

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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Mar 22, 2019 • 1h 38min
Young practitioners: How to raise your profile in the arbitration network (CAD 2019)
The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/ Topics for discussion: - Arbitration Events: Should you go to them? How to introduce yourself and air your views in them? - Elevating your profile in public: friend or foe? - Should you display your professional experience? - Social Media: Connections, posts, likes, and effect on your arbitration career. - Institutional perspective: What is the role of arbitral institutions in promoting or even regulating the issues? Moderators: - Maria Claudia PROCOPIAC (ICC YAF; Dechert) - Faidon VARESIS (University of Cambridge) Panellists - Niuscha BASSIRI, Hanotiau & van den Berg - Elizabeth CHAN, Three Crowns - Philippe BOISVERT, White & Case - Sarah GANZ, WilmerHale

Mar 22, 2019 • 7min
Welcome address: Professor Richard Fentiman (CAD 2019)
In this recording, Professor Richard Fentiman (University of Cambridge) welcomes attendees to CAD 2019. The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/

Mar 22, 2019 • 26min
'International Arbitration: from Legal Practice to Social Community': Andrea Carlevaris (CAD 2019)
In this recording, Andrea Carlevaris (BonelliErede) gives the keynote for CAD 2019. The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/

Mar 22, 2019 • 18min
Panel 2: 'Is this arbitrator good? I'm asking for a friend': Silvia Julio Bueno de Miranda (CAD 2019)
This panel presentation was given by Silvia Julio Bueno de Miranda (Partner, L.O. Baptista).The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'. The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community. Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/

Mar 21, 2019 • 7min
Welcome address: Professor Richard Fentiman (CAD 2019)
In this recording, Professor Richard Fentiman (University of Cambridge) welcomes attendees to CAD 2019.
The Cambridge Arbitration Day brings together scholars, practitioners, and students for a discussion on recent developments in the field of international arbitration. This year’s event on 16 March 2019 was titled 'Social Aspects of International Arbitration'.
The main conference was preceded by a Young Practitioners’ Event organized in association with the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF) on 15 March 2019. This event was aimed at encouraging young practitioners to exchange professional experience and create a network that strengthens relationships within the young arbitration community.
Further information about the event and the programme can be found at: http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org/

Mar 12, 2019 • 54min
Should parents have the final say on the medical treatment of their children?: The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture
Baron Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey (1889-1984) was a wealthy and public-spirited Dutchman who at different times in his life was a dentist, doctor, surgeon, barrister and art historian. In 1970 he created the De Lancey and De La Hanty Foundation, to promote studies in medico-legal topics. The Foundation generously gave Cambridge the Ver Heyden de Lancey Fund, which since 1996 has funded occasional public lectures on medico-legal issues of current interest. The 2019 Baron de Lancey Lecture was delivered by Imogen Goold, Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford, on 8 March 2019, and was entitled "Should parents have the final say on the medical treatment of their children?". Imogen Goold is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. She studied Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, receiving her PhD in 2005. Her doctoral research explored the use of property law to regulate human body parts. She also received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Monash in 2005. From 1999, she was a research member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, where she published on surrogacy laws, legal constraints on access to infertility treatments and proprietary rights in human tissue. In 2002, she took up as position as a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on the inquiries into Genetic Information Privacy and Gene Patenting. After leaving the ALRC in 2004, she worked briefly at the World Health Organisation, researching the provision of genetic medical services in developing countries. Her research interests include the regulation of IVF, the ownership of human body parts and the impact of artificial intelligence on the law of tort.For more information about the Baron de Lancey Lecture series, please see:http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/events/vhdl-events

Mar 11, 2019 • 49min
Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law: 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture
On 7 March 2019 Lady Brenda Hale delivered the 2019 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Principle and Pragmatism in developing Private Law". Lady Hale is the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong.In the lecture, Lady Hale gave her perspective on whether the development of the law should be guided by doctrine, or policy. She did this through a reflection and analysis of a number cases, including many on which she had presided, including Patel v Mirza and Radmacher v Granatino.The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC), and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events

Feb 26, 2019 • 22min
'Ensuring the Legitimacy of International Arbitration in a Globally Networked World' Cambridge Arbitration Lunch: 21 February 2019
The Arbitration Lunches are side-events organised in the weeks leading up to the annual Cambridge Arbitration Day, held this year for the sixth time on 16 March 2019.
The first CAD Arbitration Lunch of 2019 took place at the Lauterpacht Centre on 21 February 2019, where Simon Maynard gave a talk entitled "Ensuring the Legitimacy of International Arbitration in a Globally Networked World".
Simon is a Senior Associate at Three Crowns. He has acted as advocate in both investor-State and international commercial arbitrations across a broad range of sectors, including financial services, energy and construction. His recent engagements include representing an oil major in a dispute with a Southeast Asian State concerning adverse taxation measures, and acting for a Middle Eastern State in relation to a dispute arising from a long-term infrastructure contract.
He is a member of the International Centre for Conflict Prevention and Resolution’s Banking and Financial Services Advisory Committee, as well as a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics.
For more information and to register for the main events, see:
http://www.cambridgearbitrationday.org

Feb 12, 2019 • 50min
Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change: Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês
On 12 February 2019 the ambridge Socio-Legal Group hosted Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês (Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Law School. Member of Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program, Coordinator of Time, Space and Senses of Constitution Research Project) who spoke on the subject "Polos de Cidadania Research and Outreach Program: the challenges of science and social change".Polos de Cidadania, translated as Citizenship Hubs, is a research and outreach program of UFMG Law School. Its aims are the effectiveness of human rights and the construction of knowledge through the dialogue between the academic and the non-academic. It works with social groups and individuals with a history of exclusion and risk trajectory.The seminar talks about the experiences of Polos, specifically a recent research and outreach work in a slum, in the city of Belo Horizonte. It proposes a discussion from this experience about the possibilities and limits of social change through social sciences. The talk approaches themes related to the subject object relation; the setting of research agenda; the construction of research instruments, the dialogue between different types of knowledge; and the relationship between science and politics.Slides for this presentation are available at:https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/Polos_de_Cidadania_Research.pptx

Feb 5, 2019 • 35min
Making Markets Work: New Challenges for EU Competition Law: The 2019 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2019 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, European Commission, under the title 'Making Markets Work: New Challenges for EU Competition Law' on 4 February 2019.More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures