Stay ConnectedThe 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.
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Moderator: Émilie Pottle, Barrister, Temple Garden Chambers.
1. Ms Danielle Flanagan, Associate, Hogan Lovells LLP: Rethinking Universal Jurisdiction: A Shift Towards Greater Universality? (01:54)
2. Dr Ata Hindi, Murphy Institute Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Tulane University School of Law: Here Comes Your Ghost Again: Individual Immunities for International Crimes. (16:51)
3. Dr Giovanni Chiarini, Assistant Professor of Law, Alfaisal University: Negotiated Justice Transformation: From Post-WWII Military Tribunals' Ethical Denial to Modern International Courts' Procedural Approaches.(34:59)
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This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
Moderator: Jessica Simor KC, Barrister, Matrix Chambers.
1. Ms Crisela Bernardino, Researcher in Corporate Climate Litigation, British Insitutue of International and Comparative Law (BIICL): In the Interests of Climate Justice: International Law and Decolonial Perspectives on the Philippine Climate Case Against the ‘Carbon Majors’. (02:08)
2. Mr Selman Aksünger, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University: Permanent Sovereignty Over Maritime Zones: A Response to Sea Level Rise Induced Coastal Instability. (19:39)
3. Ms Jessica Crow, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge: Emissions Trading: An Emerging Tension at the Nexus of Investment Protection and Climate Governance. (34:48)
4. Ms Katharina Neumann, DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford: The Forgotten Sector: The UN Climate Change Regime and Agricultural Emissions. (52:02)
This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
Moderator: Stephen Fietta KC, Founder, Fietta LLP.
1. Dr Jolyon Ford SFHEA, Professor, Australian National University; and Dr Imogen Saunders, Associate Professor, Australian National University: International Law as Geology: Crawford's core/periphery metaphor and challenges to the contemporary international legal order. (02:18)
2. Ms Jessie Phyffer, LLD Candidate, University of Pretoria; Research Associate University of Johannesburg: The “International Community”: A Useful Rhetorical Technique to Induce a Common Interest-Based International Legal Order. (17:40)
3. Dr Sarah McCosker, Founding Partner, Lexbridge Lawyers; and Dr Esmé Shirlow, Associate Professor, Australian National University: The Rise of Non- Treaty Instruments: Challenges and Implications for the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law. (27:50)
4. Mr Taran Molloy, Barrister (New Zealand): De-pluralising International Legal Personality: International Organisations and the 20th Century Shift to Statehood. (45:42)
5. Mr Sebastian von Massow, PhD Candidate, European University Institute: Litigating Colonial Self-Determination. (59:22)
This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
Keynote address 4 – Ambassador Rena Lee: 'The Institutionalisation of International Law in a Multipolar World'
This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
Keynote address 2 – Judge Tomas Heidar, President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: 'Bringing Climate Change into the Realm of the Law of the Sea Convention: The ITLOS Advisory Opinion'
This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
This is a recording from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference
This is a collection of recordings from the events of the 14th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference, held under the title 'Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law' on 28 & 29 April 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.
For more information about the conference, and the Journal, see:
http://cilj.co.uk/
The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) held a discussion of Dr Irini Katsirea’s book, 'Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study' (2024) on 29th April 2025.
This book examines the challenges for press freedom in the nascent digital news ecosystem. Drawing upon decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as from German, UK and US case law, this comparative work explores the regulation of the press in the digital era and the impact of the proliferating media laws, policies, and jurisprudence on press freedom.
Professor Jacob Rowbottom (University of Oxford) chaired the discussion between Dr Irini Katsirea (University of Sheffield), Dr Peter Coe, (University of Birmingham), Emeritus Professor Thomas Gibbons (University of Manchester), and Emeritus Professor Bernd Holznagel (University of Münster).
Speaker: Professor Niva Elkin Koren (Tel Aviv University)
Session 4: Concluding Thoughts – AI Transforming IP
On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?'
For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whether AI can be regarded as an inventor. There is also on-going litigation, in various jurisdictions, on whether training AI systems with copyright material infringes copyright, in what circumstances the outputs might infringe; as well as when, if at all, AI-generated content, designs or other outputs might be protected by intellectual property rights and, if so, for whose benefit.
While these are important questions that involve the application of the existing understandings of the law to new factual scenarios, the conference moved beyond them to focus on: (i) what AI reveals about existing law; and (ii) how AI might be changing IP, altering the legal tests with which we have become familiar, as well as the assumptions that underlie them – and what the implications might be.
For more information see:
https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference
Speaker: Professor Tanya Aplin (King’s College London)
Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement
On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?'
For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whether AI can be regarded as an inventor. There is also on-going litigation, in various jurisdictions, on whether training AI systems with copyright material infringes copyright, in what circumstances the outputs might infringe; as well as when, if at all, AI-generated content, designs or other outputs might be protected by intellectual property rights and, if so, for whose benefit.
While these are important questions that involve the application of the existing understandings of the law to new factual scenarios, the conference moved beyond them to focus on: (i) what AI reveals about existing law; and (ii) how AI might be changing IP, altering the legal tests with which we have become familiar, as well as the assumptions that underlie them – and what the implications might be.
For more information see:
https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference
Speaker: Mr Dennis Collopy (University of Hertfordshire)
Session 3: AI Transforming the Scope of Protection and Enforcement
On Saturday 29th March 2025, the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL) held its Annual Spring Conference entitled 'Is AI Transforming IP?'
For the last few years, lots of attention has been paid to AI and IP. The Supreme Court has already considered whether AI can be regarded as an inventor. There is also on-going litigation, in various jurisdictions, on whether training AI systems with copyright material infringes copyright, in what circumstances the outputs might infringe; as well as when, if at all, AI-generated content, designs or other outputs might be protected by intellectual property rights and, if so, for whose benefit.
While these are important questions that involve the application of the existing understandings of the law to new factual scenarios, the conference moved beyond them to focus on: (i) what AI reveals about existing law; and (ii) how AI might be changing IP, altering the legal tests with which we have become familiar, as well as the assumptions that underlie them – and what the implications might be.
For more information see:
https://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk/seminars-and-events/cipil-spring-conference
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