Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge episodes

November 02, 2022 Law and Race talks: 'Addressing Structural Discrimination through International Human Rights Law: the Approach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination'
Speaker: Professor Mehrdad Payandeh, Member, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School
Professor Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. His research is focused on international human rights law, anti-discrimination law as well as general international law and constitutional law and theory. Since 2020, he is also a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Law and Race talks organised by Kirsty Hughes and Vandita Khanna at the Faculty of Law on 2 November 2022.
Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/
26 min
November 02, 2022 'Addressing Structural Discrimination through International Human Rights Law: the Approach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination'
Speaker: Professor Mehrdad Payandeh, Member, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School
Professor Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. His research is focused on international human rights law, anti-discrimination law as well as general international law and constitutional law and theory. Since 2020, he is also a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Law and Race talks organised by Kirsty Hughes and Vandita Khanna at the Faculty of Law on 2 November 2022.
Supported by the Centre for Public Law: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/
26 min
October 11, 2022 'Venture Capital and European Corporate Laws: Bargaining in the Shadow of Regulatory Constraints': 3CL Travers Smith Seminar (audio)
Speaker: Professor Luca Enriques (University of Oxford)
Biography: Luca Enriques is the Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, a Research Fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute (where he also chairs the Research Committee and is a member of the board) and a Fellow Academic Member of the European Banking Institute (where he also co-chairs the Fintech Working Group). He has published widely in the fields of comparative corporate law, securities regulation and banking law.
He has held visiting positions, among others, at Harvard Law School (as Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems in 2012-13), IDC Herzliya, the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law and Sydney Law School. Between 2007 and 2012 he was a commissioner at Consob, the Italian securities market authority. Before joining the Oxford Faculty of Law, he was Professor of Law at the University of Bologna (2002-07) and at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (2013-14), and a consultant to Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (2003-07). He has also advised the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance on corporate and financial markets policy issues throughout the years.
He holds a Degree in law at the University of Bologna, an LLM at Harvard Law School and a Doctorate in Business Law at Bocconi University in Milan.
3CL runs the 3CL Travers Smith Lunchtime Seminar Series, featuring leading academics from the Faculty, and high-profile practitioners.
For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
35 min
July 04, 2022 Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #4: Scholarly Works
Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.
The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings:

- First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career
- Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1
- Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2
- Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works

For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive
1 hr 6 min
July 04, 2022 Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #3: Career Part 2
Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.
The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings:

- First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career
- Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1
- Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2
- Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works

For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive
1 hr 2 min
July 04, 2022 Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #2: Career Part 1
Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.
The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings:

- First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career
- Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1
- Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2
- Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works

For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive
1 hr 13 min
July 04, 2022 Conversations with Christopher Forsyth #1: Early Life and Career
Between April and June 2022 Professor Forsyth was interviewed four times. The interviewer is Lesley Dingle.
**Please note due to technical problems, the audio quality of this interview is very poor**

The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcripts of those recordings:

- First Interview (28 April 2022): Early Life and Career
- Second Interview (11 May 2022): Career Part 1
- Third Interview (17 May 2022): Career Part 2
- Fourth Interview (7 June 2022): Scholarly Works

For more information, see the Squire website at https://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-law-eminent-scholars-archive
1 hr 17 min
June 17, 2022 Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?: Mark Elliott
On Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Protocol creates a special legal position for Northern Ireland in the light of its particular political circumstances, effectively enabling Northern Ireland to remain within the EU’s Single Market for goods. The UK Government argues that it is necessary to ‘fix’ certain practical problems that it perceives in relation to this arrangement, including ‘disruption and diversion of trade and significant costs and bureaucracy for business’. It therefore proposes the enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
In this video, Professor Mark Elliott considers the extent to which the Bill could be considered to be proposing a breach of international law.

Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, providing advice to the Committee on a range of legislative and other matters. Mark co-founded the international biennial Public Law Conference series and co-convened the first two conferences. He is the recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching and is the author of a widely read blog http://publiclawforeveryone.com/ that is aimed at public law scholars, current and prospective law students, policy-makers, and others who are interested in the subject.

For more information about Professor Elliott, you can also refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25

Law in Focus is a collection of short videos created by Daniel Bates featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty.

This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
10 min
June 17, 2022 'Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?': Mark Elliott
On Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Protocol creates a special legal position for Northern Ireland in the light of its particular political circumstances, effectively enabling Northern Ireland to remain within the EU’s Single Market for goods. The UK Government argues that it is necessary to ‘fix’ certain practical problems that it perceives in relation to this arrangement, including ‘disruption and diversion of trade and significant costs and bureaucracy for business’. It therefore proposes the enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
In this video, Professor Mark Elliott considers the extent to which the Bill could be considered to be proposing a breach of international law.
Mark Elliott is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, providing advice to the Committee on a range of legislative and other matters. Mark co-founded the international biennial Public Law Conference series and co-convened the first two conferences. He is the recipient of a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching and is the author of a widely read blog http://publiclawforeveryone.com/ that is aimed at public law scholars, current and prospective law students, policy-makers, and others who are interested in the subject.
For more information about Professor Elliott, you can also refer to his profile at https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mc-elliott/25
Law in Focus is a collection of short videos created by Daniel Bates featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty.
10 min
June 07, 2022 LCIL/CPL Webinar: Rapid response on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill (audio)
The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill.
The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary announced on 17 May that a Bill will be introduced in response to "the grave situation in Northern Ireland", there was a "necessity to act to ensure institutions can be restored as soon as possible". (BBC News)
While there is still the preference for a negotiated solution the Government highlighted that if a resolution cannot be reached, the UK would take steps to "cement provisions" that are working in the protocol, while "fixing those elements that aren't".
The EU expressed grave concern and signalled that countermeasures would be adopted if the UK went ahead with its plans.
The two Research Centres of the Faculty of Law have joined forces to analyse two aspects of the proposed cause of action in a rapid response seminar. Experts on EU law and public law will jointly discuss different aspects of the proposal. It will allow enough time for an online Q&A, so please submit your questions through the chat.
Speakers:
- Professor Lorand Bartels – UK Border Concerns
- Professor Catherine Barnard – Linkages of the Protocol with the TCA and similarities/differences in Dispute Settlement
- Dr Stefan Theil – Reactions by the EU and in the Member States Broader Systemic Implications
- Professor Alison Young – International Legal Advice in the Westminster Government
- Dr Markus Gehring – Unilateral Actions in EU and International Law
For more information see: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ and https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/
This entry provides an audio source.
1 hr

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The Faculty of Law has a thriving calendar of lectures and seminars spanning the entire gamut of legal, political and philosophical topics. Regular programmes are run by many of the Faculty's Research Centres, and a number of high-profile speakers who are leaders in their fields often speak at the Faculty on other occasions as well.