Faculty of Law general media

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 30 June the Faculty hosted a workshop in partnership with Slaughter and May. The event was an opportunity for the Faculty of Law to share with Slaughter and May some examples of recent research. Three short presentations were made: - Ms Elizabeth Howell: 'The Politicisation of Regulation: A 'Short' Story'; - Professor Simon Deakin: 'The Role of Law in Economic Development in China and Russia';...

On 30 June the Faculty hosted a workshop in partnership with Slaughter and May. The event was an opportunity for the Faculty of Law to share with Slaughter and May some examples of recent research. Three short presentations were made: - Ms Elizabeth Howell: 'The Politicisation of Regulation: A 'Short' Story'; - Professor Simon Deakin: 'The Role of Law in Economic Development in China and Russia';...

On 30 June the Faculty hosted a workshop in partnership with Slaughter and May. The event was an opportunity for the Faculty of Law to share with Slaughter and May some examples of recent research. Three short presentations were made: - Ms Elizabeth Howell: 'The Politicisation of Regulation: A 'Short' Story'; - Professor Simon Deakin: 'The Role of Law in Economic Development in China and Russia';...

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...

The Wilberforce Society held presentation of a paper written by a team from the University of Cambridge, at the Roger Needham Room in Wolfson College on Wednesday 29 April 2015. Terrorism. Twitter. Arbitrary convictions. Big data. Protests. The Islamic State. Japanese parodies. Detailed analysis of legislative procedures. This paper has it all. Our authors explore the impact of recent case laws, R...

In this session, speakers cover the role of the humanities in shaping public policy from the view of a civil servant, the toxic and complex issue of the free movement of workers, and the humanities and policy making in a hyper-connected world. The session was chaired by Lord Richard Wilson (Cabinet Secretary 1998 - 2002) and speakers included Graham Pendlebury (Department for Transport); Professor...

On Wednesday 29th April 2015 Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, spoke at the Emmanuel College Law Society on the subject of "How digital rights are undermined by mass surveillance: why it matters and what we can do about it". The Open Rights Group is a not for profit organisation which campaigns on a wide range of civil liberties issues, including mass surveillance, copyrigh...

On Saturday 14 March, Trinity College hosted a lecture by the President of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) Dean Spielmann entitled 'Opinion 2/13 and other matters'. In Opinion 2/13, decided just before Christmas, the Court of Justice (Luxembourg) controversially and unexpectedly ruled that the EU could not accede to the European Convention on Human Rights under the terms of the agr...

Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people ca...

On Friday 27 February 2015, Professor Alon Harel of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) delivered and evening lecture entitled "Against Privatization as Such" as a guest of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. More information about this lecture and the Centre are available at the website: http://www.cflpp.law.cam.ac.uk/

The segment of the BBC 5 live breakfast programme broadcast on 2 February 2015 featuring Professor John Spencer discussing the system for compensation for miscarriages of justice. Programme information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xdy5 Provided courtesy of the BBC.

The segment of the BBC Law in Action programme broadcast on 17 February 2015 featuring Professor John Spencer discussing if the system for determining compensation for miscarriages of justice is fair. Programme information is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052j57j Provided courtesy of the BBC.

Speaker: Saskia Sassen is Professor, Columbia University and co-chairs its Committee on Global Thought. Her new book is Expulsions: When complexity produces elementary brutalities. (Harvard University Press 2014). The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in...

The Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy hosted a public lecture on Tuesday, January 27th, at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. The lecture was delivered by Professor David Dyzenhaus of the University of Toronto, 2014-15 Goodhart Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty. He spoke on "The Public Conscience of the Law: From Hobbes to Hart." The lecture was followed by a...

Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morganbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University) will be speaking on the topic: 'Why does liberalism find it so hard to cope with identity?' at 5.30pm on October 13 in LG17 at the Law Faculty - drawing on his recent book 'Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment'. More information on the speaker is available at: http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/ake...

The segment of the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drivetime programme broadcast on 3 October 2014 featuring Dr Mark Elliott discussing Conservative proposals to the UK's relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights. Provided courtesy of the BBC.

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 understand bet...

Professor Graham Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and also Deputy Chair of the Faculty Board. In this video, Professor Virgo considers the current position of the law relating to defendants who are prosecuted in cases of 'common purpose'. Several different circumstances are often combined to form the confused category of 'Joint Enterprise'....

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. This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.

The segment of the BBC Today Programme broadcast on 6 May 2014 featuring David Howarth discussing the contract agreed with EDF Energy with regards the Hinckley C power station and the generation of nuclear power. Appended to the segment is a recording of a subsequent news report from the same programme on the same issue. Provided courtesy of the BBC.

Cambridge University Amnesty International held a panel discussion followed by a Q&A on the subject of "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery" which was held on Monday 28th April. - There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world today who are victims of human trafficking. - Modern Slavery is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the...

On Thursday 13 March 2014 Lord Justice Patrick Elias spoke at an event held by Lucy Cavendish College on the subject of "Religion, Law & the Limits of Tolerance".

Plato began the discussion about the purpose of education. Each succeeding age has given its own answers. Now it is our turn.

The segment of the BBC Woman's Hour programme broadcast on 15th August 2013 featuring The Rt Hon. Lady Justice Arden, Girton Law alumn. Provided courtesy of the BBC.