Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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June 30, 2016 'Penal Reform and Probation in Europe: Positive Change of Direction, 'Nudges to the Rudder' or 'Steady as She Goes'?': Vivian Geiran (audio)
On Monday 20th June 2016, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge held the 19th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture.
The lecture was delivered by Vivian Geiran, Director of the Irish Probation Service. Mr Geiran spoke on the topic 'Penal Reform and Probation in Europe: Positive Change of Direction, 'Nudges to the Rudder' or 'Steady as She Goes'?'.
The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is generously supported by the Probation Chiefs' Association, the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, and the late Hugh Sanders OBE.
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1 hr 14 min
June 30, 2016 'Penal Reform and Probation in Europe: Positive Change of Direction, 'Nudges to the Rudder' or 'Steady as She Goes'?': Vivian Geiran
On Monday 20th June 2016, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge held the 19th Annual Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture.
The lecture was delivered by Vivian Geiran, Director of the Irish Probation Service. Mr Geiran spoke on the topic 'Penal Reform and Probation in Europe: Positive Change of Direction, 'Nudges to the Rudder' or 'Steady as She Goes'?'.
The Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture is generously supported by the Probation Chiefs' Association, the Clarke Hall Fund, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, and the late Hugh Sanders OBE.
1 hr 14 min
June 29, 2016 Radio 4 - Law in Action 'Brexit: The Legal Minefield', 28 June 2016: Professor Catherine Barnard and Professor Mark Elliott
The BBC Radio 4 Law in Action special edition entitled 'Brexit: The Legal Minefield' broadcast on 28 June 2016 featuring Professor Catherine Barnard and Professor Mark Elliott discussing the outcome of the EU Referendum, and the possible outcomes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07kdsdl
Provided courtesy of the BBC.
29 min
June 24, 2016 Brexit: Legally and constitutionally, what now?: Mark Elliott
In the early hours of 24 June 2016, the result of the UK referendum on EU membership was announced. By a narrow but clear majority the vote was to leave the European Union.
This result has begun a chain of seismic political consequences in the UK and the EU, and will have widespread implications for the law and constitution in the UK.
In this video, Mark Elliott assess the immediate impact of the result.

Professor Elliott has also written a blog post available at: https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2016/06/24/brexit-legally-and-constitutionally-what-now/

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

Law in Focus is a collection of short videos 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.

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9 min
June 17, 2016 Corporate governance, shareholder value and worker rights Simon Deakin, Centre for Business Research
Simon Deakin is a Professor of Law. He specializes in labour law, private law, company law and EU law. His research is concerned, more generally, with the relationship between law and the social sciences, and he contributes regularly to the fields of law and economics, law and development, and empirical legal studies. He is Director of the Centre for Business Research (http://www.cbr.cam.ac.uk/), co-Chair of the Public Policy SRI and a Fellow of Peterhouse. His books include Tort Law (7th. ed. with Basil Markesinis and Angus Johnston, 2012), Labour Law (6th. ed. 2012, with Gillian S. Morris), The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution (2005, with Frank Wilkinson), and Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: The Limits of Shareholder Primacy (2012, with John Buchanan and Dominic Chai). He is editor in chief of the Industrial Law Journal and a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
19 min
June 17, 2016 History, Politics, Law: Thinking Through the International
History, Politics, Law: Thinking Through the International.
May 16-17, 2016: Clare College Cambridge
1 hr 30 min
April 27, 2016 CRASSH Seminar: 'Humanising and Democratising Social Spaces and Institutions'
Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October.
Speakers: Dr Caroline Lanskey (Criminology), Ms Bethany Schmidt (Criminology) and Rev Paul Tyler (Chaplain of HMP Frankland)
Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann, Jerusalem wrote that ‘the essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of individuals, and thus to dehumanize them’. In this panel, the speakers will discuss how social spaces and institutions, such as prisons and schools, emerge as political bureaucracies with the potential for dehumanizing and disenfranchising key stakeholders, leading to ‘civic death’. Are there alternatives to such bureaucratized approaches that lead to civic and participatory engagement that humanises the political subject?
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
1 hr 13 min
April 27, 2016 CRASSH Seminar: 'Humanising and Democratising Social Spaces and Institutions' (audio)
Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October.
Speakers: Dr Caroline Lanskey (Criminology), Ms Bethany Schmidt (Criminology) and Rev Paul Tyler (Chaplain of HMP Frankland)
Hannah Arendt, in Eichmann, Jerusalem wrote that ‘the essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of individuals, and thus to dehumanize them’. In this panel, the speakers will discuss how social spaces and institutions, such as prisons and schools, emerge as political bureaucracies with the potential for dehumanizing and disenfranchising key stakeholders, leading to ‘civic death’. Are there alternatives to such bureaucratized approaches that lead to civic and participatory engagement that humanises the political subject?
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
1 hr 13 min
April 26, 2016 'What does Europe mean for... Women': Dr Marina Prentoulis
In early 2016 the Cambridge University European Society hosted a series of lectures entitled "What does Europe mean for... "
In this lecture, held on 22 April 2016, Dr Marina Prentoulis of the University of East Anglia gave a lecture entitled 'What does Europe mean for... Women'.
For more information on the Cambridge University European Society, see their Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambridge-University-European-Society/380957688650847
32 min
April 25, 2016 Panel 4: Reflections and Lessons
Panel 4: Reflections and Lessons
Chair and roundup: David Runciman (University of Cambridge)
All speakers
28 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.