Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

In the first round of the French Presidential election, Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen progressed to the runoff on 7 May, notwithstanding neither candidate having the backing of the traditionally powerful parliamentary parties. Will the new French President be hamstrung in power if she or he does not obtain a majority in the parliamentary elections of June 20...

In this episode, Dr Joe Tomlinson from Sheffield University questions how Brexit will affect administrative justice and in particular the protection of human rights in the administrative process.

In this episode, Dr David Barrett from Nottingham Trent University speaks about the impact of Brexit on regulatory actors, in particular the Equality and Human Rights Commission and the Care Quality Commission.

In this episode, Dr Stuart Wallace, a Lecturer at University of Cambridge, speaks about the Government’s decision to stop applying the European Convention on Human Rights (or to derogate) for situations arising from military actions abroad (Iraq, Afghanistan etc).

In this episode, Ömer Keskin is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne. In his talk, he explains how referendums work in Switzerland and how international law could be used to improve popular initiatives.

In this episode, Dr Katie Boyle, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, investigates what information citizens had access to prior to the 2016 referendum and questions whether a new approach to referendums – one that allows genuine deliberation – is necessary.

In this episode, Thomas Fairclough, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge disputes the argument that common law rights are only limited in scope and therefore cannot offer the protection of human rights that we currently enjoy. Instead, he argues the common law can be used to fill the gap created by Brexit or repeal of the Human Rights Act.

In this episode, Niall O’Connor is a Phd student at University of Cambridge and he talks about how the common law could provide protection for social rights after Brexit.

In this episode, Dr Joelle Grogan who is a Lecturer at Middlesex University Law School, talks about how we may be able to use existing law to protect some human rights after Brexit. She speaks about rights that may be protected under the common law and rights that may be incorporated into domestic law through the Great Repeal Bill. Finally, she addresses rights that will be lost as a result of Bre...

In this episode, Leanne Cochrane who is a PhD student at Queen’s University Belfast, maps out the current human rights situation in the UK. She looks at the implications of Brexit on human rights protections and the possibility of a new British Bill of Rights. The paper she presents is co-authored with Dr Katie Boyle (who appears in a later podcast).

Human Rights after Brexit podcast is a series of nine podcasts in which young human rights experts discuss the implications of Brexit for human rights protection in the UK. Employment, equality, data protection, are all in danger of being undermined. In these podcasts, experts seek to identify questions that are likely to come up in the next two years before we leave the EU and provide tentative a...

The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitra...

In Ilott v The Blue Cross [2017] UKSC 17 (http://ukscblog.com/new-judgment-ilott-v-the-blue-cross-ors-2017-uksc-17/) the Supreme Court considered the competing claims of the animal charities included in a woman's will and her estranged adult daughter, who was excluded from the will but living in necessitous circumstances. In this video, Brian Sloan considers the outcome of the case, which raised f...

The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitra...

The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitra...

The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitra...

The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 18 March 2017 was titled 'Winds of Change: Rethinking the Future of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitra...

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European...

On 9 March 2017 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted Jason Brickhill to speak on the topic '(Democratic) Politics by Other Means: Public Interest Litigation in South Africa'. He spoke about his experiences using law as an instrument of justice for the vulnerable and marginalised, including poor, homeless and landless people, at the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa's largest public inter...

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) hosted Saimo Chahal to deliver a lecture on 7 March 2017. Saimo Chahal is a leading figure in public law, human rights and international law. She has acted as the solicitor in the leading assisted suicide cases of R (Jane Nicklinson and Paul Lamb) v The Ministry of Justice & the DPP & The Attorney Gene...

On 28 February 2017 Mr Anthony Parry delivered the 2017 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Under threat? Safeguarding the future of English law and the English Courts after Brexit". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. A qualified barrister and Cambridge gr...

On 27 February Paul Daly of the University of Cambridge gave a seminar entitled "Administrative law values and the scope of judicial review of administrative action" as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). For more information see the CPL website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk

On Friday 24 February 2017, The Honourable Mr Justice Singh delivered the 2017 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law". The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Camb...

On 22 February 2017 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project Colloquium Series hosted a talk by Shauneen Lambe, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Just for Kids Law, giving a talk on her experiences, entitled "Using law as a tool to bring about social change". She discussed her work representing people on death row in the USA, and Just for Kids Law's campaigns and legal challenges which have changed laws...

Dr Sarah Nason of the University of Bangor delivered a seminar discussing her book "Reconstructing Judicial Review" (Hart Publishing, 2016) on 21 February 2017 as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL). This is the first seminar in an occasional series in which early-career public lawyers from round the UK are given a forum to discuss their work with an interested, informed group of scholars....