Cambridge Law: Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law

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.

Harnessing GenAI to Inform IP Standards: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 56:25
(Re)evaluating trade secrets protection in light of AI: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 23:15
AI and IPR Enforcement – Challenges and Opportunities: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 28:40
AI and the Right to Research: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 33:01
Re-thinking IP Territoriality in the Context of AI: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 19:12
More in Hope than in Fear – the Potential (Positive!) Impact of AI on Design Law: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 25:17
'The Reports of my Death are Greatly Exaggerated': Will Brands Survive the AI Bypass?: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 20:21
Substantive Human-Centric IP Standards in the Age of AI: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 14:56
Copyright and Related Rights - Protectability of AI-Generated Content: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 25:01
Emotional Perception AI: Are Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) Computer Programs?: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 25:09
An Introduction to AI: What we mean by ‘Artificial Intelligence’ and how does AI affect Human Creation and Innovation?: CIPIL Spring Conference 2025
Apr 3, 2025 – 25:30
Repugnant transactions and taboo trades: The Baron de Lancey Lecture 2025
Mar 21, 2025 – 42:33
The statehood of Palestine: A Palestinian account: Cambridge University Lawyers Without Borders
Mar 21, 2025 – 56:02
State Immunity: Theory and Practice - Hussein Haeri KC, Withers LLP
Mar 20, 2025 – 42:29
Cousins, Not Twins: Patent Claim Scope vs. The Breadth of Patent Enforcement: 18th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture
Mar 19, 2025 – 53:45
The UK's Relationship with the European Union: 2025 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
Mar 17, 2025 – 37:54
The Future of the European Union: Socio-Economic and Political Challenges to its Legal-Constitutional Framework: CELS Seminar
Mar 13, 2025 – 36:23
Property and Provenance: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Mar 11, 2025 – 41:34
Official responses to sexual violence: obstacles and opportunities: CCCJ Evening Seminar
Mar 5, 2025 – 53:37
Equitable Ownership: XXIV Old Buildings Lecture 2025
Mar 4, 2025 – 58:20
Explaining Sudan’s Catastrophe: From Popular Revolution to Coup, War and Famine
Mar 3, 2025 – 42:31
Much Ado about Disclosure: The WIPO 2024 IP Treaties: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Feb 28, 2025 – 46:56
Property Rights at Sea - Prof Richard Barnes
Feb 25, 2025 – 46:44
SkyKick in the UKSC: is the Sky a limit at all?: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:00:41
(Non-)Defining 'Gender' in the Crimes Against Humanity Draft: Possibilities, Alliances, and Strategies
Feb 10, 2025 – 02:00:20
Governing Sovereign Debt Crises: The Case for International Sovereign Insolvency Law - Dr Karina Patrício Ferreira Lima
Feb 10, 2025 – 41:01
On the Interface between Public and Private International Law: 1973 Professor Inaugural Lecture 2025
Feb 7, 2025 – 58:45
'Digital Empire or Fiefdoms? The Role of 'the EU' as a Digital Power': CELS Seminar
Feb 5, 2025 – 38:00
What is Project Finance, and Why is it Important?: 3CL Seminar
Feb 4, 2025 – 31:21
The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice' - Dr Arman Sarvarian
Feb 4, 2025 – 27:36
'An Institutional Theory for Corporate Law': 3CL Seminar
Jan 28, 2025 – 32:06
Potential Legal Limitations on a Russia-Ukraine Peace Agreement: Gregory Fox
Jan 24, 2025 – 44:18
Friday lecture: 'International Law, Marxist State Theory, and the Many Ends of Decolonization' - Prof Umut Özsu, Carleton University
Dec 2, 2024 – 44:28
CELH 2024 Annual Lecture: 'Legal History and Literature: Towards Creative Reciprocity'
Nov 29, 2024 – 01:01:21
Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969: Daniel Monk & Rebecca Probert
Nov 28, 2024 – 28:19
'EU Antitrust Law's Resilience: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly': CELS Seminar
Nov 20, 2024 – 42:28
LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2024: 'In the shadow of trade: a critique of Global Health Law' - Prof Sharifah Sekalala, University of Warwick
Nov 18, 2024 – 35:16
'The Art of the New Deal: The Brief Wondrous Life of the Yale Law School/Harvard Business School Combined Law-Business Program': 3CL Lecture
Nov 12, 2024 – 48:06
'The Familiapress Dilemma: The Horizontal Application, Horizontal Direct Effect and Horizontal Enforcement of the Free Movement Provisions': CELS Seminar
Nov 11, 2024 – 31:21
Brexit and Data Protection Law: A Possible (Missed) Opportunity for Innovative Reform?: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Nov 11, 2024 – 51:24
Friday Lecture: 'Global Re/Ordering Through Norms - A Methodological Stocktake' - Prof Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg
Nov 11, 2024 – 37:08
Friday lunchtime lecture: 'The Rapidly Progressing Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court' - Judge Mark L Wolf
Nov 4, 2024 – 40:51
'Corporate Governance and Technology': 3CL Lecture
Oct 29, 2024 – 22:52
Synthetic Data, Data Protection and Intellectual Property: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Oct 25, 2024 – 52:13
'Judicial review of discretionary decision-making: differences of approach': The 2024 Sir David Williams Lecture
Oct 24, 2024 – 53:23
Will Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge Transform Intellectual Property? Cautionary Lessons from the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty: CIPIL Evening Seminar
Oct 21, 2024 – 45:20
The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture 2024: 'The Right to Self Determination: Chagos, the Caribbean and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)' - Judge Patrick Robinson
Oct 21, 2024 – 56:00
Friday Lecture: 'The Duty to Cooperate and the Role of Independent Expert Bodies: The Case of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom and the Media Freedom Coalition of States' - Can Yeginsu
Oct 14, 2024 – 48:47
Book launch: The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law (Second Edition)
Jul 12, 2024 – 43:47
Admissions to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Law Open Day 2024)
Jul 5, 2024 – 37:12