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Ismael Martinez Torres (Edinburgh) “Disagreement and (almost) Sameness of Concepts” Ismael Martínez Torres (Edinburgh) will be presenting his paper "Disagreement and (Almost) Sameness of Concepts" for discussion, with a response to be given by Dan Ward (Cambridge). Everyone is welcome to attend! The Zoom link: https://bit...

You are warmly invited to attend the first session of the Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group for the term, to be held this Thursday, 5th of May at 11.30am in an online format. Shai Agmon (Oxford) will be presenting his paper "Two Concepts of Competition" for discussion. You can find below the abstract of the paper...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Delcianna J. Winders (Vermont) and Elan Abrell (NYU) will kick off the term with a presentation on “Slaughterhouse Workers, Animals, and the Environment". All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Justin Marceau (Denver) and Lori Gruen (Wesleyan) will launch their book "Carceral Logics" (CUP 2022). All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more information about the Talking Animals...

Please join us for our next event in the Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series. Paula Sparks (ALAW; Doughty Street Chambers) on "The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022: Stating the Obvious or an Obvious Step up?". All events take place on Zoom from 5-6.30pm (UK time). They are free and open to all. For more...

Register online This lecture is is part of the Art, Architecture and International Law seminar series which is being launched this academic year. The series is designed to bridge the worlds of art, architecture and international law. It explores the different ways in which art and architecture and international law intersect. It also demonstrates that international law exists well beyond the written word. Lecture summary: In this talk I am inviting you on a sightseeing tour in The Hague, the ‘International City of Peace and Justice’. But it is not a tour from A to B and back. It is a tour in the form of a collage, assembled from artworks, texts, and objects from or about institutions of international law. Through a cacophony of shifting perspectives and modalities, I try to (un)make sense of international institutional sites as a spaces of encounter and exclusion. Dr Sofia Stolk is a researcher in international law at the Asser Institute in The Hague and the University of Amsterdam.

Title: 'Dynamic Pricing Algorithms, Consumer Harm, and Regulatory Response' Speaker: Professor Sam Weinstein (Cardozo) and Alexander MacKay (Harvard) Abstract: Pricing algorithms are rapidly transforming markets, from ride-sharing, to air travel, to online retail. Regulators and scholars have watched this development with...

Speaker: Professor Haochen Sun Biography: Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. His recent scholarship has focused on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. He has published numerous articles and co-edited books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His opinions about intellectual property and technology law have appeared in many media outlets such as Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, South China Morning Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Abstract: In this seminar, Haochen Sun will discuss his groundbreaking work that analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest. He examines technology companies' growing power and their increasing disregard for the public good. To tackle this asymmetry of power and responsibility, he argues that we must reexamine the nature and scope of the right to technology and dynamically protect it as a human right under international law, a collective right under domestic civil rights law, and potentially a fundamental right under domestic constitutional law. He also develops the concept of fundamental corporate responsibility requiring technology companies to compensate users for their contributions, assume an active role responsibility in upholding the public interest, and counter injustices caused by technological developments.

Speaker: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss, NYW Law School Biography: Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU Law School and a Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Abstract: Many countries have responded (or have considered responding) to the COVID pandemic by modifying their intellectual property laws to ensure the availability of vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and related information. Some have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a waiver to excuse any steps they might take that are inconsistent with obligations under the TRIPS Agreement. Although a waiver would protect WTO members from challenges in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, a state that is a party to an international investment agreement (IIA) that includes investor-state dispute resolution has something else to worry about. Investors could claim that its actions amount to an indirect expropriation or a denial fair and equitable treatment in violation of the obligations in the IIA. In this piece, I conduct a thought experiment on how such suits might unfold. The first part describes how states sought or may seek to exercise control over the knowledge and products needed to protect public health during the global pandemic. The second part considers the challenges that investors might lodge and how they might be resolved. I identify the places where safeguards in IIAs that are intended to protect sovereign authority over healthcare may fall short.

This event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. Lecture summary: This lecture contrasts the dominant Western human rights imaginary (as a product of a juridical imaginary of the Anthropocene') with an alternative imaginary reaching towards 'human rights for the Anthropocene'. Playing with core contrasts between these two imaginaries, the lecture explores what thinking with such contrasts might mean for a re-imagination of human rights in an age of deepening planetary precarity. Anna Grear is Professor of Law and Theory in the Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. She started her intellectual journey in academia as a critical human rights theorist before moving her focus to explore the relationship between human beings and 'the environment'. Anna is increasingly drawn to New Materialist insights concerning the significance of the more-than-human for thinking about future-facing world-making, including in and through law.