Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy

2020-2021 Seminars

Seminar Programme for 2020-21

Audio recordings of most of these events are available on Captivate (and most popular podcast apps) or iTunes.

Michaelmas Term 2020
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Registration	Recording / resources
30 September 2020	Representatives from the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL).	'Rapid Response Seminar on the UK Internal Market Bill'
7 October 2020	Monckton-Faculty of Law Webinar Series on EU Relations Law Chair: Professor Kenneth Armstrong, University of Cambridge Speaker 1: Jack Williams - Monckton Chambers Speaker 2: George Peretz QC - Monckton Chambers Speaker 3: Professor Alison Young - University of Cambridge Speaker 4: Professor Kenneth Armstrong - University of Cambridge	'What is EU Relations Law? The Legal Ecosystem of Brexit'		Alison Young: Jack Williams:
14 October 2020	Monckton-Faculty of Law Webinar Series on EU Relations Law Chair: Christopher Vajda, former judge of the Court of Justice of the EU Speaker 1: Professor Takis Tridimas, Kings College London Speaker 2: Dr Emily Hancox, University of Cambridge Speaker 3: Dr Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge Speaker 4: Jack Williams, Monckton Chambers	'EU Relations Law – Interpretation, Enforcement and Dispute Resolution'
19 October 2020	David Gauke Former Lord Chancellor	'Brexit: what's happened and what's to come'
20 October 2020	Martin Donnelly Boeing	'Negotiating trade deals and related topics including the WTO and Brexit'
21 October 2020	Professor Anu Bradford Columbia Law School	'The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World'
28 October 2020	Sir Stephen Wall Former Foreign Policy Adviser	'Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit'
4 November 2020	Professor Diamond Ashiagbor University of Kent	'Provincialising Europe: the European Union and the African Union as reactions against or an integral part of globalisation?'
11 November 2020	Michal Bobek Advocate General, Court of Justice	'More Heads, More Reason? A comparative reflection on the role of enlarged judicial formations in apex jurisdictions'		Not recorded
18 November 2020 *5pm*	Professor Daniel Halberstam University of Michigan	'Understanding National Procedural Autonomy: The Promise and Failure of Race Equality Litigation in Europe'		Not recorded
25 November 2020	Monckton-Faculty of Law Webinar Series on EU Relations Law Chair: Valentina Sloane Q.C., Monckton Chambers Speaker 1: Professor Jo Hunt, University of Cardiff Speaker 2: Alan Bates, Monckton Chambers Speaker 3: Professor Kenneth Armstrong, University of Cambridge Speaker 4: Professor Stephen Weatherill, University of Oxford	'The UK Internal Market'
2 December 2020	Monckton-Faculty of Law Webinar Series on EU Relations Law Chair Philip Moser Q.C., Monckton Chambers Speaker 1: Professor Catherine Barnard, University of Cambridge Speaker 2: Gerry Facenna Q.C., Monckton Chambers Speaker 3: Alexander Horne, Legal Adviser, House of Lords International Agreements Committee Speaker 4: Dr Brendan McGurk, Monckton Chambers	'UK External Trade Relations'
7 December 2020 *5pm*	Monckton-Faculty of Law Webinar Series on EU Relations Law Chair: Judge Ian Forrester, former judge at the General Court, CJEU Speaker 1: Anneli Howard, Monckton Chambers Speaker 2: George Peretz Q.C., Monckton Chambers Speaker 3: Michael Bowsher Q.C., Monckton Chambers Speaker 4: Dr Oke Odudu, University of Cambridge	'A Level Playing Field for EU-UK Economic Relations'		Anneli Howard: Oke Odudu:

Lent Term 2021
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Registration	Recording / resources
14 January 2021	Representatives from the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), Centre for Public Law (CPL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL).	'Rapid response on the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and the EU (Future Relations) Act'
27 January 2021 1-2pm	Professor Damian Chalmers University of Singapore	'Informational Self-Determination, EU Law and Informational Capitalism'
3 February 2021 1-2pm	Dr Julian Ghosh QC One Essex Court/KCL	'EU Retained Law'
16 February 2021 5-6pm	Sir Jonathan Jones KCB QC (Hon) Former Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the GLD	‘Challenges for the Law Post Brexit’
17 February 2021 5-6pm	Professor Gráinne de Búrca NYU Law Faculty	'Should Hungary and Poland be EU Member States?'
3 March 2021 1-2pm	Professor Henri de Waele Radboud University Nijmegan & University of Antwerp	''…wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them': Re-appraising Success and Failure in the Life of the European Court of Justice'
10 March 2021 1-2pm	Judge Tamara Perišin General Court of the European Union	'The Rule of Law and the Vigilance of Individuals before EU Courts'		Not recorded
11 March 2021 11:30am-12:30pm	Dr Zoe Adams, Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor Simon Deakin, Ms Sarah Fraser Butlin, Professor Owen Warnock	'Uber BV and others (Appellants) v Aslam and others (Respondents) [2021] UKSC 5'
17 March 2021 5-6pm	Professor Antonio Estella de Noriega Carlos III University of Madrid	'EU Fiscal Policy in the Midst of the Pandemic'

Easter Term 2021
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Registration	Recording / resources
*Postponed** 5 May 2021 5-6pm	Lord Purvis of Tweed House of Lords	'Brexit - Lessons Learned from the Parliamentary Process'
12 May 2021 1-2pm	Eleonor Duhs Fieldfisher	'The EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the free flow of Personal Data: A Solid Foundation?'