Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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April 30, 2018 Third Assize Seminar Session 3: 'Difficulties in Getting Into the Court of Appeal Following a Change in Law' - Francis FitzGibbon
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic.
The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "Difficulties in Getting Into the Court of Appeal Following a Change in Law", featuring:

- Speaker: Francis FitzGibbon QC, Doughty Street Chambers

For more information see the CCCJ website at:

https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars
21 min
April 30, 2018 Third Assize Seminar Session 2: 'Disclosure' - Ian Dennis & Alex Chalk
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic.
The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "Disclosure", featuring:

- Speaker: Professor Ian Dennis, University College London
- Commentator: Alex Chalk MP

For more information see the CCCJ website at:

https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars
39 min
April 30, 2018 Third Assize Seminar Session 1: 'What is a sentence' - Nicola Padfield & Andrew Ashworth
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting-edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic.
The third Assize seminar took place in Cambridge on 27 April 2018. This session was entitled "What is a Sentence?", featuring:

- Speaker: Professor Nicola Padfield QC (Hon), University of Cambridge
- Commentator: Professor Andrew Ashworth QC (Hon), University of Oxford

For more information see the CCCJ website at:

https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars
31 min
April 25, 2018 Cambridge University Human Rights Law Society: 'The Practice of Human Rights Law" - Polly Glynn
The Cambridge University Human Rights Law Society invited Polly Glynn of Deighton Pierce Glynn to speak about the practice of Human Rights law on the 23rd of April at the Faculty of Law.
About Polly Glynn
Polly Glynn is a public law and human rights specialist with a particular interest in social welfare law. She has conducted judicial review claims in the High Court and on appeal to the Court of Appeal, and has brought cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
She has a broad range of public law expertise. Her current caseload includes a challenge to a high profile motorway build, and a number of cases for destitute migrants challenging the level of support provided under community care legislation. She has extensive experience of discrimination law, acting in the ECHR on a number of successful claims arising out of the discriminatory effect of the UK’s rules on widows’ benefits and tax allowances, and in relation to eligibility for housing. She also acts in relation to Equality Act damages particularly in a housing context.
Polly Glynn is recommended for public and administrative law and for civil liberties and human rights in the Chambers 2015 directory, which quotes clients saying she is “very supportive in a way that complements our own expertise, and working together with her is a pleasure.” And that “she’s very diligent, and she provides impartial advice which is really helpful in coming to a decision.” She is also recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 directory for her work in Civil Liberties and Human Rights where she is described as “an expert in the field of civil liberties and human rights”.
Polly Glynn is also expert in housing cases, particularly in relation to public law issues and discrimination. She has a special interest in challenging decisions affecting vulnerable clients including those who lack mental capacity. She is recommended as a leading individual in social housing law in the Legal 500 directory, which reports that she is ‘bright and experienced’.
32 min
April 23, 2018 'Due diligence and duties to cooperate: The new frontiers of States’ duties to control nonState actors': Professor Olivier De Schutter (audio)
Professor Olivier De Schutter, Professor of International Law, Catholic University of Louvain, Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, giving the first keynote address on 'Due diligence and duties to cooperate: the new frontiers of States’ duties to control nonState actors'.
Cambridge International Law Journal 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘Non-State Actors and International Law’.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see http://cilj.co.uk/
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
58 min
April 12, 2018 The Struggle of the Nonhuman Rights Project for the Legal Personhood of Nonhuman Animals (audio)
Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage.
Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018.
This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
51 min
April 12, 2018 The Struggle of the Nonhuman Rights Project for the Legal Personhood of Nonhuman Animals
Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). He has taught animal rights law at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, John Marshall Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine and is the author of numerous books and articles. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and his work on the legal personhood of chimpanzees and elephants has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, BBC, and The Guardian, among others, as well as in the HBO documentary movie Unlocking the Cage.
Steven gave this lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on 5 April 2018.
This talk was part of the “Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy” series. For more information on the talk series, visit: http://www.talkinganimals.co.uk.
51 min
March 14, 2018 'Judicial Impartiality: Essential or Impossible?': Lord Neuberger
Lord Neuberger, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, spoke at Clare College on the evening of 12 March 2018 on the subject of 'Judicial Impartiality: Essential or Impossible?'.
Lord Neuberger examined this from the perspective of both court and arbitral adjudication.
Having graduated as a scientist and spent three years as an investment banker, David Neuberger became a barrister in 1975, and in 1987 was appointed Queen’s Counsel. In 1996, he was appointed a High Court Judge, in the Chancery Division. In 2004, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal, and in 2007 he became a Law Lord. In 2009, he was appointed Master of the Rolls. In 2012, he became the President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court, from which he retired in September 2017.
Since 2010, Lord Neuberger has been a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal; in January 2018, he became a Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court. Lord Neuberger practises as an arbitrator from One Essex Court in the Temple, London (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC). Lord Neuberger is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, and an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
29 min
March 14, 2018 'Copyright and Property-Think': Thirteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture by Jessica Litman
Professor Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, delivered the thirteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture (funded from the Herchel Smith Bequest) at Emmanuel College entitled 'Copyright and Property-Think' on 13 March 2018 as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law).
Professor Jessica Litman is the John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where she teaches copyright law, trademark law, and advanced IP courses. Litman is the author of Digital Copyright and the co-author, with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin, of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials. She is an adviser for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Copyright, and has served as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, and chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. In this year’s lecture, she will argue that when we think about the copyright system, our assumptions about legal property rights shape what we see and what we don’t. We assume that broadening or narrowing the scope of copyright will redound to the benefit or detriment of creators. Three hundred years of evidence, though, belie that supposition. We need to think more concretely about copyright law's actual effect on creators, and their ability to communicate and profit from their works.
For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk
41 min
March 13, 2018 'Parenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies': The Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture 2018
Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest.
The 2018 Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture on Medico-Legal Studies was delivered by Professor Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard University, on 9 March 2018, and was entitled "Parenthood Disrupted(?) Dilemmas of Reproductive Technologies".
Glenn Cohen is a Professor of Law at Harvard University, and one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. His award-winning research has appeared in the top legal, ethical and medical journals, and he is regularly cited in national news media. He has authored and edited several books, including Patients with Passports, Specimen Science, and Identified versus Statistical Lives. Prior to receiving tenure at Harvard, he served as a law clerk on a U.S. federal Court of Appeals and as an appellate lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice. In his spare time, he still litigates, most recently having authored amicus briefs for U.S. Supreme Court cases on the patentability of human genes and abortion rights.
A gallery of photographs from the event is available at https://1drv.ms/f/s!Au0Tn35SqSa2gYkI0p2cjZU0Jvv9mQ
This event is kindly sponsored by the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, and organised by the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, in collaboration with Cambridge Family Law.
For more information about the Baron Ver Heyden de Lancey Lecture series, please see http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events
56 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.