Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Professor Daniel Bodansky’s seminal and widely acclaimed book The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law was first published in 2010. In contrast to other general works on international environmental law, the book focused on the processes of developing, implementing, and enforcing international environmental law rather than on legal doctrine. In order to comprehensively analyse these processes, the book is highly interdisciplinary, relying not only on the legal toolkit but integrating perspectives and lenses of political science and economics, as well as philosophy, sociology, and anthropology.

This year, Oxford University Press published the second edition of The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, co-authored by Prof Daniel Bodansky and LCIL Centre Fellow, Prof Harro van Asselt. Aside from the co-authorship, this second edition differs in several important aspects from the previous edition, in order to adequately reflect the important developments that international environmental law has witnessed during the last decade.

At this event, Professors Bodansky and van Asselt will provide an overview of the approach to international environmental law taken in this second edition, highlighting the ways in which it differs from the first. This presentation is intended to subsequently lead to a discussion on developments specifically in the international climate change regime, including prospects for the Paris Agreement and the recent request for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change.

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.

In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Brenda Hale Fellow in Law, Girton College) discusses process of applying to study Law at Cambridge.

You can download the slides from this presentation from:

https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_applying_to_cambridge.pdf

The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.

The Open Day programme:

• Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott
• Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos
• Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo
• Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson

For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:

http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.

In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Findlay Stark gives an interactive lecture on the law of criminal damage.

You can download the slides from this presentation from:

https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_without_lawful_excuse.pdf

The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.

The Open Day programme:

• Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott
• Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos
• Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo
• Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson

For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:

http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.

In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Janet O'Sullivan and Professor Graham Virgo give attendees an idea of what a Law supervision is like, by leading a discussion on a handful of legal questions.

You can download the slides from this presentation from:

https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_legal_problems.pdf

The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.

The Open Day programme:

• Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott
• Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos
• Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo
• Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson

For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:

http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.

In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Christina Angelopoulos (Associate Professor & Director of Tripos) discusses the benefits of studying Law, and the nature of Law at Cambridge.

You can download the slides from this presentation from:

https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_the_cambridge_law_course.pdf

The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.

The Open Day programme:

• Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott
• Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos
• Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo
• Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson

For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:

http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.

In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Professor Mark Elliott (Chairman of the Faculty) welcome attendees to the Faculty.

The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.

The Open Day programme:

• Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark Elliott
• Law at Cambridge: Dr Christina Angelopoulos
• Without Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham Virgo
• Applying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson

For more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:

http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk

Cambridge Pro Bono Project hosted Eileen Dong at the Faculty of Law on Wednesday, 15 May 2024.

Eileen Dong, a renowned UN Ambassador, distinguished member of the US Committee for Refugees & Immigrants Advisory Board, and expert in combating human trafficking, will explore the critical intersections between UN’s 2030 Global Goals and the ongoing efforts to address gender-based violence and human trafficking. Drawing from her extensive experience and multidisciplinary approach, Ambassador Dong sheds light on the vital role of cross-sector collaborations in addressing human rights violations and gender-based violence.

Serving as the Founder and Executive Director of Hope Pyx Global as well as a consultant for US Center for Countering Human Trafficking, Homeland Security Investigations, Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Office, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Dong has committed her work to eliminating abuse, exploitation, trafficking, violence, and torture, while building safe spaces for survivors from all backgrounds. Dong's expertise has been recognized at prestigious events such as the UNODC World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and the OSCE Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons. Her innovative approaches encourage cross-sector, intergenerational, and multidisciplinary collaborations “glocally”.

Dong has played a pivotal role in advising on the UN's Declaration of Human Rights by the American Youth, aimed at eliminating abuse and exploitation, and participating in the Department of Homeland Security’s Roundtable, offering invaluable insights to enhance policies and programs in investigating human trafficking cases, as well as improving support for survivors. Furthermore, Dong successfully testified in favor of the passage of TX SB 49, resulting in almost tripling the crime victims’ compensation, and the allocation of $1 million for the first Trauma Recovery Center in Texas. Presently, she is engaged in collaborative efforts with international NGOs towards international treaties to end violence against women and girls.

For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see https://www.cpp.law.cam.ac.uk/

Additional resources:

Global Goals (Sustainable Development Goals): https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/

Core International Human Rights Treaties: https://www.ohchr.org/en/core-international-human-rights-instruments-and-their-monitoring-bodies

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (un.org): https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

Book: "Thank Your Predator: A Guide to Trauma Recovery from Abuse": https://a.co/d/bIkDsuG

Polaris Project: Love and Trafficking: https://youtu.be/1RQTd6WeS2Q

TED Talk: Things You Don't Know about Human Trafficking | Eileen Dong: https://youtu.be/DVrwyvNUzMY?si=axpEJF73kUphK1px

To stay to updated on upcoming events and information: Eileen Dong: https://www.EileenDong.com

Hope Pyx Global: https://www.HopePyxGlobal.org

LinkedIn:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-dong/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/hope-pyx-global/

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Lecture summary: A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship explores overlaps and interactions among different normative and institutional branches of international law. This lecture contributes to this scholarship through a case study of relations among international organizations in the mid-1960s, when several emerging political fault lines – between East and West, between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries, and between the established specialized agencies and newer institutions – brought the coherence of the international legal order into doubt. Drawing on original archival research, the lecture focusses on a single inter-agency meeting, held in Geneva in early July 1966, where these fault lines were exposed and debated at length.

Through this case study, the lecture aims to expand our understanding of the impact of international organizations championed by actors in the Global South in this period, the reactions they provoked from others, and the potential and limits of international legal reform through such institutional means. As a technology for representing, knowing, and managing inter-organizational relations, the study of inter-agency meetings offers insights into both micro- and macro-level processes in international law, and the links between them. To this end, the lecture develops a concept of ‘staging’ to analyze the work of assembling and choreographing heterogeneous elements with the aim of producing a particular performance of international legal ordering. As a multilayered concept, ‘staging’ invokes and enables the study of international law’s material, spatial, and temporal dimensions. The lecture shows that, as much as staging international law implies scripting, direction, and rehearsal, it also inevitably entails improvisation, accident, and error.

Guy Fiti Sinclair is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Pacific) at Auckland Law School, The University of Auckland. He holds first degrees in law and history, and a Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD) from New York University School of Law. His research and teaching focusses on the doctrine, theory, and practice of international law, often in historical perspective and with particular focuses on international organisations law, international economic law, and law and global governance. His first book, To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), was awarded the European Society of International Law Book Prize in 2018. Guy’s current research includes a project on institutional interactions in the construction and contestation of international economic law, funded by a Marsden Fast Start Grant from Te Apārangi | Royal Society of New Zealand. In 2023, he began work on a major research project on international legal ordering in Oceania/the Pacific, supported by a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of New Zealand.