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The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture was established after Sir Eli's death in 2017 to celebrate his life and work. This lecture takes place on the first Friday lecture of the Centre at the start of the Michaelmas Term in any academic year. The Eli Lauterpacht Lecture for 2021 will be delivered by Dame Sally Davies. Lecture summary: Dame Sally will explore global governance for health using the two pandemics of COVID 19 and Antimicrobial Resistance as exemplars highlighting the importance of data and innovation. Dame Sally Davies is the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, the UK Government’s Special Envoy on AMR and the chair of The Trinity Challenge, which she set up in May 2020. Before this, from March 2011 to September 2019, she was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government. Dame Sally was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016 and led delegations to a range of WHO summits and forums since 2004. Dame Sally advocates globally on AMR: for three years, Dame Sally was the chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR and later co-convener of the UN Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group on AMR, set up in response to the AMR declaration made at UNGA 2016. Dame Sally is a member of the UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, since 2020, serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers and prominent figures from around the world. Dame Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Member of the US Academy of Science. In the 2020 New Year’s Honours, Dame Sally was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009. These lectures are kindly supported by Dr and Mrs Ivan Berkowitz who are Friends of the Centre .

Open to: Alumni and guests Theme: Social sciences Join Dr Jodi Gardner, University Lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty, and law students Natasha Godsiff and Amelia Quince, as they discuss how they utilised the challenges of the pandemic to think of new, exciting ways to increase pro bono activities. This session will...

Open to: Alumni and guests Theme: Social sciences Dr Pippa Rogerson, a Reader in Private International Law in the Law Faculty and the Master of Gonville and Caius will chair a discussion with Lady Hale, a pioneer in legal academia and one of the most distinguished judges in the United Kingdom, and two current students...

Open to: Alumni and guests Theme: Humanities, Social sciences Brexit, the possibility of a second Scottish independence referendum, questions about standards in public life and tensions between Government and the courts are putting unprecedented pressure on the UK constitution. Is it fit for purpose today? For more...

This collection of essays offers a unique insight and overview of the secured transactions law in many of the most important countries in Asia, as well as reflection on the need for, benefits of and challenges for reform in this area of the law. The book provides a mixture of general reflections on the history, successes...

The Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary’s University of London are jointly hosting this webinar. The focus of the webinar is the Justice Committee of the House of Commons recent report on The Coroner Service (HC 68) . The Government...

The British Association of Comparative Law will hold their annual seminar online on 'The Regulation of Hate Speech Online and its Enforcement in a Comparative Perspective' on 31 August at 9:30-11:30 am BST. Regulators around the world are grappling with the problem of hate speech online. Regional differences in conceptions...

Professor Lavanya Rajamani (University of Oxford) and Dr Louise Jeffery (NewClimate Institute) will present their joint work on "Determining National ‘fair shares’ in GHG mitigation within the principled framework of International Environmental Law”. Register online to attend.

This webinar, part of the Faculty of Law’s offerings for the University’s Open Days, will allow prospective applicants interested in Law to learn more about legal careers. Q&A panellists will include solicitors and barristers at various points in their careers from the Faculty’s Access and Widening Participation...

This webinar will explore the ground-breaking research published by Centre for Women’s Justice earlier this year and discuss the urgent need for reforms which it highlights. The research examines why women kill abusive partners and the many ways they are failed by the criminal justice system - from the failures to protect...