Cambridge Law: Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law
550 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsA collection of public lectures either given at, or by members of, the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
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Darwin College Erasmus Seminar: 'What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: Brexit, free movement and … Great Yarmouth'
November 29, 2022 09:26 - 40 minutes - 909 MB VideoThe inaugural Darwin College Erasmus Seminar took place on Wednesday 23 November at 6pm in Darwin College. Professor Catherine Barnard gave her talk on : 'What happens when enforcement doesn’t happen: Brexit, free movement and … Great Yarmouth'. Professor Barnard is Professor of EU Law and Employment Law in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. Professor Barnard looks at the experiences of EU migrant workers in Great Yarmouth, a declining seaside resort with the fift...
David Ibbetson Valedictory Lecture: 'Roman Law, Comparative Law, Legal History'
November 28, 2022 09:56 - 1 hour - 113 MBThe Centre for English Legal History was delighted to host a valedictory lecture by David Ibbetson FBA, Regius Professor of Civil Law on 25th November 2022. The lecture was chaired by Dr Jonathan Morgan, and Professor Ibbetson was introduced by Mr Justice Foxton. While it will come as no surprise to learn that David will continue his research for years to come, this lecture marks his retirement from the Regius Professorship of Civil Law.
Lord Carnwath - Privacy International (Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows Seminars) (audio)
November 17, 2022 14:04 - 45 minutes - 83.5 MBThe Faculty of Law is organising in the 2022-23 academic years three seminars on key public law cases, given by three Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows – Lord Carnwath, Lady Hale, and Lord Lloyd-Jones. The first of these seminars took place on Wednesday 16 November and was given by Lord Carnwath, looking at the Privacy International case. Lord Carnwath gave the leading judgment of the majority in the case. Lord Carnwath and Professor Alison Young talked about the impact of the new ouster ...
Lord Carnwath - Privacy International (Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows Seminars)
November 17, 2022 13:56 - 45 minutes - 1020 MB VideoThe Faculty of Law is organising in the 2022-23 academic years three seminars on key public law cases, given by three Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellows – Lord Carnwath, Lady Hale, and Lord Lloyd-Jones. The first of these seminars took place on Wednesday 16 November and was given by Lord Carnwath, looking at the Privacy International case. Lord Carnwath gave the leading judgment of the majority in the case. Lord Carnwath and Professor Alison Young talked about the impact of the new ouster ...
Law and Race talks: 'Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Black Deaths in Custody' (audio)
November 03, 2022 10:19 - 38 minutes - 70.3 MBProfessor Leslie Thomas KC is a human rights and civil liberties barrister. He has appeared in many high-profile cases representing the families of the deceased (Birmingham Pub Bombing Inquests, Grenfell Inquiry, Azelle Rodney, Mark Duggan, Christopher Alder and Sean Rigg). In 2012 he was awarded Legal Aid Barrister of the Year (LALY) and again in 2016 for his work on the Hillsborough disaster. In 2020 he received the award for Outstanding Contribution to D&I in the UK Chambers Bar Awards. He...
Law and Race talks: 'Discrimination, Disproportionality, and Black Deaths in Custody'
November 03, 2022 10:16 - 38 minutes - 858 MB VideoProfessor Leslie Thomas KC is a human rights and civil liberties barrister. He has appeared in many high-profile cases representing the families of the deceased (Birmingham Pub Bombing Inquests, Grenfell Inquiry, Azelle Rodney, Mark Duggan, Christopher Alder and Sean Rigg). In 2012 he was awarded Legal Aid Barrister of the Year (LALY) and again in 2016 for his work on the Hillsborough disaster. In 2020 he received the award for Outstanding Contribution to D&I in the UK Chambers Bar Awards. He...
Law and Race talks: 'Addressing Structural Discrimination through International Human Rights Law: the Approach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination' (audio)
November 02, 2022 15:08 - 25 minutes - 47.5 MBSpeaker: Professor Mehrdad Payandeh, Member, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School Professor Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. His research is focused on international human rights law, anti-discrimination law as well as general international law and constitutional law and theory. Since 2020, he is also...
Law and Race talks: 'Addressing Structural Discrimination through International Human Rights Law: the Approach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination'
November 02, 2022 15:07 - 25 minutes - 574 MB VideoSpeaker: Professor Mehrdad Payandeh, Member, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School Professor Mehrdad Payandeh is Professor of International Law, European Law, and Public Law at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. His research is focused on international human rights law, anti-discrimination law as well as general international law and constitutional law and theory. Since 2020, he is also...
'Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?': Mark Elliott (audio)
June 17, 2022 08:44 - 9 minutes - 17.6 MBOn Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Protocol creates a special legal position for Northern Ireland in the light of its particular political circumstances, effectively enabling Northern Ireland to remain within the EU’s Single Market for goods. The UK Government argues that it is necessary to ‘fix’ certa...
'Does the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill breach international law?': Mark Elliott
June 17, 2022 08:43 - 10 minutes - 224 MB VideoOn Monday 13 June, the UK Government published the text of the proposed Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The Northern Ireland Protocol forms part of the Withdrawal Agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Protocol creates a special legal position for Northern Ireland in the light of its particular political circumstances, effectively enabling Northern Ireland to remain within the EU’s Single Market for goods. The UK Government argues that it is necessary to ‘fix’ certa...
CELS/CPL/LCIL webinar: Rapid response on the UK Internal Market Bill
June 07, 2022 16:20 - 1 hour - 2.55 GB VideoThe Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the UK Internal Market Bill. The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill 2019-21 was introduced on 9 September 2020 and contained what observers have called constitutional dynamite and the newspapers described as ‘Britannia waives the rules.’ Ministers have alternatively called it ‘his does break international l...
CELS/CPL/LCIL webinar: Rapid response on the UK Internal Market Bill (audio)
June 07, 2022 16:19 - 1 hour - 216 MBThe Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the UK Internal Market Bill. The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill 2019-21 was introduced on 9 September 2020 and contained what observers have called constitutional dynamite and the newspapers described as ‘Britannia waives the rules.’ Ministers have alternatively called it ‘his does break international l...
LCIL/CPL Webinar: Rapid response on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill (audio)
June 07, 2022 16:13 - 59 minutes - 109 MBThe Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary announced on 17 May that a Bill will be introduced in response to "the grave situation in Northern Ireland", there was a "necessity to act to ensure institutions can be restored as soon as possible". (BBC News) While there is still the preference for a negotiated solutio...
LCIL/CPL Webinar: Rapid response on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
June 07, 2022 16:09 - 59 minutes - 1.29 GB VideoThe Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), and the Centre for Public Law (CPL) warmly invite you to an online Rapid Response Seminar on the proposed UK Northern Ireland Protocol Bill. The United Kingdom Foreign Secretary announced on 17 May that a Bill will be introduced in response to "the grave situation in Northern Ireland", there was a "necessity to act to ensure institutions can be restored as soon as possible". (BBC News) While there is still the preference for a negotiated solutio...
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2021: A Personal Journal to Advocacy (audio)
May 10, 2022 16:34 - 1 hour - 156 MBOn Wednesday 19th May 2021 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project hosted Baroness Beeban Kidron. Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE is a Crossbench Peer in the UK House of Lords and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. For 30 years, Baroness Kidron worked as a film director, making TV and film dramas and documentaries in the UK and Hollywood. She is best known for directing an adaption of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Baroness Kidron was appointed to the House of L...
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2021: A Personal Journal to Advocacy
May 10, 2022 16:32 - 1 hour - 1.84 GB VideoOn Wednesday 19th May 2021 the Cambridge Pro Bono Project hosted Baroness Beeban Kidron. Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE is a Crossbench Peer in the UK House of Lords and Chair of 5Rights Foundation. For 30 years, Baroness Kidron worked as a film director, making TV and film dramas and documentaries in the UK and Hollywood. She is best known for directing an adaption of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Baroness Kidron was appointed to the House of L...
'White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress': The 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture
May 09, 2022 12:12 - 55 minutes - 1.22 GB VideoOn Friday 6 May 2022, Professor David Feldman delivered the 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress". 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 Publi...
'White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress': The 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture (audio)
May 09, 2022 10:38 - 55 minutes - 102 MBOn Friday 6 May 2022, Professor David Feldman delivered the 2022 Sir David Williams Lecture entitled "White water rafting: The UK's constitutions at a time of stress". 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 Publi...
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2022: 'The Unity of Law' (audio)
May 04, 2022 08:59 - 47 minutes - 86.8 MBThe Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted this annual lecture, in which Lord Justice Singh, in conversation with Dr Stephanie Palmer discussed the topic 'The Unity of Law' on 27 April 2022. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see Twitter (https://twitter.com/Cam_ProBono) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CamProBono). This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Annual Lecture 2022: 'The Unity of Law'
May 04, 2022 08:57 - 47 minutes - 1.04 GB VideoThe Cambridge Pro Bono Project (CPP) hosted this annual lecture, in which Lord Justice Singh, in conversation with Dr Stephanie Palmer discussed the topic 'The Unity of Law' on 27 April 2022. For more information about the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, see Twitter (https://twitter.com/Cam_ProBono) or Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CamProBono).
CILJ 2022: Day 2 Keynote address
April 13, 2022 11:10 - 57 minutes - 1.23 GB VideoKeynote Address: Ms. Maja Groff (4:35) Chair Remarks: Dr. Markus Gehring, University of Cambridge (0:59) This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see: http://cil...
CILJ 2022: Opening and keynote address
April 13, 2022 10:55 - 51 minutes - 1.11 GB Video- Keynote Address: Dr. P.S. Rao Chaired by Professor Catherine Barnard. 0:38 - Mr Darren Peterson and Mr Oliver Hailes 6:54 - Professor Catherine Barnard 9:03 - Dr P S Rao 22:22 - Q&A This is a recording from the events of the 11th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference Cambridge International Law Journal, held under the title 'Strengthening Global Governance through International Law: Challenges and Opportunities' on 26 & 27 March 2022 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridg...
'Did Brexit cause P&O job losses?': Catherine Barnard
March 25, 2022 15:39 - 9 minutes - 220 MB VideoOn Thurday 17th March leading UK ferry operator P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet and stopped all sailings. The move sparked fury amongst employees and unions, and consternation in parliament. Many asked was the move - and the proposal to use cheap agency staff instead - legal, and also was it a result of Brexit? In this recording, Professor Catherine Barnard considers the legal implications, and the Brexit question. Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union...
'Did Brexit cause P&O job losses?': Catherine Barnard (audio)
March 25, 2022 15:37 - 9 minutes - 17.3 MBOn Thurday 17th March leading UK ferry operator P&O Ferries sacked 800 British crew across its entire fleet and stopped all sailings. The move sparked fury amongst employees and unions, and consternation in parliament. Many asked was the move - and the proposal to use cheap agency staff instead - legal, and also was it a result of Brexit? In this recording, Professor Catherine Barnard considers the legal implications, and the Brexit question. Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union...
'Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi': CSLG webinar
March 18, 2022 16:31 - 32 minutes - 715 MB VideoSpeaker: Simanti Dasgupta Simanti Dasgupta is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her overarching interest in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states link her works. She is currently preparing a book manuscript tentatively titled, Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi, India, based on her ethnographic research with Durbar Mah...
'Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi': CSLG webinar (audio)
March 18, 2022 16:29 - 32 minutes - 59.6 MBSpeaker: Simanti Dasgupta Simanti Dasgupta is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the International Studies Program at the University of Dayton. Her overarching interest in the politics of citizenship and belonging in postcolonial and neoliberal nation-states link her works. She is currently preparing a book manuscript tentatively titled, Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Anti-Trafficking in Sonagachi, India, based on her ethnographic research with Durbar Mah...
'Re-engineering the Regulation of Regenerative Medicine?': The 2022 Baron de Lancey Lecture (audio)
March 15, 2022 14:15 - 59 minutes - 109 MBRegenerative medicine seeks to regrow, repair, or replace damaged tissues. Current regenerative technologies include the bio-engineering of organs and tissues, cell reprogramming, and gene editing. Such interventions are significant not only for present-day patients, but also for future generations. They challenge the concept of the self as ‘biologically finite’ or ‘genetically determined’ and blur traditional distinctions between therapy and enhancement and between humans, animals, and thing...
'Re-engineering the Regulation of Regenerative Medicine?': The 2022 Baron de Lancey Lecture
March 15, 2022 14:11 - 59 minutes - 1.28 GB VideoRegenerative medicine seeks to regrow, repair, or replace damaged tissues. Current regenerative technologies include the bio-engineering of organs and tissues, cell reprogramming, and gene editing. Such interventions are significant not only for present-day patients, but also for future generations. They challenge the concept of the self as ‘biologically finite’ or ‘genetically determined’ and blur traditional distinctions between therapy and enhancement and between humans, animals, and thing...
'Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law': The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
March 09, 2022 11:19 - 50 minutes - 749 MB VideoThe 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 Yearb...
'Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law': The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture (audio)
March 09, 2022 11:17 - 50 minutes - 92 MBThe 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 Yearb...
LCIL/CELS Webinar: Rapid Response Webinar on the War in Ukraine
March 08, 2022 11:22 - 1 hour - 159 MBThe Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) and the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) held an online Rapid Response Seminar on the War in Ukraine on 7 March 2022. On the 24 February 2022 Russian troops launched a fully-fledged invasion of Ukraine after force had been used between the two countries in February 2014 with the annexing of Crimea by Russia. The UN General Assembly in its emergency session decided on 2 March 2022 that it: ‘[d]eplores in the strongest terms the aggr...
Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane?
December 17, 2021 14:33 - 14 minutes - 325 MB VideoThere have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal...
'Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane?': John Spencer
December 17, 2021 14:33 - 14 minutes - 325 MB VideoThere have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal...
'Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane?': John Spencer (audio)
December 17, 2021 11:34 - 14 minutes - 25.8 MBThere have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal...
Are private prosecutions a public benefit, or a public bane? (audio)
December 17, 2021 11:34 - 14 minutes - 25.8 MBThere have been several recent egregious examples of private prosecutions, including the case of the Post Office prosecuting numerous Postmasters for losses caused by a faulty IT system. Professor John Spencer discusses these cases, the evolution of the system of private prosecutions, and the considerations involved in regulating such actions. Professor Spencer is Professor Emeritus of Law and Honorary President of the European Criminal Law Association. He has written extensively on criminal...
'Modern Judging': The 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture (audio)
November 17, 2021 17:26 - 52 minutes - 95.9 MBOn 16 November 2021 Lady Dame Sarah Falk delivered the 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Modern Judging". The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned from the pandemic for the conduct of proceedings. Dame Sarah Falk studied law at the University of Cambridge before starting her professional career at Freshfields...
'Modern Judging': The 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture
November 17, 2021 17:25 - 52 minutes - 1.14 GB VideoOn 16 November 2021 Lady Dame Sarah Falk delivered the 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Modern Judging". The Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned from the pandemic for the conduct of proceedings. Dame Sarah Falk studied law at the University of Cambridge before starting her professional career at Freshfield...
It's the Law: Civil Law
March 04, 2021 15:04 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBA BBC World Service programme broadcast on 29 August 1991. What is Civil Law, and why does the legal system of ancient Rome still matter? This second of five programmes looks at how many countries' legal systems can trace part of their legal history back to Rome. Programme information is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03m0hxr Provided courtesy of the BBC.
It's the Law: Common Law
March 04, 2021 14:49 - 29 minutes - 53.4 MBA BBC World Service programme broadcast on 19 August 1991. The history of common law in England and how it spread across the English-speaking world, adapting to local cultures. Plus, the development of the legal system, and questions arising from recent miscarriages of justice. In this first of five parts, speakers include Lord Denning, legal historian Professor John Baker and Sir Frederick Lawton. Programme information is available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p03m0hx6 Provided c...
''Gone with the wind' - Organised crime and the geography of wind farms in Italy': Cambridge Socio-Legal Group webinar (audio)
November 26, 2020 16:47 - 31 minutes - 58.4 MBCambridge Socio-Legal Group webinar. Speaker: Davide Luca, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University The adoption of low-carbon energy sources is considered as one of the key policies to tackle climate change and, to this aim, many European governments have been supporting the transition to renewable energy through subsidies. Growing anecdotal evidence suggests that the generosity of incentives has attracted the interests of corrupt politicians and criminal organisations, as the sect...
''Gone with the wind' - Organised crime and the geography of wind farms in Italy': Cambridge Socio-Legal Group webinar
November 26, 2020 16:17 - 31 minutes - 507 MB VideoCambridge Socio-Legal Group webinar. Speaker: Davide Luca, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge University The adoption of low-carbon energy sources is considered as one of the key policies to tackle climate change and, to this aim, many European governments have been supporting the transition to renewable energy through subsidies. Growing anecdotal evidence suggests that the generosity of incentives has attracted the interests of corrupt politicians and criminal organisations, as the sect...
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Speaker Series: COVID-19 and Human Rights: The Stress Test
November 25, 2020 13:51 - 1 hour - 1.47 GB VideoSpeaker: Adam Wagner, Doughty Street Chambers The coronavirus pandemic has driven liberal democracies to forfeit individual liberties of citizens in benefit of the collective well-being of society, thereby giving new colours to fundamental debates long entrenched in the human rights movement worldwide. In the UK, the most relevant corollary of the current crisis for the domestic legal sphere is that the provisions of the Human Rights Act (1998), much attacked by conservative leaders in the p...
Cambridge Pro Bono Project Speaker Series: COVID-19 and Human Rights: The Stress Test (audio)
November 25, 2020 11:57 - 1 hour - 125 MBSpeaker: Adam Wagner, Doughty Street Chambers The coronavirus pandemic has driven liberal democracies to forfeit individual liberties of citizens in benefit of the collective well-being of society, thereby giving new colours to fundamental debates long entrenched in the human rights movement worldwide. In the UK, the most relevant corollary of the current crisis for the domestic legal sphere is that the provisions of the Human Rights Act (1998), much attacked by conservative leaders in the p...
'Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution': The 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture
October 28, 2020 09:45 - 1 hour - 1.64 GB VideoOn 27 October 2020 Lord Sumption delivered the 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution". The disputes over Brexit last year saw an attempt to make the executive, not Parliament, the prime source of authority in the Constitution. The coronavirus crisis has provoked another attempt to marginalise Parliament, this time with the willing acquiescence of the House of Commons. Is this to be our future? Lord Sumption is an author, historian ...
'Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution': The 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture (audio)
October 28, 2020 09:16 - 1 hour - 139 MBOn 27 October 2020 Lord Sumption delivered the 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled "Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution". The disputes over Brexit last year saw an attempt to make the executive, not Parliament, the prime source of authority in the Constitution. The coronavirus crisis has provoked another attempt to marginalise Parliament, this time with the willing acquiescence of the House of Commons. Is this to be our future? Lord Sumption is an author, historian ...
Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The Prisons' (audio)
June 04, 2020 16:56 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In this second webinar we look at the current conditions in English prisons and explore why more has not been done for those in custody throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of April, the government announced plans for the early release of up to 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales, to redu...
Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The Prisons'
June 04, 2020 16:36 - 1 hour - 1.34 GB VideoIn these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In this second webinar we look at the current conditions in English prisons and explore why more has not been done for those in custody throughout the pandemic. At the beginning of April, the government announced plans for the early release of up to 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales, to redu...
Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The courts'
May 28, 2020 15:09 - 1 hour - 1.33 GB VideoIn these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In the first event, our focus is the courts and we explore the reality of daily life in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court, from bail applications to sentencing. What has happened to the right to trial by jury? What will be the impact of the pandemic on the rights of defendants and victi...
Webinar: 'Criminal Justice in a Pandemic: The courts' (audio)
May 28, 2020 14:43 - 1 hour - 113 MBIn these two public webinars from the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, the panels explore the enormous additional pressures that the pandemic has imposed on the criminal justice system. In the first event, our focus is the courts and we explore the reality of daily life in magistrates’ courts and in the Crown Court, from bail applications to sentencing. What has happened to the right to trial by jury? What will be the impact of the pandemic on the rights of defendants and victi...
The repatriation of offshore finance to onshore: transnational legal orders and the Cayman Islands experience
May 20, 2020 17:06 - 1 hour - 1.5 GB VideoA webinar hosted by the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. May Hen-Smith is a PhD student in Sociology at Cambridge. She is a former tax collector from Canada Revenue Agency and studies offshore financial centres. She is also co-founder of the Cambridge Tax Discussion Group, a student-led discussion group which began in 2015 and continues to meet weekly during term to talk about all things tax. Their website is taxtaxtax.tax More information can be found at: https://research.sociology.cam.ac.uk/...