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

June 09, 2014 'The Idealist's Dilemma: Re-imagining International Society' - Philip Allott (audio)
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.
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
30 min
May 21, 2014 'Judicial Review in an “Integrated Administration”: How to Close the Gaps of Judicial Protection?' - Mariolina Eliantonio: Cambridge European Society
On Thursday 15 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Professor Mariolina Eliantonio (Assistant Professor of European Administrative Law at the Maastricht University) entitled “Integrated Administration”: How to Close the Gaps of Judicial Protection?' at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
36 min
May 13, 2014 'Reforms to Lessen the Influence of the European Court of Human Rights: A New Strategy' - Sarah Lambrecht: Cambridge European Society
On Friday 9 May 2014, the Cambridge European Society hosted a lecture by Sarah Lambrecht, PhD Fellow at the University of Antwerp and visiting student at the University of Cambridge, at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
24 min
May 09, 2014 'Begging laws, morality and exclusion – Forgetting 'the beggar' through immaterial sharing in East London': Johannes Lenhard
On 7 May 2014, Johannes Lenhard (University of Cambridge, Anthropology, Graduate Student) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.
39 min
May 09, 2014 Begging laws, morality and exclusion – Forgetting 'the beggar' through immaterial sharing in East London: Johannes Lenhard
On 7 May 2014, Johannes Lenhard (University of Cambridge, Anthropology, Graduate Student) delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, as a guest of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.
Many laws have effects on people who beg on the streets. In this paper, I will pick a nexus of bills and laws, analyse their moral underpinning – what is their implied perception of people who beg? – and describe parallels of this often essentialising, moral economy of homelessness to parts of the charitable sector. Both law and charity makes the public remember ‘the beggar’ while 'forgetting' might lead to less stigma and exclusion of people who beg. Drawing on my ethnographic fieldwork in London, I will in the main part of the paper present the perspective of people who beg themselves mirroring this 'call for forgetting'. How do people who beg deal with stigma and the resulting (legal, economic and social) exclusion? Being materially and socially dependent on overcoming exclusion, begging people rely on the public. I will come to portray strategies of overcoming the legal (and mental) 'zoning' of space with a counter-movement based on individual and immaterial 'sharing' of time, thoughts and experiences.
39 min
May 07, 2014 'The Filtering Mechanism of the European Court of Human Rights': Hasan Bakirci
On Friday 2 May 2014, Hasan Bakirci (Senior Lawyer, ECtHR) spoke at an event held at Wolfson College in association with the Wolfson Law Society.
Hasan Bakirci is a senior official at the European Court of Human Rights. He studied law in Istanbul and Oxford, graduating from both places with distinction. He is the author of a practitioner’s handbook on Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Mr Bakirci has sixteen years’ experience as a lawyer at the Court, and prior to that worked for two years as a lawyer at the European Commission of Human Rights. He is currently a Head of Division at the Court and Deputy to the Registrar of the Filtering Section. He was recently responsible for overseeing a major initiative designed to bring the Court’s famously large backlog of cases under control.
The talk was followed by a Q&A session chaired by Mr Jamie Trinidad, Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College.
43 min
May 07, 2014 Today Programme 6 May 2014: David Howarth - 'The law and economics of nuclear power’
The segment of the BBC Today Programme broadcast on 6 May 2014 featuring David Howarth discussing the contract agreed with EDF Energy with regards the Hinckley C power station and the generation of nuclear power.
Appended to the segment is a recording of a subsequent news report from the same programme on the same issue.
Provided courtesy of the BBC.
7 min
May 01, 2014 Cambridge University Amnesty International Panel Talk: 'Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery'
Cambridge University Amnesty International held a panel discussion followed by a Q&A on the subject of "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery" which was held on Monday 28th April.
- There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world today who are victims of human trafficking.
- Modern Slavery is considered to be one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world and there are thought to be more slaves in the world today than ever before in history.
- Modern Slavery and human trafficking are international problems: during 2003, there were an estimated 4,000 victims of trafficking for prostitution in the UK (at any one time).
For more info see: http://hopeforjustice.org.uk/the-issue, http://www.stopthetraffik.org/spot/statistics and http://www.redlightcampaign.org/
Speakers:
Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford - Director of Trafficking Research Centre at Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking. Author of 'The Real Scandal of Sex Trafficking' and 'Beating the Traffic: Josephine Butler and Anglican Social Student Action for Refugees (STAR) on Prostitution Today’.
Dr Sarah Steele - currently lectures at Queen Mary University of London, and formerly held a post lecturing for the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. Her research continues to explore the interaction between law, inequality, gender and health. Her work includes policy-relevant suggestions regarding new ways to formulate and speak about transnational issues such as human trafficking. She also works with CCARHT, researching and advising on matters related to human trafficking.
Dr Liz Hales – institute of criminology, Cambridge. Co-author of Criminalization of Migrant Women.
Dr Sasha Rakoff – Founder & CEO of the OBJECT pressure group (which changed 2 laws and has received extensive media coverage - http://www.object.org.uk/). Sasha will focus on the links between human trafficking, modern-day slavery and the sex trade & the particular experiences of trafficked women.
Sarah Glover - Representative from BORN TO BE BEAUTIFUL, a Cambridge based charity which works on various projects around the world (including in Mumbai and Uganda) providing beauty therapy training and skills to victims of modern-day slavery & sex trafficking. http://www.borntobebeautiful.org/
David Nix, Head of Licensing at the Gangmaster’s Licensing Authority. The Gangmasters Licensing Authority is an executive non-departmental public body of the Home Office that protects workers from exploitation. Its licensing scheme regulates businesses who provide workers to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, shellfish gathering and food and drink processing and packaging.
1 hr
April 28, 2014 Cambridge University European Society European Parliament Elections Debate
The Cambridge University European Society hosted a European Parliament Elections Debate on Saturday 26 April at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
Only one month before May's elections to the European Parliament, the CU European Society hosted a debate with one representative from each political party of the Cambridgeshire constituency and from parties that were currently represented in the EP:
- Andrew Duff (Liberal Democrats)
- Vicky Ford (Conservative Party)
- Richard Howitt (Labour Party)
- Rupert Read (Green Party)
- Stuart Agnew (UKIP)
Moderated by Mr Gary O'Donoghue (Chief Political Correspondent, BBC Radio 4), this event sought to promote the discussion of EU's most relevant topics and to allow its participants to debate and make their views known.
This event was kindly sponsored by CELS (Centre for European Legal Studies) and the Project for Democratic Union.
For more information, please check The Cambridge University European Society Facebook page www.facebook.com/events/310962169051485/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
2 hr 1 min
March 19, 2014 'Religion, Law & the Limits of Tolerance': Lord Justice Elias
On Thursday 13 March 2014 Lord Justice Patrick Elias spoke at an event held by Lucy Cavendish College on the subject of "Religion, Law & the Limits of Tolerance".
51 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.