- 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...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 48 min
- 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 ...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 38 min
- 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, F...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 59 min
- 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 Cambrid...
Apr 13, 2022•52 min
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.u...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 34
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.u...
Mar 28, 2022•54 min•Ep. 34
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.squi...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 34
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 ...
Mar 25, 2022•9 min•Ep. 30
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...
Mar 18, 2022•33 min•Ep. 11
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 Europ...
Mar 16, 2022•41 min
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. ...
Mar 15, 2022•59 min•Ep. 10
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 ...
Mar 11, 2022•33 min
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 digita...
Mar 10, 2022•43 min
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...
Mar 09, 2022•50 min•Ep. 12
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 ...
Mar 08, 2022•32 min
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 aggressio...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 27 min
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 Studi...
Feb 24, 2022•39 min
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...
Feb 23, 2022•27 min
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/
Feb 22, 2022•46 min
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 ...
Feb 22, 2022•38 min
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
Feb 16, 2022•57 min
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 jus...
Dec 17, 2021•14 min•Ep. 29
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...
Nov 17, 2021•52 min•Ep. 16
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 arm...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 17
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 L...
May 13, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 9
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/.
Apr 20, 2021•42 min
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 J...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 33
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 J...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 33
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 J...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 33
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/
Mar 20, 2021•40 min•Ep. 16
