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.

Legal academics spend their waking hours studying the law. But what exactly does this involve? Join three law students in chats with Cambridge academics about their research interests, career pathways and things they find exciting. Whether you’re a student considering studying the law, a law student yourself, or just someone curious about the mystifying world of legal academia, this is the podcast for you.

Welcome to CULSCAST 🎙️the new Podcast from the Cambridge University Law Society, one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run societies, founded in 1901. Our Publicity team 📢 is pleased to be debuting this new initiative, which aims to bring the Cambridge law community closer together. Our new ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ series and ‘CULS Speakers Select’ series provide exclusive discussion about law and legal careers for our members. ‘CULSCAST Conversations’ is our interview-style forum ho ...

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is the scholarly home of International law at the University of Cambridge. The Centre, founded by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC in 1983, serves as a forum for the discussion and development of international law and is one of the specialist law centres of the Faculty of Law. The Centre holds weekly lectures on topical issues of international law by leading practitioners and academics. For more information see the LCIL website at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law CIPIL was founded in 2004. Through its activities, CIPIL aims to promote the investigation, understanding and critical appraisal of these important fields of law. The CIPIL Intellectual Property Seminar Series brings together specialist speakers to discuss prevailing issues in relation to copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights, and other subjects. The Centre brings together a group of legal academics already recognised for their ...

The Cambridge Private Law Centre facilitates research and informed debate across all branches of private law including obligations, property, family and private international law. The Centre supports the wide dissemination of rigorous and useful research, broadly informed by a variety of doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, historical and comparative perspectives. For more information see the Cambridge Private Law Centre website at: http://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/

The Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice (CCCJ) was formed in 2015, and brings together members of the Faculty, students and visitors researching into all aspects of criminal justice. For more information see the Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice website at http://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk

The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, runs a series of lunchtime seminars during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. These seminars provide a platform for the presentation of new ideas by leading scholars from inside and outside the University. The lunchtime seminars address topical issues of European Union Law and Comparative Law, with a view to using collective debate as a forum for developing and disseminating ideas, and producing high qua ...

Law in Focus is a collection of short interviews featuring academics from the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, addressing legal issues in current affairs and the news. These issues are examples of the many which challenge researchers and students studying undergraduate and postgraduate law at the Faculty. For videos see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy4oXRK6xgzHukYwMI806wyHrLBoL9K0v

The Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences (LML), led by Dr Kathleen Liddell (Director) and Dr Jeffrey Skopek (Deputy Director), advances research and teaching on legal and ethical challenges at the forefront of medicine and the life sciences. Rapid and prolific scientific advances, alongside changing attitudes towards health, medical care, family structures and related issues, pose some of the most difficult research questions of our era. These include questions about the adeq ...

A collection of recordings from lectures, seminars and other events held by the Centre for Public Law (CPL) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

The Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture is an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. The lecture is hosted at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the Europe ...

The Cambridge Pro Bono Project ('CPP') was established within the Faculty of Law in 2010, and launched by Professor Philippe Sands QC. Since then, the CPP has undertaken several major projects each year. Since its inauguration, the CPP has partnered with dozens of bodies, including NGOs, charities, barristers’ chambers and courts. The CPP is a research centre, not a legal clinic. It works on a model which draws on the subject-matter expertise of graduate doctoral researchers, masters student ...

The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have. The general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or c ...

Trinity Hall Law Society (THLS), at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, hosts a range of educational, professional and social events for students interested in the law. Highlights of the year include dinners with distinguished alumni, mooting competitions (judged by serving Lord Justices of Appeal), workshops and lectures from notable academics, presentations from leading law firms and barristers, alongside social events including dinners and a Garden Party.

The Cambridge University European Society is a group for all with an interest in issues surrounding the European Union and the continent of Europe as a whole. We discuss and debate the constantly changing news in a constantly changing Europe and are happy to hear a wide range of opinions whether you fancy yourself on the Europhile or Eurosceptic side of the fence. The society arranges a wide variety of talks on all aspects of European society such as EU Foreign policy, the makeup of the Euro ...

This conference, organised by Cambridge Family Law together with the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Family Law, explored a range of issues and challenges surrounding the law and practice of national and international surrogacy from a practical perspective. Practitioners, lawmakers, academics and other participants will discuss the legal consequences of the rise in surrogacy arrangements and, in particular, reproductive tourism.

The Eminent Scholars Archive is an expanding archive developed by Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates, joined in 2023 by John Magyar, in which we document the careers and achievements of eminent scholars associated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. The archive includes biographies, bibliographies, photographs, recorded interviews and many other resources. Since 2022 the development of the Archive has been overseen by the Faculty of Law’s Eminent Scholars Archive Steering Gro ...

The Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, was formally opened by Lord Mustill at the conclusion of its first conference on 'Shareholder's Rights and Remedies' (held on 12 April 1997). 3CL has links with similar institutions in universities around the world, and through the Faculty's Herbert Smith Visitor Programme, it is able from time to time to invite leading international corporate and securities lawyers to Cambridge. The 3CL is a me ...

CUArb aims at promoting the study of international arbitration amongst students, academics, alumni and law practitioners. Cambridge Arbitration Society, CUArb, was established in 2019 as a registered society at the University of Cambridge. The establishment of the society was a response to Cambridge students’ demands to have exposure to the current arbitration scene. The CUArb aims at promoting the study of international commercial and investment arbitration amongst students, academics, alum ...

Recordings of talks at the Faculty of Philosophy Moral Sciences Club.

The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group (CSLG) is an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology. It is affiliated with several departments across the University, including the Faculty of Law, the Institute of Criminology, the Centre for Family Research and Physiology, Development & Neuroscience (PDN). The Group serves to bring together people from within Cambridge and farther afield from different disciplines, including Law, C ...

The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) was formally established in 2016 to provide a hub for researchers working in legal history across the University of Cambridge. The Centre supports researchers in any discipline whose interests touch upon English legal history, whenever or whatever their focus might be. It runs a fortnightly seminar series during each term of the academic year, and an annual lecture in Michaelmas term. For more information see: https://www.celh.law.cam.ac.uk/

The Sir David Williams Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest lecturer in honour of Sir David Williams, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. The lecture series is hosted by the Centre for Public Law (CPL). The Cambridge Faculty of Law has a long tradition of outstanding scholarship in Constitutional and Administrative Law as can be seen from the contributions of E.C.S. Wade, Stanley de Smith and Sir William Wade. Today ...

On 27 March 2015, the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge held a major international conference on EU Internet Regulation After Google Spain, supported by the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) and Hogan Lovells. The theme for the Conference was to explore the implications of C-131/12 Google Spain; Google v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD), Mario Costeja González (2014), the Court of Justice of the European Union's long awaited "right to be forgotten" case. Alth ...

The University of Cambridge established the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science to commemorate the eightieth birthday of Arthur Lehman Goodhart, who was, at the time, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, retired Master of University College Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall and Trinity College Cambridge. Incumbents have light formal obligations, being expected only to teach, or share in the teaching, of a course in the Law Tripos or LLM, and to ...

On 16-17 November 2018, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, in collaboration with the Athens Public International Law Center, held a workshop entitled ‘Rethinking Reparations in International Law’, organised by Dr Veronika Fikfak, fellow and director of studies at Homerton College, and Professor Photini Pazartzis, professor at the Faculty of Law at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. The ESIL-funded workshop sought to address the recent developments and scholarship in ...