Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
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Public Lectures from the 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 F...
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The Death Penalty in the Commonwealth - A Complex Landscape: Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2026
The Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted the annual lecture featuring Saul Lehrfreund MBE on Thursday 7th May 2026.
Saul is Co-Founder and C...
'Implications of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts and Reciprocal Tariffs for African Countries - A View from the Global South' - Prof Olabisi D Akinkugbe, University of Dalhousie
Lecture summary: President Trump’s decisive attack on foreign aid and USAID, leading to the restructuring of the latter and the closure of ongoing and...
Child Contact Arrangements in the Context of Gender-Based Violence. A look at the Spanish no-contact rule: Family Law Seminar
Speaker: Dr Maitena Arakistain Arriola (Assistant Professor in Civil Law, University of the Basque Country; Visiting Fellow CFL; Bye Fellow, Robinson...
Conversation with Professor Anthony Anghie
Professor Anthony Anghie was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science for the academic years 2024-25. He was interviewed at the Lauterp...
Panel 2: Is the Architecture of International Justice under threat?
The Sixth Annual Wolfson Sir David Williams Law Society Event was held on 7 March 2026.
This Wolfson College Cambridge event featured two insigh...
Panel 1: Environmental Regulation in the Era of Climate Change
The Sixth Annual Wolfson Sir David Williams Law Society Event was held on 7 March 2026.
This Wolfson College Cambridge event featured two insig...
The Rt. Hon. Lord Lloyd-Jones addresses the Exploring Law Conference
In this lecture, delivered at the 51st iteration of the Exploring Law Conference (ELC) at Cambridge, Lord Lloyd-Jones provides an expert overview of t...
The Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Europe: Lord Justice Baker
On 28 March 2026 CELS held a seminar event on 'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'.
Among the rule of law's m...
The Rule of Law, the Market, and European Identity: Professor Catherine Barnard
On 28 March 2026 CELS held a seminar event on 'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'.
Among the rule of law's m...
The Nature of Values in Supranational Legal Orders: Nabil H. Khabirpour
On 28 March 2026 CELS held a seminar event on 'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'.
Among the rule of law's m...
Enforcing the Rule of Law as a Value under EU Law: Professor Albertina Albors-Llorens
On 28 March 2026 CELS held a seminar event on 'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'.
Among the rule of law's m...
The Role and Limits of Competition Law to Prevent Enforcement of Invalid IPRs: CIPIL Conference 2026
Speaker: Dr Quentin Schaefer (11 South Square)
Session 2: Current Disincentives and Remedies
On Saturday 21 March 2026, the Centre for Int...
Thirty Plus One: TRIPS, Innovation, and the Political Future of Minimum IP Standards: 19th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture
The nineteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture was delivered by Professor Ruth Okediji, Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law; Facul...
The Deep Learning of Hedge Funds: 3CL Seminar
Speaker: Professor William J. Magnuson (Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law)
Abstract: A remarkable transformation is taking pl...
The Current State of the Rules of International Law against Attempts to Acquire Territory by Force: A Practitioner's View
Based on his experience, but speaking in his personal capacity, Ambassador Tomohiro Mikanagi will discuss the current state of the rules of internatio...
The Secret Life of the Legal Adviser: Strategies of International Law-Making
Lecture summary: In 1963, Stanley Hoffmann told the American Society of International Law: “Since every Power wants to turn its interests, ideas and g...
Effectiveness and Coherence in Article 102 TFEU: CELS Lunchtime Seminar
Speaker: Professor Niamh Dunne, LSE
Biography: Niamh Dunne is a professor at the Law School of the London School of Economics, where she teaches...
New Housing, Old Rules: Can Land Law Keep up?: XXIV Old Buildings Lecture 2025
On 6 March 2026 Professor Susan Bright (University of Oxford) delivered the 2026 XXIV Old Buildings Lecture entitled "New Housing, Old Rules: Can Land...
Athenia, or the Nuremberg Trial at Midpoint
Lecture summary: Early March 1946 marked a rough midpoint in proceedings before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The prosecution had...
Cross-Border Patent Enforcement: Law and Practice: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Speaker: Dr Christopher Stothers, Partner at Freshfields in London and Dublin
Biography: Christopher Stothers is a partner at Freshfields in Lon...
The Imposed Bargain in Contemporary Restructuring Law: 3CL Seminar
Speaker: Dr Luca Sicignano (Lecturer in Business Law at the University of Naples L’Orientale)
Abstract: The effectiveness of corporate restruct...
Submarines and Underwater Maritime Autonomous Vehicles: New Wine in Old Bottles?
Lecture summary: The regulation of submarines has rarely been an issue of focus in international law. Their military utility has influenced states’ wi...
The History of European Union Law - Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993: CELS Lunchtime Seminar
Speaker: Professor Morten Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen
Biography: Morten Rasmussen is Associate Professor at the SAXO Institute, Universi...
Towards an EU Impact Investing Framework - A Critical Review of the EU Sustainable Finance Regulations: 3CL Seminar
Speaker: Professor Dirk Andreas Zetzsche (Professor of Financial Law, University of Luxembourg)
Abstract: Sustainability-oriented investors want...
Reading International Law as Stories
Speaker: Prof Tamsin Paige, Deakin Law School
Lecture summary: Stories serve an integral role in society as, among other things, a meaning makin...
Norway’s Patchwork of Agreements with the EU: Challenges to ‘the Norway Model’ brought about by the EU’s Strategic Rethink of the Internal Market: CELS Lunchtime Seminar
Speaker: Professor Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen, UIB, Norway
Biography: Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen is professor of European law at the Univers...
A Technology Perspective on Intellectual Property: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Speaker: Dr Svitlana Lebedenko, Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick and part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institut...
Artificial Intelligence and the future of financial stability: regulatory and supervisory gaps in the UK framework: 3CL Seminar
Speaker: Dr Clara Martins Pereira (Associate Professor of Financial Law, University of Durham)
Abstract: The increasing use of AI in finance is...
The Systemic Function of General Principles
Speakers: Prof Mads Andenas & Prof Johann Ruben Leiss, University of Oslo
Lecture summary: The lecture explores the systemic function of general...
Property Framework and Copyright Maximalism: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Speaker: Dr Poorna Mysoor, CIPIL, University of Cambridge
Biography: Dr Poorna Mysoor is a Fellow in Law at Lucy Cavendish College, University o...
The Future of the European Convention on Human Rights in the United Kingdom: CELS/CPL/LCIL Roundtable
The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), The Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) held a roundtabl...
Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law
Lecture summary: Empire is a big theme in international law. At the same time, the historical discussion on imperialism and international law had focu...
Marxist Insights for International Law
Speaker: Prof Antonios Tzanakopoulos, University of Oxford
No lecture summary available.
Chair: Prof Jan Klabbers
This lecture was g...
Developments in Secured Transactions Law in Asia: 3CL Seminar
Convenors: Professor Louise Gullifer (University of Cambridge) and Associate Professor Dora Neo (National University of Singapore)
Speakers:
The Employment Rights Bill Panel, 4 December 2025
A panel discussion on the Employment Rights Bill held at the Faculty of Law on 4 December 2025.
Lord (John) Hendy KC and Councillor Nick Denys...
Investor Citizenship - Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta: CELS Roundtable Discussion
Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta (investor citizenship) is one of the most important decisions the Court has handed down on EU citizenship. It is of s...
Insolvency Law in the Global South: Lessons for the Global North: 3CL Seminar
Speaker: Associate Professor Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez (Singapore Management University)
Abstract: Despite the influence of the Global North in ma...
Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2025 - - 'Hard Law in Times of Liquid Modernity: Treaty Law and Practice in the 21st Century' - Santiago Villalpando, Legal Advisor and Director of UNESCO
The speaker for the Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2025 was Santiago Villalpando, Legal Advisor and Director of UNESCO.
Lecture summary: Is internation...
Neither Parliamentary Sovereignty nor Judicial Supremacy: The Rule of Law as the Rule of Common Right and Reason: The 2025 Sir David Williams Lecture
On Friday 28 November 2025, The Professor Trevor Allan FBA delivered the 202 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "Neither Parliamentary Sovereignty no...
Controversial Contemporary Direct Effect: Directives and Beyond: CELS Lunchtime Seminar
Speaker: Professor Daniele Gallo, Luiss University, Italy
Abstract: The seminar, building upon Professor Gallo’s book, Direct Effect in EU Law (...