2025-2026 Seminars

Seminar Programme for 2025-2026

Michaelmas Term 2025
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Recording / resources
22 October 2025 1pm, B16/Zoom	Dr Julian Ghosh Cambridge University	'REUL/Assimilated Law: the Current Rules(?)'
3 November 2025 5.30pm, LG18	MACKENZIE STUART LECTURE Professor Anand Menon Director, UK in a Changing Europe	'Reflections on the Brexit Revolution'
12 November 2025 1pm, B16/Zoom	Dr Raphaële Xenidis Sciences Po Law School, France	'EU Anti-Discrimination Law through the Lens of Critical Theory'
26 November 2025 1pm, B16/Zoom	Professor Daniele Gallo Luiss University, Italy	'Controversial Contemporary Direct Effect: Directives and Beyond'
3 December 2025 1pm, B16/Zoom	Roundtable discussion Chair: Professor Catherine Barnard University of Cambridge Discussants: Professor Markus Gehring University of Cambridge Dr Emilija Leinarte University of Cambridge Professor Daniel Sarmiento Universidad Complutense, Madrid Dr Martin Steinfeld University of Cambridge Professor Takis Tridimas Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL)	'Investor Citizenship - Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta'

Lent Term 2026
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Recording / resources
4 February 2026 1pm, B16/Zoom	Dr András Csuri Vienna University of Economics and Business	'Sense and Admissibility: Cross-Border Investigations Conducted by the European Public Prosecutor's Office'	Not recorded
18 February 2026 1pm, B16/Zoom	Professor Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen UIB, Norway	'Norway’s Patchwork of Agreements with the EU: Challenges to 'The Norway Model' brought about by the EU’s Strategic Rethink of the Internal Market'
25 February 2026 1pm, B16/Zoom	Professor Morten Rasmussen University of Copenhagen	'The History of European Union Law - Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993'
11 March 2026 1pm, B16/Zoom	Professor Niamh Dunne LSE	'Effectiveness and Coherence in Article 102 TFEU'
18 March 2026 1pm, B16	Susanne Baer Former Justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court ***CANCELLED ***	'Democracy Taken Seriously - Why Law Matters'
28 March 2026 9am, G24	HALF DAY SEMINAR Convenor: Dr Nabil Khabirpour University of Cambridge Speakers include: Lord Justice Baker Court of Appeal Professor Catherine Barnard University of Cambridge Professor Albertina Albors-Llorens University of Cambridge (Registration required)	'The Rule of Law as a (dis)unifying Value in the European Legal Order?'

Easter Term 2026
Date	Speaker(s)	Title/Further Information	Recording / resources
13 May 2026 2pm, B16	Dr Mohamed Moussa, Professor Alison Young and Professor Mark Tushnet (Catherine Barnard to Chair)	CELS and CPL Book Launch Event: Federal Impartiality: Navigating Divisive Rights in the EU and the US
14 May 2026 5pm, OCR, Trinity College/Zoom	Judge Synelnykov Ukrainian Supreme Court	'In conversation with Judge Synelnykov'	Not recorded A video showing the effects of the ongoing war on the administration of justice in Ukraine:
18 May 2026 5pm, Moot Court Room	Professor James E. Tierney Harvard Law School	CELS/CPL Seminar: 'Federalism Re-thought – Lessons from Constitutional Turbulence in the US'	Not recorded
22 May 2026 1:30pm, Junior Parlour, Trinity College/Zoom	Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Jamie Trinidad, Professor Alejandro del Valle Gálvez, Professor Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen, Professor Steve Peers, Professor Markus W. Gehring, Dr Nabil Khabirpour, Professor Fernando Bordin, Professor Eilís Ferran, Peter Montegriffo KC & Dr Emilija Leinarte	'The UK-EU Agreement in respect of Gibraltar'