Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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 2017 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Mr Pascal Lamy (President Emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute) under the title 'Is Globalisation Faltering?' on 16 March 2017.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

On 9 March 2017 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted Jason Brickhill to speak on the topic '(Democratic) Politics by Other Means: Public Interest Litigation in South Africa'.He spoke about his experiences using law as an instrument of justice for the vulnerable and marginalised, including poor, homeless and landless people, at the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa's largest public interest, human rights law clinic.Jason has been an advocate at the Johannesburg Bar and was formerly the director of the Constitutional Litigation Unit, Legal Resources Centre (South Africa). He is currently a DPhil Candidate at Oxford, where his research focuses on public interest litigation in South Africa.

The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML) and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) hosted Saimo Chahal to deliver a lecture on 7 March 2017.Saimo Chahal is a leading figure in public law, human rights and international law. She has acted as the solicitor in the leading assisted suicide cases of R (Jane Nicklinson and Paul Lamb) v The Ministry of Justice & the DPP & The Attorney General UKSC [2013] and R (Debbie Purdy) v The Director of Public Prosecutions (2009). Further legal challenges to the law prohibiting assisted suicide are imminent and will be heard in the courts this year.Saimo Chahal:She is listed in the Thompson Reuter’s Top 100 Super lawyers ListIn January 2016, Black Lawyers Directory (BLD) first ever “Movers and Shakers” list of the most influential and powerful black lawyers;In April 2014, Ms Chahal was awarded the tile of Honorary QC in recognition of her major contribution to the development of the law of England and Wales. The title has only been awarded to about 115 solicitors in total at that date.For more information about the Centre for Public Law, see: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.ukFor more information about the Centre for Law, Medicine ad Life Sciences, see: http://www.lml.law.cam.ac.uk/

On 28 February 2017 Mr Anthony Parry delivered the 2017 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Under threat? Safeguarding the future of English law and the English Courts after Brexit". The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. A qualified barrister and Cambridge graduate, Anthony combines long experience of law in government and of working in industry and in the City. Anthony recently served as a Treasury Legal Adviser where he led on European Law issues. Earlier in his career he served as a Foreign Office Legal Adviser and in the European Commission in Brussels. For many years he was European Director at BAE SYSTEMS (formerly British Aerospace). Anthony is now Senior Adviser on Brexit to international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.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

On 27 February Paul Daly of the University of Cambridge gave a seminar entitled "Administrative law values and the scope of judicial review of administrative action" as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL).For more information see the CPL website at: https://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk

On Friday 24 February 2017, The Honourable Mr Justice Singh delivered the 2017 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Divided by a common language: British and American perspectives on Constitutional Law". 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

On 22 February 2017 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project Colloquium Series hosted a talk by Shauneen Lambe, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Just for Kids Law, giving a talk on her experiences, entitled "Using law as a tool to bring about social change". She discussed her work representing people on death row in the USA, and Just for Kids Law's campaigns and legal challenges which have changed laws and policy in education, youth justice and community care.Shauneen is a barrister in England and Wales and an attorney in Louisiana, USA, where she represented people facing the death penalty. In 1999 she helped establish the charity Reprieve, remaining on the board until 2006.In 2006 Shauneen and Aika Stephenson set up Just for Kids Law, a charity that provides 360 degree support and legal representation to vulnerable children and young people in the UK and drives systemic change. In 2015 Shauneen was made an Eisenhower Fellow. She is also a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader,’ and one of NESTA/The Observer’s ‘Britain’s New Radicals.’ She was chosen as a Shackleton Leader in 2011 and an Ashoka Fellow in 2012. Shauneen was shortlisted for Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year and Liberty’s Human Rights Lawyer of the Year.

Dr Sarah Nason of the University of Bangor delivered a seminar discussing her book "Reconstructing Judicial Review" (Hart Publishing, 2016) on 21 February 2017 as a guest of the Centre for Public Law (CPL).This is the first seminar in an occasional series in which early-career public lawyers from round the UK are given a forum to discuss their work with an interested, informed group of scholars.More information about the Centre is available at the Centre for Public Law website at http://www.cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/

On 6 February 2017 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project Colloquium Series hosted a talk by Colin Yeo, immigration barrister at Garden Court Chambers, and founding editor of the Free Movement blog - the UK's main immigration law blog.The talk reviewed some of the great results that have been achieved through immigration litigation, for individuals but also for classes or groups of migrants. Colin then considered some bad results of cause lawyering in immigration law and asks whether litigating immigration issues actually shows respect for and therefore legitimises those laws.This talk came at a fascinating time given the most major cause-lawyering case of its time, the Article 50 case (Miller v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union), has just been handed down by the UK Supreme Court.

Professor Dr Jennifer Ann Drobac of Indiana University (Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall) was a guest at a joint CCCJ/Cambridge Socio-legal Group event on 2 February 2017.