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

April 14, 2015 'The Pathway to Google Spain': Artemi Lombarte
Professor Artemi Rallo Lombarte, Jaume I University and former Director of Spanish Data Protection Authority delivers the first lecture from the "The Pathway to Google Spain" section of the "EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain" conference.
This conference was held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge on 27 March 2015, and brought together leading experts on Data Protection and Privacy from around the World.
The conference was held with the support of the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS).
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
21 min
April 08, 2015 Vince v Wyatt: Striking it Rich and Striking Out an Ex-wife's Claim: Brian Sloan
The recent Supreme Court decision in Vince v Wyatt aroused much media interest because it allowed an ex-wife to proceed with a financial claim against her ex-husband, who became a millionaire years after they divorced.
The judgement is available at http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2015/14.html
In this video Dr Brian Sloan describes the reasoning behind the decision focusing on the limits of what has actually been decided by the Supreme Court. He also analyses the possible implications of the case for other couples.

Dr Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and lectures in Family Law. For more information about Dr Sloan, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/bd-sloan/409

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.

This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
14 min
April 08, 2015 'Vince v Wyatt: Striking it Rich and Striking Out an Ex-wife's Claim': Brian Sloan
The recent Supreme Court decision in Vince v Wyatt aroused much media interest because it allowed an ex-wife to proceed with a financial claim against her ex-husband, who became a millionaire years after they divorced.
The judgement is available at http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2015/14.html
In this video Dr Brian Sloan describes the reasoning behind the decision focusing on the limits of what has actually been decided by the Supreme Court. He also analyses the possible implications of the case for other couples.
Dr Sloan is College Lecturer in Law at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, and lectures in Family Law. For more information about Dr Sloan, please refer to his profile at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/bd-sloan/409
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.
14 min
March 17, 2015 'Opinion 2/13 and other matters': ECHR President Dean Spielmann
On Saturday 14 March, Trinity College hosted a lecture by the President of the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) Dean Spielmann entitled 'Opinion 2/13 and other matters'.
In Opinion 2/13, decided just before Christmas, the Court of Justice (Luxembourg) controversially and unexpectedly ruled that the EU could not accede to the European Convention on Human Rights under the terms of the agreement carefully negotiated over a number of years.
President Spielmann, an alumnus of Fitzwilliam College, expressed 'great disappointment' with the Court of Justice's decision. He was also gravely concerned about any decision that the UK might take to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.
50 min
March 10, 2015 'The Edge: borders and boundaries' - SOAS Cambridge Speaker Series: Richard Sennett
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016.
The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology).
After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities.
Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, [email protected], via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, [email protected]).
54 min
March 10, 2015 'The Edge: borders and boundaries' & Q&A - SOAS Cambridge Speaker Series: Richard Sennett (audio)
Speaker: Professor Richard Sennett is Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE) and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University (NYU) (www.richardsennett.com). His work explores how individuals and groups make social and cultural sense of material facts -- about the cities in which they live and about the labour they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way. His research entails ethnography, history, and social theory. Most recently, Professor Sennett has explored more positive aspects of labor in The Craftsman (2008), and in Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012). The third volume in this trilogy, The Open City, will appear in 2016.
The new speaker series brings together film-makers, writers, journalists and academics to tell stories about law, politics, gender and development in the global south, and the 'south in the north'. Confirmed speakers include: Jose Antonio Ocampo (economics); Rajeev Bhargava (political theory); Akeel Bilgrami (philosophy); Partha Chatterjee (political theory/history); Ken Loach (filmmaker), Saskia Sassen (sociology), and Richard Sennett (sociology).
After an extremely successful inaugural season, the series continues this term with a focus on land, labour and cities.
Co-organisers: Antara Haldar (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, [email protected], via Twitter @antarahaldar) and Diamond Ashiagbor (School of Law, SOAS, [email protected]).
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U and also includes the Q&A discussion at the end.
1 hr 24 min
March 03, 2015 'Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?': The 2015 Sir David Williams Lecture
On Friday 27 February 2015, Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders of the University of Melbourne delivered the 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?".
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/
51 min
March 02, 2015 'Against Privatization as Such': Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy Public Lecture
On Friday 27 February 2015, Professor Alon Harel of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem) delivered and evening lecture entitled "Against Privatization as Such" as a guest of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy.
More information about this lecture and the Centre are available at the website:
http://www.cflpp.law.cam.ac.uk/
1 hr 34 min
February 27, 2015 'Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?': The 2015 Sir David Williams Lecture
On Friday 27 February 2015, Laureate Professor Cheryl Saunders of the University of Melbourne delivered the 2014 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Devolution. Federation. Constitution. From here to where?".
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:
https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/sir-david-williams-lectures/professor-cheryl-saunders-devolution-federation-constitution-here-where
51 min
February 19, 2015 'Rationalising CEO-Worker Pay Equity' - Marc Moore: Joint 3CL/CPLC Seminar
Marc Moore, Reader in Corporate Law at University of Cambridge, gave a seminar entitled "Rationalising CEO-Worker Pay Equity" on Wednesday, 19 February 2015 at the Faculty of Law.
Marc's interests are in company law, corporate governance and capital markets, especially theory of the firm and the legitimacy of managerial decision-making power in public companies.
For more information see the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law website at http://www.3cl.law.cam.ac.uk/, and the Cambridge Private Law Centre website at http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/
47 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.