Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Law Eminent Scholars Archive Podcast
The Eminent Scholars Archive is an expanding archive developed by Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates, joined in 2023 by John Magyar, in which we document the careers and achievements of eminent scholars associated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. The archive includes biographies, bibliographies, photographs, recorded interviews and many other resources. Since 2022 the development of the Archive has been overseen by the Faculty of Law’s Eminent Scholars Archive Steering Group. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_...
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Apr 23, 2026
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Conversation with Professor Sir John Laws 16.11.2017 52:35
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
Conversations with John Baker #1: Early life 02.06.2017 1:17:31
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...
Conversations with John Baker #3: Scholarly works 02.06.2017 2:02:47
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...
Conversations with John Baker #2: Academic Career 17.05.2017 1:20:19
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...
P.J. Allott: Welcome to Eutopia! 24.01.2017 34:28
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 p...
Conversation with Professor Cheryl Saunders 07.12.2016 30:38
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 h...
Conversation #2 with Professor Tony Smith 26.10.2016 1:23:57
Professor Tony Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2015-2016. Professor Smith was interviewed for the second time on 20 July 2016 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
Conversation #1 with Professor Tony Smith 15.04.2016 1:08:53
Professor Tony Smith was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2015-2016. Professor Smith was interviewed for the first time on 19 January 2016 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
Conversation #2 with Professor David Dyzenhaus 06.11.2015 29:24
Professor David Dyzenhaus was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2014-2015. Professor Dyzenhaus was interviewed for the second time on 20 July 2015 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
'Democracy and International Law': Dame Rosalyn Higgins 12.05.2015 47:25
On 8-9 May 2015 the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law hosted it's 4th Annual Conference, entitled "Developing Democracy: Conversations on Democratic Governance in International, European and Comparative Law". The opening keynote was delivered by Dame Rosalyn Higgins DBE QC (President of the International Court of Justice 2006–2009) and was entitled 'Democracy and International...
Conversation with Dame Rosalyn Higgins 06.03.2015 2:46:31
Dame Rosalyn Higgins was interviewed by Lesley Dingle on 14 March 2014 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/
Conversation with Professor David Dyzenhaus 11.02.2015 1:05:11
Professor David Dyzenhaus was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2014-2015. Professor Dyzenhaus was interviewed on 16 January 2015 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/
P.J. Allott: Curing the Madness of the Intergovernmental World 22.07.2014 58:24
This lecture was given as the Alec Roche Lecture 2006 at New College, Oxford, under the title 'The Idea of International Society' . Professor Allott re-recorded the lecture on 8 July 2014 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. If the intergovernmental world of diplomacy and war and international politics is re-classified under the category of 'madness', that might help us to underst...
Second Conversation with Professor Gerald Postema 18.07.2014 36:57
Professor Gerald Postema was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2013-2014. He was interviewed initially in January 2014 in the Squire Law Library, while the present interview was held on June 30th 2014. Professor Postema looks back favourably over his teaching activities while in the Goodhart Chair. He also speaks of his researches into the papers of Sir Matthew Hale, on w...
'The Idealist's Dilemma: Re-imagining International Society' - Philip Allott (audio) 09.06.2014 29:28
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. This lecture was adapted and then re-recorded at the Faculty of Law on 3 June 2014, and it is this recording which is available here.
'The Idealist's Dilemma' - Philip Allott 09.06.2014 21:56
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.
Conversation with Professor Leslie Ronald Zines 09.06.2014 57:53
Professor Leslie Ronald Zines was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 1992-1993. Professor Zines was interviewed at Lesley Dingle’s home in Newnham on 7th October 2011 , there being a power failure that day in the Law Faculty at Cambridge. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/
Conversation with Professor Gerald Postema 26.03.2014 1:02:56
Professor Gerald Postema was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science for 2013-2014. Professor Postema was interviewed on 10 January 2014 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/
Philip Allott: 'The True Function of Education' 13.02.2014 1:11:24
Plato began the discussion about the purpose of education. Each succeeding age has given its own answers. Now it is our turn.
'Greece: A State With Weak Institutions, in Crisis': Professor Spyridon Flogaitis 04.11.2013 55:53
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. Professor Flogaitis has a Degree in Law (Hon), from the Athens University (1973), a Docteur en Droit (Summa cum laude) from the University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) (1978), a Docteur en Histoire (Summa cum laude) from the...
Conversation with Professor Spyridon Flogaitis 22.08.2013 1:08:26
This is the sixth interview for the Eminent Scholars Archive with an incumbent of the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science. Professor Flogaitis is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Athens. An the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_sc...
Conversations with Len Sealy #2: Published Works and Retirement 22.07.2013 1:16:44
In February and April 2013 Professor Sealy was interviewed twice at the Squire Law Library to record his reminiscences of nearly sixty years research and teaching in the Faculty of Law and Gonville & Caius College. An the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (15 February 2013): Early Years and the Faculty; - Second Interview (22 Apri...
Conversations with Len Sealy #1: Early Years and the Faculty 22.07.2013 1:35:51
In February and April 2013 Professor Sealy was interviewed twice at the Squire Law Library to record his reminiscences of nearly sixty years research and teaching in the Faculty of Law and Gonville & Caius College. An the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (15 February 2013): Early Years and the Faculty; - Second Interview (22 Apri...
'The EU and the Decline of European Civilisation' - Professor Philip Allott: CELS Seminar (Audio) 07.05.2013 40:35
Professor Philip Allott, of the University of Cambridge, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "The EU and the Decline of European Civilisation" on Tuesday 7th May 2013 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). This lecture should be read in conjunction with the paper available to download from http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/events/weekly_cels_seminars_2012-2013....
Conversations with Professor Philip James Allott #2: The Foreign Office years (1960-1973) 24.04.2013 1:19:22
Between February and April 2011 Professor Allott was interviewed five times at his room off stairway F at Trinity College to record his reminiscences of almost sixty years of a varied career which was spent initially in various capacities at the FCO, and in later years in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle. These interviews were recorded and the audio version is avai...
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