studies using machine learning has achieved a significant level of accuracy predicting judicial outcomes. However, problems such as bias and lack of transparency may limit the deployment of AI in the judiciary. In any case, if it wants to preserve its legitimacy the judiciary must adapt itself to the new times and technologies used by the society it is serving. As some commentators have stated, we should not see the court as a place, but as a service that may be provided in different ways. About the speaker: Alberto Saiz Garitaonandia is currently a Professor of Procedural Law at the University of the Basque Country. Prof. Saiz Garitaonandia served as Director of the Basque Government Legal Department - Solicitor General (2013-2020). He was awarded a Visiting Fellowship in Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge for the academic year 2021-2022 where, invited by the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL), he is researching in the area of artificial intelligence applied to dispute resolution. He has been Visiting Professor and Researcher at Stanford University, Georgetown University, American University, Florida International University and University of Nevada (USA). He is the author of several books and articles and has served as a member of the Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology (2011-2013), directing its Annual Conference in 2012. His areas of research include the Organization of Justice, Law and New Technologies and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Prof. Saiz Garitaonandia holds a Law Degree, a Degree in Political Sciences and an Executive MBA from Deusto Business School (2017-2018), which included the Value Innovation Programme at INSEAD (France) and the Global Gateway Program at Fordham University (USA). His PhD received the Extraordinary Doctor´s Degree Award, a special mention for the quality of his thesis. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, which are are kindly supported by Travers Smith featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 8 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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LCIL/CELS Webinar: Rapid Response Webinar on the War in Ukraine | The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) and the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) held an online Rapid Response Seminar on the War in Ukraine on 7 March 2022. On the 24 February 2022 Russian troops launched a fully-fledged invasion of Ukraine after force had been used between the two countries in February 2014 with the annexing of Crimea by Russia. The UN General Assembly in its emergency session decided on 2 March 2022 that it: ‘[d]eplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine in violation of Article 2 (4) of the Charter; demands that the Russian Federation immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine and to refrain from any further unlawful threat or use of force against any Member State; also demands that the Russian Federation immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders and [d]eplores the 21 February 2022 decision by the Russian Federation related to the status of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and inconsistent with the principles of the Charter.’ In this Webinar we aimed to analyse the international and EU law aspects of the war in Ukraine. Experts on international and EU law, discussed different aspects of the use of force by Russia, and the European Union’s reaction. It will brought different legal perspectives together and provided expert opinions on this new and troubling development in international law in Europe. Speakers: - Professor Marc Weller: Use of Force – UN Charter – Security Council, also Peace Treaty and International Humanitarian Law - Dr Dan Saxon: International Criminal Law – Crime of Aggression – International Criminal Court jurisdiction - Francisco-José Quintana: Human Rights in War - Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger: Protection of Livelihoods and the Environment during War in Ukraine - Dr Emilija Leinarte: European Union Relations with Ukraine – EU-Ukraine Association Agreement - Dr Markus Gehring: EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, external dimension of migration and prospect for Ukraine’s EU membership For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/ | 8 3 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Enforcing Passport Apartheid through EU Law: From Internal Market to the Polish Border': CELS Seminar | Professor Dimitry Kochenov (Central European University) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Enforcing Passport Apartheid through EU Law: From Internal Market to the Polish Border" on 23 February 2022 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Biography: Dimitry Kochenov leads the Rule of Law Research Group at the Central European University Democracy Institute in Budapest and is Professor of Global Citizenship and Values at the CEU Department of Legal Studies in Vienna. He is also visiting professor of citizenship and the rule of law at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Prof. Kochenov taught different aspects of citizenship, constitutional and EU law worldwide, including at Princeton, Oxford, Groningen, Turin and Osaka and published widely on these issues. His most recent book (Citizenship, MIT Press 2019) has been translated into several languages and reviewed in The New York Review of Books. Dimitry consults governments and international organizations on the matters of his academic interest and served as the founding chairman of the Investment Migration Council (Geneva). Abstract: The European Union is a clear-cut example of the passport apartheid in action, where blood-based statuses of attachment to public authority distributed at birth (citizenships), which predetermine the course of life of all of us to a great degree are taken particularly seriously. The contribution will elaborate on this starting point using two examples showcasing the EU law-based aspects of this global system of injustice: the near complete exclusion of non-EU citizens from the fundamental freedoms in the EU and the pro-active stance of the Union and the Member States in ensuring that the right to seek asylum in the EU is turned into an unworkable proclamation. The two examples will allow enriching a general sketch of what passport apartheid is and which role is played by it in the contemporary world elaborated by Prof. Kochenov in the I-CON with a focus at the global level: https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/18/4/1525/6169921. The analysis of the two examples suggests that the EU is a deeply atypical constitutional system in that it assumes that the core of its law should not apply to those who 'do not belong' by default, including, largely, the idea of the Union's very existence as a territory of directly enforceable supranational rights. This starting position fetishising the personal status of legal attachment to the Union makes the European integration project the best case study for passport apartheid in the world, since all the other legal systems are never as explicit in excluding the foreigners from the most essential rights by default. The atypical nature of the Union on this count is significantly undertheorized and this paper aims to start bridging the gap between the reality of EU law and the numerous proclamations about the Union's equitable value-laden nature. For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series | 24 2 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Cleaning of Corporate Governance': 3CL Lecture | Professor Jens Frankenreiter (Washington University in St Louis) gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Cleaning of Corporate Governance" on 22 February 2022 as a guest of 3CL (The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law). Abstract: Although empirical scholarship dominates the field of law and finance, much of it shares a common vulnerability: an abiding faith in the accuracy and integrity of a small, specialized collection of corporate governance data. In this paper, we unveil a novel collection of three decades’ worth of corporate charters for thousands of public companies, which shows that this faith is misplaced. We make three principal contributions to the literature. First, we label our corpus for a variety of firm- and state-level governance features. Doing so reveals significant infirmities within the most well-known corporate governance datasets, including an error rate exceeding eighty percent in the G-Index, the most widely used proxy for “good governance” in law and finance. Correcting these errors substantially weakens one of the most well-known results in law and finance, which associates good governance with higher investment returns. Second, we make our corpus freely available to others, in hope of providing a long-overdue resource for traditional scholars as well as those exploring new frontiers in corporate governance, ranging from machine learning to stakeholder governance to the effects of common ownership. Third, and more broadly, our analysis exposes twin cautionary tales about the critical role of lawyers in empirical research, and the dubious practice of throttling public access to public records. Bio: Jens Frankenreiter is a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of business law, contract law, and comparative law. His work draws on methods from economics, statistics, and data science to improve our understanding of contracting, private and public lawmaking, and legal institutions. A particular focus of his work is on the use of large amounts of texts and other forms of big data. His writing has appeared in leading academic journals, among them the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Jens holds a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Before coming to Washington University, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Bonn, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a Post-Doc at the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership. 3CL Seminars are kindly supported by Travers Smith. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 23 2 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Deconstructing Insolvency Law: Towards a Bespoke Treatment of Business Financial Distress': 3CL Lecture | Professor Ignacio Tirado of UNIDROIT and Universidad Autónoma Madrid, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Deconstructing Insolvency Law: Towards a Bespoke Treatment of Business Financial Distress" on 8 February 2022 as a guest of 3CL (The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law). 3CL Seminars are kindly supported by Travers Smith. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 22 2 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Unbundling the Contract of Sale – Commercial Law and 3D-printing': 3CL/CPLC Webinar | This was a joint 3CL/Cambridge Private Law Centre event. Additive layer manufacturing, better known as 3D-printing, is a manufacturing technology which has been evolving steadily over the last few decades, and has now advanced to the point where it can make the leap from niche technology to mainstream application. Its potential is such that it could change where and the manner in which many types of goods are produced. An interesting aspect of 3D-printing is that it allows for the unbundling of the production process. In this paper, I intend to explore what this could mean for the laws on the humble contract for the sale of goods, and whether the potential of 3D-printing requires developments in the law. Christian Twigg-Flesner LL.B. PCHE Ph.D. (Sheffield) is Professor of International Commercial Law at the University of Warwick (since September 2017). Previously, he was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Hull, having joined there as Lecturer in 2004, and he previously taught at the University of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent University. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of Commercial, Consumer and Contract Law, with a particular focus on the implications of digitalisation. His research covers English, European and International dimensions. He is a Fellow of the European Law Institute, an Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and one of the Law editors for the Journal of Consumer Policy. He has been a Senior International Fellow at the University of Bayreuth (2016-18), and visiting professor at the universities of Münster, Bielefeld, Osnabrück, and City University Hong Kong. He has spoken at conferences throughout Europe, as well as in Hong Kong and Japan. He has published extensively, particularly on EU Consumer and Contract Law. His books include Foundations of International Commercial Law (Routledge, 2021), Rethinking EU Consumer Law, with Geraint Howells and Thomas Wilhelmsson (Routledge, 2017), The Europeanisation of Contract Law (2nd ed, Routledge, 2013) and A Cross-Border-Only Regulation for Consumer Transactions in the EU – A New Approach to EU Consumer Law (Springer, 2012). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to European Union Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and the Elgar Research Handbook on EU Consumer and Contract Law (Edward Elgar, 2016). He is also an editor of the 13th and 14th editions of Atiyah and Adams’ Sale of Goods (Pearson, 2016; 2020; with Rick Canavan). 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/centre-activities | 22 2 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Deconstructing Insolvency Law: Towards a Bespoke Treatment of Business Financial Distress': 3CL Lecture | Speaker: Professor Ignacio Tirado (UNIDROIT, Universidad Autónoma Madrid) 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see: https://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/centre-activities | 16 2 2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane?': John Spencer (audio) | There have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal justice matters and has been involved in a number of law reform projects. For more information about Professor Spencer, please refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/jr-spencer/79 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 17 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Modern Judging: The 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 16 November 2021 Lady Dame Sarah Falk delivered the 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Modern Judging". The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned from the pandemic for the conduct of proceedings. Dame Sarah Falk studied law at the University of Cambridge before starting her professional career at Freshfields. She was a partner at Freshfields between 1994 and 2013 and subsequently worked as a consultant. While at Freshfields she was involved in graduate recruitment as well as holding managerial roles. She became a High Court judge in October 2018, sitting in the Chancery Division, and was appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission as the High Court representative in October 2019. The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 17 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The UK’s Responsibility to Record and Report Civilian Casualties: CPP Launch Event | An online event held by Cambridge Pro Bono Project and Action on Armed Violence. Over the course of its military involvement in the Syrian conflict, the UK Government has claimed that since 2014, some 1,700 British air strikes have only caused 1 known civilian death. Just last week, it was revealed that British forces are linked to the deaths of 86 children and more than 200 adult civilians during the Afghanistan conflict. The use of airborne explosive weapons by the United Kingdom in recent armed conflicts has created a risk that civilians might be the victims or unintended targets of the UK’s air strikes. By virtue of their operational characteristics and largely indiscriminate area-effects once detonated, airborne explosive weapons have been documented to have a greater potential to cause civilian death and injury than other conventional weapons. In a report written by Cambridge Pro Bono Project researchers for the London-based NGO Action on Armed Violence, the UK’s obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law as well as domestic public law to investigate, record and report civilian casualties have been examined. For its first CPP Speaker Series event of this academic year, the CPP in cooperation with Iain Overton, Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence, will discuss the findings of this report together with experts Georgia Edwards, UK Advocacy Officer and Conflict Researcher at Airwars, and Gavin Crowden, Executive Director at Every Casualty Counts. For more information see: https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 8 10 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Law, Hormones, and Sport: a level playing field?': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2021 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2021 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Dr Silvia Camporesi of King's College London on 20 March 2021, and was entitled "Law, Hormones, and Sport: a level playing field?". For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 13 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The UK and EU Criminal Law: "... an Island, entire of itself"?' - Professor John Spencer: CELS Seminar | Professor John Spencer of the University of Cambridge gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The UK and EU Criminal Law: "... an Island, entire of itself"?" on Wednesday 26th October 2011 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/. | 20 4 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Emeritus Professor John Rason Spencer Part 3: Scholarly works | This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (20 November 2020): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (15 January 2021): University Career and Retirement - Third Interview (26 February 2021): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 13 4 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Emeritus Professor John Rason Spencer Part 2: University Career and Retirement | This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (20 November 2020): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (15 January 2021): University Career and Retirement - Third Interview (26 February 2021): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 13 4 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Emeritus Professor John Rason Spencer Part 1: Early Life and Career | This is an interview with the thirty-third entrant in the Eminent Scholars Archive. John Spencer was Lecturer and Professor in Law at Selwyn College from 1973 to 2013. He is Hon QC, CBE, and was Faculty Chairman 1995-97. The interview was recorded online from Professor Spencer’s home in Norfolk. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (20 November 2020): Early Life and Career - Second Interview (15 January 2021): University Career and Retirement - Third Interview (26 February 2021): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 13 4 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Pro Bono Work at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights': CPP Lecture | The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) was delighted to welcome Pablo Gonzalez, Lawyer at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to speak on the topic 'Pro Bono Work at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' on 9 March 2021. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 20 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's the Law: Civil Law | A BBC World Service programme broadcast on 29 August 1991. What is Civil Law, and why does the legal system of ancient Rome still matter? This second of five programmes looks at how many countries' legal systems can trace part of their legal history back to Rome. Programme information is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03m0hxr Provided courtesy of the BBC. | 4 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's the Law: Common Law | A BBC World Service programme broadcast on 19 August 1991. The history of common law in England and how it spread across the English-speaking world, adapting to local cultures. Plus, the development of the legal system, and questions arising from recent miscarriages of justice. In this first of five parts, speakers include Lord Denning, legal historian Professor John Baker and Sir Frederick Lawton. Programme information is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03m0hx6 Provided courtesy of the BBC. | 4 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Cambridge Pro Bono Project and Beyond': CPP Lecture | The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) was delighted to welcome Jason Pobjoy, Barrister at Blackstone Chambers and Founder of Cambridge Pro Bono Project who spoke on the topic 'The Cambridge Pro Bono Project and Beyond'. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk | 26 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Value of Pro Bono Work': CPP Lecture | The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) is delighted to welcome Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers who spoke on the topic 'The Value of Pro Bono Work'. Caoilfhionn has acted in many of the leading human rights cases in the UK in recent years, including acting for bereaved families and survivors of the 7/7 London bombings and the Hillsborough disaster. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk | 22 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Is the UK Constitution Fit For Purpose?': CPP Lecture | The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) is delighted to welcome Sir Jeffrey Jowell KCMG QC, Barrister at Blackstone Chambers; Emeritus Professor at UCL who spoke on the topic 'Is the UK Constitution Fit For Purpose?'. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk | 22 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Future of ‘Parole’: Identifying ‘solutions’ | The Parole Board recently hit the headlines after the Government announced a Root-and-Branch Review of the parole system to explore a number of areas including potentially opening hearings up to the public. The review will build on recent reforms but will also look at more fundamental changes. So, what does the future hold for the parole system? What are the problems faced by the current system and what are the solutions? The Parole Board, together with the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice and the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge, invite you to join them for two webinars on the topic. There were two webinars: 2 hours each, 8-9 December 2020, 5–7pm. The second seminar, on Wed 9th December, focused more on appropriate reforms. Chair: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Director of the Institute of Criminology A Parole Board for tomorrow: how further reform could improve the parole system: Faith Geary, Chief Operating Officer, Parole Board. Respondent: Simon Creighton, Bhatt Murphy, solicitorsThe relative importance of ‘transparency’, ‘independence’, ‘accountability’ and ‘public confidence’ Professor David Feldman. Respondent: Martin Jones, CEO, Parole BoardUnderstanding the place of parole within and without a root and branch review of sentencing and of the penal system: Professor Rob Canton. Respondent: Professor Nick Hardwick Conclusions: Dr Harry Annison Further details: The Government has now published more details of its long-awaited “root and branch” review of the parole system. The Consultation “on making some parole hearings open to victims of crime and the wider public” acknowledged that “the question of whether to allow public hearings is only one aspect of the root and branch review which will look at four broad areas: i) an evaluation of the parole reforms to date, ii) the constitution and status of the Parole Board, iii) improving public understanding and confidence in the parole system, and iv) measures to improve openness and transparency” (para 12). For more details see the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice website: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 9 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Future of ‘Parole’: Identifying ‘problems’ | The Parole Board recently hit the headlines after the Government announced a Root-and-Branch Review of the parole system to explore a number of areas including potentially opening hearings up to the public. The review will build on recent reforms but will also look at more fundamental changes. So, what does the future hold for the parole system? What are the problems faced by the current system and what are the solutions? The Parole Board, together with the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice and the Institute of Criminology of the University of Cambridge, invite you to join them for two webinars on the topic. There were two webinars: 2 hours each, 8-9 December 2020, 5–7pm. The first webinar, on Tuesday 8th December, focused on critiques of the current system, identifying ‘problems’. Chair: The Chairman of the Parole Board The context of the Government’s root and branch review: Professor Nicky Padfield. Respondent: HH Peter Rook QC, Deputy Chair of Parole BoardWhat measures actually increase public safety? Measuring ‘effectiveness’: Dr Jo Bailey, HMPPS Head of Psychology. Respondent: Professor Fergus McNeillIncreasing public understanding of parole: Professor Julian Roberts. Respondent: Angela Cossins, Deputy Director, National Probation Service. Conclusions: Tom Hawker-Dawson Further details: The Government has now published more details of its long-awaited “root and branch” review of the parole system. The Consultation “on making some parole hearings open to victims of crime and the wider public” acknowledged that “the question of whether to allow public hearings is only one aspect of the root and branch review which will look at four broad areas: i) an evaluation of the parole reforms to date, ii) the constitution and status of the Parole Board, iii) improving public understanding and confidence in the parole system, and iv) measures to improve openness and transparency” (para 12). For more details see the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice website: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 8 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Death Penalty Project': Professor Saul Lehrfreund MBE | Speaker: Professor Saul Lehrfreund MBE, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project The Death Penalty Project is an international legal action charity based at Simons Muirhead & Burton LLP. It aims to use the law to protect prisoners facing execution and achieve fairer and more human justice systems around the world. Saul Lehrfreund MBE has dedicated his career to representing prisoners facing the death penalty in criminal and constitutional proceedings around the world and before human rights courts and other international bodies. He has also participated in expert delegations to Japan, China, Taiwan and India focusing on criminal justice reforms and the potential for restriction and abolition of the death penalty. Saul Lehrfreund MBE is a leading authority on capital punishment and international human rights law and has published and lectured extensively on these topics. The video featured in the presentation is available at https://deathpenaltyproject.org/knowledge/failed-justice-innocent-on-death-row/ For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Gone with the wind' - Organised crime and the geography of wind farms in Italy: Davide Luca | Speaker: Davide Luca, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University The adoption of low-carbon energy sources is considered as one of the key policies to tackle climate change and, to this aim, many European governments have been supporting the transition to renewable energy through subsidies. Growing anecdotal evidence suggests that the generosity of incentives has attracted the interests of corrupt politicians and criminal organisations, as the sector offer attractive opportunities for mafias to benefit from generous public grants and tax subsidies and to launder illegal money via legal business structures. Yet, no academic research has systematically explored the link between organised crime and the renewable energy sector at the local level. In ‘Gone with the wind’, Dr Davide Luca and Alessio Romarri aim to fill this gap. The analysis features innovative GIS data on the geo-location of wind farms across Italy and on the local presence of mafia groups. Preliminary findings confirm how, in mafia-ridden regions, local criminal presence is strongly associated with a higher likelihood of hosting at least a plant. The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology. It is affiliated with several departments across the University, including the Faculty of Law, the Institute of Criminology, the Centre for Family Research and Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN). The Group serves to bring together people from within Cambridge and farther afield from different disciplines, including Law, Criminology, POLIS, Sociology, Psychology, Psychiatry, PDN, Biology, Economics, History and Social Anthropology. For more information see: https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/researchfaculty-centres-networks-and-groups/cambridge-socio-legal-group | 26 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution: The 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 27 October 2020 Lord Sumption delivered the 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution". The disputes over Brexit last year saw an attempt to make the executive, not Parliament, the prime source of authority in the Constitution. The coronavirus crisis has provoked another attempt to marginalise Parliament, this time with the willing acquiescence of the House of Commons. Is this to be our future? Lord Sumption is an author, historian and lawyer of note. He was appointed directly from the practising Bar to the Supreme Court, and served as a Supreme Court Justice from 2012-18. In 2019, he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures, "Law and the Decline of Politics", and is now a regular commentator in the media. He continues to sit as a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. Alongside his career as a lawyer, he has also produced a substantial and highly-regarded narrative history of the Hundred Years' War between England and France (with volume V still to come). More information about this lecture, including a transcript, is available from the Private Law Centre website: https://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/CambridgeFreshfieldsLecture This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 28 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What is EU Relations Law? The Legal Ecosystem of Brexit': Monckton-CELS webinar (audio) | The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is of immense political and economic significance. But it also amounts to a legal transformation both internally within the UK and externally in the UK’s relationship with the EU and other countries. A complex legal ecosystem is emerging that draws upon EU law, international law, UK and devolved law in fashioning a set of rules and principles that manage the phenomenon of Brexit. The aim of this webinar is to introduce the salient and novel features of this body of law that we term “EU Relations Law”. Chair: Professor Kenneth Armstrong - University of Cambridge Speaker 1: Jack Williams – Monckton Chambers: 'What is EU Relations Law?' Speaker 2: George Peretz QC - Monckton Chambers: 'Key Aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland' Speaker 3: Professor Alison Young - University of Cambridge: 'Key Aspects of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020' Speaker 4: Professor Kenneth Armstrong – University of Cambridge: 'The Future Relationship – What Type of Agreement (if any?)' For more details and other events see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-seminar-series This entry provides an audio-only item for iTunes. | 7 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The Prisons' (audio) | In these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In this second webinar we look at the current conditions in English prisons and explore why more has not been done for those in custody throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of April, the government announced plans for the early release of up to 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales, to reduce prison overcrowding and to slow the rate of infection among prisoners and staff. The Prison Governors Association and Public Health England argued that releasing 10,000 - 15,000 prisoners was needed. By late April, though, a mere 33 prisoners had been released. What went wrong? What has happened throughout May? What have been the implications for the welfare/health/progression of both prisoners and staff? What are the lessons to be learnt now, and for the future - within the prison and probation systems? Discussing the issues: Chair: Nicky Padfield, Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice Nicky is joined by a panel of experts: - Andrea Albutt (President, Prison Governors Association); - Richard Garside (Director, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies); - Laura Janes (Legal Director, Howard League for Penal Reform); - (Retired) Judge John Samuels QC (ex-Parole Board and President, Prisoners' Education Trust); and - Jessie Smith (Cambridge PhD candidate in Law, solicitor, formerly specialising in national security). This entry provides an audio source. | 4 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversation with Professor Rochell C Dreyfuss | Professor Rochell C Dreyfuss was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic years 2019-20. She was interviewed by video from the Goodhart Lodge on 28th April 2020. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/ | 29 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The courts' (audio) | In these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In the first event, our focus is the courts and we explore the reality of daily life in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court, from bail applications to sentencing. What has happened to the right to trial by jury? What will be the impact of the pandemic on the rights of defendants and victims, both in the short and the long term? What are the lessons to be learnt from video-justice? Could HMCTS and the judiciary have been better prepared? Discussing the issues: Chair: Nicky Padfield, Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice Nicky is joined by a panel of experts: - Amanda Pinto Q.C. (Chair of The Bar Council); - Simon Davis (President of The Law Society); - Ian Kelcey (Criminal Solicitor Advocate); and - Abimbola Johnson (Criminal Barrister). This item provides an audio source. | 28 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The repatriation of offshore finance to onshore: transnational legal orders and the Cayman Islands experience: May Hen-Smith | A webinar hosted by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. May Hen-Smith is a PhD student in Sociology at Cambridge. She is a former tax collector from Canada Revenue Agency and studies offshore financial centres. She is also co-founder of the Cambridge Tax Discussion Group, a student-led discussion group which began in 2015 and continues to meet weekly during term to talk about all things tax. Their website is taxtaxtax.tax More information can be found at: https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/profile/may-hen-smith This presentation will discuss my PhD work which takes an ethnographic approach to the study of Cayman Islands professionals to understand how an offshore financial centre operates from the perspective of the professionals who live and work in them. It offers a close-examination of a single jurisdiction, one that is heavily referred to by critics of offshore, and brings new empirical data based on 13-months of fieldwork from a jurisdiction heavily used by some of the largest financial transactions in the world. Supported by the Centre for Tax Law. | 20 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The 'Chimera' of Parenthood: Brian Sloan | Speaker: Dr Brian Sloan, College Lecturer & Fellow in Law, Robinson College, Cambridge A joint seminar between Cambridge Reproduction and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. In 2015, The Independent newspaper reported the case of a man who had ‘failed’ a paternity test in the United States because the genetic material in his saliva was different from that in his sperm. This was apparently the first reported instance of a paternity test being ‘fooled’ by a ‘human chimera’. Such a chimera has extra genes, in this instance absorbed from a twin lost in early pregnancy. The result was that the true genetic father of the man’s son was the man’s deceased twin, who had never been born. Cases of chimeras potentially present a challenge to legal systems, given their frequent emphasis on genetics in determining parenthood. This seminar will explore the likely practical response of English Law to the situation of a potential chimera, with reference inter alia to the human rights of all family members involved. The seminar will then consider what the phenomenon of the chimera might tell us about our understanding of parenthood and the differences between biological motherhood and fatherhood respectively. It will advocate the recognition of the chimeric person as the ‘true’ legal father but point out that this may require fatherhood to be understood as more of a ‘process’ than is often realised. Brian Sloan is College Lecturer & Fellow in Law, Robinson College, Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Family Law Centre. His research focuses on issues including care of both adults and children. He is the author/editor of several books, most recently Spaces of Care (Hart, 2020, edited with Loraine Gelsthorpe and Perveez Mody). Several of his many articles concern the law of adoption and parenthood. | 14 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS Online seminar: 'The German Constitutional Court's decision on PSPP: Constitutional earthquake?' (audio) | In its judgment pronounced on 5 May, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court granted several constitutional complaints directed against the Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) of the European Central Bank (ECB). The Court found that the Federal Government and the German Bundestag violated the complainants’ rights under Art. 38(1) first sentence in conjunction with Art. 20(1) and (2), and Art. 79(3) of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz – GG) by failing to take steps challenging that the ECB, in its decisions on the adoption and implementation of the PSPP, neither assessed nor substantiated that the measures provided for in these decisions satisfy the principle of proportionality. This seminar considers how the decision fits with the other major European Monetary Union decisions and ongoing questions concerning the role of the European Central Bank; the broader economic implications of the German Federal Constitutional Court’s decision for the ECB’s independence and for the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme; as well as constitutional questions such as supremacy of EU law and the role of judicial dialogue in the EU constitutional order. Chair: Professor Catherine Barnard Speakers: Dr Alicia Hinarejos Dr Markus Gehring Professor Michael Waibel This was the first CELS online webinar. For more information see the CELS website at: http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source. | 13 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Populist Challenge to Constitutional Citizenship' - Jo Shaw: CELS Seminar | Professor Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh and Tampere University gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Populist Challenge to Constitutional Citizenship" on Wednesday 4 March 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 4 3 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Private Equity: Its place in corporate finance and how it works' - Chris Hale: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Chris Hale (Chair Emeritus of Travers Smith) gave a lecture entitled 'Private Equity: Its place in corporate finance and how it works' on 28 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. This lecture by Chris Hale, Chair Emeritus of Travers Smith, will explore the economic and legal aspects of private equity, reflecting on its global reach, its growth from its origins in venture capital, and its importance in the context of M&A. As well as an in-depth analysis of the legal structure, he will consider the reasons for its success, the current trends and tis prospects in the future. Chris Hale is a senior consultant in the Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Group of Travers Smith, which he founded in 1996. Chris was Senior Partner between 2013 and 2019, and Head of Corporate from 2003 to 2013. He is listed as among the world’s leading lawyers in private equity by the Legal List 500 and Chambers Global, and as an eminent practitioner for UK Corporate M&A and private equity by Chambers and Partners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 28 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CPL Seminar: 'Is Foreign Policy Special?' - Ewan Smith | On 28 February 2020 Dr Ewan Smith (University of Oxford) gave a seminar entitled "Is Foreign Policy Special?" hosted by the Centre for Public Law (CPL). For more information see the CPL website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 28 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Principle of AI Legal Neutrality' - Ryan Abbott: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey) gave a lecture entitled 'The Principle of AI Legal Neutrality' on 25 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. AI and people do not compete on a level-playing field. From a safety perspective, AI may be the best choice for driving a vehicle, but laws often prohibit driverless vehicles. At the same time, a person may be better at providing customer service, but a business may automate because it saves on taxes. AI may be better at helping companies to innovate, but using AI may keep these companies from obtaining intellectual property rights. In The Reasonable Robot, Ryan Abbott argues that the law should not discriminate between people and AI when they are performing the same tasks, a legal standard that will ultimately improve human wellbeing. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 25 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with David Yale #1: Early Life | Mr David Yale was interviewed by Mrs Lesley Dingle on 26 November 2019, in his home in Porthmadog, Snowdonia. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/ | 20 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with David Yale #2: Scholarly Works | Mr David Yale was interviewed by Mrs Lesley Dingle on 26 November 2019, in his home in Porthmadog, Snowdonia. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/ | 20 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Consolidation or Fragmentation: Is EU Accession to the ECHR (Still) Worth It?' - Tobias Lock: CELS Seminar | Professor Tobias Lock of Maynooth University gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Consolidation or Fragmentation: Is EU Accession to the ECHR (Still) Worth It?" on Wednesday 20 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 20 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Membership of the EU: Formal and Substantive Dimensions': The 2020 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2020 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Professor Paul Craig FBA, Emeritus Professor of English Law, Oxford University, under the title 'Membership of the EU: Formal and Substantive Dimensions' on 5 February 2020. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 5 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The EU as Regulator in Private Law: A Neo-Liberal Hegemon or a Civiliser of Capitalist Enterprises' - Hans Micklitz: CELS Seminar | Professor Hans Micklitz of the European University Institute gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The EU as Regulator in Private Law: A Neo-Liberal Hegemon or a Civiliser of Capitalist Enterprises" on Wednesday 5 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 5 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Blackrock's Environmental Activism: The Third Stage of Corporate Governance' - Jon Lukomnik: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Jon Lukomnik (Sinclair Capital & IRRC Institute) gave a lecture entitled 'Blackrock's Environmental Activism: The Third Stage of Corporate Governance' on 4 February 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 4 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Citizens Rights in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement: What Rights do People Have, and How to Enforce Them?' - Steven Peers: CELS Seminar | Professor Steven Peers of the University of Essex gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Citizens Rights in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement: What Rights do People Have, and How to Enforce Them?" on Wednesday 29 January 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 29 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Shareholder Engagement by Large Institutional Investors' - Suren Gomtsian: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Dr Suren Gomtsian (University of Leeds) gave a lecture entitled 'Shareholder Engagement by Large Institutional Investors' on 28 January 2020 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 28 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Europe: Past, Present and Future: Speaker 3 - Norman Davies | The problems arising from Europe's troubled history was the subject of the fourth seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, which took place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law in 2004. The seminar was held on Wednesday 28 January 2004, and discussed the issues of nationalism and the bitterness of past conflicts and how the problems still exist despite the creation of pan-European institutions. The seminar was chaired by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. Speakers included Norman Davies, Historian, Oxford University; Misha Glenny, author and specialist in the history and politics of the Balkans; and Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University. Each talk is available at the following links: 1) Introduction - Tim Blanning (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137380); 2) Speaker 1 - Harold James (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137391); 3) Speaker 2 - Micha Glenny (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137402); 4) Speaker 3 - Norman Davies (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137413). The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’ addressed the uncertainties that now beset the project of European integration, with the proposal to adopt a written Constitution for Europe and the addition of ten new member states in May 2004. With panels of leading specialists from Europe, the United States and beyond, the seminars provided a unique opportunity to share a wide range of knowledge and experience in understanding European integration and in thinking about its possible futures. The focus of the seminars was not the familiar political debate about Europe. The seminars were designed to debate Europe in a new and different way, as a constitutional, historical and cultural challenge. | 7 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Europe: Past, Present and Future: Speaker 2 - Micha Glenny | The problems arising from Europe's troubled history was the subject of the fourth seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, which took place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law in 2004. The seminar was held on Wednesday 28 January 2004, and discussed the issues of nationalism and the bitterness of past conflicts and how the problems still exist despite the creation of pan-European institutions. The seminar was chaired by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. Speakers included Norman Davies, Historian, Oxford University; Misha Glenny, author and specialist in the history and politics of the Balkans; and Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University. Each talk is available at the following links: 1) Introduction - Tim Blanning (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137380); 2) Speaker 1 - Harold James (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137391); 3) Speaker 2 - Micha Glenny (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137402); 4) Speaker 3 - Norman Davies (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137413). The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’ addressed the uncertainties that now beset the project of European integration, with the proposal to adopt a written Constitution for Europe and the addition of ten new member states in May 2004. With panels of leading specialists from Europe, the United States and beyond, the seminars provided a unique opportunity to share a wide range of knowledge and experience in understanding European integration and in thinking about its possible futures. The focus of the seminars was not the familiar political debate about Europe. The seminars were designed to debate Europe in a new and different way, as a constitutional, historical and cultural challenge. **Unfortunately, the sound quality of this recording is poor** | 7 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Europe: Past, Present and Future: Speaker 1 - Harold James | The problems arising from Europe's troubled history was the subject of the fourth seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, which took place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law in 2004. The seminar was held on Wednesday 28 January 2004, and discussed the issues of nationalism and the bitterness of past conflicts and how the problems still exist despite the creation of pan-European institutions. The seminar was chaired by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. Speakers included Norman Davies, Historian, Oxford University; Misha Glenny, author and specialist in the history and politics of the Balkans; and Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University. Each talk is available at the following links: 1) Introduction - Tim Blanning (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137380); 2) Speaker 1 - Harold James (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137391); 3) Speaker 2 - Micha Glenny (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137402); 4) Speaker 3 - Norman Davies (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137413). The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’ addressed the uncertainties that now beset the project of European integration, with the proposal to adopt a written Constitution for Europe and the addition of ten new member states in May 2004. With panels of leading specialists from Europe, the United States and beyond, the seminars provided a unique opportunity to share a wide range of knowledge and experience in understanding European integration and in thinking about its possible futures. The focus of the seminars was not the familiar political debate about Europe. The seminars were designed to debate Europe in a new and different way, as a constitutional, historical and cultural challenge. | 7 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Europe: Past, Present and Future: Introduction - Tim Blanning | The problems arising from Europe's troubled history was the subject of the fourth seminar in the ‘Future of Europe’ series, which took place at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law in 2004. The seminar was held on Wednesday 28 January 2004, and discussed the issues of nationalism and the bitterness of past conflicts and how the problems still exist despite the creation of pan-European institutions. The seminar was chaired by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. Speakers included Norman Davies, Historian, Oxford University; Misha Glenny, author and specialist in the history and politics of the Balkans; and Harold James, Professor of History, Princeton University. Each talk is available at the following links: 1) Introduction - Tim Blanning (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137380); 2) Speaker 1 - Harold James (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137391); 3) Speaker 2 - Micha Glenny (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137402); 4) Speaker 3 - Norman Davies (https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3137413). The ‘Future of Europe Seminars’ addressed the uncertainties that now beset the project of European integration, with the proposal to adopt a written Constitution for Europe and the addition of ten new member states in May 2004. With panels of leading specialists from Europe, the United States and beyond, the seminars provided a unique opportunity to share a wide range of knowledge and experience in understanding European integration and in thinking about its possible futures. The focus of the seminars was not the familiar political debate about Europe. The seminars were designed to debate Europe in a new and different way, as a constitutional, historical and cultural challenge. | 7 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS Occasional podcast: '#Brexit how Europe views the UK now' | In another of the CELS occasional podcast documentary series we speak to three of our academics from the University of Cambridge about the reputation of the UK now following three years of ups and downs in its #Brexit negotiations with the EU. We ask Albertina Albors-Llorens, Professor of European Union Law; Catherine Barnard Professor of EU and Employment Law, Director of CELS and Dr Markus Gehring who teaches European Union and International Law at the Faculty of Law, if the EU is misunderstood, whether or not those misunderstandings are the result of media bias, and if the other 27 European Union members will now trust the UK in future trade negotiations. In this compelling documentary podcast you might be surprised to hear that all three of our speakers remain optimistic about the UK’s reputation in the longer term, whether or not the UK does actually #Brexit the EU at the end of 2020 under the terms of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new Withdrawal Agreement which did pass through parliament with a majority of 30 but which has not yet had its second reading, and will not be voted on again until after the General Election in December should Johnson and his government stay in power. Professors Albors-Llorens and Barnard and Dr Gehring, point out that three years on there is now much more understanding of the UK’s relationship with the EU, which mitigates attempts to portray it as an institution that has taken control away from UK citizens, as happened in the prelude to the June 2016 Referendum. But that the media still divides right left on how it headlines the various #Brexit negotiations, votes in Parliament, and subsequent court battles, sometimes referring to Remain supporting MPs as “traitors” or “enemies of the people” and as the Benn Act,which stopped Johnson and his government taking the UK out of the EU on the 31st October 2019 with a no-deal Brexit, as the “surrender Bill”. The terms of the new Johnson Agreement have raised concerns, particularly on environmental protections and workers’ rights, but as Dr Gehring points out “co-operation with our EU neighbours” will remain important. Professor Barnard says that while there has been criticism of the media, it now has many more fact checkers than before. Professor Albors-Llorens says that as someone who came to the UK from Spain she has always loved this Country and remains an optimist about its future. Political rivalries and alignments have never been so bad tempered or fractured making the outcome of the General Election on December 12th 2019 hard to call, even by the pollsters, but the UK’s links with the EU have historically largely been positive and that bodes well for future relationships going forward, when all the 27 EU countries will be able to vote on future trade deals or block them. However, our three academics raise concerns about future court battles here and in Europe as the terms of trade are worked out. Key quotes: Professor Albors-Llorens: "The EU has not been transparent enough about some of its processes and I think that has been a problem. It’s quite sad that following the Referendum people seem to be much more informed about EU law than they were before because people are now better informed. There has been a lack of engagement and a lack of transparency and I think the EU also recognises that is a problem." Professor Barnard: "I think it is quite common for national governments to claim credit for the good things that come out of the EU and to blame the EU for the bad things that they know they have to implement. There’s been a failure to communication on the EU’s side but also a failure to communicate on the UK’s side. There is a misunderstanding about the role of the ECJ (European Court of Justice) but it is a referee and in any sport competition you need a referee to know the rules of the game are being complied with. That has been to the UK’s benefit." Dr Gehring: "It is much harder for the media to just... | 22 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal': CPL Discussion - Mark Elliott and Alison Young | A discussion held at the University of Cambridge on 18 November 2019, with Sir Patrick Elias, Professor Mark Elliott, and Professor Alison Young. The event was hosted by the Centre for Public Law. In R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2019] UKSC 22, the Supreme Court, by 4 judgments to 3, concluded that a clause removing judicial review of the court over decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), including those as to whether the IPT had jurisdiction, could not remove judicial review by the court for legal errors made by the IPT when determining its jurisdiction. The legislation could be interpreted so as not to remove review over purported decisions as to whether the IPT had jurisdiction – in other words those decisions tainted by a legal error. The individual judgments provide an array of arguments which have an impact on how courts interpret ouster clauses and legislation more generally, the foundations of judicial review, parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law. This lecture explains the judgments and evaluates their implications. For more information see: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 20 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reimagining Children's Equality: Nancy Dowd | An event co-hosted by Cambridge Family Law and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group at the Faculty of Law on 12 November 2019. Speaker: Professor Nancy Dowd, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Professor Dowd will present the core thesis and arguments of her recent book, Reimagining Equality: A New Deal for Children of Color (NYU Press 2018). She argues that children’s equality must include developmental equality, meaning that each child should be supported to their full developmental capacity. She will present the three essential parts of the book and then hope to engage in discussion and feedback. She will focus most of her presentation on Part III of the book, which melds the developmental and legal implications of children’s inequalities and hierarchies among children. She will suggest strategies for change, which include three possibilities: using existing statutory frameworks, constitutional litigation and affirmative, comprehensive legislation that she calls a New Deal for Children, borrowing from the New Deal of the 1930s in the US. Professor Dowd is the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and an affiliate of the Anita Zucker Center. She served as Interim Director and Director of the Center on Children and Families at the UF law school from 2007-2015. She currently is a Distinguished Guest Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, for 2018-2020, and in 2017 was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on social justice issues that link family law, juvenile law, constitutional law, critical race and gender analysis, and social change theories. She is the author of eight books and over 50 articles. For more information about the Cambridge Family Law Centre, see the website at: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 15 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'"Nobody is Proud of Soft Dollars": A Critical Review of Excess Brokerage Commissions in the United States and the Significance of Recent MiFID II Reforms in the European Union' - Howell E. Jackson: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Professor Howell E. Jackson (Harvard Law School) gave a lecture entitled ""Nobody is Proud of Soft Dollars": A Critical Review of Excess Brokerage Commissions in the United States and the Significance of Recent MiFID II Reforms in the European Union" on 21 October 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 21 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law': The 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 18 October 2019, Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 18 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Women in Law Launch: In discussion with Lady Hale and Lady Arden (audio) | Cambridge Women in Law (CWIL) is an exciting new social network of alumnae at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, which features a diverse range of women from all sectors. CWIL was officially launched on 27 September with an event to mark the centenary of the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, when women were finally allowed to practise. The aim of the event, which coincided with the Cambridge Alumni Festival, was to celebrate the contribution of Law alumnae into legal practice and to the wider world. The Faculty also hosted an exhibition of the much heralded First 100 Years Project (https://first100years.org.uk/). The event was divided into three parts: The first was a panel focusing on issues facing women in practice. Second there was a panel which was oriented around women who have had an impact on the world outside practice, such as in the field of public policy. Finally, there was a discussion with UK Supreme Court Justices Lady Hale and Lady Arden. Equality and diversity were key discussion themes throughout. For more information and to sign up to the CWIL mailing list to receive information about future news and events, see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/cwil, or get in touch with the Faculty Development Officer Clare Gordon (cwil@law.cam.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 3 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Women in Law Launch: Panel 2 - Women in the wider world (audio) | Cambridge Women in Law (CWIL) is an exciting new social network of alumnae at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, which features a diverse range of women from all sectors. CWIL was officially launched on 27 September with an event to mark the centenary of the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, when women were finally allowed to practise. The aim of the event, which coincided with the Cambridge Alumni Festival, was to celebrate the contribution of Law alumnae into legal practice and to the wider world. The Faculty also hosted an exhibition of the much heralded First 100 Years Project (https://first100years.org.uk/). The event was divided into three parts: The first was a panel focusing on issues facing women in practice. Second there was a panel which was oriented around women who have had an impact on the world outside practice, such as in the field of public policy. Finally, there was a discussion with UK Supreme Court Justices Lady Hale and Lady Arden. Equality and diversity were key discussion themes throughout. This video is the second Panel, introduced by Professor Catherine Barnard and moderated by Nicola Padfield (Master of Fitzwilliam College): Panel 2: Women in the wider world: - Clare Algar - Director of Global Operations at Amnesty International. - Sally Boyle - International Head of Human Capital Management for Goldman Sachs and a member of the European Management Committee. - Lucy Frazer Q.C., M.P. - M.P. for South-East Cambridgeshire. - Katerina Gould - Founder and principal coach at Thinking Potential which she established in 2005, following a career in corporate management and entrepreneurship. Co-founder of Women Returners. - Busola Johnson - Specialist Prosecutor, Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division at Crown Prosecution Service. - Gill Phillips - Director of editorial legal services at Guardian News and Media. - Isabella Sankey – Director of Detention Action, previously at Liberty and Reprieve. For more information and to sign up to the CWIL mailing list to receive information about future news and events, see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/cwil, or get in touch with the Faculty Development Officer Clare Gordon (cwil@law.cam.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 3 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Women in Law Launch: Panel 1 - Women in practice (audio) | Cambridge Women in Law (CWIL) is an exciting new social network of alumnae at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, which features a diverse range of women from all sectors. CWIL was officially launched on 27 September with an event to mark the centenary of the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, when women were finally allowed to practise. The aim of the event, which coincided with the Cambridge Alumni Festival, was to celebrate the contribution of Law alumnae into legal practice and to the wider world. The Faculty also hosted an exhibition of the much heralded First 100 Years Project (https://first100years.org.uk/). The event was divided into three parts: The first was a panel focusing on issues facing women in practice. Second there was a panel which was oriented around women who have had an impact on the world outside practice, such as in the field of public policy. Finally, there was a discussion with UK Supreme Court Justices Lady Hale and Lady Arden. Equality and diversity were key discussion themes throughout. This video is the first Panel, introduced by Professor Brian Cheffins (Chair of the Faculty) and Dana Denis-Smith (creator of First 100 Years Project) and moderated by Pippa Rogerson (Master of Gonville & Caius College): Panel 1: Women in Practice: - Caoilfhionn Gallagher Q.C. – Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in human rights and civil liberties. - Shauna Gillan – Part time Immigration Judge and barrister at 1 Pump Court, specialising in refugee/immigration, human rights and public law. - Jessica Gladstone – Partner at Clifford Chance, and also Co-founding director and trustee of Advocates for International Development (A4ID); and Chair of the Board of Rule of Law Expertise UK (ROLE UK). - Priya Lele – Legal Process Design Lead, UK, US & EMEA at Herbert Smith Freehills, and co-founder of ‘She Breaks The Law’. - Sara Luder – Partner and Head of Tax at Slaughter and May. - Elaine Penrose – Partner at Hogan Lovells in Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment Group. - Amanda Pinto Q.C. – Vice-Chair of the Bar; specialist in corporate crime, money laundering, corruption, art crime and business wrong-doing at the Chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC, 33 Chancery Lane. For more information and to sign up to the CWIL mailing list to receive information about future news and events, see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/cwil, or get in touch with the Faculty Development Officer Clare Gordon (cwil@law.cam.ac.uk). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 3 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with William Cornish #3: Scholarly works | Between January and May 2015 Professor Cornish was interviewed three times, to record his reminiscences of over forty years of research and teaching in Oxford, LSE and Cambridge. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (12 January 2015): Early Years - Second Interview (13 March 2015): Academic Career - Third Interview (22 May 2015): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 5 9 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with William Cornish #2: Academic Career | Between January and May 2015 Professor Cornish was interviewed three times, to record his reminiscences of over forty years of research and teaching in Oxford, LSE and Cambridge. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (12 January 2015): Early Years - Second Interview (13 March 2015): Academic Career - Third Interview (22 May 2015): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 5 9 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with William Cornish #1: Early Years | Between January and May 2015 Professor Cornish was interviewed three times, to record his reminiscences of over forty years of research and teaching in Oxford, LSE and Cambridge. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings: - First Interview (12 January 2015): Early Years - Second Interview (13 March 2015): Academic Career - Third Interview (22 May 2015): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 5 9 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversation with Professor Harold Hongju Koh | Professor Harold Hongju Koh was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2018-2019. Professor Koh was interviewed on 28 May 2019 in his room in Christ's College. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/ | 22 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Way Forward - General discussion - Sir James Munby | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sir James Munby summing up the conference with some concluding remarks. Sir James Lawrence Munby is a retired English judge who was President of the Family Division of the High Court of England and Wales. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Tolerant Approach - Colin Rogerson | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part II – The Tolerant Approach, with Colin Rogerson (Dawson Cornwell, London, UK) as commentator. Colin Rogerson is a Solicitor Advocate and Senior Associate at Dawson Cornwell. He has a background in children law but much of his practice is focussed on the law relating to surrogacy and parentage following assisted reproduction. His work in this specialist field has been recognised by both the Chambers UK Guide and the Legal 500, where he is described as "an unsung hero both domestically and internationally particularly in the area of surrogacy, parentage and assisted reproduction." He has represented intended parents, surrogates, and surrogate-born children in parental order proceedings before the Family Courts in England & Wales and has appeared in a number of reported decisions in this field. Colin is an active international member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Family Law, Assisted Reproductive Technology Committee and is the only lawyer from Europe on the ART Executive Council. He is also an ART Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys and a member of the UK’s LGBT Family Law Institute. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Tolerant Approach - Claire Fenton-Glynn | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part II – The Tolerant Approach, with Claire Fenton-Glynn (Cambridge, UK) giving the UK perspective. Claire is a University Lecturer and Fellow in Law at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She specialises in human rights and the protection of children, in particular focusing on issues such as intercountry adoption, international surrogacy, and cross-border child protection, as well as children's rights under the European Court of Human Rights. At the core of this research is the interaction between international and regional human rights instruments and domestic law, and the way in which these frameworks can be used to implement children's rights. Her first book, "Children's Rights in Intercountry Adoption" was awarded the Inner Temple Book Prize for New Authors, as well as the Faculty of Law's Yorke Prize. Claire has worked as a consultant on issues concerning child protection, human rights, and rule of law with organisations such as the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the European Union, Save the Children and Avocats sans Frontières. She is the co-editor of ‘Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy’ which was published in 2019.’ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Regulatory Approach - Robynne Friedman | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part IV – The Regulatory Approach, with Robynne Friedman (Robynne Friedman Attorneys, Johannesburg, South Africa) commentating and giving a personal perspective. Robynne Friedman is a surrogacy law specialist practitioner in the Republic of South Africa, practising for her own account. Robynne has assisted in excess of four hundred parents with the legal and procedural aspects of surrogacy in the RSA. She has been involved in leading surrogacy cases that have culminated in legal precedents in RSA. Robynne is a mother through surrogacy and through her personal experience has been able to assist her clients on a highly personal level. Robynne has founded a Non- Profit Organisation which offers support and advice to infertile persons and surrogate mothers on all aspects of surrogacy. Robynne has been involved in the first constitutional court case involving surrogacy in the RSA in an attempt to broaden the interpretation of the genetic link requirement of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005. Robynne has presented papers on the working practical aspects of surrogacy at local and international family law conferences. Robynne has spoken at Reproductive medicine conferences and embryologist meetings locally. Robynne has spoken extensively to the media on the subject of surrogacy in attempt to educate the population on surrogacy in an endeavour to remove cultural taboos surrounding the practice of surrogacy in the RSA. Robynne offers support and guidance to the Reproductive Medicine Clinics in RSA on the legalities of surrogacy and gamete donation. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Regulatory Approach - Julia Sloth-Nielsen | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part IV – The Regulatory Approach, with Julia Sloth-Nielsen (Western Cape, South Africa/Leiden, The Netherlands) giving the South African perspective. Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen holds a chair at the Faculty of Law, University of the Western cape, and a chair in children's rights in the developing world a the University of Leiden. She has published widely on various aspects of children's rights and family law, and contributed to law reform in many southern and eastern African countries. In South Africa, she was a member of the project committee of the South Africa Law Reform Commission that prepared the Children's Act 38 of 2005 and the Child Justice Act 75 of 2008. She has recently published on aspects of surrogacy in South Africa. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Reality - Empirical Research Findings - Vasanti Jadva | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part V - The Reality - Empirical Research Findings, with Vasanti Jadva (Cambridge/UK) speaking on 'The psychological wellbeing of surrogates and their families'. Dr Vasanti Jadva’s BSc in Psychology was from City University, where she later worked as a Research Assistant at the Family and Child Psychology Research Centre on a project looking at families created using reproductive technologies. During this time she also conducted her PhD which examined sex differences in 12-24 month-old infants' preferences for colours, toys and shapes. She joined the Centre for Family Research in March 2006. She is currently a Senior Research Associate and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Psychology and a member of the National Gamete Donation Trust’s advisory council. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Reality - Empirical Research Findings - Lopamudra Goswami | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part V - The Reality - Empirical Research Findings, with Lopamudra Goswami (Griffiths University/Australia) 'Understanding the perspectives of Indian surrogate mothers on surrogacy'. Lopamudra Goswami is an Indian research scholar currently pursuing her doctoral studies at Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia. Her research area over the last 4 years has been with Indian surrogate mothers in Gujarat. Her doctoral work is also an extension of the same and she is now working at building a community based mental health model for the surrogate mothers. Lopamudra has had extensive teaching experience at several masters programs in Bangalore, India prior to moving to Australia. She has field experience of being with the mothers, interacting with them and knowing them beyond the realms of being surrogates. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Reality - Empirical Research Findings - Debra Wilson | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part V - The Reality - Empirical Research Findings, with Debra Wilson (Canterbury/New Zealand) speaking on 'The public perspective: empirical research into opinions on surrogacy in New Zealand'. Debra Wilson is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. She specialises in medical law, with a particular focus on issues of regulation where there is an overlap with commercial or contract law. Debra has been a Erskine Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (2012), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University (2014), a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva (2014), and an Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2016). She is currently the Principal Investigator of a project entitled 'Rethinking Surrogacy Laws', funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Prohibitive Approach - Mennesson Family | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with a personal experience shared by the Mennesson family. The Mennesson family, whose surrogacy journey in the USA has resulted in a 19-year battle to secure the recognition of their family in France. In 2006, they created Association Clara, which now has over 2000 members. This association defends all children born through surrogacy and promotes legalization of Surrogacy in France. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Prohibitive Approach - Caroline Mécary | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part I – The Prohibitive Approach, with Caroline Mécary (Avocate aux barreaux de Paris et du Québec, Paris/France) as commentator. Caroline Mecary is an attorney, member of the Bar of Paris since 1991. In 1993, she established her own law firm devoted to all sorts of families’ rights. She was the first French attorney to defend homoparental families. In this field, she obtained some great success before both national and international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Hence, she allowed a lesbian to have the right to adopt (ECHR, 22 January 2008, E.B c/ France). She enabled children resulting for a surrogacy to have their birth certificate transcribed by the French registry office (ECHR, 21 July 2016, Foulon & Bouvet c/ France; ECHR, 19 July 2017, Laborie c/ France). She also obtained the right for a same-sex couple to enter in a civil partnership (ECHR, 7 November 2013, Vallianatos c/ Greece). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The International Dimension - Maud de Boer-Buquicchio | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VI – The International Dimension, with Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography) speaking on 'The work of the UN on surrogacy'. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (the Netherlands), a lawyer by education, was appointed as UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in May 2014. She is also President of the European Federation for Missing and Exploited Children (“Missing Children Europe”). Throughout her professional career, Maud has focussed on children’s human rights. In 1969, she joined the Council of Europe where she worked in different capacities in the human rights protection mechanism set up under the European Convention on Human Rights. In 1998, she was elected Deputy Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights. Between 2002 and 2012, she served as Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the first woman elected to this post. In that capacity she spearheaded three Council of Europe key Conventions, namely, the Convention on action against trafficking in human beings, the Convention on the protection of children from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, and the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. In her capacity as UN Special Rapporteur she dedicated thematic reports to, inter alia, vulnerabilities of children to sale, trafficking and other forms of exploitation in situations of conflict and humanitarian crises; sexual exploitation of children and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); illegal adoptions, and commercial surrogacy and the sale of children. She intends to present her 2019 thematic report to the UN General Assembly on "Safeguards for the Protection of the Rights of the Child in the Context of Surrogacy Arrangements”. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Free Market Approach - Steve Snyder | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Steve Snyder (Steven H. Snyder & Associates, Minnesota, USA) acting as commentator. Steven H. Snyder, Esq. is the founding and principal partner of Steven H. Snyder & Associates, LLC, in Maple Grove, Minnesota. He is also the Director of the International Assisted Reproduction Center, LLC, a U.S. surrogacy and egg donation agency. Mr Snyder is a member of the American Bar Association and previous Chair of the Assisted Reproductive Technology Committee of the Family Law Section. Mr. Snyder is a frequent national and international speaker on assisted reproductive technology topics. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Free Market Approach - Erika Fuchs | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Erika Fuchs sharing her personal experience. Erika Fuchs, PhD, MPH, is a former gestational carrier who delivered twins in the US in 2006. Professionally, she is an assistant professor in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. As a social and behavioral epidemiologist and expert in women's and children's health, she studies associations between maternal behaviors and perinatal and pediatric health outcomes. Erika led a study of gestational carriers to examine clinical and psychological screening experiences and pregnancy outcomes. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Free Market Approach - Courtney G. Joslin | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part III – The Free Market Approach, with Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law). Courtney Joslin is a Professor of Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Research Scholar at UC Davis School of Law. Professor Joslin is a leading expert in the areas of family and relationship recognition, with a particular focus is on same-sex and unmarried couples. Professor Joslin served as the Reporter for the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). A product of the U.S. Uniform Law Commission, the UPA (2017) addresses the parentage of children born through surrogacy arrangements as well as the ability of children conceived through assisted reproduction to access information about their gamete providers. Professor Joslin's publications have appeared in the Boston University Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Indiana Law Journal, the Iowa Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other sources. She is a co-author (with William N. Eskridge Jr. & Nan D. Hunter) of the textbook--Sexuality, Gender, and the Law. She is also co-author (with Shannon P. Minter & Catherine Sakimura) of a leading treatise--Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Law. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Law Commission’s project on the reform of the law on surrogacy - Nick Hopkins | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from the introduction, where Nick Hopkins, Law Commissioner, Law Commission of England and Wales gave a presentation on 'The Law Commission’s project on the reform of the law on surrogacy'. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Way Forward - General discussion - Dame Lucy Morgan Theis | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Dame Lucy Morgan Theis DBE (High Court of England and Wales). The former chair of the Family Law Bar Association, Mrs Justice Lucy Theis, was appointed to be a High Court Judge in 2010. Mrs Justice Theis DBE, was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1982 and took Silk in 2003. She was appointed a Recorder in 2000 and was approved to sit as a deputy High Court Judge. She was head of Field Court Chambers until 2010. She was appointed a Family Division Liaison Judge on the South Eastern Circuit in 2011 with responsibility for Kent, Surrey and Sussex and in 2017 for London and Thames Valley. In 2018 she was appointed Senior Family Liaison Judge. She sits on the Family Procedure Rules Committee and the Family Justice Council and is the lead judge in relation to applications under the HFEA 2008. | 5 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International Surrogacy Forum: The Way Forward - General discussion - Sital Kalantry | This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism. For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/international-surrogacy-forum-2019 This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sital Kalantry (Cornell Law School). Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. She is an expert in international human rights and her scholarship focuses on gender and education rights, particularly within the context of India and the United States. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she uses empirical, comparative, and critical race studies approaches to critique the legislative process and mainstream discourse regarding sex-selective abortion bans in the United States. Her writings have been published in top peer-reviewed and American and international journals, including the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights. Kalantry has been invited to deliver numerous talks and presentations around the world. She has received many awards and grants for her work, including a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar grant to conduct research in India on the Indian Supreme Court and helping to secure a $1.5 million dollar grant to establish a center focused on women and justice. She serves as a peer-reviewer for several human rights journals and is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review. Kalantry is a member of the lawyers advisory committee of Peace Brigades International and served on the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is fluent in Hindi and conversant in Spanish. | 5 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ECLA Lecture: 'EU Criminal law round up special: Where are we now with Brexit?' | In this lecture, Professor John Spencer (President of the European Criminal Law Association/University of Cambridge) presents a round up of the current situation in European Criminal Law and the potential impacts of Brexit. The accompanying slides for this event are available at: http://www.eucriminallaw.com/storage/spencer_annual_roundup_2019.pptx The European Criminal Law Association (ECLA UK) (formerly the Association to Combat Fraud in Europe (ACFE)) is an unincorporated association of practitioners, academics and others interested in the emerging body of European Criminal law. It has been associated since 1980, and continues to study, discuss and provide information on the development of the criminal law in Europe by means of seminars, publications and the ECLA website at: http://www.eucriminallaw.com | 20 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Technology, The Energy Trilemma and International Law': Tedd Moya Mose (audio) | Tedd Moya Mose, PhD Candidate at Queen Mary University of London, speaking on Panel X: 'Rethinking global environmental governance'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Mose.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Fair, Ethical and Just: Can an AI Algorithm Check all the Boxes?': Doaa Abu-Elyounes (audio) | Doaa Abu-Elyounes of Harvard Law School Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, speaking on Panel IX: 'AI'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Abu_Elyounes.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'International Law Does Not Compute: Artificial Intelligence and the Development, Displacement, or Destruction of the Global Legal Order': Matthijs M. Maas (audio) | Matthijs M. Maas, Fellow at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, speaking on Panel IX: 'AI'. Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Democratic Disruption in the Age of Social Media: Paradigms of Platform Responsibility for the Governance of Online Speech': Barrie Sander (audio) | Dr Barrie Sander, Postdoctoral Fellow at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), School of International Relations, Brazil, speaking on Panel VIII: 'Democracy new: Barriers and opportunities'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Sander.pdf Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'International Legal Scholarship and the Challenge of Digitalization': Tilmann Altwicker (audio) | Professor Tilmann Altwicker, or the Institute for International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich, speaking on Panel VI: 'Jurisprudential challenges in the digital age'. Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The 'Essence of Humanity': The Role of Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - A Critical Appraisal of Article 22 of the EU's GDPR': Katja F. Achermann (audio) | Katja F. Achermann, LLM (Cantab), speaking on Panel II: 'International human rights in the digital context'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Achermann.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Terrorism, the Internet, and the Threat to Freedom of Expression: The Regulation of Digital Intermediaries in Europe and the US': Eliza Bechtold (audio) | Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'. https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Move Fast and Break Societies: The Weaponization of Social Media and Options for Accountability under International Criminal Law': Shannon Raj Singh (audio) | Shannon Raj Singh, Associate Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, speaking on Panel IV: 'International criminal culpability in the advent of new technologies'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Singh.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Gender Stereotyping in Machine Learning: A Technical Necessity or a Human Rights Violation?': Laura Carter (audio) | Laura Carter, PhD students at the University of Essex, speaking on Panel II: 'International human rights in the digital context'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Carter.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Crypto-investment in International Economic Law: The Transformation of Public Authority Global Governance': Gustavo Prieto (audio) | Dr Gustavo Prieto, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turin, speaking on Panel VII: 'Digitalizing international economic law'. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Mose.pptx Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2: 'So I heard about that challenge': Saadia Bhatty (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Saadia Bhatty (Counsel, Gide). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2: 'How to warn about arbitrators that tend to get it wrong on the law': Mauricio Almeida Prado (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Mauricio Almeida Prado (Partner, L.O. Baptista). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2: 'Echo chamber of arbitration and social network': Hendrik Puschmann (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Hendrik Puschmann (Partner, Farrer & Co). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1: 'Social media change: Embrace or reject': Abayomi Okubote (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Abayomi Okubote (President, Association of Young Arbitrators (Africa)). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1: 'Just a working relationship': Marily Paralika (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Marily Paralika (Associate, White & Case). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1: 'Friend or unfriend?': Charlie Caher (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Charlie Caher (Partner, WilmerHale). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1: 'Arbitrator in the morning, counsel in the afternoon': Arnaud Nuyts (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Professor Arnaud Nuyts (University of Brussels – Partner, Liedekerke). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Debate: This house believes that arbitral cases are won and lost on personae and not on the law (CAD 2019) | In this recording, the panel debate the proposition: Moderator: - Audley Sheppard QC, Clifford Chance For the proposition: - Mark McNeill / Partner, Shearman & Sterling - Wendy Miles QC / Partner, Debevoise Against the proposition - Patricio Grané Labat / Partner, Arnold & Porter - Emilie Gonin / Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Young practitioners: How to raise your profile in the arbitration network (CAD 2019) | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ Topics for discussion: - Arbitration Events: Should you go to them? How to introduce yourself and air your views in them? - Elevating your profile in public: friend or foe? - Should you display your professional experience? - Social Media: Connections, posts, likes, and effect on your arbitration career. - Institutional perspective: What is the role of arbitral institutions in promoting or even regulating the issues? Moderators: - Maria Claudia PROCOPIAC (ICC YAF; Dechert) - Faidon VARESIS (University of Cambridge) Panellists - Niuscha BASSIRI, Hanotiau & van den Berg - Elizabeth CHAN, Three Crowns - Philippe BOISVERT, White & Case - Sarah GANZ, WilmerHale This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome address: Professor Richard Fentiman (CAD 2019) | In this recording, Professor Richard Fentiman (University of Cambridge) welcomes attendees to CAD 2019. The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'International Arbitration: from Legal Practice to Social Community': Andrea Carlevaris (CAD 2019) | In this recording, Andrea Carlevaris (BonelliErede) gives the keynote for CAD 2019. The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2: 'Is this arbitrator good? I'm asking for a friend': Silvia Julio Bueno de Miranda (CAD 2019) | This panel presentation was given by Silvia Julio Bueno de Miranda (Partner, L.O. Baptista). The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ | 22 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome address: Professor Richard Fentiman (CAD 2019) | In this recording, Professor Richard Fentiman (University of Cambridge) welcomes attendees to CAD 2019. The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ | 21 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Should parents have the final say on the medical treatment of their children?': The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture was delivered by Imogen Goold, Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford, on 8 March 2019, and was entitled "Should parents have the final say on the medical treatment of their children?". Imogen Goold is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. She studied Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, receiving her PhD in 2005. Her doctoral research explored the use of property law to regulate human body parts. She also received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Monash in 2005. From 1999, she was a research member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, where she published on surrogacy laws, legal constraints on access to infertility treatments and proprietary rights in human tissue. In 2002, she took up as position as a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on the inquiries into Genetic Information Privacy and Gene Patenting. After leaving the ALRC in 2004, she worked briefly at the World Health Organisation, researching the provision of genetic medical services in developing countries. Her research interests include the regulation of IVF, the ownership of human body parts and the impact of artificial intelligence on the law of tort. For more information about the Baron de Lancey Lecture series, please see: http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 12 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law: 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 7 March 2019 Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law". Lady Hale is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong. In the lecture, Lady Hale gave her perspective on whether the development of the law should be guided by doctrine, or policy. She did this through a reflection and analysis of a number cases, including many on which she had presided, including Patel v Mirza and Radmacher v Granatino. The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC), and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 11 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Should Judges Review Directors’ Business Judgment(s)?' - Andrew Keay & Joan Loughrey: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar | Professor Andrew Keay & Professor Joan Loughrey (University of Leeds, UK) gave a lecture entitled "Should Judges Review Directors’ Business Judgment(s)?" on 21 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as guests of 3CL. Directors are rarely held legally accountable for decisions that have poor outcomes. A key reason is that courts have asserted that the exercise of director’s business judgment should be immune from judicial review. Thus classifying a decision as a business judgment provides directors with a powerful shield from accountability. Yet the meaning and boundaries of the concept of business judgment and the consequences of review/non-review have received little attention. In their seminar, Professors Keay and Loughrey will address this gap by: (1) establishing what is meant by business judgment, (2) identifying how the courts apply this concept, and (3) assessing to what extent directors’ decisions in England and Wales should be subject to review by the courts. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 27 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change: Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês | On 12 February 2019 the ambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês (Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Law School. Member of Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program, Coordinator of Time, Space and Senses of Constitution Research Project) who spoke on the subject "Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change". Polos de Cidadania, translated as Citizenship Hubs, is a research and outreach program of UFMG Law School. Its aims are the effectiveness of human rights and the construction of knowledge through the dialogue between the academic and the non-academic. It works with social groups and individuals with a history of exclusion and risk trajectory. The seminar talks about the experiences of Polos, specifically a recent research and outreach work in a slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It proposes a discussion from this experience about the possibilities and limits of social change through social sciences. The talk approaches themes related to the subject object relation; the setting of research agenda; the construction of research instruments, the dialogue between different types of knowledge; and the relationship between science and politics. Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/Polos_de_Cidadania_Research.pptx | 12 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Making Markets Work: New Challenges for EU Competition Law': The 2019 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2019 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, European Commission, under the title 'Making Markets Work: New Challenges for EU Competition Law' on 4 February 2019. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 5 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CPL Panel: 'The Constitutional Implications of AG Reference: UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Legal Continuity) (Scotland) Bill [2018] UKSC 64' | On 13 December 2018, the Supreme Court delivered its judgment on the 'Scottish Continuity Bill' (https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2018-0080.html). This Bill was enacted by the Scottish Parliament in order to provide its own version of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, providing for the continued application of EU law in Scotland from exit day onwards. The legislation was enacted against the backdrop of Scotland’s refusal to agree to a legislative consent motion for the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2018, which then came into force without Scotland’s consent in breach of the Sewel convention. It also marked the first time that Scottish legislation had been challenged at the pre-legislative stage, using the provisions of section 33 of the Scotland Act 1998. In this video produced by the Cambridge Centre for Public Law, Professor Mark Elliott, Professor Alison Young, and Dr Paul Daly each discuss the constitutional implications of the case, chaired by Dr Shona Wilson Stark. The talk should be of interest for undergraduate students in Constitutional law, Administrative law and European Union law, in addition to postgraduate students working in these areas. For more information, see the CPL website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS #Brexit Myths podcast: Part 1 | The Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge explores the common myths of #Brexit. In this exclusive podcast three academics from the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, give their verdicts on twelve common myths about the UK’s #Brexit from the EU. We speak to Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law and a Senior Fellow in the UK in a Changing Europe Programme; Dr Markus Gehring, University Lecturer in Law at the Law Faculty and former Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; Professor John Bell, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge. In this two part #Brexitmyths documentary we ask them to tell you what is true and what isn’t when #Brexit is being discussed. First we speak to Professor Barnard and Dr Gehring and then Professor Bell to sum up his #Brexit myths at the end of each part. Below we give the questions we put to them and the approximate time codes for their answers so that if you want to dip into parts of this discussion it is easy for you to do so. We hope you enjoy the listen and learn much from it. Producer: Boni Sones OBE #Brexit Myths Part One • 0.00 The Withdrawal Agreement itself – it’s a bad deal? • 7.15 The EU got everything it wanted from the UK and took us for a ride? • 11.15 The NI backstop will keep the UK in a customs union indefinitely? • 14.49 May’s deal or No-Deal are the only two options? • 19.30 Trading on WTO terms will be good for the UK as we do more trade outside the EU than in it? • 23.43 The Political Agreement leading to a trade deal is too vague? #Brexit Myths Part Two • 0.00 We have 2 years to negotiate a trade deal when everything else will stay the same? • 5.15 The economy will dip but can make up ground later? • 12.00 By leaving the EU migration into the UK will reduce significantly? • 14.45 A Canada plus or EEA option will be able to deliver the government’s objectives? • 18.25 We have to reach a deal by 29th March 2019 or “crash out” of the EU and go it alone? • 19.45 We can’t revoke Article 50? | 14 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELS #Brexit Myths podcast: Part 2 | The Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge explores the common myths of #Brexit. In this exclusive podcast three academics from the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge, give their verdicts on twelve common myths about the UK’s #Brexit from the EU. We speak to Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union Law and a Senior Fellow in the UK in a Changing Europe Programme; Dr Markus Gehring, University Lecturer in Law at the Law Faculty and former Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; Professor John Bell, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge. In this two part #Brexitmyths documentary we ask them to tell you what is true and what isn’t when #Brexit is being discussed. First we speak to Professor Barnard and Dr Gehring and then Professor Bell to sum up his #Brexit myths at the end of each part. Below we give the questions we put to them and the approximate time codes for their answers so that if you want to dip into parts of this discussion it is easy for you to do so. We hope you enjoy the listen and learn much from it. Producer: Boni Sones OBE #Brexit Myths Part One • 0.00 The Withdrawal Agreement itself – it’s a bad deal? • 7.15 The EU got everything it wanted from the UK and took us for a ride? • 11.15 The NI backstop will keep the UK in a customs union indefinitely? • 14.49 May’s deal or No-Deal are the only two options? • 19.30 Trading on WTO terms will be good for the UK as we do more trade outside the EU than in it? • 23.43 The Political Agreement leading to a trade deal is too vague? #Brexit Myths Part Two • 0.00 We have 2 years to negotiate a trade deal when everything else will stay the same? • 5.15 The economy will dip but can make up ground later? • 12.00 By leaving the EU migration into the UK will reduce significantly? • 14.45 A Canada plus or EEA option will be able to deliver the government’s objectives? • 18.25 We have to reach a deal by 29th March 2019 or “crash out” of the EU and go it alone? • 19.45 We can’t revoke Article 50? | 14 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 7: New Issues in Reparations | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 7, chaired by Surabhi Ranganathan, featuring: - Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, École Normale Supérieure: 'The ICC approach on reparations: the first reparations orders of the Court' - Ralph Wilde, University College London: 'Rethinking Reparations for Extraterritorial Human Rights Abuses' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 6: New Areas: The Environment | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 6, chaired by Danae Azaria, featuring: - Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University London: 'Reparations and Environmental Damage in International Law' - Benoit Mayer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law: 'Rethinking Reparations in the Context of Climate Change' - Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, European University Institute: 'Reparations for Wartime Environmental Damage' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 5: Non-Monetary Remedies | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 5, chaired by Megan Donaldson, featuring: - Berk Demirkol, University of Galatasaray: 'Is There any Room for Non-Pecuniary Remedies in Investment Treaty Arbitration?' - Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Julie Fraser, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht University: 'Transformative Reparations: Game Changer or Academic Hype?' - Marina Aksenova, IE University: 'Art in the Practice of Reparations at the International Criminal Court and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 4: Moral Damages | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 4, chaired by Veronika Fikfak, featuring: - Ceren Zeynep Pirim, University of Bahcesehir: 'Compensation as a Form of Reparation for Moral Damages' - Patricia Cruz Trabanino, Foley Hoag LLP: 'Intangible but No Less Real – Moral Damages Suffered by a State in Investor-State Arbitration' - Simon Weber, King’s College London: 'The Failure of The Concept of Moral Damages in International Investment Arbitration' - Stephan Wittich, University of Vienna: 'Which Remedy for Which Damage? A Reappraisal of The International Law of Remedies with Particular Focus on the Notion of Non-Material Damage in International Law' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 3: Monetary Remedies | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 3, chaired by Fernando Bordin, featuring: - Julia Motte-Baumvol, Université Paris Descartes: 'Investors’ Conduct and Reparation in International Law: an Investment Law and Human Rights Law Comparative Analysis' - Mads Andenas, University of Oslo: 'The ICJ, the ICC and a General International Law of Compensation - Rachel Murray, Clara Sandoval University of Bristol, University of Essex: 'The Award of Financial Compensation by Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Challenges in Defining and Obtaining Monetary Awards' - Raju Deepak, Sidley Austin LLP: 'Reparations for Wrongful Acts V. Compensation where Wrongfulness is Precluded – What Does it Tell Us About Nature of Reparations and of Wrongfulness?' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 2: Theories and reparations | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 2, chaired by Federica Paddeu, featuring: - Charalampos Giannakopoulos, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: 'Reparations in International Law: A Theoretical Framework' - Edoardo Stoppioni, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg: 'What Theory of Restitutio in Integrum in a Fragmented International Order? An Attempt of Deconstruction' - Mia Swart, Human Sciences Research Council: 'Finding an Appropriate Theory to Justify the Making of Reparations In The Context of Local and International Reparation Debates' | 3 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'From Clarence Thomas to Brett Kavanaugh: The selection and politics of nominees to the US Supreme Court': Shanin Specter - Clare College Lecture (audio) | On 27 November 2018 Clare College, Cambridge, hosted Visiting Clare Fellow Mr Shanin Specter (1983) who delivered a lecture entitled "From Clarence Thomas to Brett Kavanaugh: The selection and politics of nominees to the US Supreme Court". Mr Specter has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, UC Hastings College of the Law, UC Berkley School of Law and Stanford Law School. He is a founding Partner of the US firm Kilne & Specter. For any more information about the event, contact events@clare.cam.ac.uk This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 30 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH Annual Lecture 2018: 'Martial Law in Black and White: the rule of law, the British empire and the Privy Council, 1899-1906' - Michael Lobban | On 26 November 2018 Professor Michael Lobban (LSE) delivered the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Martial Law in Black and White: the rule of law, the British empire and the Privy Council, 1899-1906'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. To find out more, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures | 27 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Post-Brexit Options for the UK: New Legal Analysis | On 16 November 2018 the SRI (Strategic Research Initiative) and the CBR, the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, held a conference at Peterhouse College in Cambridge on Brexit with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion amongst academics and further research on the implications of the UK leaving the EU for public policy. While politicians in Westminster were arguing about the merits of Theresa May, the Prime Minister’s draft Withdrawal Agreement simultaneously delegates to the conference gave their verdict on it. They had actually read the 585 pages of what has been termed the “divorce” bill and the accompanying shorter seven page political agreement which paves the way for our future trade deals. Meanwhile some politicians were admittedly having difficulty getting to grips with it. In this special 57 minute audio podcast three of the Conference guest speakers give their views on the Withdrawal Agreement. All three took issue with the views expressed in the mainstream media that the Agreement was a dogs’ breakfast. They argue that it is a very well-crafted and thought through legal document and that the EU and UK negotiating teams’ have shown considerable skill in drafting it. Simon Deakin, Director of the Centre for Business Research and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge said that both the EU and UK negotiators need to be congratulated on it. But he expressed concerns about Citizens rights. Deakin key quote: “It is a very soft form of Brexit in which we continue to abide by many standards in terms of labour law and the environment and many people like that. But people who supported Brexit wanted to use it as an opportunity to deregulate these standards, they would be unhappy. People who are concerned about citizens’ rights will also be unhappy, because it has some protections for EU citizens here and those UK citizens living in mainland Europe, but it doesn’t go far enough in many respects, it doesn’t give UK citizens living in mainland Europe the right to live and work outside the EU host state they have been living within. We’re under protecting EU Citizens abroad.” Deakin gives a powerful summary of how he thinks the Agreement will play out for the UK in the longer term in terms of the devolved assemblies, and its economic impact. “Brexit here as elsewhere puts enormous pressure on our existing constitutional arrangements and begins to call into question the legitimacy of the way in which Brexit has been conducted because significant voices such as the devolved administrations would argue they have been left out. “It is legally impressive to have produced a text of this nature so quickly. People drafting it on both the EU and British side deserve to be congratulated. We do need law to play a role here. Without the enormous effort to put into legal terms this big political shift we would be facing a much more chaotic and difficult situation. The deal that has been offered by the EU is infinitely preferable to no-deal; no-deal will not just put at risk our economy but many aspects of social provision including things as basic as the free circulation of medicines and the free circulation of some goods and no-deal could easily lead to food shortages and the mothballing of other aspects of our industrial capacity. “But on the down side it doesn’t sufficiently protect the rights of UK citizens living on the mainland and our environmental and labour rights because the non-regression clause only applies up to the end of the transition period. It could have provided for a more dynamic forward looking alignment of UK law with those standards. The customs territory has been designed as a function of the need to avoid a hard border in NI and this is understandable but it underplays the degree to which we need a customs union within the EU.” He went on to say that the Agreement was a compromise: “It’s the compromise and that | 22 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Panel 1: Introduction to reparations | On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. This is Panel 1, chaired by Photini Pazartzis, featuring: - Gustavo Prieto, University of Turin: 'The Role of Social Rights in the Calculation of Damages: The Erased Lines of the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States' - Luis F. Viveros-Montoya, University College London: 'Reparation in International Human Rights Law: A Generalist Approach to Treaty-Based Frameworks' | 22 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Egg Freezing in the UK: The data we have is the tip of the iceberg: Zeynep Gurtin | On 15 November 2018 the Cambridge Family Law Centre, and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Dr Zeynep Gurtin of the Institute for Women's Health, University College London, who spoke on the subject "Egg Freezing in the UK: The data we have is the tip of the iceberg". In this seminar, Dr Gurtin discusses her research into egg freezing in the UK. In particular, she focuses on what aspects of this fast-growing phenomenon have, to date, been accurately captured in national and HFEA data reporting and what aspects have remained obscured. Dr Gurtin assesses the current landscape and make some predictions regarding the future of egg freezing, as well as suggesting much-needed policy developments in this area. | 16 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Britain’s Broken Economic Model and Why Brexit isn’t the Cure | Simon Deakin, Director of the Centre for Business Research and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, tells the Cambridge Public Policy SRI (Strategic Research Initiative) why Brexit isn’t the cure for Britain’s broken economic model. On 16 November 2018 the SRI and the CBR, the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, are holding a conference in Cambridge on Brexit with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion amongst academics and further research on the implications of the UK leaving the EU for public policy. This is the third of a series of podcasts which the Public Policy SRI has commissioned with key speakers involved in the Cambridge event. In this audio podcast Professor Deakin explains that Britain’s low-wage, low productivity economy is the result of forty years of neoliberal economic policies. While some on the Left think that Brexit will allow a reset of British economic policy, Deakin explains why this view is implausible. Even a benign or ‘soft’ Brexit will cause a shock to Britain’s trading relations that will have long-lasting consequences. If there is a hard, no-deal Brexit, the effect will be akin to ‘shock therapy’ of the kind inflicted by neoliberal policy makers on the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. | 10 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Where Are We Going? Reflections on the Rule of Law in a Dangerous World': The 2018 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 19 October 2018, The Rt Hon. Beverley McLachlin delivered the 2018 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Where Are We Going? Reflections on the Rule of Law in a Dangerous World". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 23 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Young Practitioners' Event Organised with ICC YAF 2017: Panel on The Clash Between the Common Law and Civil Law Approach in International Arbitration | This Young Practitioners’ Event was organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017, and preceded the main conference. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. The panel discussion was on: Clash Between the Common Law and Civil Law Approach in International Arbitration 1. Moderator: Ania Farren / Partner Berwin Leighton Paisner 2. Role of the Counsel: Timothy Foden / Of Counsel Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan 3. Discovery & Document Productions: Saadia Bhatty / Associate Clyde & Co 4. Differences in Advocacy & Pleading: Alexis Martinez / Partner Squire Patton Boggs 5. The Inter-relationship Between the Courts and Arbitration: Ruth Byrne / Partner King & Spalding | 15 10 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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There’s no better trade deal for the UK than being in the EU but the Chequers ‘sticky tape’ may just help the UK Brexit if it still wants to. | Dr Lorand Bartels, a Reader in International Law at the University of Cambridge, teaches WTO & EU law, tells the Cambridge Public Policy SRI (Strategic Research Initiative) what he thinks the UK’s prospects are of getting proper trade deals with other countries post Brexit. | 20 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Will Michel Barnier save Theresa May’s bacon and will historian’s look back on a wasted three months soon after the UK’s June 2016 Referendum? | Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Fellow of UK in a Changing Europe tells the Cambridge Public Policy SRI (Strategic Research Initiative) what she thinks of the UK government’s Chequers Deal. The SRI and the CBR, the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, are holding a conference in November on Brexit with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion amongst academics and further research on the implications of the UK leaving the EU for public policy. This is the first of a series of podcasts the SRI Public Policy has commissioned with key speakers involved in the Cambridge event. | 12 9 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Politics of Constitution-Making after the Arab Spring': Hughes Hall Hat Club | On 16th May 2012, the Hughes Hall Hat Club at the University of Cambridge held a special public seminar which comprised a panel discussion based on the central topic of "The Politics of Constitution-Making after the Arab Spring”. The panel addressed whether re-constitutionalisation in the post-authoritarian era can embody the aspirations of the popular uprisings that swept across many parts of the Middle East and North Africa and the ways in which ongoing debates around constitutionalisation indicate that the Arab Spring is far from over. Among the topics highlighted was the discernible pertinence of the idea of constitutional change in the aftermath of the unprecedented political transitions. Presentations focused specifically on the limited extent to which constitutions have mattered in the past, focusing particularly on the eastern Arab world, the historical mismatch between the textual content of constitutions and how governments have actually behaved in practice—and to what extent that has changed over the last few years since the uprisings. Specific case studies examined the implications of the centralized planning system in Egypt, the obstacles to reform and the challenges presented to decentralization and regional planning initiatives currently underway; the referendum and recent constitutional reforms in Morocco; and recent debates in Bahrain. The speakers were Dr. Glen Rangwala, University Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of Trinity College; Professor John Loughlin, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies and a Fellow of St Edmund’s College; Professor Marc Weller, the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law in the Faculty of Law; and Mr. Mohammad Ahnouch, business professional specializing on the MENA region, founding member of MarocObs, an association of Young Moroccans promoting free speech, monitoring and commenting political events in the Moroccan scene. Dr. John Barker, Chairman of the UK Foreign Compensation Commission, a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Law Fellow of Hughes Hall chaired the panel. Mr. Abduljalil Khalil, a leading figure in Bahrain's largest opposition party, Al Wefaq, contributed to the discussion. | 24 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Legal Aid and the Costs Review Reforms': Lord Justice Rupert Jackson | On Monday 5 September in the Moot Court Room of the Faculty of Law, Lord Justice Rupert Jackson delivered a talk entitled 'Legal Aid and the Costs Review Reforms'. In it, he considered Government proposals to reduce public financial support for civil proceedings through the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, implementing some of Lord Justice Jackson's recommendations in his Civil Litigation Costs Review. Following the talk, there was discussion by academics and practitioners. | 24 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Judge James Crawford: Part 1: Early Life and Career (3 May 2018) | Judge Crawford was interviewed on 3 and 4 May 2018, in his office at The Hague. Audio recordings are available on the Squire Law Library website with transcript of those recordings: - Part 1: Early Life and Career (3 May 2018); - Part 2: Scholarly Works (4 May 2018). For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 9 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Judge James Crawford: Part 2: Scholarly Works (4 May 2018) | Judge Crawford was interviewed on 3 and 4 May 2018, in his office at The Hague. Audio recordings are available on the Squire Law Library website with transcript of those recordings: - Part 1: Early Life and Career (3 May 2018); - Part 2: Scholarly Works (4 May 2018). For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 9 8 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conclusions: Why 'Fairness' Matters!: David Feldman (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conclusions: Why 'Fairness' Matters!: Ruth Armstrong (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Improving Independence, Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness?: Anthea Hucklesby (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Improving Independence, Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness?: Baroness Newlove (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Improving Independence, Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness?: Laura Janes (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Improving Independence, Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness?: Martin Jones (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Law and Theory: Dr Paul Daly (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Law and Theory: Phillippa Kaufmann QC (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Law and Theory: Simon Creighton (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parole Practice: Dr Jackie Craissati MBE (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parole Practice: Lizzette Ambrose (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome: David Feldman (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome: Nicky Padfield (Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference) | The Parole: Law, Policy and Practice in 2018 Conference was held at the Faculty of Law on 2 July 2018, hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice, and the Centre for Public Law. The Ministry of Justice announced a public consultation into the law, policy and procedure relating to parole which closes on 28 July. The purpose of this conference was to engage in discussions with leading figures in the field and to enrich responses to the consultation. For information about the conference see: http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk | 1 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: Taking Remedies Seriously': 2018 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 8 May 2018 Professor Stephen Smith of McGill University delivered the 2018 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: Taking Remedies Seriously". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Stephen Smith is internationally renowned for his work in private law. He is the James McGill Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, and teaches and researches common law and civil law obligations and legal theory. A former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson, Professor Smith is the author of Contract Theory (2004) and Atiyah’s Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed (2005). He is in Cambridge for the Easter Term as a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor/British Academy Visiting Fellow. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: https://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/CambridgeFreshfieldsLecture This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 9 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Responsibility of Internet Platform Companies to Mitigate Harmful Content Online': Justine Nolan (audio) | Justine Nolan, Associate Professor & Associate Dean, University of New South Wales, Michael Posner, Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance, Business and Society & Co-Director, Center for Business and Human Rights, NYU Stern School of Business / Tara Wadhwa, Policy Associate, Center for Business and Human Rights, NYU Stern School of Business / Dr Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Research Director, NYU Stern School of Business, speaking on Panel XIII: 'The Responsibility of Internet Platform Companies to Mitigate Harmful Content Online'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Including the Responsibility of Economic Actors into Transitional Justice Processes': Dr Sabine Michalowski (audio) | Dr Sabine Michalowski, Professor of Law, University of Essex, speaking on Panel XIII: 'Including the Responsibility of Economic Actors into Transitional Justice Processes'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Mapping the Informal Jurisprudence of Corporate Production and Investment Responsibility': Dr Justice Malbon (audio) | Dr Justin Malbon, Professor, Monash University, speaking on Panel XIII: 'Mapping the Informal Jurisprudence of Corporate Production and Investment Responsibility'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Role of the Concept of Human Rights Due Diligence in Fostering Corporate Accountability': Dr Claire Bright (audio) | Dr Claire Bright, Senior Lecturer, London School of Business and Management, speaking on Panel XIII: 'The Role of the Concept of Human Rights Due Diligence in Fostering Corporate Accountability'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Transnational Anti-Abortion Activism, the Right to Free Speech and the Rights of Others under International Law': Dr Tania Penovic (audio) | Dr Tania Penovic, Senior Lecturer, Monash University & Acting Director, Castan Centre for, Human Rights Law, Monash University, speaking on Panel II: 'Transnational Anti-Abortion Activism, the Right to Free Speech and the Rights of Others under International Law'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Meaningful Human Control of "Killer Robots": The Effectiveness of Civil Society Actors in Shaping International Arms Control Norms': Niklas Woehlk (audio) | Niklas Woehlk, Trier University, speaking on Panel II: 'Meaningful Human Control of "Killer Robots": The Effectiveness of Civil Society Actors in Shaping International Arms Control Norms'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Influence of Social Media Activism and Opinion Leaders on International Environmental Law': John Dunford, Chiayu Tung & Chung-Han Yang (audio) | John Dunford, Campaigns Lead, The Developer Society / Chiayu Tung, MPhil Candidate, University of Cambridge / Chung-Han Yang, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, speaking on Panel II: 'The Influence of Social Media Activism and Opinion Leaders on International Environmental Law'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Civil Society: Enduring Relevance "The Role of Ukrainian Civil Society in Ensuring Justice for the Conflict-Affected Country"': Dr Kateryna Busol (audio) | Dr Kateryna Busol, Legal Associate, Global, Rights Compliance LLP & Visiting Professional, International Criminal Court speaking on Panel II: 'Civil Society: Enduring Relevance'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'How GQUAL, the Campaign for Gender Parity at International Courts and UN Special Procedures, is Reshaping the Face of International Justice': Jessica Corsi (audio) | Jessica Corsi, Law Lecturer, Brunel University, London & PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, speaking on Panel II: 'How GQUAL, the Campaign for Gender Parity at International Courts and UN Special Procedures, is Reshaping the Face of International Justice'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'International Law between States and NonStates': Professor Jorge E. Viñuales (audio) | Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel, Professor of Law and Environmental Policy, Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law & Founder, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge, giving the second keynote address on 'International Law between States and NonStates'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Third Assize Seminar Session 3: 'Difficulties in Getting Into the Court of Appeal Following a Change in Law' - Francis FitzGibbon | The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic. The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "Difficulties in Getting Into the Court of Appeal Following a Change in Law", featuring: - Speaker: Francis FitzGibbon QC, Doughty Street Chambers For more information see the CCCJ website at: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars | 30 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Third Assize Seminar Session 2: 'Disclosure' - Ian Dennis & Alex Chalk | The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic. The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "Disclosure", featuring: - Speaker: Professor Ian Dennis, University College London - Commentator: Alex Chalk MP For more information see the CCCJ website at: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars | 30 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Third Assize Seminar Session 1: 'What is a sentence' - Nicola Padfield & Andrew Ashworth | The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic. The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "What is a Sentence?", featuring: - Speaker: Professor Nicola Padfield QC (Hon), University of Cambridge - Commentator: Professor Andrew Ashworth QC (Hon), University of Oxford For more information see the CCCJ website at: https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars | 30 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Due diligence and duties to cooperate: The new frontiers of States’ duties to control nonState actors': Professor Olivier De Schutter (audio) | Professor Olivier De Schutter, Professor of International Law, Catholic University of Louvain, Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, giving the first keynote address on 'Due diligence and duties to cooperate: the new frontiers of States’ duties to control nonState actors'. Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 23 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Parenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2018 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2018 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard University, on 9 March 2018, and was entitled "Parenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies". Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard University, and one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. His award-winning research has appeared in the top legal, ethical and medical journals, and he is regularly cited in national news media. He has authored and edited several books, including Patients with Passports, Specimen Science, and Identified versus Statistical Lives. Prior to receiving tenure at Harvard, he served as a law clerk on a U.S. federal Court of Appeals and as an appellate lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice. In his spare time, he still litigates, most recently having authored amicus briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases on the patentability of human genes and abortion rights. A gallery of photographs from the event is available at https://1drv.ms/f/s!Au0Tn35SqSa2gYkI0p2cjZU0Jvv9mQ This event is kindly sponsored by the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, and organised by the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, in collaboration with Cambridge Family Law. For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 12 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What Price Sovereignty? Brexit and Human Rights': The 2018 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture (audio) | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2018 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP QC under the title 'Is Globalisation Faltering?' on 1 March 2018. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 2 3 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'John Worboys: Judicial Review of the Parole Board': Christopher Forsyth (audio) | In January 2018 it was reported that the Parole Board had approved the release of John Worboys, the so-called ‘Black Cab Rapist’. Worboys had been incarcerated since his conviction for a number of sexual offences in March 2009, and it was believed that he was responsible for many attacks over which he was not charged. The announcement of the decision caused much public unrest, and led to scrutiny of the Parole Board’s decision and suggestions that it should be subject to judicial review. In this video, Professor Christopher Forsyth considers the situation, and the likelihood of any review being successful. Christopher Forsyth was Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge. For more information about Professor Forsyth, please refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/c-f-forsyth/31 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 20 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH Annual Lecture 2017: 'Why civil lawyers? Alberico Gentili's commitment to legal scholarship and public governance' - Alain Wijffels (audio) | On 20 November 2017 Professor Alain Wijffels of KU Leuven delivered the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Why civil lawyers? Alberico Gentili's commitment to legal scholarship and public governance'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. To find out more, and download the accompanying presentation, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 4 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Friction between the Rule of Law and Law Enforcement Costs Moral Education a Fortune: CCCJ/Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics Seminar | Professor Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Ethics at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York City, whose publications include: Choosing Character: Responsibility for Virtue and Vice (2001) and the Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics (co-edited with Jonathan Jackson, 2017). Professor Jacobs spoke at the Institute of Criminology on 29 November 2017. | 29 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversation with Professor Sir John Laws | Professor Sir John Laws was interviewed by Lesley Dingle on 15 June 2017, at the Goodhart Lodge. This recording supports the entry in the Eminent Scholars Archive at: https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive/professor-sir-john-laws For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 16 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The evolution of vicarious liability': Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Lecture 2017 | On Wednesday 8 November 2017, Professor Simon Deakin of the University of Cambridge delivered the 2017 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The evolution of vicarious liability". The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website at www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 8 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with John Baker #1: Early life | Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (22 February 2017): Early life - Second Interview (10 March 2017): Academic Career - Third Interview (31 March 2017): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 2 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with John Baker #3: Scholarly works | Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (22 February 2017): Early Life - Second Interview (10 March 2017): Academic Career - Third Interview (31 March 2017): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 2 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CPL Seminar: 'The Miller Judgment: An Evaluation' | On 22 May 2017 Professor Mark Elliott of the University of Cambridge gave a seminar entitled "The "Brexit" decision, Miller v. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union" hosted by the Centre for Public Law (CPL). For more information see the CPL website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 23 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Venice Commission and the Rule of Law Crisis': Richard Clayton QC | On Wednesday 17th May, Richard Clayton QC will talk at Wolfson College on: "The Venice Commission and the Rule of Law Crisis". Richard Clayton QC is a leading public law barrister who heads the public law team at 7 Bedford Row. In addition to his practice at the Bar, he is the United Kingdom's representative on the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters. The role of the Commission is to provide legal advice to its member states and, in particular, to help states wishing to bring their legal and institutional structures into line with European standards in the fields of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. | 19 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with John Baker #2: Academic Career | Between February and March 2017 Professor Baker was interviewed three times in the Faculty to record his reminiscences as a legal historian. His scholarship of the history of the common law spans nearly half a century at UCL and Cambridge, and culminated in the Downing Chair, and a knighthood. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (22 February 2017): Early Life - Second Interview (10 March 2017): Academic Career - Third Interview (31 March 2017): Scholarly works For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive | 17 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Brexit and the Constitution' - Sir John Laws: CPL Lecture | The A. L. Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, the Rt Hon. Sir John Laws gave a talk entitled "Brexit and the Constitution" on 2 May 2017 as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). Sir John spoke on a wide range of issues arising from the process of leaving the EU, including the use of the referendum and the Miller litigation in the Supreme Court. For more information, or to download the full transcript, see the CPL website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past-activities-0 | 3 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Is France now ungovernable?': John Bell (audio) | In the first round of the French Presidential election, Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen progressed to the runoff on 7 May, notwithstanding neither candidate having the backing of the traditionally powerful parliamentary parties. Will the new French President be hamstrung in power if she or he does not obtain a majority in the parliamentary elections of June 2017? Does the French Constitution enable a government to govern without its policies being approved by Parliament? This short video by Professor John Bell provides some answers. John Bell is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. For more information about Professor Bell, please refer to his profile at www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-bell/6 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 25 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Enforcement of Equality and Human Rights by Dr David Barrett | In this episode, Dr David Barrett from Nottingham Trent University speaks about the impact of Brexit on regulatory actors, in particular the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Care Quality Commission. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brexit, Administrative Justice and Human Rights by Joe Tomlinson | In this episode, Dr Joe Tomlinson from Sheffield University questions how Brexit will affect administrative justice and in particular the protection of human rights in the administrative process. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Doctor Derogation Love by Dr Stuart Wallace | In this episode, Dr Stuart Wallace, a Lecturer at University of Cambridge, speaks about the Government’s decision to stop applying the European Convention on Human Rights (or to derogate) for situations arising from military actions abroad (Iraq, Afghanistan etc). | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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About Foreign Reeves and Judges - Confronting domestic backlashes again human rights through dissemination of core values by Ömer Keskin | In this episode, Ömer Keskin is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne. In his talk, he explains how referendums work in Switzerland and how international law could be used to improve popular initiatives. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Constitutional Referendum, Socio-Economic Rights by Dr Katie Boyle | In this episode, Dr Katie Boyle, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, investigates what information citizens had access to prior to the 2016 referendum and questions whether a new approach to referendums – one that allows genuine deliberation – is necessary. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Reach of Common Law Rights by Thomas Fairclough | In this episode, Thomas Fairclough, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge disputes the argument that common law rights are only limited in scope and therefore cannot offer the protection of human rights that we currently enjoy. Instead, he argues the common law can be used to fill the gap created by Brexit or repeal of the Human Rights Act. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unchartered Waters: Fundamental Social Rights and the Common Law Contract of Employment by Niall O'Connor | In this episode, Niall O’Connor is a Phd student at University of Cambridge and he talks about how the common law could provide protection for social rights after Brexit. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Human Rights Post-Brexit: Inadvertent Protection & Violation by Dr Joelle Grogan | In this episode, Dr Joelle Grogan who is a Lecturer at Middlesex University Law School, talks about how we may be able to use existing law to protect some human rights after Brexit. She speaks about rights that may be protected under the common law and rights that may be incorporated into domestic law through the Great Repeal Bill. Finally, she addresses rights that will be lost as a result of Brexit. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Complexities of Human Rights and Constitutional Reform in the UK by Leanne Cochrane | In this episode, Leanne Cochrane who is a PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast, maps out the current human rights situation in the UK. She looks at the implications of Brexit on human rights protections and the possibility of a new British Bill of Rights. The paper she presents is co-authored with Dr Katie Boyle (who appears in a later podcast). | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Introduction to Human Rights after Brexit Podcasts by Dr Veronika Fikfak | Human Rights after Brexit podcast is a series of nine podcasts in which young human rights experts discuss the implications of Brexit for human rights protection in the UK. Employment, equality, data protection, are all in danger of being undermined. In these podcasts, experts seek to identify questions that are likely to come up in the next two years before we leave the EU and provide tentative answers. The podcasts were recorded at the workshop led by Dr Veronika Fikfak and held at the University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre at the end of March 2017. The workshop was sponsored by the British Academy. | 12 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Panel 1: Commercial Arbitration: Where is it Headed? | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This recording is the first Panel discussion: Commercial Arbitration: Where is it Headed? 1. Moderator: Prof. Dr Loukas Mistelis / Professor Queen Mary University of London 2. The Ethics of Counsel in International Arbitration: Is There a Need for Regulation?: Duncan Speller / Partner WilmerHale 3. The Increasing Use of Due Process as a Sword, Not a Shield: Richard Smith / Partner Allen & Overy 4. Third Parties in Commercial Arbitration: Marco De Sousa / Associate Herbert Smith Freehills 5. Emergency of Expedited Proceedings & Analysis of Their Innovative Features: Roland Ziadé / Partner Linklaters | 30 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Dogs, Daughters and "Disinheritance" in the Supreme Court': Brian Sloan (audio) | In Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 (http://ukscblog.com/new-judgment-ilott-v-the-blue-cross-ors-2017-uksc-17/) the Supreme Court considered the competing claims of the animal charities included in a woman's will and her estranged adult daughter, who was excluded from the will but living in necessitous circumstances. In this video, Brian Sloan considers the outcome of the case, which raised fundamental principles of succession law, and its broader implications. Brian Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and lectures in Family Law. For more information about Dr Sloan, please refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/bd-sloan/409 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 29 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Panel 2: Defending Investment Arbitration: A Lost Battle? | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This recording is the second panel event, Defending Investment Arbitration: A Lost Battle? 1. Moderator: Wendy Miles, QC / Partner Debevoise & Plimpton 2. Stronger Pre-Conditions to Arbitration - Recent Trends in Treaty Drafting: Giorgio Francesco Mandelli / Partner Volterra Fietta 3. Interaction Between Investment Arbitration, Human Rights & Trade Law: Mark McNeill / Partner Shearman & Sterling 4. Current Challenges to Enforcing Investment Arbitration Awards: Lucy Martinez / Counsel Three Crowns 5. The Shift to an Investment Court and an Appeals Mechanism: Patricio Grané Labat / Partner Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer | 23 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Panel 3: Question and Answer Session & Closing Remarks | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This recording is the Q&A session which followed the third Panel Discussion, and closing remarks on the conference. | 22 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Keynote speech: Yves Derains, Partner Derains & Gharavi | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ | 22 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Welcome address: Professor Richard Fentiman | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ | 22 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge Arbitration Day 2017: Panel 3: Debate: Increasing Transparency in Commercial & Investment Arbitration - A Welcome Reform? | The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 17 March 2017. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ This recording is the third panel event, which comprised a debate: Increasing Transparency in Commercial & Investment Arbitration - A Welcome Reform? 1. Moderator: Professor Dr Maxi Scherer / Special Counsel WilmerHale, Professor Queen Mary University of London 2. For the Motion (Commercial Arbitration) / Gabriele Ruscalla / Counsel ICC International Court of Arbitration 3. For the Motion (Investment Arbitration) / Samantha Rowe / Associate Debevoise & Plimpton 4. Against the Motion (Commercial Arbitration) / Arif Ali / Partner Dechert 5. Against the Motion (Investment Arbitration) / Richard Power / Partner Clyde & Co | 22 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Is Globalisation Faltering?': The 2017 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2017 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Mr Pascal Lamy (President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute) under the title 'Is Globalisation Faltering?' on 16 March 2017. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 17 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'To Die or not to Die: Assisted Dying in England and Wales - The current legal, moral and societal issues' | The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) hosted Saimo Chahal to deliver a lecture on 7 March 2017. Saimo Chahal is a leading figure in public law, human rights and international law. She has acted as the solicitor in the leading assisted suicide cases of R (Jane Nicklinson and Paul Lamb) v The Ministry of Justice & the DPP & The Attorney General UKSC [2013] and R (Debbie Purdy) v The Director of Public Prosecutions (2009). Further legal challenges to the law prohibiting assisted suicide are imminent and will be heard in the courts this year. Saimo Chahal: She is listed in the Thompson Reuter’s Top 100 Super lawyers ListIn January 2016, Black Lawyers Directory (BLD) first ever “Movers and Shakers” list of the most influential and powerful black lawyers;In April 2014, Ms Chahal was awarded the tile of Honorary QC in recognition of her major contribution to the development of the law of England and Wales. The title has only been awarded to about 115 solicitors in total at that date. For more information about the Centre for Public Law, see: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk For more information about the Centre for Law, Medicine ad Life Sciences, see: http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 8 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Under threat? Safeguarding the future of English law and the English Courts after Brexit': 2017 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On 28 February 2017 Mr Anthony Parry delivered the 2017 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Under threat? Safeguarding the future of English law and the English Courts after Brexit". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. A qualified barrister and Cambridge graduate, Anthony combines long experience of law in government and of working in industry and in the City. Anthony recently served as a Treasury Legal Adviser where he led on European Law issues. Earlier in his career he served as a Foreign Office Legal Adviser and in the European Commission in Brussels. For many years he was European Director at BAE SYSTEMS (formerly British Aerospace). Anthony is now Senior Adviser on Brexit to international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 2 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CPL Seminar: 'Administrative law values and the scope of judicial review of administrative action' | On 27 February Paul Daly of the University of Cambridge gave a seminar entitled "Administrative law values and the scope of judicial review of administrative action" as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). For more information see the CPL website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law': The 2017 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 24 February 2017, The Honourable Mr Justice Singh delivered the 2017 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Reconstructing Judicial Review' - Sarah Nason: CPL New Faces in Public Law seminar | Dr Sarah Nason of the University of Bangor delivered a seminar discussing her book "Reconstructing Judicial Review" (Hart Publishing, 2016) on 21 February 2017 as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). This is the first seminar in an occasional series in which early-career public lawyers from round the UK are given a forum to discuss their work with an interested, informed group of scholars. More information about the Centre is available at the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: CCCJ/CSLG Seminar - Jennifer Ann Drobac | Professor Dr Jennifer Ann Drobac of Indiana University (Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall) was a guest at a joint CCCJ/Cambridge Socio-legal Group event on 2 February 2017. | 2 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Jennifer Ann Drobac | Professor Dr Jennifer Ann Drobac of Indiana University (Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall) was a guest at a joint CCCJ/Cambridge Socio-legal Group event on 2 February 2017. When we consider the concept of sexual abuse and harassment, our minds tend to jump either towards adults caught in unhealthy relationships or criminals who take advantage of children. But the millions of maturing teenagers who also deal with sexual harassment can fall between the cracks. When it comes to sexual relationships, adolescents pose a particular problem. Few teenagers possess all of the emotional and intellectual tools needed to navigate these threats, including the all too real advances made by supervisors, teachers, and mentors. In “Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers”, Jennifer Drobac explores the shockingly common problem of maturing adolescents who are harassed and exploited by adults in their lives. Reviewing the neuroscience and psychosocial evidence of adolescent development, she explains why teens are so vulnerable to adult harassers. Even today, in an age of increasing public awareness, criminal and civil law regarding the sexual abuse of minors remains tragically inept and irregular from state to state in the U.S. Drobac uses six recent cases of teens suffering sexual harassment to illuminate the flaws and contradictions of this system, skillfully showing how our current laws fail to protect youths, and offering an array of imaginative legal reforms that could achieve increased justice for adolescent victims of sexual coercion. | 2 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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P.J. Allott: Welcome to Eutopia! | On 20 January 2017, Professor Allott addressed the the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) as part of their regular Friday lunchtime lecture series. In July 2016, Professor Allott published Eutopia. New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. That book uses the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the starting-point for a similar overview of the present and possible future state of the human world, including the human world at the global level. This talk draws attention to the essential features of this personal summa philosophica. | 24 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Rising Executive Pay: the Final Countdown?': Bobby Reddy (audio) | At the end of November 2016, the British Government published an open consultation green paper on corporate governance reform, seeking views on proposals relating to executive pay, employee and customer voice, and corporate governance in large private businesses. The consultation is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/corporate-governance-reform In this latest edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled "Law in Focus", Bobby Reddy discusses the government's ambitious green paper. In particular, Bobby casts a critical eye over the proposals revolving around executive pay and employee representatives on boards of listed companies. Rising executive remuneration has long been an emotive issue, and following some high profile instances of extreme executive pay and the rising disparity between executive and regular employee pay, the theme is once again in the headlights of the regulators. Furthermore, Bobby analyses the government's latest proposals with respect to the related topic of representing employee interests in listed companies, which fall somewhat short of previous governmental statements advocating requirements to directly appoint employees as members of boards. Bobby Reddy is a University Lecturer in Company Law, specialising in corporate governance, corporate finance and corporate law in general. He is a former corporate partner at the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP having practised in London and Washington D.C. in the areas of public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment funds, regulatory, cross-border transactions, and company representation. He is also a trustee of the charitable corporate governance think tank, Tomorrow's Company. For more information about Mr Reddy, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/bv-reddy/77252 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 7 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversation with Professor Cheryl Saunders | Professor Cheryl Saunders is Laureate Professor Emeritus at Melbourne Law School, and Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the University of Melbourne and was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2005-2006. Professor Saunders was interviewed on 12 September 2016, in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/ | 7 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Contemporary Issues in Land Registration': CPLC Guest lecture - Elizabeth Cooke | Speaker: Judge Elizabeth Cooke (Principal Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Property Chamber (Land Registration); Former Law Commissioner): 'Contemporary issues in Land Registration' | 23 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CELH Annual Lecture 2016: 'Milsom's Legal History' - David Ibbetson | On 18 November 2016 Professor David Ibbetson delivering the CELH annual lecture on the topic 'Milsom's Legal History'. The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre holds regular seminars during academic terms, and an annual centrepiece lecture. To find out more, please refer to: http://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/lectures | 21 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What Have Ships Ever Done for You? The Impact of Maritime Law': Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Lecture 2016 | On Wednesday 16 November 2016, The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma GBM QC SC delivered the 2016 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "What Have Ships Ever Done for You? The Impact of Maritime Law". The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website at www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 17 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Justice Stratas, Professor Cora Hoexter, Professor Richard Rawlings and Professor Johannes Chan: ‘Themes and Reflections’ | From 12 to 14 September 2016, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held the second in a biennial series of conferences on Public Law. The theme for the second Public Law Conference was "The Unity of Public Law?". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor Mark Elliott introduces Justice Stratas, Professor Cora Hoexter, Professor Richard Rawlings and Professor Johannes Chan as they offer their reflections on the papers and themes presented at the conference. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 16 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Professor Cheryl Saunders: ‘Transplants in Public Law’ / Professor Aileen McHarg: ‘Unity and Diversity in the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution’ | From 12 to 14 September 2016, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held the second in a biennial series of conferences on Public Law. The theme for the second Public Law Conference was "The Unity of Public Law?". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Lord Reed (UK Supreme Court) introduces Professor Cheryl Saunders who spoke on the topic ‘Transplants in Public Law’, and Professor Aileen McHarg who spoke on the topic ‘Unity and Diversity in the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution’. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 16 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hiebert ‘Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Do They Alter the Norms of Legislative Decision-Making?’ / Geiringer ‘Unity and Disunity in the Commonwealth Model of Human Rights Protection’ | From 12 to 14 September 2016, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held the second in a biennial series of conferences on Public Law. The theme for the second Public Law Conference was "The Unity of Public Law?". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Chief Justice French (High Court of Australia) introduces Professor Janet Hiebert who spoke on the topic ‘Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Do They Alter the Norms of Legislative Decision-Making?’ and Professor Claudia Geiringer who spoke on ‘Unity and Disunity in the Commonwealth Model of Human Rights Protection’. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 16 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dame Sian Elias: 'The Unity of Public Law?' (audio) | From 12 to 14 September 2016, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held the second in a biennial series of conferences on Public Law. The theme for the second Public Law Conference was "The Unity of Public Law?". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor Mark Elliott welcomes delegates to the second day of the conference, and Dr Jason Varuhas introduces Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias (New Zealand Supreme Court) who spoke on the conference topic of 'The Unity of Public Law?'. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 16 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Opening / Chief Justice French & Lord Reed: 'Inter-Jurisdictional Dialogue' | From 12 to 14 September 2016, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held the second in a biennial series of conferences on Public Law. The theme for the second Public Law Conference was "The Unity of Public Law?". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor Richard Fentiman, Chair of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, welcomes delegates to the conference. He is followed by Chief Justice French (High Court of Australia) and Lord Reed (UK Supreme Court) speaking on the subject of 'Inter-Jurisdictional Dialogue'. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 15 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Legal Obligations. Legal Revolutions': The 2016 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On Thursday 21 July 2016 The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered the 2016 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Legal Obligations. Legal Revolutions". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In 2016, the lecture was delivered as part of the proceedings of the Obligations VII Conference, which was held at Downing College Cambridge from 19-22 July. For more information about the Obligations conferences, see http://www.obsconf.com/ More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, will be available from the Private Law Centre website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 22 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Brexit: Legally and constitutionally, what now?': Mark Elliott (audio) | In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the result of the UK referendum on EU membership was announced. By a narrow but clear majority the vote was to leave the European Union. This result has begun a chain of seismic political consequences in the UK and the EU, and will have widespread implications for the law and constitution in the UK. In this video, Mark Elliott assess the immediate impact of the result. Professor Elliott has also written a blog post available at: https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2016/06/24/brexit-legally-and-constitutionally-what-now/ For more information about Professor Elliott, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 24 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What does Europe mean for... Women': Dr Marina Prentoulis | In early 2016 the Cambridge University European Society hosted a series of lectures entitled "What does Europe mean for... " In this lecture, held on 22 April 2016, Dr Marina Prentoulis of the University of East Anglia gave a lecture entitled 'What does Europe mean for... Women'. For more information on the Cambridge University European Society, see their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge-University-European-Society/380957688650847 | 26 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The lion beneath the throne: law as history': The 2016 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 4 March 2016, Sir Stephen Sedley delivered the 2016 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The lion beneath the throne: law as history". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 9 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What does Europe mean for... Social Rights': Professor Catherine Barnard | In early 2016 the Cambridge University European Society hosted a series of lectures entitled "What does Europe mean for... " In this lecture, held on 8 March 2016, Professor Catherine Barnard gave a lecture entitled 'What does Europe mean for... Social Rights'. For more information on the Cambridge University European Society, see their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge-University-European-Society/380957688650847 | 9 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What's in David Cameron's baskets? The UK's deal with the EU': Catherine Barnard (audio) | After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this next video in the Law in Focus series, Catherine Barnard examines the effects of the settlement. A three-minute quick summary of the settlement is also available: Professor Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law. She has written extensively on EU Law and Labour Law, and has been involved in advising the UK Government as part of its balance of competence review. For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 7 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What's in David Cameron's baskets? A three minute guide': Catherine Barnard (audio) | After long negotiations, on 19 February Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the European Council had agreed a new settlement for the United Kingdom in the European Union. In line with the Conservative Party manifesto, this agreement has triggered a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. In this next video in the Law in Focus series, Catherine Barnard examines the effects of the settlement. A longer analysis of the settlement is also available: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2196035 Professor Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law. She has written extensively on EU Law and Labour Law, and has been involved in advising the UK Government as part of its balance of competence review. For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 7 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'R v Jogee: The Supreme Court and the law of complicity': Matthew Dyson (audio) | The successful appeal in R v Jogee and Ruddock v The Queen before the a combined Supreme Court and Privy Council raises important issues in the criminal law of complicity (sometimes unhelpfully labelled 'joint enterprise'). In this video Dr Matthew Dyson, who advised the appellant's counsel in the case considers the law of complicity, what the case changed, and its implications. Dr Matthew Dyson is Fellow in Law and Director of Studies at Trinity College. His research includes complicity specifically, giving evidence before the House of Commons Justice Select Committee, and wider issues such as volumes like "Comparing Tort and Crime" and "Unravelling Tort and Crime" by Cambridge University Press. For more information about Dr Dyson, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/m-dyson/716 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 19 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Montgomery: a dramatic change in the law on patient consent?': The Baron de Lancey Medical Law Lecture 2016 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The The Baron de Lancey Medical Law Lecture 2016 was delivered on 5 February 2016 by Mr James Badenoch QC who acted as counsel for the successful appellant before the UK Supreme Court in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11, and was entitled "Montgomery: a dramatic change in the law on patient consent?". In his lecture James Badenoch outlined the state of the law before the decision in Montgomery and the numerous ways in which it had failed to pay attention to the key distinction, recognised by the Supreme Court in Montgomery, between cases concerning disclosure of information and those concerning the application of medical skill and expertise. He went on to suggest that the decisive break achieved in Montgomery may well prove an apt footing on which to challenge the long-held authority of the so-called 'Bolam' test for whether a medical practitioner has been negligent in situations outside of that considered in Montgomery. For more information about the Baron de Lancey Medical Law Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal in the Pistorius case': Christopher Forsyth (audio) | The conviction of Oscar Pistorius for committing culpable homicide in relation to the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp made worldwide news. In this video Professor Christopher Forsyth reflects on his previous comments about the original conviction, and describes how the Supreme Court of Appeal interpreted the South African law on intent to kill. Although the Court complimented Ms Justice Thokozile Masipa on her handling of the case under intense media scrutiny, they reversed her decision (as Professor Forsyth originally suggested they might), and and replaced the verdict with one of murder. Professor Christopher Forsyth is Professor of Public Law and Private International Law in the University of Cambridge, and Extraordinary Professor of Law in the University of Stellenbosch. For more information about Professor Forsyth, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cf-forsyth/31 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 16 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Public Policy, Illegality and Contracts': Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Lecture 2015 | On Tuesday 24 November 2015, Lord (Tony) Grabiner QC delivered the 2015 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "Public Policy, Illegality and Contracts". The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website at www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 8 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Parliament’s Role in Voting on the Syrian Conflict': Veronika Fikfak and Hayley J Hooper (audio) | This video discusses six issues arising out of the recent statement of Prime Minister David Cameron to the House of Commons entitled "Prime Minister’s Response to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the Extension of Offensive British Military Operations to Syria". Dr Veronika Fikfak and Dr Hayley J Hooper discuss the questionable international legality of military action, the strategic use of parliament and its potential impact upon the emerging Consultation Convention, and the responsibility of MPs to hold government to account across a broad range of relevant domestic issues. Thereafter they analyse the impact of the way government shares intelligence information with the House of Commons, especially in light of the 2003 Iraq conflict, highlighting several relevant but under-discussed rules. Finally, they discuss the role of party political discipline on armed conflict votes. Dr Fikfak researches in the fields of public law, human rights and international law. She is particularly interested in the interface between domestic and international law and is currently writing a monograph on the role of national judges in relation to international law. Dr Hooper is currently a Fellow at Homerton College, and her doctoral research at Balliol College, University of Oxford concerned the use of "closed" or "secret" evidence in the context of judicial review of counterterrorism powers, and its extension to civil procedure more broadly. Drs Fikfak and Hooper are currently co-authoring a monograph on parliament's involvement in war powers entitled Parliament's Secret War (forthcoming with Hart Bloomsbury, 2016). For more information about Dr Fikfak, please refer to her profile, and about Dr Hooper to her profile. Law in Focus is a series of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 27 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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''Brexit' and EU Social Policy: What has the EU done for me?': Catherine Barnard (audio) | In his speech at Chatham House on 10 November 2015 (https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-speech-on-europe), the Prime Minister David Cameron outlined those aspects of the EU he would like to see reformed prior to any referendum on the UK's continued membership of the EU. EU employment law - one of the most controversial areas of EU policy - was not expressly identified in his list. In this video, Catherine Barnard considers the impact of EU social poicy on the lives of UK employees and what effect 'Brexit' might have on employees' rights. For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 18 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The contribution of the Court to a culture of human rights in Europe' - Judge Dean Spielmann: CPL Lecture | Judge Dean Spielmann, President of the European Court of Human Rights, gave a talk entitled "The contribution of the Court to a culture of human rights in Europe" on 12 November 2015 as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). For more information, see the CPL website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 13 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'What would 'Brexit' mean for free movement?': Catherine Barnard (audio) | In an interview with the BBC yesterday (23 July 2015), US President Barack Obama argued that having "the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous." He continued: "And we want to make sure that United Kingdom continues to have that influence. Because we believe that the values that we share are the right ones, not just for ourselves, but for Europe as a whole and the world as a whole." In this video, Catherine Barnard looks at the debate surrounding Brexit and in particular what Brexit would mean for free movement. Further references from the video: - Obama urges UK to stay in European Union (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33647154): BBC, 23 July 2015; - Positive economic impact of UK immigration from the European Union: new evidence (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1114/051114-economic-impact-EU-immigration): UCL, 5 November 2014. For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 24 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Human Rights in the United Kingdom: Where Now?': Mark Elliott (audio) | Prior to the 2015 general election, the Conservative Party undertook in its manifesto to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to enact a British Bill of Rights. In this video, Mark Elliott addresses three key questions raised by these proposals: First, what lies behind the desire of some politicians to secure the Human Rights Act’s repeal? Second, how might a British Bill of Rights differ from the present legislation? And, third, what constitutional obstacles might lie in the way of the implementation of these reforms? In relation to the last of those three issues, the argument is developed that although the UK Parliament has the legal power to legislate for the proposed changes, the increasingly multi-layered nature of the British constitution limits Parliament’s capacity to exploit its sovereign legislative authority. In particular, the constraining effects of international law - in the form of the European Convention on Human Rights - and the devolved nature of the modern British constitution are likely to limit the UK Government’s room for manoeuvre. As a result, it is likely to be difficult to deliver upon the manifesto commitments that were made in a legally coherent and constitutionally legitimate manner. Dr Mark Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. His main research interests are in the fields of constitutional and administrative law. Dr Elliott's recent publications include Elliott and Thomas, Public Law (2nd ed OUP 2014); Elliott, Beatson, Matthews and Elliott's Administrative Law: Text and Materials (OUP 2011, 4th edition); and Forsyth, Elliott, Jhaveri, Scully-Hill and Ramsden (eds), Effective Judicial Review: A Cornerstone of Good Governance (OUP 2010). Dr Elliott was the 2011 Legal Research Foundation Visiting Scholar at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2010, he was awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in University teaching. He writes a blog - http://publiclawforeveryone.com/ - which includes information for people applying, or thinking of applying, to study Law at university. For more information about Dr Elliott, you can also refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 22 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain': Brendan Van Alsenoy | Brendan Van Alsenoy, KU Leuven, ICRI/CIR, iMinds delivers the second lecture from the "Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. (The second lecture was not recorded). This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. This lecture was only recorded in audio. | 17 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain': David Smith | David Smith, UK Deputy Information Commissioner delivers the second lecture from the "The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain': Hugh Tomlinson | Hugh Tomlinson QC, Matrix Chambers delivers the third lecture from the "The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain': Christian Wiese Svanberg | Christian Wiese Svanberg, Attorney-at-law, Plesner delivers the third lecture from the "Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. (The second lecture was not recorded). This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain': Johannes Caspar | Professor Dr Johannes Caspar, Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information delivers the first lecture from the "Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Beyond after Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain': James Leaton Gray | James Leaton Gray, Controller, Information Policy, BBC delivers the fourth lecture from the "The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain': David Erdos | Dr David Erdos, University of Cambridge delivers the first lecture from the "The General Shape of EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain': Eduardo Ustaran | Eduardo Ustaran, Partner, Hogan Lovells delivers the fourth lecture from the "The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain': Julia Powles | Julia Powles, University of Cambridge delivers the third lecture from the "The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Pathway to Google Spain': Orla Lynskey | Dr Orla Lynskey, London School of Economics delivers the third lecture from the "The Pathway to Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain': William Malcolm | William Malcolm, Senior Privacy Counsel, Google delivers the second lecture from the "The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 14 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain': Willem Debeuckelaere | Willem Debeuckelaere, President, Belgium Data Protection Authority delivers the first lecture from the "The Changing Landscape for Search Engines After Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 14 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Pathway to Google Spain': Jef Ausloos | Jef Ausloos, KU Leuven delivers the second lecture from the "The Pathway to Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 14 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Pathway to Google Spain': Artemi Lombarte | Professor Artemi Rallo Lombarte, Jaume I University and former Director of Spanish Data Protection Authority delivers the first lecture from the "The Pathway to Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference. This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World. The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 14 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Vince v Wyatt: Striking it Rich and Striking Out an Ex-wife's Claim': Brian Sloan (audio) | The recent Supreme Court decision in Vince v Wyatt aroused much media interest because it allowed an ex-wife to proceed with a financial claim against her ex-husband, who became a millionaire years after they divorced. The judgement is available at http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2015/14.html In this video Dr Brian Sloan describes the reasoning behind the decision focusing on the limits of what has actually been decided by the Supreme Court. He also analyses the possible implications of the case for other couples. Dr Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and lectures in Family Law. For more information about Dr Sloan, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/bd-sloan/409 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 8 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?': The 2015 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 27 February 2015, Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders of the University of Melbourne delivered the 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 27 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Rationalising CEO-Worker Pay Equity' - Marc Moore: Joint 3CL/CPLC Seminar | Marc Moore, Reader in Corporate Law at University of Cambridge, gave a seminar entitled "Rationalising CEO-Worker Pay Equity" on Wednesday, 19 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law. Marc's interests are in company law, corporate governance and capital markets, especially theory of the firm and the legitimacy of managerial decision-making power in public companies. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/, and the Cambridge Private Law Centre website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Constitutionalism and Private Law': The 2015 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On Wednesday 28 January 2015 Lord Hoffmann, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary from 1995 to 2009, delivered the 2015 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Constitutionalism and Private Law". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Facing Legal Challenges in US - EU Relations': The 2015 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2015 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Ambassador Anthony L. Gardner, US Ambassador to the European Union on Thursday 29 January 2015, and was entitled "Facing Legal Challenges in US - EU Relations". More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Mental Element in Murder: Reflections on the Pistorius Case': Christopher Forsyth (audio) | The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp aroused worldwide media interest. From the beginning Pistorius claimed that he had no intent to kill Reeva because when he fired the fatal shots her he thought he was firing at an intruder. And so whether he had the necessary intent to kill became a crucial issue in his trial. In this video Professor Christopher Forsyth describes the South African law on intent to kill and explains how it differs from the relevant English law. In particular he explains how South African law rejects all forms of “transferred malice” and the significance of this for the Pistorius trial. Although Ms Justice Thokozile Masipa in her judgment gives an exemplary account of the South African law, there is a curious departure from orthodoxy in her application of the law which may render her judgment vulnerable to appeal by the prosecution. Professor Christopher Forsyth is Professor of Public Law and Private International Law in the University of Cambridge, and Extraordinary Professor of Law in the University of Stellenbosch. For more information about Professor Forsyth, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cf-forsyth/31 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 29 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Precariat Charter: from Denizens to Citizens: Guy Standing | On Monday 26 January 2015 Professor Standing spoke at the Cambridge University Faculty of Law, where he discussed his latest book, 'A Precariat Charter: from Denizens to Citizens' with Professor Simon Deakin. Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, and a founder and co-President of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation. He is currently working on pilot basic income schemes in India and on issues relating to his two recent books, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens (2014). The event was kindly supported by the Cambridge Public Policy Strategic Research Initiative and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. | 27 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Dying: The Position in The Netherlands': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2015 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2015 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Paul Mevis, of the Law Faculty, Erasmus University of Rotterdam on 26 January 2015, and was entitled "Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Dying: The Position in The Netherlands". Documents providing information on the relevant Dutch legislation and case law, and excepts from an evaluative report, can be found here: - Relevant Dutch Legislation: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/repo-documents/pdf/events/Relevant%20Dutch%20Legislation.pdf - Relevant Dutch Case Law: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/repo-documents/pdf/events/Relevant%20Dutch%20Case%20Law.pdf - Excerpt from Evaluation Report of Legislation: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/repo-documents/pdf/events/Excerpt%20from%20Evaluation%20Report%20of%20Legislation.pdf A transcript of the lecture is available at: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/repo-documents/pdf/events/Ver%20Heyden%20De%20Lancey%20Lecture%202015%20-%20Voluntary%20Euthanasia%20and%20Assisted%20Dying%20The%20Position%20in%20The%20Netherlands.pdf A gallery of photographs from the event is available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambridgelawfaculty/sets/72157650511556505/ For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Assumption of Responsibility' - Andrew Robertson: Cambridge Private Law Centre Seminar | Andrew Robertson (University of Melbourne), delivered a seminar entitled "The Assumption of Responsibility" as a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre on Friday 23 January 2015. For more information about the Centre please refer to the CPLC website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Principle of Legality in Foreign Relations' by Professor Campbell McLachlan | The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) hosted a guest lecture entitled 'The Principle of Legality in Foreign Relations', which was delivered at the Faculty of Law on 17 November 2014 by Professor Campbell McLachlan, Professor of International Law in Victoria University of Wellington. For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk and the CPL website at www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk | 21 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Problems of Compliance with European Union Law: The case of national final administrative acts': Cambridge European Society | On Friday 14 November 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Ana Júlia Maurício (PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) entitled "Problems of Compliance with European Union Law: The case of national final administrative acts" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. | 20 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Can Free Movement of Workers be Stopped?': Catherine Barnard (audio) | 'How can the government stem the tide of migrant workers coming to the UK?'. This question has been asked with increasing vigour by those who perceive immigration as a threat rather than a benefit to the UK economy. In this video, Catherine Barnard considers whether it is possible to restrict free movement of workers under EU law, both as it now stands and going forward. Professor Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law. She has written extensively on EU Law and Labour Law, and has been involved in advising the UK Government as part of its balance of competence review. For more information about Professor Barnard, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/cs-barnard/9 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 6 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Trouble with Executives': Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Lecture 2014 | On Tuesday 4 November 2014, Mr Graham Vinter, General Counsel, BG Group plc (and ex-partner of Allen & Overy), delivered the 2014 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The Trouble with Executives". The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website at www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 5 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Influencing Luxembourg: the UK Government at the Court of Justice' - Estelle Wolfers: Cambridge European Society | On Friday 31 October 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Estelle Wolfers (PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) entitled “Influencing Luxembourg: the UK Government at the Court of Justice' at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. | 3 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Closing Discussion: Professor John Bell, Professor David Dyzenhaus, Professor David Feldman, Professor Carol Harlow & Professor Cheryl Saunders | From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor John Bell, Professor David Dyzenhaus, Professor David Feldman, Professor Carol Harlow & Professor Cheryl Saunders reflect on their experiences at the conference, and themes going forwards. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to the conference website at: http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 30 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carol Harlow & Richard Rawlings: 'Executive Reaction to Judicial Review: Striking Back!' / Maurice Sunkin: 'The Impacts of Judicial Review and Effective Redress' | From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor Carol Harlow (LSE) & Professor Richard Rawlings (UCL) gave the third keynote, entitled 'Executive Reaction to Judicial Review: Striking Back!' and Professor Maurice Sunkin (Essex) presented 'The Impacts of Judicial Review and Effective Redress'. The talks were followed by a short question and answer session. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to the conference website at: http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Common European Identity: Myth, Reality or Aspiration?': Cambridge European Society | The Cambridge University European Society, participating once again in the Festival of Ideas, hosted a talk on 25 October 2014 entitled 'Common European Identity: Myth, Reality or Aspiration?'. This talk welcomed academics with anthropological, historical, legal and political science backgrounds and several students' personal experiences, and included a discussion open to all. Guest Speakers: - Professor Cathie Carmichael (History, University of East Anglia), - Professor Dora Kostakopoulou (Law, University of Manchester), - Dr John Robb (Archaeology, University of Cambridge), - Dr Uta Staiger (History, UCL), - Dr Fiorella Dell’Olio (moderator, POLIS, University of Cambridge). Guest Students: - Davide Martino (History, St. John's College), - Matteo Mirolo (HSPS - Human, Social, and Political Science, Fitzwilliam College), - Damiano Sogaro (Law, Fitzwilliam College), - Estelle Wolfers (Law, King's College). Please find information on this event here: - http://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/common-european-identity-myth-reality-or-aspiration - https://joinagora.com/groups/361/ - https://www.facebook.com/events/832941200073115/ For more information on the Cambridge University European Society, see their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge-University-European-Society/380957688650847 | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Professor Jerry Mashaw: 'Public Reason as Process and Substance' | From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Yale's Professor Jerry Mashaw gives the first keynote, entitled 'Public Reason as Process and Substance'. The talk is followed by a short question and answer session. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to the conference website at: http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Professor David Feldman in conversation with Lord Justice Laws | From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Cambridge's Professor David Feldman is in Professor holds a conversation with Lord Justice Laws (Judge of the England and Wales Court of Appeal) about Public Law issues. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to the conference website at: http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mark Aronson: 'The Growth of Substantive Review' / Professor David Dyzenhaus: 'Towards a Formal Theory of Public Law' | From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Public Law fields and a variety of common law jurisdictions. The intention was that the Public Law series should become a pre-eminent forum for the discussion of Public Law matters in the common law world. In this video, Professor Mark Aronson (UNSW) gives the second keynote, entitled 'The Growth of Substantive Review: The Changes, Their Causes, and Their Consequences', and Professor David Dyzenhaus (Toronto) presented 'Towards a Formal Theory of Public Law'. The talk is followed by a short question and answer session. For more information about the Public Law Conference, please refer to the conference website at: http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 29 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Policy or Panic? European Foreign Affairs Now!' - Panel Discussion | On Friday 17 October 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a panel discussion entitled 'Policy or Panic? European Foreign Affairs Now!' at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. 2014 has been, and still is, a year of great diplomatic turmoil: Ukraine’s territorial integrity has been seriously questioned, the Israelo-Palestinian conflict has resumed, the civil war in Syria rages on and has spilled over into Irak, and migrants continue to drown in the Mediterranean. All of these are major concerns for the EU, not only because they take place at Europe's doorstep, but also because they are a challenge to the EU's diplomatic weight at a global level. These and other current issues were discussed by: - Dr Andrew Arsan (Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Cambridge), - Niamh Baker-Loughlin (Project for a Democratic Union - London Office), - Dr Federica Bicchi (Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics), - Andrew Duff, OBE (former LibDem MEP for East Anglia). Moderator: Cristina Marconi (freelance journalist and writer) For more information on the Cambridge University European Society, see their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge-University-European-Society/380957688650847 | 20 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Nicklinson - The Right to Die?': Nicola Padfield (audio) | In this next edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (AM) v The DPP [2014] UKSC 38) focusing on the minority judgement of Baroness Hale. Nicola Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. She is a barrister by training, and also a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Mrs Padfield is also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. For more information about Mrs Padfield, please refer to her staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/nm-padfield/65 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. | 8 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After Google Spain': David Erdos (audio) | This item discusses C-131/12 Google Spain; Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case which examined the rights of individuals mentioned in public domain material indexed on Google search. This Court decision enunciated both the scope and breadth of data protection obligations in an even more expansive way than argued by the Agencia Espanola de Protection de Datos itself. It implies that Google acquires data protection obligations as soon as it collects information from the web and not just after it receives a request for deindexing. Moreover, Google appears to have absolute obligations to remove material in a variety of circumstances even if this is causing the individual mentioned no prejudice. It is particularly unclear how such obligations will operate vis-à-vis so-called sensitive data such as that concerning criminality, political opinion or health. The norms the Court articulated conflict markedly with those which are now mainstream online. Effective implementation will, therefore, depend less on legal technicalities than on how powerful such data protection norms are when placed alongside the vast cultural, political and economic power of "internet freedom". A further article on this subject was written on OpenDemocracy by Dr Erdos: http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/david-erdos/mind-gap-is-data-protection-catching-up-with-google-search David Erdos is University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society in in the Faculty of Law and a Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. David's current research explores the nature of Data Protection especially as it intersects with the right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of information and freedom of research. For more information about Dr Erdos, please refer to his staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/d-o-erdos/5972 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 17 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Judicial Review in an “Integrated Administration”: How to Close the Gaps of Judicial Protection?' - Mariolina Eliantonio: Cambridge European Society | On Thursday 15 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Professor Mariolina Eliantonio (Assistant Professor of European Administrative Law at the Maastricht University) entitled “Integrated Administration”: How to Close the Gaps of Judicial Protection?' at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. | 21 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Reforms to Lessen the Influence of the European Court of Human Rights: A New Strategy' - Sarah Lambrecht: Cambridge European Society | On Friday 9 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Sarah Lambrecht, PhD Fellow at the University of Antwerp and visiting student at the University of Cambridge, at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. | 13 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Begging laws, morality and exclusion – Forgetting 'the beggar' through immaterial sharing in East London: Johannes Lenhard | On 7 May 2014, Johannes Lenhard (University of Cambridge, Anthropology, Graduate Student) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. Many laws have effects on people who beg on the streets. In this paper, I will pick a nexus of bills and laws, analyse their moral underpinning – what is their implied perception of people who beg? – and describe parallels of this often essentialising, moral economy of homelessness to parts of the charitable sector. Both law and charity makes the public remember ‘the beggar’ while 'forgetting' might lead to less stigma and exclusion of people who beg. Drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in London, I will in the main part of the paper present the perspective of people who beg themselves mirroring this 'call for forgetting'. How do people who beg deal with stigma and the resulting (legal, economic and social) exclusion? Being materially and socially dependent on overcoming exclusion, begging people rely on the public. I will come to portray strategies of overcoming the legal (and mental) 'zoning' of space with a counter-movement based on individual and immaterial 'sharing' of time, thoughts and experiences. | 9 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Filtering Mechanism of the European Court of Human Rights': Hasan Bakirci | On Friday 2 May 2014, Hasan Bakirci (Senior Lawyer, ECtHR) spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society. Hasan Bakirci is a senior official at the European Court of Human Rights. He studied law in Istanbul and Oxford, graduating from both places with distinction. He is the author of a practitioner’s handbook on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Mr Bakirci has sixteen years’ experience as a lawyer at the Court, and prior to that worked for two years as a lawyer at the European Commission of Human Rights. He is currently a Head of Division at the Court and Deputy to the Registrar of the Filtering Section. He was recently responsible for overseeing a major initiative designed to bring the Court’s famously large backlog of cases under control. The talk was followed by a Q&A session chaired by Mr Jamie Trinidad, Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College. | 7 5 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cambridge University European Society European Parliament Elections Debate | The Cambridge University European Society hosted a European Parliament Elections Debate on Saturday 26 April at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Only one month before May's elections to the European Parliament, the CU European Society hosted a debate with one representative from each political party of the Cambridgeshire constituency and from parties that were currently represented in the EP: - Andrew Duff (Liberal Democrats) - Vicky Ford (Conservative Party) - Richard Howitt (Labour Party) - Rupert Read (Green Party) - Stuart Agnew (UKIP) Moderated by Mr Gary O'Donoghue (Chief Political Correspondent, BBC Radio 4), this event sought to promote the discussion of EU's most relevant topics and to allow its participants to debate and make their views known. This event was kindly sponsored by CELS (Centre for European Legal Studies) and the Project for Democratic Union. For more information, please check The Cambridge University European Society Facebook page www.facebook.com/events/310962169051485/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular | 28 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Protecting Individual Rights: Role of the General Court of Justice of the EU': Judge Nicholas Forwood | On 3 March 2014, Judge Nicholas Forwood delivered a lecture entitled "Protecting Individual Rights: Role of the General Court of Justice of the EU" as a guest of the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society. Judge Forwood is the British judge in the General Court of Justice of the European Union, and spoke about how this institution can protect individual rights and about the recent developments in the area of European Human Rights law. More information about the Society is available from the website at http://www.cambridgeprobono.bravesites.com/ | 4 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Not in the Public Interest': The 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 21 February 2014, Conor Gearty of LSE and Matrix Chambers, delivered the 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Not in the Public Interest". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 21 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'European Union: Is There a Future?' - Stuart Agnew MEP: Cambridge European Society | On Thursday 20 February 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Stuart Agnew MEP at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Stuart Agnew is the UK Independence Party MEP representing the East of England. Stuart was elected to the European Parliament in June 2009, where he is a member of the Agriculture & Rural Development Committee: here, he is often a lone voice in speaking up for British farmers and trying to make the Committee understand the practical effects of their proposals on farmers, in the real world. He also regularly attends meetings of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs Committee, where he is reserve Committee Member. He has also recently taken over from Nigel Farage MEP, as a member of the Fisheries Committee. Outside of UKIP, Stuart Agnew is a member of the National Farmers Union and served as their Norfolk County Chairman in 1998. He was also the Norfolk Delegate to the NFU HQ Council from 2000 to 2009, when he relinquished the position on being elected to the European Parliament. He is a keen campaigner against the man-made global warming myth and on coastal erosion. Stuart is the author and presenter of a major lecture on the EU, which he has presented in schools, colleges and at many public meetings. | 21 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The United Kingdom and the EU: Inevitably Drifting Apart?': The 2014 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2014 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by EU Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding on Monday 17 February 2014, and was entitled "The United Kingdom and the EU: Inevitably Drifting Apart?". More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 17 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The British and Europe': The 2014 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture | On Wednesday 12 February 2014 Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered the inaugural 2014 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "The British and Europe". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Fewer Rights, More Injustice: Analysing Legal Aid Cuts': Rebecca Hilsenrath, CEO LawWorks | On Wednesday 29 January 2014, the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society hosted a talk at the Faculty of Law by Rebecca Hilsenrath, the CEO of LawWorks, entitled "Fewer Rights, More Injustice: Analysing Legal Aid Cuts". Rebecca Hilsenrath is the Chief Executive of LawWorks (the Solicitors’ Pro Bono Group) and the Chief Legal Officer of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Prior to this, she worked at Linklaters and afterwards in the Government Legal Service. She is also a trustee of the National Pro Bono Centre and the Mary Ward Legal Centre and was included in the Times 2012 Law 100 list. For more information about the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society, please refer to https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeUniversityStudentsProBonoSociety | 3 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Derivative Delights and Oligarch Feuds – What Contribution is English Law Making to Our Post–Modern Financial World?': Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Lecture 2013 | On Wednesday 27 November 2013, Dame Elizabeth Gloster DBE, Lady Justice of Appeal, delivered the inaugural Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Cambridge Lecture. Her title was "Derivative Delights and Oligarch Feuds – What Contribution is English Law Making to Our Post–Modern Financial World?" The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 8 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What's the Harm? Who's to Blame? Reflections on the Criminalization of HIV Transmission, Exposure and Non-Disclosure: Matthew Weait | On 4 December 2013, Professor Matthew Weait (Birkbeck, University of London) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. This lecture explores, in comparative perspective but with a focus on English case law, the criminalisation of HIV. It focuses on the ways in which criminalisation provides more general insights into the construction of harm, responsibility and consent, especially with the progress made in treating and controlling HIV infection, and offers a critique of the law in this area. Matthew Weait is Professor of Law and Policy and Pro-Vice-Master at Birkbeck, University of London. He studied law and criminology at the University of Cambridge before undertaking his DPhil research at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. His research centres on the impact of law on HIV prevention and on people living with HIV. He has been a consultant for UNAIDS and the WHO, was a member of the Advisory Group for the Global Commission on HIV and the Law (UNDP) and is an Expert Advisor to the European AIDS Treatment Group (the body which supports the European Commission in its HIV policy work). Matthew has published widely in this area, including Intimacy and Responsibility: the Criminalization of HIV Transmission (2007). | 5 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Is EU Criminal Law a Threat to British Justice?': John Spencer (audio) | In eurosceptic circles it is widely stated that European criminal justice threatens to undermine the basic values of the common law, and this is put forward as a reason why the UK should 'withdraw from the Europe'. This argument was recently put forward by Nigel Farage, of the UK Independence Party, in an article he wrote for The Independent. In this presentation Professor John Spencer - one of the authors of the Corpus Juris project - subjects the argument to analysis. Professor Spencer is Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal justice matters and has been involved in a number of law reform projects. For more information about Professor Spencer, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/jr-spencer/79 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 3 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Greece: A State With Weak Institutions, in Crisis': Professor Spyridon Flogaitis | On Thursday 31st October 2013, Professor Spyridon Flogaitis of the University of Athens spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society. | 4 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Vinter v UK - The Right to Hope and the Whole Life Tariff': Nicola Padfield (audio) | The case of Vinter v UK was recently decided by the European Court of Human Rights, and has raised a good deal of controversy regarding the right of the United Kingdom to sentence a prisoner to a life sentence (the Whole Life Tariff) without the chance of review. Mrs Nicola Padfield discusses the judgement of the European Court, and the corresponding reaction from members of the UK Government and others. Mrs Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. She is a barrister by training, and a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Mrs Padfield has also been elected as the next Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and will take office on 1 October 2013. For more information about Mrs Padfield, please refer to her profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/nm-padfield/65 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 17 7 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Criminal Defence of Marital Coercion': Findlay Stark (audio) | Dr Findlay Stark examines the defence of marital coercion, which recently hit the headlines with the trials of Vicky Pryce and former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne for perverting the course of justice over an attempt to transfer penalty points for a speeding offence. Findlay Stark is the Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge. His interests lie in the Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Evidence, and Legal Theory. For more information about Dr Stark, please refer to his staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/fgf-stark/4759 Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. | 25 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Re J - Uncertain Perpetrators in Child Protection Cases': Brian Sloan (audio) | Dr Brian Sloan examines the case of Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9, in which the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother who had previously been suspected of causing significant harm to her child, and was now looking after different children in a new relationship. Brian discusses the implications of the case and analyses the Court's attempts to balance non-intervention into family life with child protection. Brian Sloan is Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Robinson College, Cambridge. He teaches Equity, Family Law and Land Law. Brian's research covers a wide range of topics in Family and Property Law, including Child Law. For more information about Dr Sloan, please refer to his staff profile. Law in Focus is a collection of short videos featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 3 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'"Interesting Times" - Chinese Curses, Lawyers' Headaches, Political Nightmares and New Dawns': The 2013 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2013 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Judge Nicholas Forwood (General Court of the European Union) on Thursday 28th February 2013, and was entitled ""Interesting Times" - Chinese Curses, Lawyers' Headaches, Political Nightmares and New Dawns". More information about this lecture is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 28 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Customary International Humanitarian Law Project: Working to Protect Victims of Armed Conflict': Wolfson Law Society | On Friday 22nd February 2013 the Wolfson Law Society hosted a talk by Vanessa Holzer and Natália Fereirra de Castro on the Customary International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Project. A joint undertaking of the British Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Customary IHL Project collects and analyses national and international practice on various matters of IHL, thus updating the practice that underpinned the 2005 ICRC Study on Customary IHL. Customary IHL is important in today's armed conflicts because it fills gaps left by treaty law and so strengthens the protection offered to victims. Based at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, four British Red Cross researchers collaborate closely with the ICRC in making State practice from various countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, available on the ICRC Customary IHL database: http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl | 27 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intellectual Property Law: Its 40 Year Coming of Age - Clive Thorne: THLS Lecture | Clive Thorne, President of TIPO - the Intellectual Property Lawyers' Organisation, spoke about "Intellectual Property Law ; Its 40 Year Coming of Age" on 18th February 2013 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. This event was kindly Sponsored by Slaughter & May. For more information about THLS, please see http://thlawsoc.wordpress.com/ | 19 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Relationship Between the European Court of Human Rights and National Constitutional Courts?': The 2013 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 15th February 2013, Judge Jean-Paul Costa, former President of the European Court of Human Rights, delivered the 2013 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The Relationship Between the European Court of Human Rights and National Constitutional Courts?". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 18 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Access to Justice in Light of Legal Aid Cuts': Rachel Robinson, LIBERTY | On Friday 1st February 2013, the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society hosted a talk at the Faculty of Law by Rachel Robinson from LIBERTY entitled "Access to Justice in Light of Legal Aid Cuts". For more information about the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society, please refer to http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/probono/ | 5 2 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Causes of the Global Financial Crisis and Core Regulatory Lessons': Professor George Walker | On Friday 23rd November 2012, Professor G.A. Walker of Queen Mary University of London spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society. | 3 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Corporate Insolvency Law for the 21st Century: State-imposed or Market-based?': Dr Michael Schillig | On Tuesday 20th November 2012, Dr Michael Schillig of King’s College London spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society. Photograph courtesy of Humboldt European Law School. | 3 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How Can You Defend Someone You Know is Guilty? Reflections on Legal Professional Ethics and Conduct - David Woolley QC: THLS Lecture | David Woolley QC, of Landmark Chambers, spoke about "How Can You Defend Someone You Know is Guilty? Reflections on Legal Professional Ethics and Conduct" on 15th November 2012 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. David Woolley was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1962, and spent his pupillages in common law and planning chambers. He joined the chambers of Sir Joseph Molony QC in 1963, and practised for some years on the Oxford and Western Circuits. His practice then developed in the fields of town and country planning, local government and parliamentary, compulsory purchase, rating, and, more recently, environmental work. He continues to practice in these fields. He took silk in 1980, and was elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 1989. His work extended and extends over a wide range of planning, local government and related matters. He has appeared at major inquiries into a variety of projects, including airports, highways, regional shopping centres, mining projects, housing schemes, and hypermarket and supermarket proposals. He has appeared at many inquiries involving listed buildings, and was the Inspector appointed by the then Secretary of State for the Environment into the proposed extension to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London. He has appeared for promoters of and petitioners against private and hybrid bills in both Houses of Parliament, and has also appeared in a wide range of cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal, and the House of Lords. These have involved disputes over tax and rating, the validity of development plans and decisions on planning proposals, the right to buy under the Housing Acts, the right to compensation for unfair dismissal, and the construction of restrictive covenants and contracts for the sale of land. He has also frequently appeared in the Lands Tribunal in compensation and related cases. This event was kindly Sponsored by Slaughter & May. For more information about THLS, please see http://thlawsoc.wordpress.com/ | 16 11 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Good Constitution': The 2012 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 4th May 2012, the Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Laws delivered the 2012 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The Good Constitution". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past_activities/2012_the_good_constitution.php This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 6 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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International criminal law: does the system achieve justice? - William Clegg QC: THLS Lecture | William Clegg QC, head of chambers at 2 Bedford Row, spoke about "International criminal law: does the system achieve justice?" on 29th February 2012 at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Over a 40 year career at the Bar William Clegg has been involved in some of the most high profile criminal cases in history. Mr Clegg has extensive experience of war crimes including defending in the ICTY cases of Prosecutor v Tadic and Prosecutor v Jelisic. This event was kindly Sponsored by Slaughter & May. For more information about THLS, please see http://thlawsoc.wordpress.com/ | 1 3 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Liberty and Security' - Conor Gearty: CPL/LWOB Lecture | On Thursday 23rd February 2012, Conor Gearty of LSE and Matrix Chambers delivered a lecture entitled "Liberty and Security" as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL) and Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB). More information about the Centre is available at the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ and on LWOB at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/lwob/ | 27 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Strasbourg then and now - a wander down memory lane and other thoughts' - Lord Brown: CPL Lecture | On Friday 17th February 2012, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered a lecture entitled "Strasbourg then and now - a wander down memory lane and other thoughts" as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL) More information about the Centre is available at the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/ | 20 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The EU as a Source of Inspiration': The 2012 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2012 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Sir Konrad Schiemann (European Court of Justice) on Thursday 9th February 2012, and was entitled "The EU as a Source of Inspiration". More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 13 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Penumbra of Thalidomide: The Litigation Culture and the Licensing of Pharmaceuticals': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2011 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2011 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Sir Peter Lachmann FRS FMedSci, on 18th November 2011, and was entitled "The Penumbra of Thalidomide: The Litigation Culture and the Licensing of Pharmaceuticals". For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 18 11 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Threats from the Libel Laws': Threats to the University, Humanities, and Science Conference | The 'Threats to the University, Humanities, and Science Conference' was held on 20-23 July 2011. Workshop IV on the afternoon of Friday 22nd July was entitled 'Threats from the Libel Laws' was recorded and is made available here. | 22 8 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Rule of Law and Human Dignity': The 2011 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 6th May 2011, Professor Jeremy Waldron delivered the 2011 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled 'The Rule of Law and Human Dignity'. The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures/professor-jeremy-waldron-rule-law-and-human-dignity This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 6 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'40 Years an EU Lawyer - Apologia pro vita sua (40 Years and Still Motoring)': The 2011 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2011 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Professor Alan Dashwood on Friday 11th March 2011, and was entitled '40 Years an EU Lawyer - Apologia pro vita sua (40 Years and Still Motoring)'. In the lecture, Professor Dashwood looked back at his experience of the development of the European Union and it's legal framework over his 40 year career. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 14 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'A View from the Bar': The 2010 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 21st May 2010, the Honourable Michael Beloff QC delivered the 2010 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "A View from the Bar". Mr Beloff explained his views of development of the barrister's profession over the last forty years. The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past_activities/a_view_from_the_bar.php This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 28 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Science, Pseudo-science, and Statistics in the Criminal Courts': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2010 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2010 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Jeremy Horder, of the Law Commission, on 4th May 2010, and was entitled "Science, Pseudo-science, and Statistics in the Criminal Courts" (The Reform of the Rules of Expert Evidence). For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 4 5 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ': The 2009 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. On 6th November 2009, Eleanor Sharpson QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities delivered the annual CELS (Centre for European Legal Studies) Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture for 2009 entitled "Addressing Linguistic Transparency in the ECJ". More information about this lecture is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie_stuart_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 9 11 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court': The 2009 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 8th May 2009, John G Roberts Jnr (Chief Justice of the United States) delivered the 2009 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court". Mr Roberts was introduced by Lord Woolf. The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past_activities/abraham_lincoln_and_the_supreme_court.php This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Medicine, Mistakes and Manslaughter: A Criminal Combination': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2009 | Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2009 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Dr Oliver Quick, of the University of Bristol on 27 April 2009, and was entitled "Medicine, Mistakes and Manslaughter: A Criminal Combination". For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 28 4 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Taking Power Seriously': The 2008 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Friday 16th May 2008, Dame Sian Elias delivered the 2008 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Taking Power Seriously". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures/dame-sian-elias-taking-power-seriously The audio of this recording was enhanced for quality on 3 January 2024. | 19 5 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Human Rights in the 21st Century': The 2007 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture | The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2007 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, on Thursday 25 October 2007. He spoke about his views on human rights in the 21st century. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes. | 29 10 2007 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'The Rule of Law': The 2006 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Thursday 16th November 2006, The Rt. Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill KG, House of Lords delivered the 2006 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "The Rule of Law". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures/rt-hon-lord-bingham-cornhill-kg-rule-law The audio of this recording was enhanced for quality on 3 January 2024. | 17 11 2006 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Looking Beyond our Borders: The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication': The 2005 Sir David Williams Lecture | On Monday 9th May 2005, The Hon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) delivered the 2005 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Looking Beyond our Borders: The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication". Justice Ginsbury was introduced by Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture (including a transcript which was subsequently published in the Cambridge Law Journal, 64(3), November 2005, pp. 575–592) is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/ The audio of this recording was enhanced for quality on 3 January 2024. | 10 5 2005 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Sovereignty at the Beginning of the 21st Century - Fundamental or Outmoded?': The 2003 Sir David Williams Lecture | On 7 November 2003, Sir Kenneth Keith (Senior New Zealand Court of Appeal Judge) delivered the third Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Sovereignty at the Beginning of the 21st Century - Fundamental or Outmoded?". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including a transcript, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures | 7 11 2003 | Free | View in iTunes |
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'Altered States: Federalism and Devolution at the 'Real' Turn of the Millennium': The 2001 Sir David Williams Lecture | On 15th May 2001, the Hon Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivered the inaugural Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Altered States: Federalism and Devolution at the 'Real' Turn of the Millennium". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. More information about this lecture, including a transcript, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir_david_williams_lectures/ This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U. | 15 5 2001 | Free | View in iTunes |
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