

Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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.
Audio recordings from such events are published in our various podcast collections. Video recordings are available via YouTube.
Audio recordings from such events are published in our various podcast collections. Video recordings are available via YouTube.
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Jul 5, 2019 • 11min
International Surrogacy Forum: The Way Forward - General discussion - Sital Kalantry
This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism.For more information about the conference see: https://www.family.law.cam.ac.uk/research-and-eventspast-events/international-surrogacy-forum-2019This recording is from Part VII - The Way Forward - General discussion, with Sital Kalantry (Cornell Law School).Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Policy Advocacy Clinic, and Co-Director of the Migration and Human Rights Program at Cornell Law School. She is an expert in international human rights and her scholarship focuses on gender and education rights, particularly within the context of India and the United States. In her book, Women’s Human Rights and Migration, she uses empirical, comparative, and critical race studies approaches to critique the legislative process and mainstream discourse regarding sex-selective abortion bans in the United States.Her writings have been published in top peer-reviewed and American and international journals, including the Human Rights Quarterly, the National Law Journal, and the Stanford Journal of International Law, and the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.Kalantry has been invited to deliver numerous talks and presentations around the world. She has received many awards and grants for her work, including a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar grant to conduct research in India on the Indian Supreme Court and helping to secure a $1.5 million dollar grant to establish a center focused on women and justice.She serves as a peer-reviewer for several human rights journals and is on the editorial board of the Jindal Global Law Review and the Maharashtra National University Law Review. Kalantry is a member of the lawyers advisory committee of Peace Brigades International and served on the International Human Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She is fluent in Hindi and conversant in Spanish.

May 20, 2019 • 53min
ECLA Lecture: 'EU Criminal law round up special: Where are we now with Brexit?'
In this lecture, Professor John Spencer (President of the European Criminal Law Association/University of Cambridge) presents a round up of the current situation in European Criminal Law and the potential impacts of Brexit.
The accompanying slides for this event are available at:
http://www.eucriminallaw.com/storage/spencer_annual_roundup_2019.pptx
The European Criminal Law Association (ECLA UK) (formerly the Association to Combat Fraud in Europe (ACFE)) is an unincorporated association of practitioners, academics and others interested in the emerging body of European Criminal law. It has been associated since 1980, and continues to study, discuss and provide information on the development of the criminal law in Europe by means of seminars, publications and the ECLA website at: http://www.eucriminallaw.com

Mar 29, 2019 • 19min
'Technology, The Energy Trilemma and International Law': Tedd Moya Mose (audio)
Tedd Moya Mose, PhD Candidate at Queen Mary University of London, speaking on Panel X: 'Rethinking global environmental governance'.
Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Mose.pptx
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 13min
'Fair, Ethical and Just: Can an AI Algorithm Check all the Boxes?': Doaa Abu-Elyounes (audio)
Doaa Abu-Elyounes of Harvard Law School Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, speaking on Panel IX: 'AI'.
Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Abu_Elyounes.pptx
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 21min
'International Law Does Not Compute: Artificial Intelligence and the Development, Displacement, or Destruction of the Global Legal Order': Matthijs M. Maas (audio)
Matthijs M. Maas, Fellow at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, speaking on Panel IX: 'AI'.
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 16min
'Democratic Disruption in the Age of Social Media: Paradigms of Platform Responsibility for the Governance of Online Speech': Barrie Sander (audio)
Dr Barrie Sander, Postdoctoral Fellow at Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV), School of International Relations, Brazil, speaking on Panel VIII: 'Democracy new: Barriers and opportunities'.
Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Sander.pdf
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 18min
'International Legal Scholarship and the Challenge of Digitalization': Tilmann Altwicker (audio)
Professor Tilmann Altwicker, or the Institute for International Law and Foreign Constitutional Law at the University of Zurich, speaking on Panel VI: 'Jurisprudential challenges in the digital age'.
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 22min
'The 'Essence of Humanity': The Role of Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - A Critical Appraisal of Article 22 of the EU's GDPR': Katja F. Achermann (audio)
Katja F. Achermann, LLM (Cantab), speaking on Panel II: 'International human rights in the digital context'.
Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Achermann.pptx
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 14min
'Terrorism, the Internet, and the Threat to Freedom of Expression: The Regulation of Digital Intermediaries in Europe and the US': Eliza Bechtold (audio)
Eliza Bechtold, PhD candidate at Durham Law School, speaking on Panel I: 'Free speech rights in the new communications ecology'.
https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Bechtold.pptx
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 18min
'Move Fast and Break Societies: The Weaponization of Social Media and Options for Accountability under International Criminal Law': Shannon Raj Singh (audio)
Shannon Raj Singh, Associate Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, speaking on Panel IV: 'International criminal culpability in the advent of new technologies'.
Slides for this presentation are available at: https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/CILJ_slides/Singh.pptx
Cambridge International Law Journal 8th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, ‘New Technologies: New Challenges for Democracy 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.