Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy

2023-2024 Seminars

Seminar Programme for 2023-2024

Michaelmas Term 2023
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Recording / resources
19 October 2023 5.15pm Emmanuel College, Cambridge	Presenter: Anu Bradford, Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations Columbia Law School Respondents: Victoria Lang, Assistant Legal Director at the CMA, currently advising on the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill John McInnes, Senior Legal Director at the CMA, leading the CMA’s policy and international function and overseeing legal input on the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill	'Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology'	Not recorded
25 October 2023 1pm, G24 and Online	Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)	'Language and the CJEU'
8 November 2023 1pm, G24 and Online	Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)	'Decoding CJEU Judgments'
22 November 2023 5.30pm, B16 and Online	João Vale de Almeida Former Ambassador of the European Union to the United Kingdom (2020-2022) and Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)	'UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?'
29 November 2023 1pm, G24 and Online	Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)	'The CJEU, its legal reasoning, and its interaction with its Advocates-General'
30 November 2023	MACKENZIE STUART LECTURE 2023 President Síofra O'Leary European Court of Human Rights	'Why the European Convention on Human Rights still matters'

Lent Term 2024

Date

Speaker(s)

Title/Further Information

Recording / resources

26 February 2024

5pm, G24

José Manuel Durão Barroso

Former President of the European Commission

'EU, UK and the World: Reflecting on Challenging Times'

UK-EU Relations: How can they be Improved?

Easter Term 2024
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Recording / resources
26 April 2024 10.30am - 12pm LG17	Chair: Gavin Robert, affiliated lecturer on the MCL and Competition Law LLM,Cambridge University Speakers: Ricardo Zimbron, and Marc Zedler, who led the investigation into Microsoft/Activision Blizzard case at the Competition and Markets Authority and at the European Commission respectively.	'Microsoft/Activision Blizzard: Convergence or Divergence in EU and UK Merger Control?'	Not recorded
1 May 2024 1pm, G24 and Online	Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024)	'Of Hijabs and Shechitah/Halal – Does the CJEU (and perhaps even the ECtHR) have a Blind Spot about Non-Christian Religions?'
8 May 2024 5.30pm, B16 and Online	Eleanor Sharpston KC Advocate General, CJEU (2006-2020) and Goodhart Professor, University of Cambridge (2023/2024) and Dr Markus Gehring Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Member of CELS	‘The 2023 Franco-German Proposal on Reforming and Enlarging the EU – A Conversation’