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

October 14, 2014 'Why does liberalism find it so hard to cope with identity?': Akeel Bilgrami
Akeel Bilgrami (Sidney Morganbesser Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University) will be speaking on the topic: 'Why does liberalism find it so hard to cope with identity?' at 5.30pm on October 13 in LG17 at the Law Faculty - drawing on his recent book 'Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment'.
More information on the speaker is available at: http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/akeel-bilgrami
1 hr 10 min
October 06, 2014 Radio Cambridgeshire 3 October 2014: Dr Mark Elliott
The segment of the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Drivetime programme broadcast on 3 October 2014 featuring Dr Mark Elliott discussing Conservative proposals to the UK's relationship with the European Convention on Human Rights.
Provided courtesy of the BBC.
8 min
July 22, 2014 'Curing the Madness of the Intergovernmental World': Professor Philip Allott
This lecture was given as the Alec Roche Lecture 2006 at New College, Oxford, under the title 'The Idea of International Society'.
Professor Allott re-recorded the lecture on 8 July 2014 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
If the intergovernmental world of diplomacy and war and international politics is re-classified under the category of 'madness', that might help us to understand better the scale of the challenge that we face in trying to re-make that world in the light of the age-old idea of the natural social unity of all-humanity.
59 min
July 22, 2014 'Curing the Madness of the Intergovernmental World': Professor Philip Allott (Audio)
This lecture was given as the Alec Roche Lecture 2006 at New College, Oxford, under the title 'The Idea of International Society'.
Professor Allott re-recorded the lecture on 8 July 2014 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
If the intergovernmental world of diplomacy and war and international politics is re-classified under the category of 'madness', that might help us to understand better the scale of the challenge that we face in trying to re-make that world in the light of the age-old idea of the natural social unity of all-humanity.
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
59 min
July 18, 2014 'The Law of 'Joint Enterprise'': Graham Virgo (Audio)
Professor Graham Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and also Deputy Chair of the Faculty Board.
In this video, Professor Virgo considers the current position of the law relating to defendants who are prosecuted in cases of 'common purpose'. Several different circumstances are often combined to form the confused category of 'Joint Enterprise'. Professor Virgo outlines these different circumstances, criticises the current state of the law in this field, and seeks to provide some possible reforms to clarify the situation.
In April 2014, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published the results of the first statistical analysis of 'Joint Enterprise' homicide cases. Both Professor Virgo and Dr Matthew Dyson (also of the University of Cambridge) were consulted by the BIJ as part of the investigation (see http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2014/04/graham-virgo-and-matthew-dyson-consulted-on-joint-enterprise-report-by-bureau-of-investigative-journalism/2602)
A BBC documentary broadcast on 7 July 2014 examined this area of law and specifically the case of Alex Henry, who was found guilty of stabbing Taqui Khezihi, despite him claiming to have never touched the knife. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049bb31)
The BBC also broadcast a drama based on 'joint enterprise' law on 6 July 2014 entitled 'Common'. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021gb62)
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
28 min
July 14, 2014 'The Law of 'Joint Enterprise'': Graham Virgo
Professor Graham Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and also Deputy Chair of the Faculty Board.
In this video, Professor Virgo considers the current position of the law relating to defendants who are prosecuted in cases of 'common purpose'. Several different circumstances are often combined to form the confused category of 'Joint Enterprise'. Professor Virgo outlines these different circumstances, criticises the current state of the law in this field, and seeks to provide some possible reforms to clarify the situation.
In April 2014, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published the results of the first statistical analysis of 'Joint Enterprise' homicide cases. Both Professor Virgo and Dr Matthew Dyson (also of the University of Cambridge) were consulted by the BIJ as part of the investigation (see http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2014/04/graham-virgo-and-matthew-dyson-consulted-on-joint-enterprise-report-by-bureau-of-investigative-journalism/2602)
A BBC documentary broadcast on 7 July 2014 examined this area of law and specifically the case of Alex Henry, who was found guilty of stabbing Taqui Khezihi, despite him claiming to have never touched the knife. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b049bb31)
The BBC also broadcast a drama based on 'joint enterprise' law on 6 July 2014 entitled 'Common'. (See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021gb62)
28 min
July 08, 2014 Nicklinson - The Right to Die?: Nicola Padfield
In this next edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (AM) v The DPP [2014] UKSC 38) focusing on the minority judgement of Baroness Hale.
Nicola Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. She is a barrister by training, and also a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Mrs Padfield is also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. For more information about Mrs Padfield, please refer to her staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/nm-padfield/65
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.
16 min
July 08, 2014 'Nicklinson - The Right to Die?': Nicola Padfield
In this next edition of the Faculty's series of videos entitled 'Law in Focus', Mrs Nicola Padfield explores some aspects of the important decision of the Supreme Court in Nicklinson (R (Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (AM) v The DPP [2014] UKSC 38) focusing on the minority judgement of Baroness Hale.
Nicola Padfield is Reader in Criminal and Penal Justice at the University of Cambridge. She is a barrister by training, and also a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Mrs Padfield is also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. For more information about Mrs Padfield, please refer to her staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/nm-padfield/65
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.
16 min
June 17, 2014 Will one be forgotten? Internet Freedom and Data Protection After Google Spain: David Erdos
This item discusses C-131/12 Google Spain; Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case which examined the rights of individuals mentioned in public domain material indexed on Google search.
This Court decision enunciated both the scope and breadth of data protection obligations in an even more expansive way than argued by the Agencia Espanola de Protection de Datos itself. It implies that Google acquires data protection obligations as soon as it collects information from the web and not just after it receives a request for deindexing. Moreover, Google appears to have absolute obligations to remove material in a variety of circumstances even if this is causing the individual mentioned no prejudice. It is particularly unclear how such obligations will operate vis-à-vis so-called sensitive data such as that concerning criminality, political opinion or health. The norms the Court articulated conflict markedly with those which are now mainstream online. Effective implementation will, therefore, depend less on legal technicalities than on how powerful such data protection norms are when placed alongside the vast cultural, political and economic power of "internet freedom".
A further article on this subject was written on OpenDemocracy by Dr Erdos: http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/david-erdos/mind-gap-is-data-protection-catching-up-with-google-search

David Erdos is University Lecturer in Law and the Open Society in in the Faculty of Law and a Fellow in Law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. David's current research explores the nature of Data Protection especially as it intersects with the right to privacy, freedom of expression, freedom of information and freedom of research. For more information about Dr Erdos, please refer to his staff profile: http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/d-o-erdos/5972

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.
24 min
June 09, 2014 'The Idealist's Dilemma: Re-imagining International Society' - Philip Allott
On 23 May 2014, Professor Philip Allott of the University of Cambridge addressed the Spring Conference of the International Law Association British Branch at the Inner Temple, London.
This lecture was adapted and then re-recorded at the Faculty of Law on 3 June 2014, and it is this recording which is available here.
30 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.