Faculty of Law general media

On Monday 24th June, Professor Sabino Cassese, Judge at the Constitutional Court of Italy, spoke on "The Rise of the Administrative State in Europe" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States.

On Monday 24th June, Dr Savvas Papassavvas, Vice-president of the General Court of the EU, spoke on "State Sovereignty and Euro-decline in the Aftermath of the Economic Crisis" as a guest at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law. This seminar was arranged by Professor David Feldman and Professor Spyridon Flogaitis as part of the LL.M. course on The Birth, Development and Afterlife of States,...

On Wednesday 1st May 2013 Professor Dan Saxon, Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden spoke at an event held by the Hughes Hall Hat Club. The last in a series of three, this talk explored the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies for the conduct of warfare. The late American historian William Manchester once wrote that '... no...

On Wednesday 30th January 2013 Professor Dan Saxon, Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden spoke at an event held by the Hughes Hall Hat Club. This talk was the second of a three-part series, exploring the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies for the conduct of warfare. This lecture asks how will international law, in particu...

On Friday 8th March 2013, Dame Anne Owers gave the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture, at Girton College, Cambridge. Dame Anne Owers brings a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system to this lecture. Appointed Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in February 2012, she offers an engaging insight to her new and challenging role. Previously HM Chief Inspector of Pri...

Studying law at University is not a vital prerequisite for a distinguished career in legal practice. But those advocating the non-law route into the profession may undervalue the benefits of the law degree, both for those intending to practise and those not so intending. This important debate examined the arguments on Wednesday 27th February 2013 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Jus...

On 4th February 2008 two members of the team that organised the European Legal Development (ELD) project gave a public lecture in Leeds. The lecture gave further perspectives and information on the material available on the site; it lasted approximately 82 minutes, and was given by Professor John Bell and Mr Matthew Dyson. The audio recording of this lecture is available courtesy of Riyaj Hazi and...

Judge Dean Spielmann, the President of the European Court of Human Rights, spoke about "Human Rights in Europe" on 22nd February 2013 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Judge Spielmann is a Fitzwilliam alumni and was elected President of the European Court of Human Rights. He took up his duties on 1 November 2012. Since graduating at Fitzwilliam, Dean Spielmann has been a member of the Luxembourg...

Dr Jillaine Seymour (Sidney Sussex College) provides an introduction to Human Rights.

On Tuesday 29th January 2013, the International Criminal Court Student Network hosted a talk at the Faculty of Law by Steven Kay QC, head of the international team at 9 Bedford Row and leading barrister at the International Criminal Court. Steven Kay QC was involved in the defence of Slobodan Milosevic at the ICTY, advised detainees at Guantanamo Bay on their human rights, worked on the defence of...

The recording of a panel discussion held at Trinity Hall College Cambridge on 3rd December 2012. The panel was chaired by Guy Brannan, and comprised Graham Aaronson QC, Judith Knott and Dr Laura Biron, and discussed current issues arising from the debate about tax avoidance.

Dr Nigel Simmonds was interviewed by Zeynep Elibol at the Koc University, Instanbul (http://http://www.ku.edu.tr) on 15th November 2012. The interview was part of a workshop on Dr Simmonds' book 'Law as a Moral Idea', at which he also delivered a lecture. The events were organised by the Law Faculty at Koc together with the Turkish Philosophical Society. This entry provides an audio source for iTu...

Eleanor Sharpston QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities delivering a lecture describing the roles and responsibilities of the Advocate General on 26th November 2012.

Huw Price gives his inaugural lecture as Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy: Bertrand Russell’s celebrated essay “On the Notion of Cause” was first delivered to the Aristotelian Society on 4 November 1912, as Russell’s Presidential Address. The piece is best known for a passage in which its author deftly positions himself between the traditional metaphysics of causation and the British crown...

On Wednesday 17th October 2012 Professor Dan Saxon, Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht spoke at an event held by the Hughes Hall Hat Club. This talk was the first of a three-part series, exploring the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies for the conduct of warfare. This talk explores the legal challenges for armed forces resul...

A lot of people who study Law at University do so because they want to become practising lawyers, whether as barristers or solicitors, but it is not necessary to read Law at University to become a practising lawyer. Equally, studying Law at University is a legitimate subject for academic study even if you definitely do not want to become a lawyer or think that you may not become a practising lawye...

If you are thinking that you might eventually wish to pursue a career as a lawyer, whether a solicitor or a barrister, there are two different ways of getting the necessary qualifications. One is to study any subject at University other than Law, then do a one-year Law conversion course and finally complete the relevant vocational course to become a solicitor or a barrister. The other route is to...

This public lecture by leading German sociologist and historian, Prof. Dr. Uta Gerhardt, commemorated the end of the Second World War and the period of reconstruction that followed it. The lecture was arranged by the Cambridge Transitional Justice Research Network (CTJRN), and held at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge on 8th May 2012. The recently emerged field of transitional just...

On Wednesday 22nd November 2006 Sir Ian Barker, former Judge of the New Zealand High Court, and Emeritus Chancellor of the University of Auckland delivered a lecture entitled 'The Pitcairn Trials Saga - Justice in Britain’s Smallest Colony'. He discussed the history of Pitcairn, the various attempts to give it a legal system over the years since the mutiny on the Bounty, and gave an account of the...

Lord Woolf the Lord Chief Justice delivering the Squire Centenary Lecture in the Law Faculty on the evening of March 3 2004.

The Faculty of Law welcomed attendees of the Society of Legal Scholars' 102nd Annual Conference, which was held at the University of Cambridge, starting on the afternoon of Monday 5 September and finishing at lunchtime on Thursday 8 September. The main theme of the Conference was 'Law in Politics, Politics in Law' and the second Plenary held on the afternoon of Tuesday 6 September was entitled 'Th...

Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and come up with some solutions. This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing at these locations. This is the first time such a systematic expe...

On Thursday 6th May, The Hughes Hall Centre for Biomedical Science in Society is hosted an open lecture by Professor John Spencer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) entitled "Prosecuting Medical Professionals: As Doctors say, 'There's a lot of it about'". The criminal law traditionally punishes those who knowingly and intentionally misbehave. In recent years, however, the reach of the crimi...

On Wednesday 5 May 2010 Professor Alan Dashwood spoke at an event held by the Hughes Hall Hat Club in association with Hughes Hall Law Society. "The European Communities (and their successor the European Union) are the best available evidence that humankind is capable of collective self-improvement. Europe has been transformed from the cockpit of the world to a haven of peace, liberal values and e...

Darwin College Lecture Series 2007 "Identity and the Law" by Lionel Bentley Although English law protected visual manifestation of trader’s identity (such as names, logos, marks and trade dress) as property from the late nineteenth century, it has been slower to provide protection to individuals against other people’s use of their name, appearance or voice, and has offered very little protection a...