Professor Susan Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) gave a lecture entitled "An Eversion in Thinking: The Company as a Persona Ficta" on 26 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. The argument that forms the basis of this seminar is that the modern company is a legal entity that is a persona ficta; a juridical person separate from all natural persons. Professor Watson will argue that being a persona ficta separate from all natural persons enables the company to capture fo...
Feb 26, 2019•34 min
Professor Samuel Buell (Duke University, USA) gave a lecture entitled "The Global Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability: Effective Enforcement Policy Across Legal Systems" on 12 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. The United States model of corporate crime control, developed over the last two decades, couples an extremely broad rule of corporate criminal liability with a practice of reducing sanctions, and often withholding conviction, for firms that assist in public enfor...
Feb 12, 2019•40 min
Professor Dr Alexander Schall of Leuphana Law School, Germany gave a lecture entitled "The Principle of Unjust Enrichment – A Comparative Perspective" on 29 Januyary 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL the Cambridge Private Law Centre. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/ and the Private Law Centre website: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/
Jan 29, 2019•39 min
Jennifer Hill (Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Sydney Law School) gave a lecture entitled "Liability for Seriously Flawed Corporate Cultures" on 22 November 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information on past events including recordings, please refer to the Centre activities page. For more information see the Centre for Corp...
Nov 23, 2018•42 min
Dr Jay Cullen (University of Sheffield) gave a lecture entitled "The Case for Abolishing Deposit Insurance Limits" on 13 November 2018 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/
Nov 13, 2018•50 min
Dr Andreas Kokkinis of the University of Warwick gave a lecture entitled "Revisiting the Case for Employee Participation in Corporate Governance" on 30 November 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. In this seminar, Dr Kokkinis revisits the theory of firm ownership to examine the potential economic benefits of employee participation in corporate governance. Contrary to the standard corporate contractarian claim that employee participation is inefficient, because it does not arise frequen...
Oct 31, 2018•43 min
David Kershaw (Professor of Law at the LSE) gave a lecture entitled "The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law: Connected Assets and the Idea of Property" on 23 October 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. David Kershaw is the author of 'The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law' (CUP, 2018), 'Principles of Takeover Regulation' (OUP, 2016), and 'Company Law in Context: Text and Materials', 2nd ed. (OUP, 2012). Prior to his academic career, he qualified as...
Oct 24, 2018•41 min
Marc Moore, Senior Lecturer at University College London, gave a lecture entitled "Beyond Private Ordering: Rethinking Corporate Governance as a Subject of Legal Enquiry" on Tuesday, 28th February 2012 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. 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 web...
Sep 03, 2018•54 min
Steven Schwarcz (Stanley A. Star Professor of Law & Business, Duke University) gave a lecture entitled "Central Clearing of Financial Contracts" on 13 March 2018 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/
Mar 13, 2018•36 min
Dr Michael Galanis (Senior Lecturer in Company Law, University of Manchester) gave a lecture entitled "Saving the World with or From Corporate Law: A Silent Death for the Corporation?" on 20 February 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information on past events including recordings, please refer to the Centre activities page. For more informat...
Feb 21, 2018•43 min
Robert Hingley (Senior Adviser, Ondra; Member and Former Director-General, Takeover Panel) gave a lecture entitled "The Takeover Code in its Wider Regulatory and Political Context" on 13 February 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. Robert Hingley is currently a partner at the independent advisory firm Ondra, and a member of the Code Committee of the UK Takeover Panel. He has formerly served as Director-General of the Takeover Panel, and is also chairman of the Cambridge MCL Practitione...
Feb 14, 2018•38 min
Chris Hale (Senior Partner, Travers Smith) gave a lecture entitled "Private Equity: the Challenges of Success" on 7 February 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a distinguished guest of 3CL. Chris Hale is the Senior Partner of Travers Smith, and one of the world’s leading lawyers in private equity. He specialises in UK and international M&A and buy-out work, and founded Travers Smith’s Private Equity Group in 1996. Chris acts for institutional investors and management teams on investments and divestme...
Feb 08, 2018•39 min
Professor Deirdre Ahern of Trinity College Dublin gave a lecture entitled "Conceptualising Overreach in the English Corporate Opportunities Doctrine" on 7 November 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL. 3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners. For more information on past events including recordings, please refer to the Centre activities page. For more information see the Centre for Corporate and...
Nov 07, 2017•34 min
Professor Richard A. Booth (Martin G. McGuinn Professor of Business Law, Villanova University) gave a lecture entitled "The Real Problem with Appraisal Arbitrage" on 2 May 2017 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/
May 02, 2017•48 min
Professor Andrew Johnston of the University of Sheffield gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The Rise and Fall of the Enterprise: How the Law Forgot about Management" on 7 March 2017 at the Faculty of Law 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/
Mar 07, 2017•38 min
Professor Carlo Amatucci of the University of Naples Federico II, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Directors' Liability in Distressed Companies" on Tuesday 28 February 2017 at the Faculty of Law 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/
Mar 01, 2017•38 min
Jennifer Emery of CMS Cameron McKenna LLP gave a lecture entitled "Creating a New City Powerhouse: London's First Tri-Partite Legal Merger" on 21 February 2017 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/
Feb 21, 2017•54 min
Lucy Reeve and Sarah Debney of Linklaters LLP gave a lecture entitled "The EU Market Abuse Regulation and What it Means in Practice" on 7 February 2017 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/
Feb 07, 2017•49 min
Michael Waibel (University of Cambridge) and Norbert Gaillard (Economist & independent consultant) gave a lecture entitled "The Icarus Syndrome: How Credit Rating Agencies Lost their Quasi-Immunity?" on 31 January 2017 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/
Jan 31, 2017•31 min
Professor Christopher Bruner of the Washington and Lee University gave a lecture entitled "Center-Left Politics and Corporate Governance: What is the "Progressive" Agenda?" on 27 January 2017 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/
Jan 27, 2017•37 min
On the evening of 29 November 2016, 3CL held an event which incorporated a discussion between Guy Lewin-Smith (Debevoise & Plimpton LLP) and Marc Moore (University of Cambridge) on the subject "Advising at the UK/US Corporate Law Interface". For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
Nov 30, 2016•2 hr 3 min
Professor Horst Eidenmüller of the University of Oxford gave a lecture entitled "What is an Insolvency Proceeding" on Tuesday 29 November 2016 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/
Nov 30, 2016•38 min
Professor Marc Steinberg of the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, former enforcement attorney and counsel at US SEC, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Expanding Liability of Corporate Counsel in the US" on Thursday 24 November 2016 at the Faculty of Law 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/...
Nov 24, 2016•44 min
Professor David Zaring of the University of Pennsylvania gave a lecture entitled "Regulation by Threat: Understanding Dodd-Frank’s Regulation of Systemically Significant Non-Bank Financial Companies" on Tuesday 8 November 2016 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/
Nov 08, 2016•33 min
Dr Elizabeth Howell of the University of Cambridge gave a lecture entitled "ESMA: A Direct EU Watchdog - Supervision in Action" on Tuesday 25 October 2016 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/
Oct 26, 2016•31 min
Professor Susan Watson of the University of Auckland gave a lecture entitled "The Corporate Legal Person" on Tuesday 11 October 2016 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/
Oct 11, 2016•27 min
Professor Joan Loughrey of the University of Leeds gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "Reframing the Goals of Director Disqualification: Regulation or Accountability?" on Tuesday 16 February 2016 at the Faculty of Law 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/
Feb 17, 2016•28 min
Dr Ewan McGaughey of King's College London gave an evening seminar entitled "Do Corporations Increase Inequality?" on Wednesday 27 January 2016 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL (The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law). For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
Jan 27, 2016•29 min
As part of the Faculty's 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, Jeremy Walsh of Travers Smith gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "UK Debt Restructuring Techniques" on Tuesday 10 November 2015. Jeremy joined Travers Smith in 1993 and in 1994 became a partner. He specialises in advising on finance, restructuring and insolvency, in each case acting for financial institutions, private equity sponsors, investors, borrowers, pensions trustees, directors, insolvency practitioners and turnaround pro...
Nov 10, 2015•1 hr
Dr Colin Mackie of the University of Aberdeen gave an evening seminar entitled "A Reassessment of the Foundations of the Corporate Structure" on Tuesday 27 October 2015 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL (The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law). For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
Oct 28, 2015•34 min
