3CL Travers Smith Seminar Series Podcast

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 Freshfield...

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...

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 ac...

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 W...

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 pr...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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 se...

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/

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/

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://ww...

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...

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...

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 pra...

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://ww...

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...

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/

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 corpora...

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...

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...

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/

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 informatio...