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

March 12, 2019 'Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law': 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture
On 7 March 2019 Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law".
Lady Hale is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
In the lecture, Lady Hale gave her perspective on whether the development of the law should be guided by doctrine, or policy. She did this through a reflection and analysis of a number cases, including many on which she had presided, including Patel v Mirza and Radmacher v Granatino.
The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC), and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website:
http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events
49 min
March 11, 2019 Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law: 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture
On 7 March 2019 Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law".
Lady Hale is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.
In the lecture, Lady Hale gave her perspective on whether the development of the law should be guided by doctrine, or policy. She did this through a reflection and analysis of a number cases, including many on which she had presided, including Patel v Mirza and Radmacher v Granatino.
The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC), and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website:
http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events
49 min
March 06, 2019 American Politics and US Constitutional Law - Helle Porsdam: CULS Lecture
CULS is excited to present a guest lecture by Professor Helle Porsdam on American history and culture through the lens of constitutional law, taking as her point of departure the current political situation in the USA.
Helle is is Professor of Law and Humanities at the Center for Studies in Legal Culture in the Copenhagen Faculty of Law, where she teaches American Culture and holds a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights. She did her PhD in American Studies at Yale University, and has been a Liberal Arts Fellow twice at the Harvard Law School as well as a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the University of Munich.
This event was kindly Sponsored by Clifford Chance.
For more information see the CULS Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/camlawsoc/
35 min
February 27, 2019 'Should Judges Review Directors’ Business Judgment(s)?' - Andrew Keay & Joan Loughrey: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar
Professor Andrew Keay & Professor Joan Loughrey (University of Leeds, UK) gave a lecture entitled "Should Judges Review Directors’ Business Judgment(s)?" on 21 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as guests of 3CL.
Directors are rarely held legally accountable for decisions that have poor outcomes. A key reason is that courts have asserted that the exercise of director’s business judgment should be immune from judicial review. Thus classifying a decision as a business judgment provides directors with a powerful shield from accountability. Yet the meaning and boundaries of the concept of business judgment and the consequences of review/non-review have received little attention. In their seminar, Professors Keay and Loughrey will address this gap by: (1) establishing what is meant by business judgment, (2) identifying how the courts apply this concept, and (3) assessing to what extent directors’ decisions in England and Wales should be subject to review by the courts.
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/
53 min
February 26, 2019 'An Eversion in Thinking: The Company as a Persona Ficta' - Susan Watson: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar
Professor Susan Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand) gave a lecture entitled "An Eversion in Thinking: The Company as a Persona Ficta" on 26 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL.
The argument that forms the basis of this seminar is that the modern company is a legal entity that is a persona ficta; a juridical person separate from all natural persons. Professor Watson will argue that being a persona ficta separate from all natural persons enables the company to capture forms of value derived from the people who work for the organisation, or who transact with the company. The company converts that value to forms of capital that it combines to generate further value. That lock in of capital over time has made size, scope and scale possible within the corporate form. That value extends beyond financial and other forms of capital to organisational systems. The accounting and later legal separation of the fund as a legal entity not just from shareholders but from all the people who are part of the organisation made partitioning of that value in the persona ficta possible.
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/
34 min
February 26, 2019 'Ensuring the Legitimacy of International Arbitration in a Globally Networked World' Cambridge Arbitration Lunch: 21 February 2019
The Arbitration Lunches are side-events organised in the weeks leading up to the annual Cambridge Arbitration Day, held this year for the sixth time on 16 March 2019.
The first CAD Arbitration Lunch of 2019 took place at the Lauterpacht Centre on 21 February 2019, where Simon Maynard gave a talk entitled "Ensuring the Legitimacy of International Arbitration in a Globally Networked World".
Simon is a Senior Associate at Three Crowns. He has acted as advocate in both investor-State and international commercial arbitrations across a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and construction. His recent engagements include representing an oil major in a dispute with a Southeast Asian State concerning adverse taxation measures, and acting for a Middle Eastern State in relation to a dispute arising from a long-term infrastructure contract.
He is a member of the International Centre for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Banking and Financial Services Advisory Committee, as well as a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics.
For more information and to register for the main events, see:
http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org
23 min
February 12, 2019 'The Global Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability: Effective Enforcement Policy Across Legal Systems' - Samuel Buell: 3CL Travers Smith Seminar
Professor Samuel Buell (Duke University, USA) gave a lecture entitled "The Global Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability: Effective Enforcement Policy Across Legal Systems" on 12 February 2019 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of 3CL.
The United States model of corporate crime control, developed over the last two decades, couples an extremely broad rule of corporate criminal liability with a practice of reducing sanctions, and often withholding conviction, for firms that assist in public enforcement by detecting, reporting, and helping prove criminal violations. This model has recently attracted more interest among law reformers in overseas nations, who have sought to increase the frequency and size of their own enforcement actions by adopting features of the U.S. approach. By focusing almost entirely on the law of corporate criminal liability and the process of criminal settlement, the international discussion of corporate criminal enforcement law and policy, as well as the literature on corporate crime, have missed how the U.S. model depends on what we term background laws. These are rules such as self-incrimination rights, legal privileges, and data privacy regimes that control the relative powers of governments and corporations to collect and use evidence of business crime.
This Article exposes that omission, explains how background laws operate and differ in the U.S. and overseas, and advises law reformers on how to shape corporate enforcement policy in light of domestic law’s allocation of investigative powers between public and private spheres.
For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/
41 min
February 12, 2019 'Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change' - Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês: Cambridge Socio-Legal Group Seminar
On 12 February 2019 the ambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês (Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Law School. Member of Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program, Coordinator of Time, Space and Senses of Constitution Research Project) who spoke on the subject "Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change".
Polos de Cidadania, translated as Citizenship Hubs, is a research and outreach program of UFMG Law School. Its aims are the effectiveness of human rights and the construction of knowledge through the dialogue between the academic and the non-academic. It works with social groups and individuals with a history of exclusion and risk trajectory.
The seminar talks about the experiences of Polos, specifically a recent research and outreach work in a slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It proposes a discussion from this experience about the possibilities and limits of social change through social sciences. The talk approaches themes related to the subject object relation; the setting of research agenda; the construction of research instruments, the dialogue between different types of knowledge; and the relationship between science and politics.
Slides for this presentation are available at:
https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/Polos_de_Cidadania_Research.pptx
51 min
February 12, 2019 Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change: Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês
On 12 February 2019 the ambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês (Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Law School. Member of Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program, Coordinator of Time, Space and Senses of Constitution Research Project) who spoke on the subject "Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change".
Polos de Cidadania, translated as Citizenship Hubs, is a research and outreach program of UFMG Law School. Its aims are the effectiveness of human rights and the construction of knowledge through the dialogue between the academic and the non-academic. It works with social groups and individuals with a history of exclusion and risk trajectory.
The seminar talks about the experiences of Polos, specifically a recent research and outreach work in a slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It proposes a discussion from this experience about the possibilities and limits of social change through social sciences. The talk approaches themes related to the subject object relation; the setting of research agenda; the construction of research instruments, the dialogue between different types of knowledge; and the relationship between science and politics.
Slides for this presentation are available at:
https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/Polos_de_Cidadania_Research.pptx
51 min
February 07, 2019 The Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review: CULS Panel event
This debate on 1 February 2019 focused on an age-old question between some of the biggest voices in constitutional law. Experience a debate between eminent professors, and hear them justify their preferred theories. This debate ties in with constitutional law teaching.
Panellists:
- Professor Paul Craig (St. John's College, Oxford),
- Professor Christopher Forsyth (Robinson College, Cambridge)
Moderator
- Professor Trevor Allan (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
This event was kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance.
For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk
1 hr 18 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.