Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Ray Tough spoke about "The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper" on Monday 20 November 2018 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular Cambridge University Law Society (CULS) speaker programme.

Ray is a crime historian and was a Detective Constable with the West Yorkshire Police during the Yorkshire Ripper investigation. Hear his perspectives on the investigation, which led to seminal cases like Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.

This event was kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

On 15 November 2018 the Cambridge Family Law Centre, and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Dr Zeynep Gurtin of the Institute for Women's Health, University College London, who spoke on the subject "Egg Freezing in the UK: The data we have is the tip of the iceberg".

In this seminar, Dr Gurtin discusses her research into egg freezing in the UK. In particular, she focuses on what aspects of this fast-growing phenomenon have, to date, been accurately captured in national and HFEA data reporting and what aspects have remained obscured. Dr Gurtin assesses the current landscape and make some predictions regarding the future of egg freezing, as well as suggesting much-needed policy developments in this area.

Simon Deakin, Director of the Centre for Business Research and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, tells the Cambridge Public Policy SRI (Strategic Research Initiative) why Brexit isn’t the cure for Britain’s broken economic model.

On 16 November 2018 the SRI and the CBR, the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, are holding a conference in Cambridge on Brexit with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion amongst academics and further research on the implications of the UK leaving the EU for public policy.

This is the third of a series of podcasts which the Public Policy SRI has commissioned with key speakers involved in the Cambridge event.

In this audio podcast Professor Deakin explains that Britain’s low-wage, low productivity economy is the result of forty years of neoliberal economic policies. While some on the Left think that Brexit will allow a reset of British economic policy, Deakin explains why this view is implausible. Even a benign or ‘soft’ Brexit will cause a shock to Britain’s trading relations that will have long-lasting consequences. If there is a hard, no-deal Brexit, the effect will be akin to ‘shock therapy’ of the kind inflicted by neoliberal policy makers on the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Christina Blacklaws, President of the Law Society of England and Wales spoke about "The Future of Legal Services" on Wednesday 24 October 2018 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular CULS speaker programme.

Christina Blacklaws has made the transformation of the legal industry a key focus of her Presidency. She chairs the Law Society’s Legal Technology Policy Commission and has also been asked by the government to chair their Lawtech Delivery Panel. Christina is heavily involved in the technological issues relating to supra-national legislative and regulatory frameworks as well as the need to demystify lawtech and empower all lawyers to embrace relevant technology.

This event was kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

Sir Christopher Greenwood GBC CMG QC spoke about "Litigating International Law" on Tuesday 23 October 2018 at the Faculty of Law, as a guest on the regular CULS speaker programme.

Sir Christopher was a judge at the International Court of Justice from 2008 to 2018. He spent nearly twenty years as a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and lecturer in the Cambridge Law Faculty, and subsequently as Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics.

This event was kindly sponsored by Clifford Chance.

For more information see the CULS website at: https://culs.org.uk

This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

On Friday 19 October 2018, The Rt Hon. Beverley McLachlin delivered the 2018 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Where Are We Going? Reflections on the Rule of Law in a Dangerous World".

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