Online webinar

The first Lent Term 2022 session of the monthly seminar run by the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy will take place on Thursday, January 20th, at 3:00pm, through Zoom . The session will be chaired by Agnes Lindberg, who is currently a PhD student in the Law Faculty. For the reading, she has chosen...

Register online Lecture summary: Dissent has a long and controversial history in international adjudication. This lecture excavates a now-forgotten history of debate over dissent, and identifies competing claims regarding dissent’s effect on judicial legitimacy, independence, and legal doctrine. To evaluate these claims, I undertake a comparative study of dissent practices across three leading international tribunals, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Court of Justice. Surprisingly, this comparative inquiry reveals that that each of the central claims in long-standing debates over dissent at international courts is misleading – and each in a different way. Challenging conventional wisdom, we find that the presence of dissenting opinions has little systematic impact on legitimacy; the key factor instead is patterns of dissent that suggest geopolitical bias among international judges. Turning to independence, we find that the effects of dissent on judicial independence are mediated by a third factor, namely the length and renewability of judicial terms of office, which vary across international courts. Finally, turning to legal doctrine, we find considerable support for the view that dissents promote the dynamic development of law, but at best limited support for the more heroic claim that today’s dissents form the basis for future majority rulings. Jeffrey L. Dunoff is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. His research focuses on public international law, international regulatory regimes, international courts, and interdisciplinary approaches to international law.

Duration: 75 minutes Please note this event will now be online only. The judiciary perform an important role in the UK constitution. Yet this role is often misunderstood. The judiciary has also been criticised for ‘straying into politics’. These criticisms came to the fore in public debate over decisions relating to Brexit...

Title: 'The Realist Trend of the Court of Justice of the European Union' Speaker: Dr Damjan Kukovec Biography: Damjan Kukovec is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Middlesex School of Law in London. Before joining the Middlesex faculty, Dr Kukovec taught at Harvard Law School, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de...

From supercurricular exploration to writing your EPQ or extended essay, knowing the fundamentals of conducting legal research and using free, publicly accessible resources to explore your academic interests in law is really useful. This webinar, led by the Faculty’s Schools Liaison Coordinator and current Cambridge...

You are warmly invited to attend the second session of the Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group for the term, to be held on next Wednesday, 17th November, from 12.30pm to 2.30pm, over Zoom. This session will be chaired by Luca Passi (Cambridge), who will be presenting his paper "On Promising: Three Kinds of Assurance"...

The Cambridge University Human Rights Law Society will be hosting Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC virtually this Friday at 15:00-16:00. SIR JEFFREY JOWELL QC is the author of leading publications in the area of public law and has assisted in the drafting of a number of national constitutions. He is a practising barrister at...

This session will be chaired by Helen Zhao (Cambridge), who will be presenting her paper "Supererogatory Mercy and the Criminal Law" for discussion with a response to be given by Dan Ward (Cambridge). You can find the links to the Zoom meeting and the paper below. Everyone is welcome to attend! CLTDG Convenors: Çağrı...

The Sardar Manmohan Singh Charitable Trust and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge invite you to join us for The Prathiba M. Singh Scholarship Event 2021. An event to celebrate the partnership between Prathiba M. Singh and The Cambridge Trust which awards scholarships to Indian applicants to the LLM at the...

Speaker: Professor Pablo Ibáñez Colomo, London School of Economics Title: 'Product Design and Business Models in EU Antitrust Law' To register your interest for this event please contact Dr Oke Odudu ( oo201@cam.ac.uk )