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A talk given by Dr Paul Daly to a group of clerks and judges at the Federal Court of Canada

A lecture given at the Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference in March 2017 by Professor Mark Elliott. The lecture offers a brief introduction to UK Constitutional Law, using the 'Black Spider Memos' case — concerning freedom of information requests in relation to correspondence between Prince Charles and Government Ministers — to illustrate some fundamental points about the UK constitution and about...

Professor Stephane Beaulac (University of Montreal) and Dr Frédéric Bérard (University of Montreal). Professor Beaulac is an alumnus of Darwin College (PhD) and is an expert on public international law and constitutional law. He has recently produced a monograph on the Scottish independence referendum. Dr Bérard is co-director of the National Observatory on Language Rights and a lecturer at the Fa...

The BBC Radio 4 Law in Action special edition entitled 'Brexit in the High Court' broadcast on 8 November 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard and Professor Mark Elliott discussing the result of the High Court decision on the implementation of Article 50. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkmf Provided courtesy of the BBC.

Professor Richard K. Sherwin, Wallace Stevens Professor of Law, Dean for Faculty Scholarship, Director, The Visual Persuasion Project, New York Law School, spoke about 'Visual Literacy for Lawyers: How Visual Evidence and Visual Storytelling Are Changing the Practice of Law in the Digital Age' on 26 April 2016 as a guest of the Fitzwilliam College Law Society. This entry provides an audio source f...

The BBC Radio 4 Law in Action special edition entitled 'Brexit: The Legal Minefield' broadcast on 28 June 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard and Professor Mark Elliott discussing the outcome of the EU Referendum, and the possible outcomes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07kdsdl Provided courtesy of the BBC.

Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law. He specializes in labour law, private law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics, law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/),...

Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October. Speakers: Dr Caroline Lanskey (Criminology), Ms Bethany Schmidt (Criminology) and Rev Paul Tyler (Chaplain of HMP Frankland) Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann, Jerusalem wrote that ‘the essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cog...

Panel 2: The Private Life; The State and Public Sphere Chair: Nora Ni Loideain (University of Cambridge) David Vincent (Open University): "Privacy and the crisis of the liberal State" Karlin Lillington (Irish Times): "Privacy & page one; the challenge of engaging readers ... and editors" Simon Rice (Information Commissioner's Office)

Keynote address: "Why Privacy?" Chair: John Naughton (University of Cambridge) Keynote speaker: Christena Nippert-Eng (Indiana University)

This was an event in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series held on Tuesday 1 March 2016. Speakers: - Dr Michelle Ellefson (Psychology and Education) - Dr Tatiana Thieme (Human Geography) - Dr Ben Crewe (Criminology) This seminar will consider how we create ‘spaces’ of physical, social and cognitive transformation. What are the contexts where transformations might be embedded? How might physical, soc...

The segment of the BBC Radio Scotland John Beattie programme broadcast on 22 February 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard discussing how British citizens have been affected by being part of the EU. The complete programme and further information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070d4wd Provided courtesy of the BBC.

The segment of the BBC Radio 4 PM programme broadcast on 26 February 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard discussing the prospects for the Schengen Area in the context of the current migrant crisis and the British referendum on the EU. The complete programme and further information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071fnwd Provided courtesy of the BBC.

The segment of the BBC Radio 4 World at One programme broadcast on 29 February 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard discussing the possibility of Great Britain invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. The complete programme and further information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071skpk Provided courtesy of the BBC.

The segment of the BBC World at One programme broadcast on 20 February 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard discussing the EU Settlement Deal, and the announcement of the 'Brexit' UK referendum on EU membership. Programme information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0732184 Provided courtesy of the BBC.

Legal Harms & the New Politics of Resistance: Examining the Juridification of Social (in)justice, Legitimacy, Violence and Extremism Extremism and surveillance are top of the global political agenda. How do state responses to harm shape contemporary culture, and relate to interpersonal violence and resistance? To help us ponder these questions, in a series of four presentations, Eva Nanopoulos (La...

Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge: Darwin College Lecture Series The criminal justice process has often been compared to a ‘game’: the ‘games’ lawyers play, for example, or the various ‘games’ played by prisoners or prison psychologists. It is always other people who are playing games…. This lecture will explore current trial processes and sentencing processes in England and Wales by com...

Catherine Barnard, Kenneth Armstrong, Julie Smith, Albertina Albors-Llorens and Markus Gehring share their ‘hot off the press’ reactions to the proposed new settlement of the United Kingdom within the EU (http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2016/02/02-letter-tusk-proposal-new-settlement-uk/), followed by discussion. - Professor Kenneth Armstrong: 'Baskets 1 and 2: competitivenes...

The UNFCCC negotiations in Paris in December last year resulted in the new Paris Agreement on Climate Change. But what does the Agreement actually say and what does it mean for our future? Co-Chairs: Dr Markus Gehring and Professor Joanna Depledge Guest Speaker: Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Hosted by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, the Lauterpacht Centre for International La...

Alison Liebling (Criminology): 'Towards a person centred social science' Judith Gardom (Education/Criminology): ''The subversive good' - person-centred social science and the politics of recognition' Riffing off a video of Joelle Taylor’s ‘The last poet standing’, this session will explore what (often) unarticulated assumptions do social scientists make about personhood in how they design and expl...

Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October. Speakers: Jacob Dunne (undergraduate criminologist, Nottingham Trent University), Ruth Armstrong (Criminology) and Amy Ludlow (Law). Paolo Friere said: ‘Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of t...

This was the third seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 10 November 2015. Speakers: Baz Dreisinger (Prison to College Pipeline, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), Karen Graham (Educational Sociology) and Ingrid Obsuth (Criminology) How are security discourses shaping schools as spaces of learning and education as the ‘practice of freedom’? What are the impacts of sec...

A lunchtime workshop of the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project In a landmark judgment on October 7 the European Court of Justice has ruled that the Safe Harbour framework governing the transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to the US does not comply with the requirements of EU Data Protection law in light of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and is therefore invalid under EU law. The Safe Harbo...

On 15 July 2015 the Faculty hosted a workshop in partnership with Clifford Chance. The event was an opportunity for the Faculty of Law to share with Clifford Chance some examples of recent research. Three short presentations were made: - Hayk Kupelyants: 'The Role of English Courts in Scrutinising sovereign Debt Restructurings'; - Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens: 'The consumer in EU Competition Law';...

On 15 July 2015 the Faculty hosted a workshop in partnership with Clifford Chance. The event was an opportunity for the Faculty of Law to share with Clifford Chance some examples of recent research. Three short presentations were made: - Hayk Kupelyants: 'The Role of English Courts in Scrutinising sovereign Debt Restructurings'; - Dr Albertina Albors-Llorens: 'The consumer in EU Competition Law';...