Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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November 15, 2019 Reimagining Children's Equality: Nancy Dowd
An event co-hosted by Cambridge Family Law and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group at the Faculty of Law on 12 November 2019.
Speaker: Professor Nancy Dowd, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Professor Dowd will present the core thesis and arguments of her recent book, Reimagining Equality: A New Deal for Children of Color (NYU Press 2018). She argues that children’s equality must include developmental equality, meaning that each child should be supported to their full developmental capacity. She will present the three essential parts of the book and then hope to engage in discussion and feedback. She will focus most of her presentation on Part III of the book, which melds the developmental and legal implications of children’s inequalities and hierarchies among children. She will suggest strategies for change, which include three possibilities: using existing statutory frameworks, constitutional litigation and affirmative, comprehensive legislation that she calls a New Deal for Children, borrowing from the New Deal of the 1930s in the US.
Professor Dowd is the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and an affiliate of the Anita Zucker Center. She served as Interim Director and Director of the Center on Children and Families at the UF law school from 2007-2015. She currently is a Distinguished Guest Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, for 2018-2020, and in 2017 was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on social justice issues that link family law, juvenile law, constitutional law, critical race and gender analysis, and social change theories. She is the author of eight books and over 50 articles.
For more information about the Cambridge Family Law Centre, see the website at:
https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/
39 min
November 11, 2019 Postgraduate Open Day MCL Presentation: Professor Brian Cheffins
On 1 November 2019 the University of Cambridge held its most recent Postgraduate Open Day (https://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/events/postgraduate-open-day). As part of this hugely popular event, Professor Brian Cheffins, Director of the MCL, gave a talk that provided an overview of the MCL programme, MCL entry requirements and the application process. The presentation provided only a succinct overview of relevant points.
Key additional details are available on the full MCL website at:
https://www.mcl.law.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate-open-day
18 min
November 08, 2019 Evening Lecture: 'Law and Politics in the UN Climate Regime: A Preview of the Santiago Climate Conference' - Professor Daniel Bodansky, Arizona State University
Professor Daniel Bodansky will speak about ‘Law and Politics in the UN Climate Regime: A Preview of the Santiago Climate Conference.’ Followed by a Q&A.
Is implementation of the Paris Agreement on track? What are the Agreement's prospects for success? The talk will review developments in the international climate change regime, including the recently concluded UN Climate Change Summit, analyze the state of play in the UNFCCC regime, and preview the upcoming conference of the parties (COP25) in Santiago in December.
Professor Daniel Bodansky is Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
He served as Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. State Department from 1999-2001. His book, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law, received the 2011 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association as the best book that year in the field of international environmental studies.
His latest book, International Climate Change Law, co-authored with Jutta Brunnée and Lavanya Rajamani, was published by Oxford University Press in June 2017, and received the 2018 Certificate of Merit from the American Society of International Law as the best book in a specialized area of international law published the previous year. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate of Harvard (A.B.), Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale (J.D.).
1 hr 29 min
October 21, 2019 'Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law': The 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture
On Friday 18 October 2019, Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in Public 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 Cambridge University.
More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at:
http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures
45 min
October 21, 2019 '"Nobody is Proud of Soft Dollars": A Critical Review of Excess Brokerage Commissions in the United States and the Significance of Recent MiFID II Reforms in the European Union' - Howell E. Jackson: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar
Professor Howell E. Jackson (Harvard Law School) gave a lecture entitled ""Nobody is Proud of Soft Dollars": A Critical Review of Excess Brokerage Commissions in the United States and the Significance of Recent MiFID II Reforms in the European Union" on 21 October 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL.
For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
46 min
October 18, 2019 'Principle and Pragmatism in Public Law': The 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture
On Friday 18 October 2019, Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in Public 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 Cambridge University.
More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for Public Law website at:
http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures
45 min
October 17, 2019 Corporate Governance LLM Cambridge - An Introduction, Part 4
The first of four lectures of the LLM Corporate Governance course delivered by Professor Brian Cheffins which form an introduction to the Cambridge LLM Masters Degree Course in Corporate Governance Law.
These introductory lectures cover the following topics:
a) Corporate Governance as a topic for study;
b) Defining Corporate Governance;
c) Corporate Governance's Emergence as a Prominent Issue;
d) Tiers of Regulation;
e) The Separation of Ownership and Control in the UK;
f) Agency Costs;
g) Practical Constraints on Managerial Conduct.
This lecture was delivered on 17 October 2019.
52 min
October 17, 2019 Corporate Governance LLM Cambridge - An Introduction, Part 3
The first of four lectures of the LLM Corporate Governance course delivered by Professor Brian Cheffins which form an introduction to the Cambridge LLM Masters Degree Course in Corporate Governance Law.
These introductory lectures cover the following topics:
a) Corporate Governance as a topic for study;
b) Defining Corporate Governance;
c) Corporate Governance's Emergence as a Prominent Issue;
d) Tiers of Regulation;
e) The Separation of Ownership and Control in the UK;
f) Agency Costs;
g) Practical Constraints on Managerial Conduct.
This lecture was delivered on 17 October 2019.
53 min
October 17, 2019 The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2019: 'Taking Teaching Seriously: How to Teach Treaty Interpretation' by Professor Joseph Weiler, NYU
Lecture summary: For many years now Research & Scholarship have become the Alpha and Omega of academic life. Think of the Research Excellence Framework and the cascading effect it has had on the life of UK universities. Think of all other forms of rankings, institutional and individual, which try (miserably) to quantify quality of research, institutional and individual and the effect this has on the recruitment of staff and students and on the career paths of young scholars. Think of money -- public funding, research grants and the like and the impact this, mammon, has on academic life. Though we continue to pay lip service to the importance of teaching, nobody can question that it ranks much lower in how we rank academic excellence.
The most coveted appointment as a Research Professor (with less or no teaching) sends an undeniable signal and one does not get a grant which enables a buyout from research in order to focus on teaching. Most professors and lecturers fulfill their teaching duties faithfully, but it is a duty and few, especially in the major Research Universities think of their vocation as educators. One does not naturally think of teaching as worth spending the time, thought and creativity in the same manner we do on our "research". Most dream of being Great Scholars, not great teachers and educators. And if they did, the system would not prize them for that. Distinguished Lectures are typically meant to be an occasion to engage with the latest and most profound in scholarship. A good part of my scholarly effort is dedicated to thinking about how knowledge, insight and creativity can be translated and brought into the classroom. By this I do not mean rhetoric or teaching techniques, or teaching how to do research but the most profound and effective way of engaging our students with the actual content of that which it is our responsibility to teach. A well designed and creative class should, but does not in today's academia, count as much as a well designed and creative article. Taking this route will not, I hope, only honor the memory of Eli Lauterpacht in the most meaningful way I can think of, but perhaps also make a more lasting contribution than any 'scholarly' lecture.
Professor Weiler is University Professor at NYU Law School and Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. Until recently he served as President of the European University Institute, Florence. Prof Weiler is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON).
1 hr
October 10, 2019 Corporate Governance LLM Cambridge - An Introduction, Part 2
The second of four lectures of the LLM Corporate Governance course delivered by Professor Brian Cheffins which form an introduction to the Cambridge LLM Masters Degree Course in Corporate Governance Law.
These introductory lectures cover the following topics:
a) Corporate Governance as a topic for study;
b) Defining Corporate Governance;
c) Corporate Governance's Emergence as a Prominent Issue;
d) Tiers of Regulation;
e) The Separation of Ownership and Control in the UK;
f) Agency Costs;
g) Practical Constraints on Managerial Conduct.
This lecture was delivered on 10 October 2019.
52 min

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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.