Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) hosted a guest lecture entitled 'The Principle of Legality in Foreign Relations', which was delivered at the Faculty of Law on 17 November 2014 by Professor Campbell McLachlan, Professor of International Law in Victoria University of Wellington. For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website...

On Friday 14 November 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Ana Júlia Maurício (PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) entitled "Problems of Compliance with European Union Law: The case of national final administrative acts" at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

On Tuesday 4 November 2014, Mr Graham Vinter, General Counsel, BG Group plc (and ex-partner of Allen & Overy), delivered the 2014 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The Trouble with Executives". The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy. More information about this lecture is available from the Private Law Centre website at www.privatelaw.law....

On Friday 31 October 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Estelle Wolfers (PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) entitled “Influencing Luxembourg: the UK Government at the Court of Justice' at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Publ...

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Publ...

The Cambridge University European Society, participating once again in the Festival of Ideas, hosted a talk on 25 October 2014 entitled 'Common European Identity: Myth, Reality or Aspiration?'. This talk welcomed academics with anthropological, historical, legal and political science backgrounds and several students' personal experiences, and included a discussion open to all. Guest Speakers: - Pr...

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Publ...

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Publ...

From 15 to 17 September 2014, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on Public Law. It was intended to be the first of what will become a biennial series of conferences. The theme for the inaugural Public Law Conference was "Process and Substance in Public Law". The conference brought together academics, judges and practitioners from a range of Publ...

On Friday 17 October 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a panel discussion entitled 'Policy or Panic? European Foreign Affairs Now!' at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. 2014 has been, and still is, a year of great diplomatic turmoil: Ukraine’s territorial integrity has been seriously questioned, the Israelo-Palestinian conflict has resumed, the civil war in Syria rages on a...

On Thursday 15 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Professor Mariolina Eliantonio (Assistant Professor of European Administrative Law at the Maastricht University) entitled “Integrated Administration”: How to Close the Gaps of Judicial Protection?' at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

On Friday 9 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Sarah Lambrecht, PhD Fellow at the University of Antwerp and visiting student at the University of Cambridge, at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

On 7 May 2014, Johannes Lenhard (University of Cambridge, Anthropology, Graduate Student) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. Many laws have effects on people who beg on the streets. In this paper, I will pick a nexus of bills and laws, analyse their moral underpinning – what is their implied perception of people...

On Friday 2 May 2014, Hasan Bakirci (Senior Lawyer, ECtHR) spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society. Hasan Bakirci is a senior official at the European Court of Human Rights. He studied law in Istanbul and Oxford, graduating from both places with distinction. He is the author of a practitioner’s handbook on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human...

The Cambridge University European Society hosted a European Parliament Elections Debate on Saturday 26 April at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Only one month before May's elections to the European Parliament, the CU European Society hosted a debate with one representative from each political party of the Cambridgeshire constituency and from parties that were currently represented in...

On 3 March 2014, Judge Nicholas Forwood delivered a lecture entitled "Protecting Individual Rights: Role of the General Court of Justice of the EU" as a guest of the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society. Judge Forwood is the British judge in the General Court of Justice of the European Union, and spoke about how this institution can protect individual rights and about the recent develop...

On Friday 21 February 2014, Conor Gearty of LSE and Matrix Chambers, delivered the 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Not in the Public Interest". 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 Cambridge University. More information about this lect...

On Thursday 20 February 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Stuart Agnew MEP at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Stuart Agnew is the UK Independence Party MEP representing the East of England. Stuart was elected to the European Parliament in June 2009, where he is a member of the Agriculture & Rural Development Committee: here, he is often a lone voice in speaking...

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 Wednesday 12 February 2014 Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, delivered the inaugural 2014 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "The British and Europe". 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. More information about this lec...

On Wednesday 29 January 2014, the Cambridge University Students' Pro Bono Society hosted a talk at the Faculty of Law by Rebecca Hilsenrath, the CEO of LawWorks, entitled "Fewer Rights, More Injustice: Analysing Legal Aid Cuts". Rebecca Hilsenrath is the Chief Executive of LawWorks (the Solicitors’ Pro Bono Group) and the Chief Legal Officer of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Prior to th...

On Wednesday 27 November 2013, Dame Elizabeth Gloster DBE, Lady Justice of Appeal, delivered the inaugural Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Cambridge Lecture. Her title was "Derivative Delights and Oligarch Feuds – What Contribution is English Law Making to Our Post–Modern Financial World?" The event was kindly sponsored by Allen & Overy.

On 4 December 2013, Professor Matthew Weait (Birkbeck, University of London) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. This lecture explores, in comparative perspective but with a focus on English case law, the criminalisation of HIV. It focuses on the ways in which criminalisation provides more general insights into th...

Tim Otty QC delivered the Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2013 on Monday 18 November 2013 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge as a guest of the The Cambridge Pro Bono Project. Tim Otty Q.C is one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers. A member of the distinguished Blackstone Chambers in London, he has appeared before domestic and international courts in some of the most hig...